Pri­vacy Policy

The fol­low­ing describes the Pri­vacy Pol­icy for our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com website.

Your Pri­vacy

Your pri­vacy is impor­tant to us at Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor.  To bet­ter pro­tect your pri­vacy we pro­vide this notice explain­ing our online infor­ma­tion prac­tices and the choices you can make about the way your infor­ma­tion is col­lected and used.  You agree to agree to these poli­cies by virtue of using our web­site in a way that leads to you pro­vid­ing us with per­sonal information.

State Law & Accom­pa­ny­ing Rights

Please under­stand that you may have addi­tional rights orig­i­nat­ing from State laws based on where you live.  These State-based rights may aug­ment, strengthen, or oth­er­wise some­how com­pli­ment any pri­vacy rights you have inher­ently or under Fed­eral law.  Our pol­icy is to com­ply fully with the pri­vacy poli­cies of every juris­dic­tion in which we oper­ate.  Accord­ingly, you are free to use our Con­tact infor­ma­tion to reach us at any time to assert any State rights.

Our Com­mit­ment To Children’s Privacy

Pro­tect­ing the pri­vacy of the very young is espe­cially impor­tant. For that rea­son, our web­site will never col­lect or main­tain infor­ma­tion at our web­site from those we actu­ally know are under 18, and no part of our web­site is struc­tured to attract any­one under 18.

Under our Terms of Ser­vice and Con­di­tions of Use, chil­dren under 18 are not allowed to use our web­site and access our ser­vices.  It is not our inten­tion to offer prod­ucts or ser­vices to minors.

Col­lec­tion of Per­sonal Information

When vis­it­ing our web­site, the IP address used to access our web­site may be logged along with the dates and times of access. This infor­ma­tion is purely used to ana­lyze trends, admin­is­ter our web­site, track users move­ment, and gather broad demo­graphic infor­ma­tion for inter­nal use such as sta­tis­ti­cal assess­ments and web­site improve­ment. Most impor­tantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able information.

Other infor­ma­tion may be col­lected as well by Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor, which is rather typ­i­cal of most web­sites.  For instance, the source that referred you to our web­site is gen­er­ally known.  Like­wise, your dura­tion on our web­site, and your des­ti­na­tion when you leave our web­site can also be tracked.  Other com­mon data col­lected includes the type of oper­at­ing sys­tem the com­puter you are using to access our web­site has.  Sim­i­larly, the type of web browser is often noted.  Again, this is com­mon data col­lec­tion, and helps ulti­mately pro­duce a bet­ter end-user experience.

Cook­ies are another com­mon inter­net prac­tice.  Cook­ies are a key means of improv­ing user expe­ri­ence by allows us to cus­tomize your use of our web­site.  Sim­ple infor­ma­tion is trans­ferred to your com­puter to allow the con­tent and expe­ri­ence at www.SuccessfulAnimator.com to reflect your actions, pref­er­ences, and so on.  You should sim­ply make the assump­tion our web­site uses cook­ies, and note that you are free to make adjust­ments in your web browser to dis­able these or oth­er­wise receive noti­fi­ca­tion of cook­ies so you can take what­ever desired action you so choose.  Please under­stand that refus­ing cook­ies may crip­ple some of our web­site fea­tures and ren­der some aspects use­less to you.

At times, you will be fully aware of infor­ma­tion received, as you are the direct source pro­vid­ing it.  For instance, you may com­ment on a blog post, reply to an email (whether broad­cast mes­sage or autore­spon­der), pro­vide an email address, com­plete a sur­vey, requests SMS, or oth­er­wise.  Like­wise, pur­chases nec­es­sar­ily involve col­lect­ing cer­tain infor­ma­tion, such as credit card infor­ma­tion, Pay­pal addresses, your phys­i­cal address for billing and/or ship­ping, phone num­ber, and so on.  Refus­ing to pro­vide some of this infor­ma­tion may lead to us being unable to pro­vide you with the prod­ucts or ser­vices youíve requested.

A prime exam­ple of lim­ited access to our web­site is where some www.SuccessfulAnimator.com con­tent may be pro­tected by a user­name and pass­word.  Whether a user­name and pass­word is gen­er­ated by our web­site, or cre­ated by you, these will almost always be con­nected with some other infor­ma­tion related to or con­nected with you.  This is true since much con­tent that is pro­tected on the inter­net is sub­scrip­tion based, often paid for.  Thus, the user­name and pass­word must nec­es­sar­ily be tied to your other account data.  User­names and pass­words, by their very nature, should be kept private.

