US Local Guide takes your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to know more about our privacy policy.
What’s Covered in This Privacy Policy
This policy covers how US Local Guide treats personal information that it collects and receives, including information related to your past use of the US Local Guide website, products and services. Personal information comprises information about you that is personally identifiable, like your name, address, email address and phone number, that is not publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that US Local Guide does not own or control, nor does it apply to people that US Local Guide does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
General
US Local Guide collects personal information when you register with the www.uslocalguide.com website, when you use services provided by US Local Guide and when you visit US Local Guide pages.
When you register, you may be asked for information about yourself, such as your name, email address, phone number, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry and personal interests. Once you register with US Local Guide and sign in to the website, you are no longer anonymous to us.
US Local Guide collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about the use of services we offer.
US Local Guide automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address as well as the US Local Guide page(s) you request. This information may be used for the following general purposes – to customize advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for services we offer, for improving our services, to contact you, to conduct research and for providing anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
US Local Guide does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies. US Local Guide shares your personal information only to provide services you’ve requested and when your permission has been sought and received, or under the following circumstances:
US Local Guide may provide information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with US Local Guide under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help US Local Guide communicate with you about offers from US Local Guide. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
US Local Guide shares information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of US Local Guide’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
US Local Guide may share information if the firm is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, US Local Guide will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
US Local Guide displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.
US Local Guide does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
US Local Guide works with vendors, partners, advertisers and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
US Local Guide uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads and collect information when you visit the www.uslocalguide.com website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on the www.uslocalguide.com website, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you.
Cookies
US Local Guide may set and access US Local Guide’s cookies on your computer.
US Local Guide lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to US Local Guide’s cookies.
US Local Guide uses web beacons to access US Local Guide’s cookies inside and outside our network of websites and in connection with US Local Guide’s services.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
US Local Guide may update this policy and will notify you regarding significant changes in the way personal information is treated. You will be notified by a notice sent to the primary email address specified in your US Local Guide account or by placing a prominent notice on the www.uslocalguide.com site.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please send your comments to info@uslocalguide.com.