Eldahr LLC (“NeighborhoodPal”) – PRIVACY POLICY
Eldahr LLC. respects your privacy. Eldahr LLC> and its affiliates (“NeighborhoodPal” or the “Company”) offer mapping, virtual tours, audio narration, and community-based services to users of www.NeighborhoodPal.com (the “Website”) and/or users of NeighborhoodPal’ mobile applications (the “Application”) (collectively referred to as the “Services”). When you use our services, you’re trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to protect your information and put you in control.
This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, and delete your information. This Privacy Policy covers:
- User Accounts & Accessing the Services
- Information that is being collected
- Why NeighborhoodPal collects data
- Sharing your information
- Visibility
- Integration with social networks
- Integration with other third party services
- Controlling your personal information
- How NeighborhoodPal retains data we collect
- How does NeighborhoodPal use aggregated information
- Cookies
- Advertising campaigns
- Information security
- Compliance & cooperation with regulators
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is incorporated as part of the NeighborhoodPal Terms of Service. Your use of the Services is subject to the Terms of Use, Copyright Policy and this Privacy Policy and indicates your consent to them.
To use our Services you must be 18 years of age or older. If you are under 16, you may not download or use the Services.
In this Privacy Policy, the term “personal information” means information which you provide to us which personally identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, and, in certain circumstances, your location and route information or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by NeighborhoodPal.
You can adjust your Privacy Settings in the NeighborhoodPal app and choose which personal information we may collect about you and how your information is used.
Contact NeighborhoodPal – Privacy concerns reports
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you believe that your privacy has been compromised in the course of using the Services, please contact NeighborhoodPal at: info@NeighborhoodPal.com. You may send NeighborhoodPal other requests, responses, questions and complaints by email at: info@NeighborhoodPal.com.
User Accounts & Accessing the Services
Please note that when you install the Application on your mobile device, NeighborhoodPal will set up an account associated with that mobile device (the “Account” or “NeighborhoodPal Account”). After installation, NeighborhoodPal will collect and use your information, including meta-data (as described below), in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This use may include linking your information with your Account. This is the case irrespective of whether or not you choose to create a NeighborhoodPal username and password in the NeighborhoodPal Application (as explained below).
NeighborhoodPal may allow you to use the NeighborhoodPal Application whether or not you choose to set up a username for yourself. If you choose to use the NeighborhoodPal Services without setting up a username you may do so by skipping the username setup stage of the application installation process. If you do so:
- NeighborhoodPal will still link all of your information with your Account and a unique identifier generated by NeighborhoodPal in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This helps us do things like find you the best route.
- With the exception described in the bullet below, your Account and the information associated with your Account (including your unique identifier) will be visible only to NeighborhoodPal; and
- When using the Application, your approximate location and other information you may choose to contribute will be visible to other users associated with the general username “NeighborhoodPal”.
- Note that in order to access certain features of the Services (for example, creating a new Audio/Sound Pin, routes, sharing) you will need to set up a unique username to identify yourself.
If you do set up a NeighborhoodPal username and password in the Application:
- NeighborhoodPal will link all of your information with your Account and that username. This includes information received from all mobile devices running the Application on which you have chosen to sign in using your username and password;
- With the exception described in the bullet below, your Account and information associated with your Account will be visible only to NeighborhoodPal; and
- When using the Application, your approximate location and other information you may choose to contribute will be visible to other users associated with that username.
- NeighborhoodPal may also establish and require from time to time additional or different means of identification and authentication for logging in and accessing the Services or for accessing certain features or designated sections of the Services.
- Your login details are your responsibility. You are fully accountable for any use or misuse of your Account and personal details as a result of conveying your login details to someone else. You must maintain your login details in absolute confidentiality and avoid disclosing them to others. Make sure that you change your password frequently and at least once every six months.
Information that is being collected
We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services
NeighborhoodPal collects information to provide better services to all its users – from figuring out stuff like what’s the best route, best sound pins and sound routes for your search, and showing you relevant ads while using NeighborhoodPal. The information NeighborhoodPal collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you choose to use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.
