What Personal Information Does Places.com Collect?
Personal Information You Provide to Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Service or provide to us in any other way. The types of Personal Information collected may include your name, email address, phone number, birth date, use information regarding the use of our Service, and browser information. The Personal Information you provide is used for such purposes as allowing you to set up a user account and profile that can be used to interact with other users through the Service, improving the content of the Service, customizing the content you see, and communicating with you about new features. We may also draw upon this Personal Information in order to adapt the Services of our community to your needs, to research the effectiveness of our network and Services, and to develop new tools for the community.
Information Collected Automatically: When you use the Service, Places.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser or mobile platform, including your location, IP address, cookie information, and the page you requested. We treat this data as non-Personal Information, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. Places.com only uses this data in aggregate form. We may provide aggregate information to our partners about how our customers, collectively, use our site, so that our partners may also understand how often people use their services and our Service.
How is My Information Shared? Personal Information about our users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone. Places.com may share your Personal Information only under the following circumstances.
When you choose to make information available to others. Most information in your profile (except your birthdate) can be made available to other users under a variety of circumstances. See the Check-In Visibility Settings section under Settings.
Business Transfers: If Places.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that Places.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
Protection of Places.com and Others: We may release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law, including laws outside your country of residence; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Places.com, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations (including outside of your country of residence) for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
What About Cookies and Similar Technologies? Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser as you traverse the pages of Places.com. Cookies must be turned on for the site to work properly.
Places.com uses Google Analytics to better understand who is using the Service, and how people are using it. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the website, IP address, and type of operating system used. We use this information to improve the Service and make it appealing to as many users as possible. Google has developed a browser plugin available at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to allow you to opt-out of Google Analytics' tracking software.
Is Personal Information About Me Secure? Your Places.com account Personal Information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately, and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
Places.com endeavors to safeguard user information to ensure that user account information is kept private. However, Places.com cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
The Service may contain links to other sites. Places.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site, you should read the privacy policy stated on that site. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Service.
Please note that this site is hosted on our computer servers in the United States or Canada. Therefore, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or Canada. As a result, the governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in these countries. Your use of this site or submission of any Personal Information will therefore constitute your consent to the transfer of your Personal Information outside of your home country.
How Do I Delete My Account? Should you ever decide to delete your Places.com account, you may do so on your profile page under Settings. If you terminate your account, your profile, including your check-in history, contacts, photos, notes and places will be removed from the site and deleted from Places.com's servers. Because of the way we maintain Places.com, such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information or posts may remain on backup media for up to ninety (90) days.
Will There Be Changes To This Privacy Policy? Places.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make material changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Service or sending you an email. Users are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when he or she uses the Service after such changes have been first posted.
What If I Have Questions Or Concerns? If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Service, please send a detailed message to: Rich Halverson at rich@places.com. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Will My Information Be Transferred To Another Country? Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities, and, by using the Service, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country.
Last Updated: January 17, 2012