April 18, 2013

Scribd values the privacy of the users, subscribers, publishers, members, and
others who visit and use the Scribd Platform (collectively or individually, You or
Users).
By using the Scribd Platform, you expressly consent to the information handling
practices described in this notice.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Scribd Platform Terms
of Use. Your use of the Scribd Platform and any personal information you provide
through the Scribd Platform are subject at all time to this Privacy Notice and the
Terms of Use. Terms for Scribd and the Scribd Platform apply to any site or
mobile application owned and operated by Scribd, Inc, including Scribd.com,
Float.com, and the Float mobile application.
1. The Information Scribd Collects
2. The Way Scribd Uses Information
3. When Scribd Discloses Information
4. Your Choices
5. Third-Party Advertisers
6. Data Security
7. Childrens Privacy
8. International Visitors
9. In the Event of Merger or Sale
10. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice
11. Scribd Contact Information
1. The Information Scribd Collects
User-provided Information: You may provide to Scribd what is generally
called personally identifiable information (such as your name, email
address, postal mailing address, home/mobile telephone number) if you
log in to the Scribd Platform, or otherwise use the features and
functionality of the Scribd Platform. You may also provide other
information to Scribd, including your age, location, and gender, through
use of its functionality and features, such as by creating a user profile.
Cookies Information: When you access the Scribd Platform, we or one of
our advertising partners, may send one or more cookies small text files
that contain a string of alphanumeric characters to your computer.
Scribd may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session
cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie
remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser
on subsequent visits to the Scribd Platform. One type of persistent cookie
that may be installed on your computer when you use Scribd is called a
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review your web browser's Help file to learn the proper way to modify
your cookie settings. For more information on how to manage Flash
cookies, you can go here. For more information about cookies and how
they are used, you can go here.
Automatically Collected Information: When you access the Scribd
Platform or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record
certain information from your system by using different types of tracking
technology. This automatically collected information may include Internet
Protocol address (IP Address), a unique device or user ID, version of
software installed, system type, the referring search query used to locate
content and pages on the Scribd Platform, the content and pages that you
access on the Scribd Platform, the dates and times that you visit the
Scribd Platform, and information from your Facebook account that you
make publicly available, which is provided to us by Facebook via the
Facebook APIs.
2. The Way Scribd Uses Information
Scribd uses the information that you provide or that we collect to operate,
maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on
the Scribd Platform as well as to track user-generated content and Users
to the extent necessary to comply as a service provider with the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act.
Scribd may also use the information that you provide or that we collect to serve
you with advertisements.
We will use your email address, without further consent, for administrative
communications such as notifying you of major Scribd Platform updates,
for customer service purposes, to address copyright infringement or
defamation issues, or to contact you regarding any content that you have
posted to or downloaded from the Scribd Platform.
Scribd uses all of the information that we collect to understand the usage
trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way the Scribd
Platform works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.
Scribd may use Automatically Collected information and Cookies
information to: (a) automatically update the Scribd application on your
system; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-
enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Scribd Platform;
(c) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors
and pages accessed; (d) provide such metrics to Users as they pertain to
such Users uploaded content; and (e) track your entries, submissions,
and status in any promotions or other activities.
3. When Scribd Discloses Information
Scribd does not share your personally identifiable information with other
organizations for their marketing or promotional uses without your prior
express consent, except that if you have provided us with an email
address, Scribd may provide a hashed version of it to its advertising
partners, RapLeaf, Bizo, and LiveRamp, to enable better targeted
advertising where RapLeaf, Bizo, and LiveRamp already possesses your
email address. If RapLeaf, Bizo, or LiveRamp do not already have your
email address in their records, they cannot use the hashed version that
we provide. For more information on RapLeafs privacy practices, and to
opt out, please visit https://www.rapleaf.com/privacy. For more
information on Bizo's privacy practices, and to opt out, please
visit http://www.bizo.com/businessProfessionals/index. For more
information on LiveRamp's privacy practices, and to opt out, please visit
http://liveramp.com/data-privacy-policy/.
Scribd may disclose aggregated or other types of non-personally identifiable
information to third parties for various purposes, including marketing or
promotional uses. For example, Scribd may disclose non-personally
identifiable information to interested third parties to assist them in
understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns on the the
Scribd Platform.
