geo.to Privacy Policy
Last modified: December 22, 2011
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the websites, products, applications, devices or services offered by geo.to or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies, but excluding any services provided to you by geo.to under a separate written agreement (collectively, the “Sites” and/or “Services”).
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website.
BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR USING THE SITE AND SERVICES, YOU ARE DEEMED TO ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY AS A BINDING AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE OR SERVICES.
Information we collect and how we use it
We may collect the following types of information:
Information you provide –
Users and Website Visitors — When you sign up for a geo.to account we ask you for certain personal account information. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other geo.to services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
Non-personally identifying information — Like most website operators, geo.to collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, device, language preference, actual and/or projected location, referring site or application, and the date and time of each visitor request. geo.to’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to provide easier, faster, better and safer services to end users of our Services and to better understand and share with various parties how various types of geo.to visitors use its website. geo.to may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, allow certain parties to access and/or analyze such information, and/or publish reports or visualizations including or using such information and/or trends in the usage of its website.
Personally Identifying Information — geo.to also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, street addresses, phone numbers, names and other similar information. geo.to does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below. Please be aware that geo.to cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, including those to which we link or whose products or services we reference. We encourage you to read the terms of use and privacy statements of each Web site you visit.
Business Owners — geo.to allows businesses to create short GeoLink URLs, QR Codes, geoshortcodes, names, addresses and links that resolve to special purpose geo.to GeoSite mobile and online websites that provide information to end users provided by business owners and their authorized persons along with services about or related to such businesses, locations, and events, including maps, traffic, custom navigation instructions, links to other sites providing information related to the locations, Tweets, social network posts, user comments, etc. Authorized persons of business owners are able to edit and present various types of information and content, including website links, text, copy, images, video, documents, brochures, etc. (collectively, the “Content”) about or related to their businesses, events, and/or other locations. Unless and only to the extent that any such provider expressly indicates that any such content shall be designated as “Private Content”, any and all of such content shall automatically be designated “Public Content” and any such provider shall be deemed to have requested and approved geo.to Sites and Services making such Public Content available to anyone, including any geo.to users, any other location based services that may seek to acquire and use such Public Content through geo.to’s APIs and other services, and the users of any of such other services. Such Public Content shall be made available to anyone as part of the geo.to Sites and Services, and anyone shall be entitled to copy, display, compile or otherwise use any Public Content at any time in any nature whatsoever, and geo.to assumes no responsibility or obligation to monitor and/or protect the privacy of any such Public Content.
Cookies – When you use our Services or visit our Sites, we may send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people use geo.to. geo.to and our providers may also use cookies in our advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web and on geo.to services.
Log information – When you access our Services and Sites via a browser, application or other client or through certain third party sites and services to which we are connected, our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a Service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, device, actual or projected location, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, device or your account.
User communications – When you send email or other communications to geo.to, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our Services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our Services.
Affiliated geo.to Services on other sites – We offer some of our services on or through other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to geo.to in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy.
Third Party Applications – geo.to may make available third party applications, such as gadgets or extensions, through its services. The information collected by geo.to when you enable a third party application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the third party application provider is governed by their privacy policies.
Location data – The Site and Services include location-enabled services, such as maps, directions, local search and other similar services. If you use those services, we may receive information about your actual or projected location (such as GPS signals or other signals or location references sent by a mobile or other device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID). We enable you to automatically record, track, journal and manage such locations, and we will provide you the ability to delete, edit and organize your locations.
Unique application number – Certain services may include a unique application number that is not associated with your account or you. This number and information about your installation (e.g., operating system type, version number) may be sent to geo.to when you install or uninstall that service or when that service periodically contacts our servers (for example, to request automatic updates to the software).
Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to our Sites and Services only. We do not exercise control over any sites displayed as search results or that may advertise on or through geo.to Sites and Services, sites that include geo.to applications, products or services, third party map or other services and content providers or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
In addition to the above, we may use the information we collect to:
Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services (including advertising services) and develop new services; and
Protect the rights or property of geo.to or our users.
geo.to may process personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries.
Choices
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some geo.to features and Services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
geo.to and/or other advertising partners may use various advertising cookies partner sites and certain geo.to Services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web.
Information sharing
geo.to only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of geo.to in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
We may provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of geo.to, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If geo.to becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to geo.to employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use geo.to Sites and Services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
geo.to regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. When we receive formal written complaints, it is our policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between geo.to and an individual.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that geo.to may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and in geo.to’s sole and absolute discretion. geo.to encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.