We care about your privacy

When dealing with personalization, one inevitably has to deal with the user’s personal private data. So when we took it upon ourselves at Genieo, to venture into the development of a personalization platform, we naturally gave this sensitive issue a great deal of consideration. As a result, user privacy has been constantly given top priority throughout the process of developing Genieo, and we are proud to say that we have succeeded in creating a product which is completely proof with respect to this issue.
Using Genieo, your private personal data is secured because it stays always in your own hands.

Genieo Innovation Ltd. (”Genieo Innovation“) has a strong commitment to protect the privacy and the information of its users. Your privacy is very important to Genieo Innovation, and therefore, Genieo Innovation is committed to respect your privacy and the confidentiality of your information.
This Privacy Policy statement aims to ensure the protection of your privacy, and also to assist you in understanding how Genieo Innovation treat your information while using Genieo Innovation’s softwares (including “Genieo”- hereinafter: “Genieo Software“), services, website and/or products, as may be offered from time to time (collectively referred as “Services”). In addition, this Privacy Policy set forth Genieo Innovation’s privacy policy that is specific to Genieo Software.

Acceptance of Policy

By accessing and using the Services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any of the provisions as set hereunder in this Privacy Policy, you have no right to use any of the Services.
If you intend to use Genieo Software, this Privacy Policy should read together with the End User License Agreement on Use of Genieo, and together they constitute the entire agreement between you and Genieo Innovation.

Scope of This Privacy Policy Statement

This Privacy Policy describes how Genieo Innovation treat your information while you are using the Services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any use of information by third parties’ linked sites, which Genieo Innovation does not control, own or manage, as further described in the “Disclaimer Regarding Linked Sites” paragraph below.

Changes of the Privacy Policy

Genieo Innovation reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by publishing the revised Privacy Policy on Genieo Innovation’s website at www.genieo.com and in case of a material change Genieo Innovation will also post a notification within the application. The revised Privacy Policy shall become effective within thirty (30) days of such publication. Your continued use of the Software after expiry of the notice period of thirty (30) days, shall constitute your acceptance to be bound by the terms and conditions of the revised Privacy Policy.

Information Gathered Using the Services

The primary purpose of Genieo Innovation in collecting information is to provide you with a safe, efficient and customized experience. Accordingly, Genieo Innovation may collect non personal usage information of the users in order to ensure the quality of the Services and enrich the offerings of Services available to the users, and also to continuously improve the performance of the Services as described below.
Genieo Innovation may collect, inter alia by using third parties’ web analytics services, aggregated non personal usage information about the time, type and manner of use of the Services (”Non Personal Usage Information“). This Non Personal Usage Information may include information regarding the IP Address and Geo-IP parameters, time of usages, and other information regarding the use of the Services. Such third parties’ web analytics services may use cookies and clear gifs to gather such Non Personal Usage Information, in order to learn the usage patterns of Genieo Innovation’s users (as further described below). Genieo Innovation may use Non Personal Usage Information to understand how its users use the Services, to analyze retention, to ensure that the Services is up to date and provide automatic updates of new version of Genieo Software, and to improve the Services and enhance the experience of the users.

Cookies and Clear Gifs Policy

As mentioned above, while Genieo Innovation uses third parties’ web analytics services as aforesaid, such third parties may collect Non Personal Usage Information, such as information concerning your use of websites and preferences, by using various types of cookies and clear gifs. Cookies, which are small text files, stored on your computer, in order to improve the performance of the Services and collect data which enhance the functionality and offering of the Services. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier (but not retain any personally identifiable information), which are used to count your visits/clicks to web pages while using the Services. It is your choice whether to accept or reject cookies/clear gifs and you can set your browser to reject cookies/clear gifs or to delete these cookies/clear gifs. However, if you choose to reject cookies/clear gifs or delete them, it may limit some of the functionalities available or affect your experience with the Services.

Information Gathered Using Genieo Software

Genieo Software is a desktop application which automatically generates a personal start page with relevant content and ad-hock personalized news widgets. Unlike other start pages, Genieo Software doesn’t use predefined topics. Instead it auto generates a set of micro topics, based on the user’s areas of interest.