Your privacy is important to iSkoot; therefore, iSkoot
is committed to respecting Your privacy and the
confidentiality of Your personal data, traffic
data and communications content. This Privacy Statement
is designed to assist You in understanding how
iSkoot uses and safeguards the information You
provide in using iSkoot's software for your mobile
internet telephony and data services.
iSkoot collects and processes, or has third party
service providers who collect and process on iSkoot's
behalf, personal data relating to You, as strictly
necessary to (1) perform the internet telephony and
data service, in particular to convey the communications
You make by means of the iSkoot Software, (2) invoice
to You Your use of the internet telephony and data
service and (3) carry out iSkoot marketing activities.
In this Privacy Statement the following capitalized
definitions are being used in the singular as well
as plural.
Communications Content: any information
that is communicated by users of iSkoot Software while
using the iSkoot Software.
Feedback Information: any information
that is reported to iSkoot by filling in the feedback forms
on the Website.
Passive Information: Information that
is necessary in order to provide You with the desired functionality
of the iSkoot Software, such as a session ID token, source
and destination addressing information, and the version
of the software You are using.
Personal Data: any information relating
to an identified or identifiable user of iSkoot Software
and/or internet telephony and data Services, including
but not limited to such user's Register Information
and Subscriber Information.
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network.
Register Information: any information
provided when voluntarily registering at the Website, including,
but not limited to, username and password.
iSkoot: iSkoot, Inc., a company incorporated under
the laws of Delaware, USA.
iSkoot Software: Software that allows
You to communicate with any other "buddy system"/internet
telephony and data service user from your mobile phone.
Subscriber Information: Information that
is necessary in order to verify Your identity and to provide
internet telephony and data services, such as Your name,
billing information and e-mail address on the Website.
Traffic Data: any data processed for the
purpose of the conveyance of communication or the billing
thereof, including, but not limited to, the duration of a
call and the (IP) numbers of the called party and the calling
party.
User Profile: any information about the
user, filled in by the user on the Website, that is meant
to be shared with other users of the Software, such as your
IM chat service ID, that can be searched for by other iSkoot
users and/or, only after the user's approval, can be
added to another user's "friend's list",
including the user's own "friend's list".
Internet telephony and data service: means
the payable services provided by iSkoot and/or iSkoot's partners,
and other services which may be extended or changed from
time to time.
Website: the website located at www.iskoot.com.
You: You, the user of the iSkoot Software
and the internet telephony and data service, also used in
the form "Your" where applicable.
Through the Website, iSkoot offers you the iSkoot
Software, which may changed from time to time.

In order to provide the iSkoot Software,
iSkoot gathers and processes the following information.
Register Information
User Profile
Personal Data of friends
Feedback Information
Passive Information
E-mail addresses
iSkoot does not collect any Communications Content.

Register Information
You need to register to use the iSkoot Software.
User Profile
iSkoot does not store the User Profile centrally
on a server. In the event You choose to make the
User Profile available, this information is temporarily
transmitted to computers of other users in the peer-to-peer
network. Since the User Profile is not stored centrally,
iSkoot cannot guarantee that this information will
always be available and will not disappear.
Feedback Information
Any and all information which is voluntarily submitted
in feedback forms on the Website, is used for the
purposes of reviewing this feedback and improving
the iSkoot Software and Website. iSkoot reserves
the right to utilize Feedback Information without
attribution for marketing purposes, for instance
by displaying selected comments on the Website or
in other communications. Further, iSkoot may from
time to time ask you to provide information on your
experiences which will be used to measure and improve
quality. You are at no time under any obligation
to provide any of such data. iSkoot will not use
any personally identifiable Feedback Information
without Your explicit permission thereto.
Passive Information
Passive Information is automatically generated and
is not stored centrally. iSkoot will only use this
Passive Information, on an aggregated level, to provide
You with better service or for statistical information.
E-mail addresses
iSkoot respects the privacy of personal e-mail accounts
and stores Your e-mail addresses just as securely
as other Personal Data. iSkoot will not send You
unsolicited e-mail messages or junk mail, and Your
details will not be passed to third parties without
Your explicit permission. However, iSkoot will use
e-mail to send You messages about faults and service
issues. iSkoot may also use e-mail to keep You up
to date with news about the iSkoot Software and internet
telephony and data services. If You do not want to
be kept informed in this way by e-mail, please contact
iSkoot at remove@iskoot.com.
Subscriber Information
iSkoot asks for Subscriber Information in order to
verify Your identity and to provide internet telephony
and data services. We use a third party banking organizations
and other providers of payment services to bill You
for internet telephony and data services and we will,
therefore, provide this billing provider with the
necessary billing data. This Subscriber Information
is securely stored on a server of iSkoot or iSkoot's
third party billing provider and is used by iSkoot,
as well as by any such third party billing provider,
in accordance with relevant legislation.
Please note that Your billing data is sensitive information,
which can be used to find out information about Your
use of internet telephony and data services. Please
be sure to keep this information safe and do not
share it with others.
Traffic Data
In order to transmit Your calls through the PSTN
iSkoot collects Traffic Data. iSkoot will erase Traffic
Data, or make Traffic Data anonymous, as soon as
it is no longer needed for the purpose of the transmission
of the communication, unless applicable law provides
otherwise.