Information you create or provide to us:
- Account Information: information required when setting up a username you have chosen, such as your name. Bear in mind that false, incorrect, or out-dated information may impair NeighborhoodPal’ ability to provide you with the Services and to contact you when necessary. NeighborhoodPal will explicitly indicate the fields for mandatory completion. If you do not enter the requisite data in these fields, you may not be able to set up a username (but you may still use our Services as explained in the above section “User Accounts & Accessing the Services”); and/or
- Information that you choose to share with NeighborhoodPal: information that you choose to share with NeighborhoodPal, including a username you have chosen, reports associated with your username, phone number, “home” or “work”, other “favorites”, Audio pins/routes you may listen to and travel to, search queries and files you have uploaded to the service, including voice, image and audio files, if applicable. You can also choose to add payment information to your Account, if applicable, specifically for paid services. Even if you aren’t signed in to a NeighborhoodPal Account, you might choose to provide us with information – like an email address to receive updates about our services.
- Communication which you choose to conduct through the NeighborhoodPal Services: if you choose to use NeighborhoodPal to communicate with other NeighborhoodPal users or third parties through the NeighborhoodPal Services, such as ratings, comments or sharing routes on the NeighborhoodPal platform. We may also collect information when you exchange communication with NeighborhoodPal, for example, if you submit a request, contact NeighborhoodPal’ support team, or report a violation to the abuse team.
- Information from your social networks which you choose to connect to your NeighborhoodPal Account: you may choose to connect your NeighborhoodPal Account to your social network account(s). If you choose to do so, you may choose to share with NeighborhoodPal and/or other users information from your social network accounts, such as your Facebook profile photo or other personal information shared by you. For more information see Integration with social networks, below.
- “Find friends feature”: if you use the “find friends” feature, NeighborhoodPal will collect: _ Periodically, NeighborhoodPal will collect all of the phone numbers which are stored on your device’s phone contacts book. With regards to the “find friends” feature we only collect numbers in a form which is anonymous to NeighborhoodPal; This information will be used to help us find and create a list of other NeighborhoodPal users who you may know and with whom you may wish to connect. Note that we will not collect names, addresses or other information from your device’s phone contacts book, however some of this information may be saved locally on your device and may be used within searches for your friend’s name or address within the Services. and/or _ Your phone number. Your phone number will be used to verify your account and as part of the “share” feature , if applicable, to help find and create a list of other NeighborhoodPal users who you may know and with whom you may wish to connect.
You may also provide additional information that will be used to personalize the Services and enhance your experience with the Services. For example, if you provide us with your “home” and “work” information, we may provide you with what we think enjoyable routes.
Information we collect as you use our services
We collect information about your activity in the Services, which we use to provide you with the Services of NeighborhoodPal, including features which are meant to personalize your experience. This includes things like finding you the preferred sound pins, routesj, and propose favorites or destinations commonly searched by you to streamline your search and travel. The activity information we collect may include:
- Detailed location, travel and route information. Location and route information is collected for example in the form of GPS signals (combined with a time-stamp) and other information sent by your mobile device on which the Application is installed and activated. This location and route information is saved to a route history of all of the journeys you have made (include remote journeys) while using the Application. The types of location data we collect depends in part on your device and account settings. For example, depending on your selected device settings and/or your account settings we may collect information about your location and travel (or lack thereof) also while you are not using the app, in order to be able to tell you when to leave for planned drives, notify you about bad traffic in your area, provide you parking assistance, analyze how effective our ads are and more;
- Terms or venues or real estate professionals you searched;
- Your views and interactions with content and ads;
- Your voice and audio information when you use voice and audio features;
- Communication or other content you chose to share with any third party, including NeighborhoodPal users through the Services;
- Your activity on third-party sites and apps that you chose to link to your NeighborhoodPal account or that you interact with through the Service.
