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We respect your privacy



Our pledge

You trust us with your data. This is great responsibility. We collect only enough information, to make Pugmarks useful to you. We take care to protect your data. We will not use your data to track you or target you with advertisements.

We pledge, never to betray you.

What does Pugmarks do?

Pugmarks understands your context, and recommends you useful content from your network and the web. Through our apps, browser plugins, bookmarklets and email addons, we share minimal information with our servers to bring quality recommendations to you.

What data does Pugmarks collect?

  1. We ask you for data that will help us provide you a personalized experience
    Example: Your name, email, connections and relevant data on networks and services like Twitter and LinkedIn
  2. During your use of the service we capture information about your context to serve you recommendations related to that context
    Example: When you are reading an article, we may send the URL or keywords from the article to be used to fetch recommendations related to the article
  3. We use Google Analytics to understand how our users use the service. You can read more about the privacy policies of Google Analytics

What does Pugmarks do with collected data?

  1. We ensure that every piece of data we collect from you, is used towards improving your experience on Pugmarks.
  2. We use information from your connected networks (twitter, linkedin etc) as a source and signal for the recommendations we give you.
  3. We give you complete control on your data. You can review/remove any piece of data generated by your activity from Pugmarks anytime you want.
  4. While we pledge to keep your information private, we might have to disclose information about you when absolutely required, by law and court order.

What does Pugmarks NOT do with your data?

  1. We do not make your reading history or search history public.
  2. We hate spam. We will not use your email address to spam you.
  3. Pugmarks is a free service. We do not serve advertisements on Pugmarks. However, we may pursue a freemium, paid or ad-supported business model in the future.
    In such an event, we will notify you via your registered email and allow you to export, transfer or delete all your data from Pugmarks.

Your data is safe

  1. We take great care to make sure our servers are secure from external access
  2. Your account is protected by a password you have chosen. Please keep it confidential
  3. We use Amazon Web Services to host our servers. Amazon takes stringent measures to protect access to the servers. You can review the Amazon Web Services security policy here: http://aws.amazon.com/security

Changes to this document

We will notify all registered users of any changes in this document.
While we take great care and effort to protect your data, we are not perfect. If you have any questions/suggestions regarding privacy, or our offering, please write to us at , and we shall personally respond to all your queries

Enjoy Pugmarks!