iSkoot shall not sell, rent or trade any Personal
Data, Traffic Data or Communications Content to any
third party without Your explicit permission, unless
it is obliged to do so under applicable laws or by
order of competent authorities.
In order to provide You with internet telephony and
data services or other services You have requested,
iSkoot may sometimes, if necessary, share Your Personal
Data and Traffic Data with carriers, partner service
providers and/or agents, for example the PSTN-VoIP
gateway provider, distributor of iSkoot Software
and/or internet telephony and data service and/or
the third party banking organization or other providers
of payment services. iSkoot will require these third
parties to take appropriate organizational and technical
measures to protect Your Personal Data and Traffic
Data and to observe relevant legislation.
Please be informed that, notwithstanding the abovementioned,
in the event of a competent authority requesting
iSkoot or iSkoot's local partner responsible towards
such authority, to retain and provide Personal Data
and/or Traffic Data, or to install wiretapping equipment
in order to intercept communications, iSkoot and/or
its local partner will provide all necessary assistance
and information to fulfill this request as required
by applicable law.
Information collected on the Website may be stored
and processed in any country in which iSkoot maintains
facilities. In this regard, iSkoot reserves the right
to transfer information outside of Your country.
As iSkoot continues to develop its business, iSkoot
might sell or buy subsidiaries or business units.
In such transactions as well as in the event iSkoot
or substantially all of its assets are acquired,
personal information of iSkoot users will generally
be one of the transferred business assets. By using
iSkoot Software or internet telephony and data services
You consent to any such transfer of information outside
of Your country. In case of such transfer, the information
remains subject to any pre-existing Privacy Statement.

Cookies are pieces of information that iSkoot will
transfer to Your computer's hard drive through
Your browser to enable iSkoot's systems to recognize
Your browser. Cookies also enable iSkoot to gain
information about the use of its Website and to enhance
the Website accordingly to the preferences of the
users.
The Help option on the toolbar of most browsers will
tell You how to prevent Your browser from accepting
new cookies, how to have the browser notify You when
You receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. iSkoot's cookies do not contain any identifying
information. Please bear in mind that some personalized
services may not be available if You choose to disable
cookies.

The Website may contain links that will let You leave
the Website and access another website. Linked websites
are not under the control of iSkoot and it is possible
that these websites have a different privacy policy.
The Privacy Statement applies solely to personal
information that is acquired on the Website, so iSkoot
urges You to be careful when You enter any personal
information online. iSkoot accepts no responsibility
or liability for these other websites.

iSkoot shall take appropriate organizational, physical
and technical measures to protect the Personal Data
and Traffic Data provided to it or collected by it,
and shall not retain such information any longer
than required in order to perform its services or
as required under relevant legislation. Your Personal
Data and Traffic Data can be accessed only by authorized
employees, consultants or agents of iSkoot, iSkoot's
affiliates or iSkoot's third-party service
providers who need to have access to these data in
order to be able to fulfill their given duties.
iSkoot shall take appropriate technical measures
to protect the confidentiality of the Communications
Content via its iSkoot Software and internet telephony
and data services, with due observance of applicable
obligations and exceptions under relevant legislation.
Other than for acts of gross negligence, iSkoot hereby
disclaims any liability relating to the disclosure
of Your Personal Data and Traffic Data.

iSkoot reserves the right to modify the provisions
of this Privacy Statement if deemed necessary. We
will inform You of these changes on the Website.
You agree that by continuing to use the iSkoot Software
or internet telephony and data services following
the publishing of the revised Privacy Statement You
indicate your acceptance of the Privacy Statement.

If You would like to exercise your right to view,
correct, complete or remove Your Personal Data, please
contact iSkoot at remove@iskoot.com.
Within a reasonable period of time and upon verification
of your identity, iSkoot will fulfill Your request,
provided iSkoot will not act contrary to applicable
legislation by fulfilling Your request.
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