Han­dling of Per­sonal Information

Note that any per­sonal infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to oth­ers apart from us or our ven­dors is wholly optional.  As an exam­ple, you might dis­close some­thing in a blog post com­ment.  That ìpri­vateî infor­ma­tion is now ìpublic,î and we have no con­trol over that.  In like fash­ion, you shar­ing infor­ma­tion with any other third party not func­tion­ing as a ser­vice provider to us puts that infor­ma­tion beyond our con­trol and becomes sub­ject to the pol­icy that party has in place.

Our pri­mary inten­tion for col­lect­ing per­sonal and pri­vate infor­ma­tion from you is sim­ply to con­duct our busi­ness.  We can use this inter­nally to bet­ter serve you.  Accord­ingly, we see no rea­son to share your per­sonal infor­ma­tion to other par­ties and out­side inter­ests unless you have autho­rized us to do so.  Of course, there are instances where your infor­ma­tion is stored with third party ser­vice providers, such as email ser­vice providers, as they pro­vide ser­vices that are industry-leading in qual­ity and secu­rity and are far more ben­e­fi­cial to our end user than attempt­ing such ser­vices ìin-house.î  How­ever, you are never required to deal with any such third party directly, they are lim­ited in how they use your infor­ma­tion, and they can­not sell or trans­fer it to oth­ers in any way.

How­ever, of course, your infor­ma­tion does com­prise part of an over­all whole.  This aggre­gate of infor­ma­tion, by con­trast, may be used to under­stand our over­all user base.  Fur­ther, we may share this infor­ma­tion about our web­site vis­i­tors as a whole, not indi­vid­u­ally, with third par­ties for var­i­ous pur­poses, in our sole discretion.

While we are staunch pri­vacy advo­cates at Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor, there are times when even we may be forced to aban­don these ideals.  Just as major search engines face ongo­ing com­pul­sion to pro­vide data against their will, so too may the same occur with our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com web­site.  Ille­gal activ­ity or other seri­ous acts or alle­ga­tions could cre­ate legal lia­bil­ity for our web­site.  In those cases, we reserve the right to share your infor­ma­tion, or else may sim­ply be com­pelled to do so by law.  On the other hand, there may be times when we would need to share your pri­vate infor­ma­tion in order to pro­tect our own inter­ests.  For instance, in cases of sus­pected or alleged copy­right infringe­ment or other intel­lec­tual prop­erty vio­la­tions, it may be nec­es­sary to share per­sonal information.

Google Adsense and the Dou­bleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third party adver­tise­ment ven­dor, may use cook­ies to serve ads on this www.SuccessfulAnimator.com web­site.  The use of DART cook­ies by Google enables them to serve adverts to vis­i­tors that are based on their vis­its to this web­site, includ­ing past vis­its, as well as other web­sites on the internet.

To opt out of the DART cook­ies you may visit the Google ad and con­tent net­work pri­vacy pol­icy at the fol­low­ing url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Track­ing of users through the DART cookie mech­a­nisms are sub­ject to Google’s own pri­vacy policies.

Other Third Party ad servers or ad net­works may also use cook­ies to track users activ­i­ties on this web­site to mea­sure adver­tise­ment effec­tive­ness and other rea­sons that will be pro­vided in their own pri­vacy poli­cies, our web­site has no access or con­trol over these cook­ies that may be used by third party adver­tis­ers.  How­ever, you can opt out of some, though likely not all, of these cook­ies in one easy loca­tion at http://ww.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Links to Third Party Websites

We have included links on this web­site for your use and ref­er­ence. We are not respon­si­ble for the pri­vacy poli­cies on these web­sites. You should be aware that the pri­vacy poli­cies of these web­sites may dif­fer from our own.

CHANGE NOTICE: As with any of our admin­is­tra­tive and legal notice pages, the con­tents of this page can and will change over time.  Accord­ingly, this page could read dif­fer­ently as of your very next visit.  These changes are neces­si­tated, and car­ried out by Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor, in order to pro­tect you and our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com web­site.  If this page is impor­tant to you, you should check back fre­quently as no other notice of changed con­tent will be pro­vided either before or after the change takes effect.

COPYRIGHT WARNING: The legal notices and admin­is­tra­tive pages on this web­site, includ­ing this one, have been dili­gently drafted by an attor­ney.  We at Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor have paid to license the use of these legal notices and admin­is­tra­tive pages on www.SuccessfulAnimator.com for your pro­tec­tion and ours.  This mate­r­ial may not be used in any way for any rea­son and unau­tho­rized use is policed via Copy­scape to detect violators.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS: If you have any ques­tions about the con­tents of this page, or sim­ply wish to reach us for any other rea­son, you may do so by using our Con­tact information.

