Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy describes the information we collect and how we use it. 

Taldn is committed to protecting the privacy of our users worldwide and we want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the personal information submitted to us remains private. Should you submit your personal information, it is immediately transferred from our web server to behind our firewall, where it remains isolated from a direct connection to the Internet. By using our website, and in doing so accepting the Terms and Conditions of Use under which you may use this website, you consent to the use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy and security measures are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. You should understand, however, that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. The information that you submit to us is used only for the purposes as set forth herein, as required by law, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is legally required to protect our rights. 

Information Collected About All Website Taldn Visitors and Why

We gather information about the visitors to our website, including without limitation, (a) internet domain and computer IP address, (b) which area(s) of the site are visited most frequently, (c) the type of device (e.g. iPhone, Android), browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer), and operating system (e.g. iOS) used to view the site and (d) if the visitor linked to our website from another website, the address of that other website.

We use this information for analyzing trends and statistics, fraud protection, improving our services, planning website enhancements, and measuring overall website effectiveness. From time to time we may reveal or analyze general, anonymous, aggregated statistical information about our website, services and visitors, such as the number of visits, the geographic location of visitors, demographic information provided by the visitors, and what website features they use.

Taldn may also use information submitted by its visitors for marketing purposes.  For example, if you request additional information about Taldn we will use that information to provide you with additional information about Taldn.

Third parties who provide us with analytics services may also automatically collect some of the information described above, including, for example, IP address, access times, browser type and language, device type, device identifiers, and Wi-Fi information.  Some third parties help us and others associate your activities for retargeting, cross-device advertising, analytics, and measurement purposes. Some third parties, such as Google, may also collect information for online advertising purposes and to provide Taldn and others statistics about visitors to the Taldn website.

Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies 

To enhance your experience at Taldn we may use features on your Internet browser called “cookies’ and ‘web beacons.’

Cookies are small files that your browser places on your computer’s hard drive.  Standing alone, cookies do not personally identify you, they only recognize your web browser.We use cookies for purposes such as remembering user names, passwords and preferences, tracking click streams, and for load balancing. Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster service, consistent, updated results, and a more personalized site experience. 

Like many other companies, Taldn uses remarketing features, allowing us to use cookies to market and advertise Taldn services to previous taldn.com visitors on third party websites like Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook. You can opt in or opt out of cookies that help personalize social media features and content ads by registering and going to your Settings. Please note that by opting out of these cookies, you will be removed from any Facebook Custom Audiences Taldncreates.

These cookies may be used to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to recognize visitors and users, to limit the number of times you see an advertisement, to show display relevant advertising on and off the website and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.

Some cookies that have been set on taldn.com are not related to Taldn. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or a social networking site, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them. Cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third-party websites for more information about their usage of cookies.

Web beacons help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data about our services. Our services may include web beacons and cookies from third-party service providers. You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons. Your browser and its settings may impact your experience with our website.

Links to Other Sites

We may provide links to other websites that we believe can offer you useful information. Taldn also has accounts on third-party social networking sites that let you connect with and follow Taldn on those sites.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites, including those websites on which our logo or other information supplied by us appears, and Taldn cannot control how such third parties may collect, use or secure your data. This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by taldn.com. We suggest that you access other websites’ online policies regarding their own privacy and data collection practices.

Personal Data We Collect 

Customers & Potential Customers.  If you express an interest in obtaining additional information about Taldn, such as through our Contact form or through one of our team members, we may request that you provide personal contact information such as name, title, company name, address, phone number, email address, and other information about your potential business needs.  

Becoming a creator.  If you choose to register as a member of Taldn you will be required to provide us with information about yourself, including your name and/or company name so we can identify your submissions, email address so we can contact you about matters such as your submissions, projects on which you are participating and prizing, and birth date to confirm your age.

By participating in a project, you will also be supplying us with your words, ideas, concepts, scripts, pictures, videos, or other information that you choose to submit.We may aggregate these submissions with other submissions to analyze the data or to provide to a Sponsor of a project. On select projects, we may also make your submissions available for public voting on our website. 

From time to time, we may use the contact information to alert members of new projects and communicate news, relevant information, events, and reminders. During a project, participants to the project will be shown and identified only by their handles, which are their public login names and their photograph, if they choose to upload a picture. 

Visitors to the website may be allowed to view a project without identifying themselves, but project participants must be members logged in with their email and password. Winners’ names and earnings may be released to governmental authorities as required by law. 

The personal information you provide must be accurate and complete, and all registration details (where applicable) must contain your real name, email and other requested details. You are solely responsible for your personal information and we may take any action with respect to your personal information we deem necessary or appropriate if we believe it may cause Taldn, our community, or our customers to suffer any loss, liability or commercial damage.

Managing Information on Your Taldn Account

Taldn will provide you with a reasonable opportunity to review the information provided by you, as well as a reasonable opportunity to correct any erroneous information. To view or correct your information, on the Taldn website, click on contact, or contact us at admin@taldn.com.

You may manage your receipt of marketing communication by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link located on the bottom of Taldn marketing emails

Forums

Taldn makes forum-style discussion topics available to our members and customers. These forums will identify Taldn members by their user handles and profile picture, if provided. Those simply viewing the forums may do so without identifying themselves, but those who wish to participate must be logged in members or customers. Please remember that any information you disclose in these areas becomes public information. Accordingly, you should always exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in the forum

Feedback

Taldn may ask you for feedback and comments about the website or the projects and we encourage your participation. Any feedback that is submitted becomes the property of Taldn. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, for marketing purposes, to enhance our capabilities, to create new features, or to contact you for further feedback.

Data Access and Portability

In some jurisdictions, applicable law may entitle you to request copies of your personal information held by us. You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).

Withdrawing Consent

You may withdraw your consent to Taldn’s use of your personal data at any time by specifying which consent (e.g. the type of use and/or the pieces of data) you are withdrawing by contacting us at:

Taldn.com

Aperin House (3rd Floor)

Ajiwe, Lekki, Expressway,

Lagos

legal@taldn.com

Please note that your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of any use of your personal data based on consent before its withdrawal. 

Data Retention and Erasure

You can request that we erase your personal information. Please note that if you request the erasure of your personal information:

• We may retain some of your personal information as necessary for certain interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend a Taldn account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from that Taldn account to prevent that member from opening a new Taldn account in the future.
• We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
• Information you have shared with others (e.g., forum postings) may continue to be publicly visible on the Taldn website, even after your Taldn account is suspended or deleted.However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Additionally, some copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
• Because we maintain the Taldn website to protect from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be immediately removed from our backup systems.

Privacy of Children on Our Website

Our website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.  Anyone under the age of 13 is not allowed to be a member of Taldn.

Privacy Commitment Changes

If we decide to change our privacy commitment, we will post those changes here so that you will always know the information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. In the event that we make any significant changes to our Privacy Policy, we will also provide you with the opportunity to consent to these different uses of your personal information or to opt-in to these changes or features.