Privacy Policy 


Last updated 8th November 2023


Melowilo Character Animation is committed to protecting your privacy.  Melowilo Character Animation ("our", "us", "we").  The term “you” refers to you, as a user of the website the terms '"user", "users", "visitor" and "visitors", would refer to you viewing www.melowilo.com (“Website”, "the website"). This Privacy Policy is provided to let you know how we use personal information and we encourage you to read this policy completely. By using the Website, you agree to the terms covered in this agreement, whether or not you read this policy fully.


Who we are

https://melowilo.com, Melowilo Character Animation 


Comments

When visitors (you) leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.  An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.


Cookies and Web Beacons

“An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) or to record the user’s browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past). They can also be used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields such as names, addresses, passwords, and credit-card numbers..”

– source Wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.


Like any other website, melowilo.com uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

Control your cookies 

Web browsers provide options for your to clear, allow and manage cookies when using their browser. You also have the right to opt out of 3rd party cookies. Please see your browser's documentation for managing cookies. A limited list of examples, of where such policies can be found, are below. Please use the internet to find such policies for the browser you use on web and mobile. 

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer?

Please be aware, if you decide not to allow cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience on Melowilo.com will be the best as it could otherwise have been.

For cookies that have been created before you have disabled their use, we will still use the information in the cookie, however we will stop using the cookie to collect additional information. You can see your browser settings to delete previously created cookies.


Who we share your data with

We do not sell or in any way share you email in exchange for remuneration.


Google Analytics 

Customer Experience Data – We use Google Analytics to monitor how people use this website. To get the benefit of Google Analytics and to be able to provide you with the best visitor experience possible, we collect data such as your IP address, date(s) you visited the site, how long you were on the site/each page, browser used, how you navigated through the site, time of visit, in addition to other bits of information about how you accessed our site. Please feel free to visit Google for info on their policies and practices. https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/


YouTube and LinkedIn

Articles and information on this site includes embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) and external links. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.


Please see here for Googles Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US, https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data/ and here for LinkedIn privacy policy https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy . 


Links to other websites

Melowilo.com may include links to other websites not listed in this policy., which are not owned or controlled by Melowilo.com or Melowilo Character Animation.  We have no control, and therefore we assume no responsibility for the privacy policy, cookies, content, actions, of any third party services, products or websites. We advise you to read the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and other policies available (on external sites) when visiting the sites you visit via a link from melowilo.com.  You acknowledge and agree, by using the third party links, that Melowilo.com Melowilo Character Animation will not be liable or responsible directly or indirectly for any loss or damage caused by or in connection with the use of our third party linked sites, or suggested sites.


Email

E-mail is the communication preferred choice of many.  Your email is important to Melowilo, and we take care to ensure your email and any data pertaining to it is treated with care and respect. In the event we partner with anyone to provide education, products, services or resources and you chose to participate, your participation is deemed consent for us to share any information you provide to us to that third party.


How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.


For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.


For users who decide to message Melowilo via LinkedIn or email, messages on the platform LinkedIn and messages in Gmail email, will remain indefinitely, or until they are deleted, and where applicable also removed from trash/deleted area.


Information Disclosure

Melowilo Character Animation will disclose your personal information only when necessary to provide services, programs, or products to you, or when necessary to work with third parties like lawyers or collection agencies to enforce these terms or any other terms between you and us (Melowilo.com, Melowilo Character Animation). We may also disclose your information when we are otherwise legally required to do so.


What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.


Terms & Conditions

Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy

Melowilo Character animation asks others to respect its intellectual property rights. If you believe that material located on or linked to by melowilo.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Melowilo Character Animation in accordance with Melowilo Character Animation’s Website’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy. Melowilo Website will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. Melowilo Website will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Melowilo Website or others. In the case of such termination, Melowilo Website will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Melowilo.

Intellectual Property

This Agreement does not transfer from Melowilo Character Animation (melowilo.com) Website to you any Melowilo Character Animation (melowilo.com) or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Melowilo Website. The Melowilo Website (melowilo.com), the melowilo.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with melowilo.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Melowilo Website. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of this Website (melowilo.com and all its content) grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Melowilo Website or third-party trademarks.

Termination

Melowilo.com and Melowilo Character Animation reserves the right to terminate or suspend your access to melowilo.com and all its content immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason (including but not limited to breeching the Terms and Conditions).  When access has been terminated, your right to use the service, melowilo.com will cease immediately.  


Changes to our Terms and Conditions

Melowilo Character Animation, Melowilo.com reserve the right to change the Terms and Conditions at any time. By continuing to use melowilo.com, this website, after the Terms and Conditions have been updated, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If however, you do not agree with any of the changes, or you change your mind about any unchanged terms and conditions, please cease in using the website and our service. 

Disclaimer of warranties

The Website is provided “as is”. Melowilo.com Website and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Melowilo.com Website nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

Children under 13

We do not knowingly collect (either online or offline) and personal information from people under the age of 13 years. If you are under 18 years old, you are permitted to use this website only with the permission of a parent or guardian.

Contact us

If you require any further information, or clarification, on anything regarding our Privacy Policy or Terms & Conditions, please feel free to get in touch at melowilo@gmail.com