Meta-data (information about your device, browser and app use):
Once you install the Application, NeighborhoodPal collects information about the use of the Services and information from the device you have NeighborhoodPal installed on. For example:
- NeighborhoodPal may collect and record how often you use the app and for how long, your device type, unique identifiers, operating system type & version, battery usage, the third party web pages or applications you visit or use or interact with via the Application, information that you viewed on our Services, advertisements that are shown to you or that you view or click on, the fact that you used the Services to communicate with other users and the fact that you used third parties application/services via NeighborhoodPal to communicate with third parties, and the duration of such communications, the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of the domain that serves you to access the Services, and the geographic location of the device that you are using to log in and use NeighborhoodPal on.
- NeighborhoodPal may also collect information about apps installed on your device that NeighborhoodPal can link with – such as third party music or media audio service apps (e.g. Spotify).
- We also collect information about the interaction of your devices with our Services, including, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request.
Information we collect about you from our partners
We work with ad partners, in order to show you more relevant and useful ads based on your NeighborhoodPal activity and information associated with your device’s identifier (i.e. Advertising identifiers or similar technologies) shared with us by our ad partners. Your device’s identifier can be managed in your device’s settings.
You can decide whether we’ll show you personalized ads or not through your in-app Privacy Settings. For more information see Privacy Policy.
We may also receive aggregated, non-personally identifiable information and analysis from third parties measurement services which help us understand how our users interact with our ads. We may also receive information from third party services about how NeighborhoodPal’ own marketing efforts performed on third party sites or platforms.
We use various technologies to collect and store information, including, cookies, Advertising ID available on Android mobile devices or similar technologies, local storage, browser web storage, application data caches, databases, and server logs.
Why NeighborhoodPal collects data
NeighborhoodPal may use information collected from or provided by you for the following purposes:
Provide our services
We use your information to deliver our services. For example:
- Use your location and route information and/or search query history to provide navigation services, best Audio Pin, Route choices, traffic alerts and to provide information about sites, shops and other places and attractions in your close vicinity; and
- (If you have opted in to the “find friends” feature), use your phone number and the phone numbers which are stored in your device’s phone book to find and create a list of other NeighborhoodPal users who you may know and with whom you may wish to connect.
- To provide advertising services, including personalized ads, in accordance with the section titled ‘Advertising campaigns’ under this Privacy Policy.
- To share your submissions with other users of the Services and to facilitate communication between you, NeighborhoodPal and other users.
Maintain & improve our services
- We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues you report to us. And we use your information to improve the service or to develop new features or services. For example, NeighborhoodPal may use your route information to improve the accuracy of its mapping and navigation data.
Provide personalized services, including content and ads
- We use the information we collect to operate the Services and to customize your experience with the Services. For example, NeighborhoodPal may use your “home” and “work” and other “favorites” information (if you choose to provide such information) or route history to offer routes based on how you’ve chosen to travel between favorite destinations in the past. Based on your past activity on the Services we may also suggest to you common destinations where you use the app to navigate to.
- We may also use the information to provide you with support and handle requests and complaints.
- Depending on your settings, we may also show you personalized ads based on your interests and past activity. For more information see section titled ‘Advertising campaigns’ under this Privacy Policy.
Measure performance
- We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your usage of the Services to do things like optimize product design. We also use the data we collected about the ads you view or interact with (e.g. click on) to help advertisers understand the performance of their ad campaigns and to provide them with aggregated reports. We may also use data to measure the usability and effectiveness of NeighborhoodPal’ own marketing efforts on third party sites or platforms.
Communicate with you
- We also use your information to send you updates, notices, announcements, and additional information related to the Services;
- We may also use your information to conduct surveys and questionnaires; And if you contact NeighborhoodPal we may keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing.
- Subject to your prior indication of consent (to the extent required under applicable law), we may also use the email address that you provided to send you promotional and/or marketing materials. At any time you may choose not to receive such materials by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in the email messages that we may send to you. In any case, NeighborhoodPal will not share your contact details with any advertiser, unless explicitly permitted or required by law.
