Privacy Policy

Crowdbeacon, Inc. ("Crowdbeacon") knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting or using the Crowdbeacon website, downloading Crowdbeacon's services and applications, and any other linked pages, features, or content offered from time to time by Crowdbeacon in connection therewith (collectively, the "Service"), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Highlights of our privacy policy:

  • Your Crowdbeacon Service activity is broadcast to the wider Crowdbeacon community.
  • When applicable, you can choose to broadcast your Crowdbeacon Service activity to third party services like Facebook or Twitter, or you can opt out of doing so through your privacy settings. You have full control on what Crowdbeacon Service activity is broadcast to third party services such as Facebook and Twitter.

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers Crowdbeacon's treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that Crowdbeacon gathers when you are accessing Crowdbeacon's Service. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Crowdbeacon does not own or control, or to individuals that Crowdbeacon does not employ or manage. In addition, the Service contains links to outside sources, both ones we have added ourselves and ones that members have submitted. While we attempt to provide links only to those sites that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any web sites you visit.

What Personal Information Does Crowdbeacon Collect?

The information we gather from customers enables us to personalize and improve our services and to allow our users to set up a user account and profile that can be used to interact with other users through the Service. In connection with the Service, we request and display some personal information to other users and visitors of the Service, which allows users to identify each other. We collect the following types of information from our customers.

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, user name, email address, phone number, IP address, use information and browser information. The Personal Information you provide is used for such purposes as allowing you to interact with other users, improving the content of the Service, customizing the advertising and content you see, and communicating with you about specials and 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 to develop new tools for the community.

Personal Information Collected Automatically:

  • We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Service or services. Crowdbeacon automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you requested.
  • Generally, our service automatically collects usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its components. Crowdbeacon only uses this data in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. This type of aggregate data enables us to figure out how often customers use parts of the Service or services so that we can make the Service appealing to as many customers as possible, and improve those services. As part of this use of information, we may provide aggregate information to our partners about how our customers, collectively, use our site and application/services. We share this type of statistical data so that our partners also understand how often people use their services and our Service, so that they, too, may provide you with an optimal experience. Again, Crowdbeacon never discloses aggregate information to a partner in a manner that would identify you personally.

Email Communications:

We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from Crowdbeacon if your computer supports this type of program. Crowdbeacon uses this confirmation to help us make emails more interesting and helpful and improve our service.

What about Cookies?

  • Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. Crowdbeacon cookies do not collect Personal Information, and we do not combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
  • Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Service's most attractive features.
  • Ads appearing on the Service may be delivered to users by our advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Crowdbeacon and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION USING THE SERVICE

The Service is primarily designed to help you share information, including your location, with others in order to drive and facilitate communications. This not only includes the information that you provide directly to Crowdbeacon, but also information that you broadcast to third party services using the Service.

Please remember that if you choose to provide personal information using certain features of the Service that information is governed by the privacy settings of those particular features and, unless selected otherwise, may be available to the wider Crowdbeacon community or may be published on the Crowdbeacon website, which is subject to indexing by third party search engines. Individuals reading this information may use or disclose it to other individuals or entities without our control and without your knowledge. Therefore, we urge you to think carefully about including any specific information you may deem private in or other user-inputted content that you create in the Service (location or otherwise).

While the Service does allow you to note your location at different places throughout your community, at no time does Crowdbeacon ask you to provide your home address.

When applicable, the Service allows you to connect with certain third party services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook and other similar services). When you broadcast information to such third party services, such information is no longer under the control of Crowdbeacon and is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third parties.

Will Crowdbeacon Share any of the Personal Information it receives?

Personal Information about our customers is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone. We may share your Personal Information only as described below.

Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: In due course, Crowdbeacon may become affiliated with a variety of businesses and work closely with them. In certain situations, these businesses sell items or provide promotions to you through Crowdbeacon's Service. In other situations, Crowdbeacon provides services, or sells products jointly with affiliated businesses. You can easily recognize when an affiliated business is associated with your transaction, and we will share your Personal Information that is related to such transactions with that affiliated business, nothing more.

Agents: We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, Crowdbeacon's agents do not have any right to use Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information for the above purposes.

User profiles: User profile information including user name, Twitter account name (when applicable), Facebook account name (when applicable), and other information you enter may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within the Service. Users' email addresses will not be directly revealed to other users by Company.

Communication in response to User Submissions: As part of the Service, you will receive from Company email and other communication relating to your User Submissions ("Beacon" in the nomenclature of the service). You acknowledge and agree that by posting such User Submissions, Company may send you email and other communication that it determines in its sole discretion relate to your User Submissions. The Company also will use your email to send you updates when the Crowdbeacon community has a question you have indicated interest in at registration, when you receive a new communication based on your own User Submission, and a Crowdbeacon newsletter – however, you can opt out of all of these communications on the website or by emailing support@crowdbeacon.com.

Promotional Offers: As part of the Service you may be exposed to offers on behalf of other businesses. However, when we do so, we do not give the other business your name and address.

Invitations: When you invite someone to join the Crowdbeacon community, please be aware that we will disclose your real name, as an invitation containing your name will be sent to the email address of the person you wish to invite. This information is necessary to make sure your invitee knows who has contacted them. To build a community based on trust and empathy, we feel this disclosure is necessary.

Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Crowdbeacon, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Crowdbeacon goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, customer information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Crowdbeacon may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this policy.

Protection of Crowdbeacon and Others: We may release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Crowdbeacon, our employees, our users, or others.

Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: For clarity, we may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as the number of users who checked in at a particular location (even if only one did).

Is Personal Information about me Secure?

Your Crowdbeacon 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.

Crowdbeacon endeavors to protect user information to ensure that user account information is kept private, however, Crowdbeacon 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. Crowdbeacon 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.

What personal information can I access?

Crowdbeacon allows you to access the following information about you for the purpose of viewing, and in certain situations, updating that information. This list will change as our Service changes.

  • Username and password
  • Phone number
  • Email address
  • User profile information
  • Recent Activity
  • Rank

DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT

Should you ever decide to delete your Crowdbeacon account, you may do so by contacting your local site administrator. If you terminate your account, your profile, including any messages in your inbox and any promotional offers you received, will be removed from the site and deleted from Crowdbeacon's servers. Because of the way we maintain Crowdbeacon, such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information or posts may remain on backup media.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Crowdbeacon 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 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.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Service, please send us a detailed message to: support@Crowdbeacon.com. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.

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