Social Media Disclosure

The fol­low­ing describes the Social Media Dis­clo­sure for our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com website.

Social Media Issue

We live in an inter­est­ing time when pri­vacy rights are cham­pi­oned along­side an unprece­dented vol­un­tary will­ing­ness of peo­ple to share their most inti­mate and super­flu­ous life details with the world, even in places such as our Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor web­site.  While appar­ently benign on the sur­face, the dan­gers of unre­strained pub­lic dis­clo­sure of sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion is begin­ning to surface.

Key social media play­ers are being sued for unau­tho­rized or abu­sive use/misuse of per­sonal infor­ma­tion.  Fail­ure to pro­tect and warn are likely going to be focal fac­tors.  Law­suits are filed seek­ing dam­ages for state­ments held to be respon­si­ble for people’s death or sui­cide.  Blog­gers pre­sum­ing to oper­ate under an unfet­tered free­dom of speech or greater lat­i­tude offered to mem­bers of the press are los­ing civil cases for defama­tion, slan­der, libel, and so on.

As social media rapidly advances to allow more tech­no­log­i­cally sophis­ti­cated and easy dis­sem­i­na­tion, the simul­ta­ne­ous fall­out of rev­e­la­tion with­out bound­aries is mount­ing.  Thus, a sober approach to the ben­e­fits of social media, while side­step­ping the per­ils of impru­dent dis­clo­sure, can facil­i­tate an enjoy­able online expe­ri­ence, with­out the con­se­quences of excess, in set­tings such as our own www.SuccessfulAnimator.com website.

Presence/Scope of Social Media

You should assume that social media is in use on our Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor web­site.  A sim­ple click of a but­ton to endorse a per­son, prod­uct, or ser­vice is build­ing a cumu­la­tive pro­file about you, which you should always assume can be dis­cov­ered by oth­ers.  Attempt­ing to share a web­site with some­one, whether by direct press of a but­ton or else by email for­ward­ing facil­i­tated on a web­site, you should assume that this may not stop with the intended recip­i­ent, and that this can gen­er­ate infor­ma­tion about you that could be seen by a ver­i­ta­ble infi­nite num­ber of peo­ple.  Such a domino effect could ini­ti­ate right here on our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com website.

Some­thing as sim­ple as a blog com­ment pro­vides the oppor­tu­nity for knee-jerk reac­tions that can become pub­lic and may not truly rep­re­sent a posi­tion (at least in strength or sever­ity) that you might hold after a period of more rea­soned con­tem­pla­tion.  You should also note that the ease of access­ing one site through the login cre­den­tials of another, or the use of a global login for access to mul­ti­ple sites can accu­mu­late  a dossier on you and your online behav­ior that may reveal more infor­ma­tion to unin­tended par­ties than you might real­ize or want.  Any or all of these fea­tures could exist on our Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor web­site at one time or another.

These few exam­ples illus­trate some pos­si­ble ways that social media can exist, though it is not an exhaus­tive list and new tech­nolo­gies will ren­der this list out­dated quickly.  The objec­tive is to real­ize the reach of social media, its wide­spread pres­ence on web­sites in var­i­ous forms (includ­ing this web­site), and develop a respon­si­ble approach to using it.

Pro­tect­ing Others

You should rec­og­nize the fact that divul­gences made in and on social media plat­forms on this web­site and oth­ers are rarely con­strained just to you.  Dis­clo­sures are com­monly made about group mat­ters that nec­es­sar­ily affect and impact other peo­ple.  Other dis­clo­sures are expressly about third par­ties, some­times with lit­tle dis­cre­tion.  What can appear funny in one moment can be tragic in the next.  And a sub­tle “pub­lic” retal­i­a­tion can have life­time repercussions.

Ideal use of social media on our web­site would con­fine your dis­clo­sures pri­mar­ily to mat­ters per­tain­ing to you, not oth­ers.  If in doubt, it’s best to err on the side of non-disclosure.  It’s doubt­ful the dis­clo­sure is so mean­ing­ful that it can­not be off­set by the pre­cau­tion of act­ing to pro­tect the best inter­ests of some­one who is invol­un­tar­ily being exposed by your deci­sion to dis­close some­thing on our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com web­site (or another).