To protect NeighborhoodPal, our users, the public and for Legal reasons
We may also use and process your information and content, using different technologies to the following purposes:
- To enforce the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy;
- To contact you when NeighborhoodPal believes it to be necessary;
- To comply with any applicable law and assist law enforcement agencies under any applicable law, when NeighborhoodPal has a good faith belief that NeighborhoodPal’ cooperation with the law enforcement agencies is legally mandated or meets the applicable legal standards and procedures;
- To detect abuse and illegal activity; to detect and prevent fraud, misappropriation, infringements, identity theft and other illegal activities and misuse of the Services;
- To handle breakdowns and malfunctions;
- To take any action in any case of dispute, or legal proceeding of any kind between you and the Services, or between you and other users or third parties with respect to, or in relation with the Services;
- For purposes provided under this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use;
- To help improve the safety and reliability of our Services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to security risks, and technical issues that could harm NeighborhoodPal, our users, or the public;
- To create aggregated and/or anonymous data (where such data does not enable the identification of a specific user). See “How does NeighborhoodPal use aggregated information”, below;
We’ll ask for your consent before using your information for a purpose that isn’t covered in this Privacy Policy.
Sharing your information
Personal information that you share
The Services are based on a community of users publicly sharing information with NeighborhoodPal and with other members of that community.
In particular, users may choose to share personal information such as name, age, gender, picture, their location information, reports and other files. This information may be shared either directly to the Services and to all users, such as in the case of traffic reports or your Carpool profile, or just to your friends on NeighborhoodPal. This information may also be shared via third party services (such as social networks) which interact with the Services upon such users’ choice.
You can decide whether or not to upload content to the Services. However any content that you choose to share and submit for posting is neither private nor confidential and you should expect that it may be made public and known to others. Information you choose to upload will be posted along with your user name and other information including personal information you attached to your publicly available user profile . You should note that certain road incidents you report may include your driving path within the vicinity of those incidents. Therefore, you must exercise caution and common sense when submitting information. At the very least you should demonstrate the same degree of caution as when publishing personal information by means other than the Internet and cellular services.
In any event (but except as detailed below with respect to information shared from your social network accounts according to your privacy settings for such social network accounts), your email address will not be visible to others through any reports or user posts that you share or upload.
if you choose to either record your own voice onto the Service, NeighborhoodPal will collect the voice information related to such use, including voice files. If, after recording your own voice, you chose to share your voice recordings, other NeighborhoodPal users and other people will be able to download and use your voice recordings. Once downloaded, NeighborhoodPal may not have any control over the voice files, so you should only share content that you are comfortable being made public.
We, at NeighborhoodPal, take great measures to provide you with the best experience you can have while using the Services. However, NeighborhoodPal has no control over the conduct of any user and disclaims all liability in this regard. Users are advised to carefully and thoroughly consider whether or not to make public or available any information and carefully examine all necessary details related to any communication with other users prior to any engagement or communication being made.
Participating in any user’s activities as a result, directly or indirectly, from using NeighborhoodPal, is entirely at your own risk. NeighborhoodPal is not a party to any agreement entered into between the users in any circumstances. The user has the sole and ultimate responsibility regarding compliance with all laws, regulations or any other duty. We do not accept any liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense that you may suffer or incur as a result of or in connection with your participation in any activity or event initiated, held or conducted by a user or a third party nor in connection to any agreement between the users or third parties, including any activity or event related in any way, directly or indirectly, the Services or the use thereof.
When NeighborhoodPal shares your information
NeighborhoodPal does not sell, rent or lease your personal information to third parties.