Please be aware that any personally identifiable information that you
voluntarily choose to display on the Scribd Platform such as when you
publish attribution credits for documents or profile information becomes
publicly available and may be collected and used by others without
restriction.
We may disclose User information to affiliated companies or other businesses
or persons to: provide web site hosting, maintenance, and security
services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer
certain functionality; and assist Scribd in improving the Scribd Platform
and creating new services features. We require that these parties process
such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice, we authorize only
a limited use of such information, and we require these parties to use
reasonable confidentiality measures.
Scribd may disclose User information if required to do so by law or in the good-
faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal
laws (such as U.S. Copyright law) or respond to a court order, judicial or
other government subpoena, or warrant in the manner required by the
requesting entity.
Scribd also reserves the right to disclose User information that we believe, in
good faith, is appropriate or necessary: to take precautions against
liability; to protect Scribd from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to
investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations;
to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or
integrity of the Scribd Platform; or to protect the rights, property, or
personal safety of Scribd, our Users, or others.
Scribd shows aggregate geographical information about visitors on Scribd
document pages in our analytics section. This information includes the
cities and countries of people viewing documents, the document which
was viewed, and the time the document was viewed. This information is
publicly available to all Scribd users.
4. Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to share your personally-identifiable information with
Scribd, in which case Scribd will not be able to provide to you some of the features
and functionality found on the Scribd Platform. You may update, correct, or delete
your user information and preferences at any time here.
You may also choose to opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from many
of our advertising partners and others by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your
identity before granting you account access or making corrections to your
information. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF
YOUR UNIQUE PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES.
5. Third-Party Advertisers
Scribd adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliances Self-Regulatory Principles for
Online Behavioral Advertising, available at http://www.aboutads.info. Our
advertising partners, such as RapLeaf, Bizo and BlueKai, may use technology to
provide the advertisements that appear on the Scribd Platform and to use data
collected through the Scribd Platform, as described above and in this section, to
better target ads shown on Scribd and other websites. For a list of many of the
advertisers that may work with Scribd please
visit http://www.aboutads.info/participating.
Our advertising partners may also use cookies or pixel tags to enable the serving
of customized advertisements and content to you both on Scribd and on other
websites and services based on your visits to, and use of Scribd, as well as based
on your visits to third-party sites and services on the Internet. These cookies or
pixel tags may contain non-personally identifiable demographic or other data. You
may opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from many of our advertising
partners by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
6. OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
SCRIBD USES COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE PHYSICAL, MANAGERIAL,
AND TECHNICAL SAFEGUARDS TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY AND
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. WE CANNOT, HOWEVER,
ENSURE OR WARRANT THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU
TRANSMIT TO SCRIBD, AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. ONCE WE
RECEIVE YOUR TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION, SCRIBD MAKES
COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF
OUR SYSTEMS.HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE
THAT SUCH INFORMATION MAY NOT BE ACCESSED, DISCLOSED,
ALTERED, OR DESTROYED BY BREACH OF ANY OF OUR PHYSICAL,
TECHNICAL, OR MANAGERIAL SAFEGUARDS.
IF SCRIBD LEARNS OF A SECURITY SYSTEMS BREACH, THEN WE MAY
ATTEMPT TO NOTIFY YOU ELECTRONICALLY SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE
APPROPRIATE PROTECTIVE STEPS. SCRIBD MAY POST A NOTICE ON THE
SCRIBD PLATFORM IF A SECURITY BREACH OCCURS. DEPENDING ON
WHERE YOU LIVE, YOU MAY HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO RECEIVE NOTICE OF
A SECURITY BREACH IN WRITING. TO RECEIVE A FREE WRITTEN NOTICE
OF A SECURITY BREACH YOU SHOULD NOTIFY US AT
PRIVACY@SCRIBD.COM.
7. OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR
ACCESS THE SCRIBD PLATFORM AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF YOUNG CHILDREN IS ESPECIALLY
IMPORTANT. FOR THAT REASON, SCRIBD DOES NOT KNOWINGLY
COLLECT OR MAINTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FROM
PERSONS UNDER 13 YEARS-OF-AGE. IF SCRIBD LEARNS THAT
PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OF PERSONS LESS THAN 13-
YEARS-OF-AGE HAS BEEN COLLECTED ON OR THROUGH THE SCRIBD
PLATFORM, THEN SCRIBD WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATE STEPS TO
DELETE THIS INFORMATION.
IF YOU ARE THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A CHILD UNDER 13
WHO HAS BECOME SCRIBD PLATFORM MEMBER, THEN PLEASE CONTACT
SCRIBD AT PRIVACY@SCRIBD.COM TO HAVE THAT CHILDS ACCOUNT
TERMINATED AND INFORMATION DELETED.
THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME RESOURCES THAT MAY HELP PARENTS AND
LEGAL GUARDIANS IN MONITORING AND LIMITING YOUR CHILDRENS'
ACCESS TO CERTAIN TYPES OF MATERIAL ON THE INTERNET. WHILE
SCRIBD DOES NOT ENDORSE THESE PRODUCTS, WE PROVIDE
INFORMATION ABOUT THEM AS A PUBLIC SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
OnGuard Online, maintained by the Federal Trade Commission.
WiredSafety
Netsmartz.org
The Child Safety Network
Control Kids
Cyber Sitter
Net Nanny
8. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
FOR USERS VISITING THE SCRIBD PLATFORM FROM THE EUROPEAN
ECONOMIC AREA OR OTHER NON-U.S. TERRITORIES, PLEASE NOTE THAT
ANY DATA YOU ENTER INTO THE SCRIBD PLATFORM WILL BE
TRANSFERRED OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA OR SUCH
OTHER NON-U.S. TERRITORY FOR USE BY SCRIBD AND ITS AFFILIATES
FOR ANY OF THE PURPOSES DESCRIBED HEREIN.IN ADDITION, BECAUSE
SCRIBD OPERATES GLOBALLY, WE MAY MAKE INFORMATION WE GATHER
AVAILABLE TO WORLDWIDE BUSINESS UNITS AND AFFILIATES. BY
PROVIDING ANY DATA ON THE SCRIBD PLATFORM, YOU HEREBY
EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO SUCH TRANSFERS OF YOUR DATA TO THE
UNITED STATES OR OTHER COUNTRIES.
9. IN THE EVENT OF MERGER OR SALE
IN THE EVENT THAT SCRIBD IS ACQUIRED BY OR MERGED WITH A THIRD-
PARTY ENTITY, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, IN ANY OF THESE
CIRCUMSTANCES, TO TRANSFER OR ASSIGN THE INFORMATION THAT WE
HAVE COLLECTED FROM USERS AS PART OF THAT MERGER,
ACQUISITION, SALE, OR OTHER CHANGE OF CONTROL.
10. CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
THIS PRIVACY NOTICE MAY BE REVISED PERIODICALLY WITHOUT
FURTHER NOTICE TO YOU AND THIS WILL BE REFLECTED BY A LAST
MODIFIED DATE BELOW. PLEASE REVISIT THIS PAGE TO STAY AWARE OF
ANY CHANGES. IN GENERAL, WE ONLY USE YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED IN THE PRIVACY NOTICE IN
EFFECT WHEN WE RECEIVED THAT PERSONAL INFORMATION.YOUR
CONTINUED USE OF THE SCRIBD PLATFORM CONSTITUTES YOUR
AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE AND ANY FUTURE REVISIONS.
FOR REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE THAT MAY BE MATERIALLY
LESS RESTRICTIVE ON OUR USE OR DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED TO US, WE WILL MAKE REASONABLE
EFFORTS TO NOTIFY YOU AND OBTAIN YOUR CONSENT BEFORE
IMPLEMENTING REVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH INFORMATION.
11. SCRIBD CONTACT INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT SCRIBD WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT
THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND OUR THIRD-
PARTY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES OR YOUR CONSENT CHOICES AT:
SCRIBD.COM, 539 BRYANT ST., SUITE 200, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107, OR
BY EMAIL: PRIVACY@SCRIBD.COM. WE WILL RESPOND TO YOUR INQUIRY
WITHIN 30 DAYS OF ITS RECEIPT.