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Effective Date: 10/01/2010
yoursandiego.net respects the privacy of
visitors to our site. This Privacy Policy
governs the use and collection of
information from you by yoursandiego.net
("we" or "us") through your use of this
site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to
any information you may provide to us
through other means; for example, at a live
event, via mail, or via telephone.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so
that you understand our online privacy
practices. By visiting this site, you agree
that your visit, and any dispute over our
online privacy practices, is governed by
this Privacy Policy and our Visitor
Agreement. Questions regarding privacy
issues should be directed to:
info@yoursandiego.net
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two
categories: (1) information (for example,
your name and address) that you voluntarily
supply (for example, when you register as a
visitor to the site, or customize our
service to provide you services specific to
your neighborhood), and (2) information
gathered on usage patterns and preferences
as visitors navigate through our sites. In
some cases, it is an agent or affiliate of
ours that collects the information on our
behalf. Third-party providers featured on or
linked to by our site, such as vendors of
products and services offered through our
site, may be gathering the same kinds of
information. We may use your registration
information to contact you for customer
service purposes, to inform you about the
services offered over our site or of
important changes or additions to our site,
and to send you newsletters, offers and
information that you request or that we
think may interest you.
Contests and Other Promotions.
From time to time, we may offer contests,
sweepstakes or other promotions on our site.
If you enter one of these promotions, you'll
have to provide information about yourself
(such as your name, address, telephone
number and email address) so that we can
contact you if you win. We may share this
information with any wholly or
majority-owned subsidiary of
yoursandiego.net and any co-sponsor of the
promotion (we will identify any co-sponsor
in the official rules for the promotion). If
you don't want us to collect the information
requested in the registration form or to
provide it to any wholly or majority-owned
subsidiary of yoursandiego.net or contest
co-sponsors, please do not enter the contest
or sweepstakes.
Email Newsletters.
We may offer you the opportunity to
subscribe to email newsletters on topics
that we believe are of interest to our
visitors. If you have opted to receive a
particular newsletter, you may always
unsubscribe later if you decide not to
receive further mailings of the newsletter
from us. Each newsletter will include
instructions on how to unsubscribe from
future issues by using either a designated
reply email address or hyperlink.
Cookies.
To help make our sites more responsive to
the needs of our visitors, we use a standard
feature of browser software, called a
"cookie," to assign each visitor a unique,
random number, a sort of user ID, if you
will, that resides on your computer. The
cookie doesn't actually identify the
visitor, just the computer that a visitor
uses to access our site. The only personal
information a cookie can contain is
information you supply. A cookie can't read
unrelated data off your hard drive. Our
advertisers and the third parties that
provide products or services through our
site may also assign their own cookies to
your browser, a process that we don't
control. We use cookies to help us tailor
our site to your needs, to deliver a better,
more personalized service. For example, we
may use cookies to allow you to search for
those businesses closest to your home. In
addition, we may use cookies to track the
pages on our site visited by our users. We
can build a better site if we know which
pages our users are visiting and how often.
Of course, you can set your browser not to
accept cookies, but if you do, you may not
be able to take advantage of the
personalized features enjoyed by other
visitors to our site.
Other Methods of Collecting Information.
Our web pages may contain electronic images
(called "single-pixel GIFs" or "web
beacons") that allow us and our vendors to
count users who have visited particular
pages or to access certain cookies. We may
use these tools and other technologies to
recognize which pages users visit, and which
links they click on. These features may also
be included in our email newsletters so that
we can learn which messages have been opened
and acted upon. We may also be able to
verify your online purchases from us or from
third party sites that have agreed to share
such information with us.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses.
Our web servers automatically collect
limited information about your computer
configuration when you visit our site,
including the type of browser software you
use, the operating system you're running,
the resolution of your computer monitor, the
Web site that referred you, and your IP
address. (Your IP address is a numerical
address that is used by computers connected
to the Internet to identify your computer so
that data such as the web pages you want to
view can be transmitted to you.) We also use
IP address information for systems
administration and troubleshooting purposes.
Your IP address does not tell us who you
are. We use this information to deliver web
pages to you upon request, to tailor our
site to the interests of our users, and to
measure traffic within our site.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Why we want to know.
We collect information in order to make the
Web site more useful and relevant to you.
For example, we may ask you for an address
so that you can map a route from your work
or home address to that of a service
provider, or so you can narrow your search
to businesses that serve your neighborhood.
Third Parties.
We will not share the
personally-identifiable information you
provide when registering on our site with
third parties. We may, however, take the
information you provide and aggregate it
with data from all the other people that use
this site and associated services. Then we
would use that pool of information to inform
third parties about our audience without
identifying you personally. For example,
we'll be able to say to a third party: "We
have 3,470 site visitors in this ZIP code,"
which happens to be your location.
Vendors and Provider Partners.
To make our sites more valuable to our
visitors, we may offer some features in
conjunction with other providers ("Provider
Partners"). Our email newsletters, email
services and online classifieds for example,
may be made available through cooperative
arrangements with providers that specialize
in operating such services. In some
instances, our Provider Partners will have
the same access to your information as we
do. Their use of the information will be
subject to the terms of their respective
privacy policies, which you can find on
their Web sites. We may also use vendors and
third-party contractors to help us operate
our site, analyze or process data on our
behalf, or improve the services that we
offer to you. We may provide these vendors
and contractors with information about our
visitors that is necessary for them to
perform the services that we request.
Statistical Information.
Much of the information we collect is in the
form of aggregated statistics, such as the
traffic that visits various pages within our
sites, and the habits and preferences of our
audience. Such aggregated information does
not include any information that would
identify you personally. We may use such
aggregated information and disclose it to
third parties as we see fit.
Sites to Which We Link.
Our site includes links to plenty of other
Web sites, and provides access to services
offered by third parties, whose privacy
policies we don't control. When you access
another site or purchase products or
services or conduct other transactions
through our sites, use of any information
you provide is governed by the privacy
policy of the operator of the site you're
visiting or the provider of such products or
services.
Other Disclosures.
We may occasionally release information
about our visitors when release is
appropriate to comply with law, to enforce
our Visitor Agreement, or to protect the
rights, property or safety of visitors to
our sites, the public, our customers, or our
company and its employees, agents, partners
and affiliates. As our business grows, we
may buy or sell various assets. In the
unlikely event that our company, or the bulk
of our assets relating to this site, is
acquired by another company, information on
our visitors would be among the transferred
assets.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Children should always get permission from
their parents before sending any information
about themselves (such as their names, email
addresses, and phone numbers) over the
Internet, to us or to anyone else. We won't
knowingly allow anyone under 18 to register
with our site, to provide business
information to our site, or to provide any
other personally identifying information. If
you're under 18, please do not provide us
with any personally identifying information
about yourself (such as your name, your
email address or your phone number).
STORAGE OF INFORMATION
All information gathered on our site is
stored within a database operated by us or
by a contractor on our behalf. Sensitive
information, such as password or
information, is encoded (not encrypted) for
storage. We cannot guarantee the security of
our database, nor can we guarantee that
information you supply won't be intercepted
while being transmitted to us over the
Internet.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium.
If we need to change our privacy policy at
some point in the future, we'll post the
changes before they take effect.
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