NeighborhoodPal will not share your personal information with others, without your permission, except for the following purposes and to the extent necessary in NeighborhoodPal’ good-faith discretion:
- As necessary for the facilitation and operation of the Services. For example, making public peer reviews you report and which are associated with your username and your location;
- If NeighborhoodPal reasonably believes that you have breached the Terms of Use or is investigating potential breach of the Terms of Use, or believes that you abused your rights to use the Services, or performed any act or omission that NeighborhoodPal reasonably believes to be violating any applicable law, rules, or regulations. NeighborhoodPal may share your information in these cases, with law enforcement agencies and other competent authorities and with any third party as may be required to handle any result of your wrongdoing;
- If NeighborhoodPal is required, or reasonably believes that it is required by law to share or disclose your information;
- In any case of dispute, or legal proceeding of any kind between you and NeighborhoodPal, or between you and other users with respect to, or in relation with the Services;
- In any case where NeighborhoodPal reasonably believes that sharing information is necessary to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of NeighborhoodPal, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law, including to prevent imminent physical damage or damage to property;
- To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues;
- If NeighborhoodPal organizes the operation of the Services within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity, or if NeighborhoodPal is acquired by, or merged into or with another entity, or if NeighborhoodPal enters bankruptcy, provided however, that those entities agree to be bound by the provisions of this Privacy Policy, with respective changes taken into consideration;
- To collect, store, hold and manage your personal information through cloud based or hosting services or a third party or a party affiliated or connected to NeighborhoodPal, as reasonable for business purposes, which may be located in the European Union and the U.S.A., potentially countries outside of your jurisdiction;
- NeighborhoodPal may also share personal information with companies or organizations connected or affiliated with NeighborhoodPal, such as subsidiaries, sister-companies and parent companies (i.e. entities that belong to the Eldahr LLC. group of companies);
- We may work with other services (such as Doubleclick Bid Manager) for advertising and ad measurement purposes. In order to help advertisers decide what ads to show on NeighborhoodPal, Eldahr LLC mobile devices or similar technologies). You can learn more about how Eldahr LLC uses information from sites or apps that use its services and how you can control that in this page. For more information see section titled ‘Advertising campaigns’ under this Privacy Policy.
- We also may work with selected measurement services which help us understand how our users interact with our ads (such as DoubleClick Campaign Manager) and in order to measure NeighborhoodPal’ own marketing efforts (such as AppsFlyer services), by using and sharing the device’s identifier (i.e, Advertising ID or similar technologies).
- Personal information may also be shared with NeighborhoodPal’ trusted partners and service providers to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers to help us with customer services.
We may share information which does not personally identify you with third party transportation services.
Visibility
Please note that your username and some other information will be visible to others. Note that your username will be included along with any information you submit for posting (such as traffic reports or chat messages). It will therefore be visible to others. Also – your friends on NeighborhoodPal will see your name & profile photo and any other information you chose to share with them.
Integration with social networks
You may choose to share information between your NeighborhoodPal account and your social network account (such as Facebook). Through this option, you may choose to have personal information and other content about you available from social networks, transmitted and shared through the Services. Similarly, you may choose to have personal information and other content about you available from NeighborhoodPal, including your location and route information, transmitted to and shared through your social network account.
By setting your NeighborhoodPal Account to integrate with social networks, including by signing onto NeighborhoodPal by using your social network account (such as your Facebook account and your Google account), you agree to share information (including personal information) between NeighborhoodPal and such social networks, for the purposes provided under this Privacy Policy.
The social network’s use of information made available by NeighborhoodPal is governed by that social network’s privacy policy and controlled by the social network, not by this Privacy Policy or NeighborhoodPal.
When you connect to the social network account through the Services for the first time or otherwise make the Services interact with your social network account, you will be asked by the social network to permit the social network to share your personal information stored on such social network with NeighborhoodPal. We collect your information from your social network account only in accordance with the permissions granted by you (such as your name, email address, list of friends, profile picture and other information available via the applicable social network).
You understand and agree that the Services may access, make available and store such information so that it is available on and through your NeighborhoodPal Account, until your NeighborhoodPal Account is deleted.
Please note that certain information which you have defined as private on your third party social network accounts may become public to other NeighborhoodPal Users through the Services once you have allowed the social network to share such information with NeighborhoodPal (for example through your Carpool Profile).
Integration with other third party services
NeighborhoodPal may offer you the option to link NeighborhoodPal to third party services that may be useful to you (like, Instagram). Where NeighborhoodPal detects an integration may be available (either because a third party service attempts to link to NeighborhoodPal, or NeighborhoodPal detects an installed service on the device which has an integration option, or you request a particular integration), NeighborhoodPal will ask for confirmation to connect the accounts. If you choose to connect the accounts, NeighborhoodPal will ask for your permission to share data with the third party service. You should only agree to connect accounts if you are comfortable with the third party service receiving the data set out at the time of connecting the accounts and NeighborhoodPal is not responsible for the third party service’s use of data. You can disconnect NeighborhoodPal and the third party service at any time and NeighborhoodPal will cease sharing data with that service from the point of disconnection onwards.