Pro­tect­ing Yourself

You should like­wise pause to con­sider the long-term effects of a split-second deci­sion to pub­licly share pri­vate infor­ma­tion about your­self on our Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor web­site.  Opin­ions, likes, dis­likes, pref­er­ences, and oth­er­wise can change.  Openly divulging per­spec­tives that you hold today, may con­flict with your devel­op­ing views into the futures.  Yet, the “new you” will always stand jux­ta­posed against the prior dec­la­ra­tions you made that are now con­cretized as part of your pub­lic pro­file.  While the con­tents of your break­fast may hold lit­tle long-term impact, other data like­wise read­ily shared can have con­se­quences that could con­ceiv­ably impact your abil­ity to obtain cer­tain employ­ment or hin­der other life expe­ri­ences and ambitions.

As with shar­ing infor­ma­tion about other peo­ple, extreme cau­tion should be used before reveal­ing infor­ma­tion about your­self.  If in doubt, it’s likely best not to do it.  The short term gain, if any, could read­ily be out­weighed by later con­se­quences.  Finally, you should note that we are not respon­si­ble for remov­ing con­tent once shared, and we may not be able to do so.

Restric­tions on Use of Social Media Data

You, as a vis­i­tor to our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com web­site, are not per­mit­ted to “mine” social media or other plat­forms con­tained herein for per­sonal infor­ma­tion related to oth­ers.  Even where peo­ple have pub­licly dis­played data, you should not con­strue that as though you have the lib­erty to cap­ture, repro­duce, or reuse that infor­ma­tion.  Any use of social media or related plat­forms on our web­site are for inter­ac­tive use only, rel­e­vant only dur­ing the web­site visit.

Accu­racy of Social Media Data

As any social media plat­form is built on user-generated con­tent, you should con­sider this fact in seek­ing to deter­mine the authen­tic­ity of any­thing you read.  We are not respon­si­ble for ver­i­fy­ing any user-generated con­tent for accu­racy.  A best prac­tices pol­icy would be to view all such con­tent as strictly opin­ion, not fact.

Poten­tial Issues of Liability

You should also be mind­ful of the fact that your words could trig­ger lia­bil­ity for harm caused to oth­ers.  While you have the right to free speech, you do not have the right to dam­age other peo­ple.  Under basic prin­ci­ples of tort law, you are always respon­si­ble, per­son­ally, for sit­u­a­tions where either:

1. you were required to act, but did not (i.e. – some “duty of care”)

2. your were required to refrain from act­ing, but did not (i.e. – slan­der, defama­tion, etc.)

These “sins of omis­sion and com­mis­sion” could cause prob­lems for you, irre­spec­tive of whether you assert you are con­duct­ing busi­ness under the guise of one or more busi­ness enti­ties.  Ille­gal and uneth­i­cal con­duct, when done in the name of a cor­po­ra­tion or LLC, is still ille­gal and uneth­i­cal con­duct.  As it is rarely part of a busi­ness plan to engage in ille­gal and uneth­i­cal con­duct, you are doubt­fully oper­at­ing in any offi­cial capac­ity, but rather, per­haps, lever­ag­ing that capac­ity to effec­tu­ate per­sonal wrong­do­ing.  You should con­sult a licensed attor­ney if you wish legal advice as to the (poten­tial) ram­i­fi­ca­tion of your sit­u­a­tion or legal prob­lems stem­ming from this web­site or another.

CHANGE NOTICE: As with any of our admin­is­tra­tive and legal notice pages, the con­tents of this page can and will change over time.  Accord­ingly, this page could read dif­fer­ently as of your very next visit.  These changes are neces­si­tated, and car­ried out by Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor, in order to pro­tect you and our www.SuccessfulAnimator.com web­site.  If this page is impor­tant to you, you should check back fre­quently as no other notice of changed con­tent will be pro­vided either before or after the change takes effect.

COPYRIGHT WARNING: The legal notices and admin­is­tra­tive pages on this web­site, includ­ing this one, have been dili­gently drafted by an attor­ney.  We at Suc­cess­ful Ani­ma­tor have paid to license the use of these legal notices and admin­is­tra­tive pages on www.SuccessfulAnimator.com for your pro­tec­tion and ours.  This mate­r­ial may not be used in any way for any rea­son and unau­tho­rized use is policed via Copy­scape to detect violators.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS: If you have any ques­tions about the con­tents of this page, or sim­ply wish to reach us for any other rea­son, you may do so by using our Con­tact information.

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