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Scope
This privacy policy describes how we handle your
personal information for our services available through the
www.youSquare.com (the "Site") and applies generally to
our subsidiaries and joint venture web sites (i.e.
www.WorldWidePhotoWall.Com ). Our subsidiaries and joint
ventures privacy practices are similar to those described in this
Privacy Policy. Subject to the requirements of applicable law, we
strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices
throughout the global youSquare trading community. By accepting
the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you
expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure
of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users
and is otherwise effective on March 1st, 2007.
Collection
You can browse the Site without telling us who you
are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once
you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to
us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you
consent to the transfer and storage of that information to our
servers located in the United States.
We may collect and store the following personal
information:
- email address, physical contact information, and
(depending on the service used) sometimes financial information,
such as credit card or bank account numbers:
- transactional information based on your activities
on the Site:
- shipping, billing and other information you
provide to purchase or ship an item:
- community discussions, chats, dispute resolution,
correspondence through the Site, and correspondence sent to
us:
- computer sign-on data, statistics on page views,
traffic to and from the Site, and ad data: other information,
including IP address and standard web log information: and
- supplemental information from third parties. (For
example, if you incur a debt to youSquare, we will generally
conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about
you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law. As another
example, if the information you provide cannot be verified, we
may ask you to send us additional information (such as your
driver license, credit card statement, and/or a recent utility
bill or other information confirming your address), or to answer
additional questions online to help verify your
information.)
Marketing
We don't sell or rent your personal information
to third parties for their marketing purposes without your
explicit consent. We may combine your information with
information we collect from other companies (such as demographic
data) to improve and personalize our services. If you don't
wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate
your preference once you sign-in on the Site in My youSquare,
similar account status page, or by following the directions
within the email.
Use
Our primary purpose in collecting personal
information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and
customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal
information to:
- provide the services and customer support you
request;
- resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot
problems;
- prevent potentially prohibited or illegal
activities, and enforce our User Agreement;
- customize, measure, and improve our services and
the Site's content and layout;
- tell you about targeted marketing, service
updates, and promotional offers based on your communication
preferences; and compare information for accuracy, and verify it
with third parties.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information to respond to
legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that
a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or
protect anyone's rights, property, or safety.
We may also share your personal information
with:
- members of our corporate family to help detect and
prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services; (Our
corporate affiliates will market only to users who request these
services.)
- service providers under contract who help with our
business operations; (such as fraud investigations, bill
collection, affiliate and rewards programs and co-branded credit
cards)
- other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us
to send your information; (or about whom you are otherwise
explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific
service)
- law enforcement or other governmental officials,
in response to a verified request relating to a criminal
investigation or alleged illegal activity; (In such events we
will disclose name, city, state, telephone number, email address,
User ID history, fraud complaints, and bidding and listing
history.)
- youSquare VeRO Program participants under
confidentiality agreement, as we in our sole discretion believe
necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of
fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other
unlawful activity; (In such events we will disclose name, street
address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and
company name.) and
- other business entities, should we plan to merge
with, or be acquired by that business entity. (Should such a
combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity
follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal
information. If your personal information will be used contrary
to this policy, you will receive prior notice.)
Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your
privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad
actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information
to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third
parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar
legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the
disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent
physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal
activity.
Activity Associated with User IDs
Your User ID is may be displayed throughout
the Site and is therefore available to the public. Some of your
activities on the Site will be traceable to your User ID. If you
associate your name with your User ID, the people to whom you
have revealed your name to will be able to personally identify
your youSquare activities.
Using Information from youSquare
Our Site enables you to share personal and
business information. We encourage you to disclose your privacy
practices and respect the privacy of other users. We cannot
guarantee the privacy or security of your information and
therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security
policies. To help protect your privacy, we allow only limited
access to other users' contact, shipping and financial
information in order to facilitate your transactions. When users
are involved in a transaction, they may have access to each
other's name, User ID, email address, and other contact and
shipping information. In all cases, you must give other users a
chance to remove themselves from your database and a chance to
review what information you have collected about them.
You agree to use user information only for:
- youSquare-transaction-related purposes that are
not unsolicited commercial messages.
- Using services offered through youSquare.
- Other purposes that a user expressly chooses.
Cookies
We use "cookies" (small files placed on
your hard drive) on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our
web page flow, customize our services, measure promotional
effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. A few important
things you should know about cookies are that:
- We offer certain features that are only available
through the use of cookies.
- We use cookies to help identify you and maintain
your signed-in status.
- Most cookies are "session cookies,"
meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive
at the end of a session.
- You are always free to decline our cookies if your
browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of
the Site.
- You may encounter cookies from third parties on
certain pages of the Site that we do not control. (For example,
if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a
"cookie" placed by that web page.)
No spam, spyware or spoofing
We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to
set your youSquare notification preferences so we communicate to
you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other youSquare
users, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your
mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent.
To report youSquare related spam or spoof emails to youSquare,
please email us. You may not use our communication tools to send
spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User
Agreement. We do filter and automatically scan messages before
they are sent for viruses and other illegal or prohibited content
but do not permanently store email messages sent through these
tools. If you send an email to an email address that is not
registered in our community (via Refer a Friend or other tool),
we do not permanently store that email or use that email address
for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these email
addresses.
Account Protection
Your password is the key to your account. Use
unique numbers, letters, and special characters and do not
disclose your youSquare password to anyone. If you do share your
password or your personal information with others, remember that
you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your
account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose
substantial control over your personal information and may be
subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf.
Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason,
you should immediately notify youSquare and change your
password.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal
Information
You can see, review and change most of your
personal information by logging into the Site. Generally, we will
not manually modify your personal information because it is very
difficult to verify your identity remotely. You must promptly
update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
Once you make a public posting, you may not be able to change or
remove it. Upon your request, we will close your account and
remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably
possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with
applicable law. We do retain personal information from closed
accounts in order to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any
fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with
any investigations, enforce our
youSquare User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise
permitted by law.
Security
Your information is stored on our servers located
in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be
protected and use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical
security, etc.) to protect your personal information against
unauthorized access and disclosure. However, as you probably
know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access
transmissions or private communications, and other users may
abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from
the Site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your
personal information or private communications will always remain
private.
Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly included in this
Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and
disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose
your information to others, whether they are bidders, buyers, or
sellers on our Site or other sites throughout the Internet,
different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the
information you disclose to them. Since youSquare does not
control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to
the privacy policies of those third parties. We encourage you to
ask questions before you disclose your personal information to
others.
General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by
posting the amended terms on the Site. All amended terms
automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted
on the Site.
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