Controlling your personal information
You can always review and update certain information by visiting your Account & Login settings (such as your phone, email and more) or the in-app left menu (to update your home, work and favorites).
If you find that the information associated with your Account is not accurate, complete or updated, then you should make all necessary changes to correct it. Please keep in mind that false, incorrect, or outdated information may prevent you from setting up a username and impair the ability to provide you with Services.
Privacy controls
Your in-app Privacy Settings provide you with quick access to settings and tools that let you safeguard your data and decide how your information can make NeighborhoodPal services work better for you. For example, you can control your visibility on the map and manage your preferences about the ads shown to you on NeighborhoodPal.
There are other ways to control the information NeighborhoodPal collects whether or not you’re signed in to a NeighborhoodPal Account, including device-level settings: your device may have controls that determine what information we collect. For example, you can modify location settings on your device.
Deleting your information
If you would like us to delete your Account, please use the “Delete Account” function on the NeighborhoodPal application. On receiving such a request, NeighborhoodPal will use reasonable efforts to delete such information, however please note that information may not be deleted immediately from our back-up systems. We aim to initiate the deletion process immediately after your request. Once we receive your request, your data will no longer be used to personalize your NeighborhoodPal experience. We then begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems. This process generally takes around 2 months from the time of deletion. As with any deletion process, things like routine maintenance, unexpected outages, bugs, or failures in our protocols may cause delays in the processes and time frames defined in this policy. We maintain systems designed to detect and remediate such issues.
How NeighborhoodPal retains data we collect
Some data you can delete whenever you like, some data is deleted automatically, and some data we retain for longer periods of time when necessary. This section describes why we hold onto different types of data for different periods of time.
- Information retained until you remove it – such as your favorites, email address and other account related information. We’ll keep this data in your NeighborhoodPal Account until you choose to remove it and/or update it.
- Data that expires after a specific period of time – in some cases, you don’t need to actively delete your information as we set retention timeframes based on the reason for the data’s collection. For example, if you choose to connect your calendar to your NeighborhoodPal Account, we extract your calendar events for several days in advance and delete them after their occurrence. We may also take steps to anonymize certain data within set timeperiods.
- Information retained until your NeighborhoodPal Account is deleted – we may keep some data for the life of your NeighborhoodPal Account if it’s useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services. For example, if you made an incident report, we will keep information about how many reports you have submitted, even after the event is removed. When you delete your NeighborhoodPal Account, the information about how many reports you have submitted is also removed.
- Information retained for extended time periods for limited purposes – sometimes business and legal requirements oblige us to retain certain information, for specific purposes, for an extended period of time. For example, when NeighborhoodPal processes a payment for you, we’ll retain this data for longer periods of time as required for tax or accounting purposes. Reasons we might retain some data for extended periods of time include: _ Security, fraud & abuse prevention _ Financial record-keeping _ Complying with legal or regulatory requirements _ Ensuring the continuity of our services * Direct communications with NeighborhoodPal
How does NeighborhoodPal use aggregated information?
NeighborhoodPal may use anonymous, statistical or aggregated information (including anonymous location information), in a form that does not enable the identification of a specific user, to properly operate the Services, to improve the quality of the Services, to enhance your experience, to create new services and features, including customized services, to change or cancel existing content or service, and for further internal, commercial and statistical purposes (including advertising).
NeighborhoodPal may also use anonymous, statistical or aggregated information collected on the Services, in a form that does not enable the identification of a specific user, by posting, disseminating, transmitting or otherwise communicating or making available such information to users of the Services, to the Services’ providers, partners and any other third party. For example, GPS information that we receive from your mobile device may be provided to map editors in an aggregated and/or anonymous form to help improve the map and solve map problems, traffic data may be provided to cities, and aggregated ads analysis may be provided to advertisers.
Cookies
NeighborhoodPal may use cookies and similar technologies on the Services. Cookies are packets of information sent by the Website’s servers to your web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses the Website’s servers.
NeighborhoodPal may use cookies for various purposes, such as to save you the need to re-enter your username and password each time you log in, to facilitate the use of the Website, to collect statistical information, to verify information, and to customize the Website to your personal preferences and for information security purposes.
Some of the cookies may expire when the session ends and you exit your browser. Other cookies are saved on your computer’s hard drive. If you wish to block the Website’s cookies, then please use the help button in your browser and follow the necessary instructions. However, bear in mind that disabling cookies may complicate or even prevent your use of the Website, or certain features thereof.
Advertising campaigns
NeighborhoodPal allows advertisers to run ad campaigns on the Services.
The information and advertisements that you see when accessing the Services may be targeted on the basis of your current NeighborhoodPal activity, such as your current location, your destination or contextual information based on your current drive session. For example: if you search for “gas station” you may see an ad for a local gas station.
Depending on your settings, you may also see ads personalized to you based on:
- Information we received from you
- Past activity and search query history
- Information from our ad partners
Please note:
- We don’t knowingly collect nor do we show you personalized ads based on sensitive categories, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or health.
- We don’t share information that personally identifies you with advertisers, such as your name or email, unless you ask us to. For example, if you see an ad for a nearby flower shop and select the “tap to call” button, we’ll connect your call and share your phone number with the flower shop.
- As described under “When NeighborhoodPal shares your information” section above, we work with other services for advertising and ad measurement purposes.
- The Ads personalization control described above apply to personalized ads served by NeighborhoodPal on the NeighborhoodPal platform and they do not apply to ads served on third parties’ platforms, including on NeighborhoodPal’ behalf.
- When you visit a third-party website from the Application, such third party may use cookies on your computer. The third party’s use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not to this Privacy Policy. If you wish to study the privacy policies of those third parties you should visit their services, or contact them directly.
The Services includes an internal messaging system which provides you the ability to send and receive messages to and from other users, and to receive marketing messages from us. You hereby agree that we may use the internal messaging system for the purpose of informing you regarding products or services, which may interest you.
Please note however that other NeighborhoodPal users are not allowed to use your contact details or our internal messaging account for commercial advertising purposes.
It is clarified that we are not responsible for the content of said advertisements and the products delivered or services rendered thereby by third parties and you irrevocably and unconditionally agree that we shall not be held responsible or liable for any loss, damage, cost or expense that you may suffer or incur as a result or in connection thereof.
Information security
NeighborhoodPal considers information security to be a top priority. NeighborhoodPal services are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. NeighborhoodPal implements systems, applications and procedures to secure your personal information, to minimize the risk of theft, damage, loss of information, or unauthorized access or use of information. For example, we review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems. In addition, we restrict access to personal information to NeighborhoodPal employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you.
However, these measures are unable to provide absolute assurance. Therefore, although NeighborhoodPal takes great efforts to protect your personal information, NeighborhoodPal cannot guarantee and you cannot reasonably expect that NeighborhoodPal’ databases will be immune from any wrongdoings, malfunctions, unlawful interceptions or access, or other kinds of abuse and misuse.
Compliance & cooperation with regulators
We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your information in ways that comply with it.
Data transfers
We store data on servers located around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information is processed, we apply the same protections described in this policy.
When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that we cannot resolve with you directly.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
NeighborhoodPal may from time to time change the terms of this Privacy Policy. Substantial changes will take effect 30 days after NeighborhoodPal has posted a:
- System message to users notifying them of changes to the Privacy Policy; and
- Notification on the Website’s homepage or any other relevant web pages, explaining the changes to the Privacy Policy alongside a comparison of the “old” and “new” versions of the Privacy Policy.
Other changes will take effect 7 days after their initial posting on the Website. However, if NeighborhoodPal amends this Privacy Policy to comply with legal requirements, the amendments will become effective immediately upon their initial posting, or as required.
You agree to be bound by any of the changes made in the terms of this Privacy Policy. Continuing to use the Services will indicate your acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not agree with any of the amended terms, you must avoid any further use of the Services.