This Privacy Policy has recently changed and is effective May 1, 2008
Yodle Local Business Directory respects your privacy. We will only collect, store and use your personal information for defined purposes. We use your information to support and enhance our relationship with you, for example, to process your applications to register as a customer, provide service and support, and share products and services with you. We do not sell your personal information. At any time you may contact Yodle Local with any privacy questions or concerns you may have. You also may ask at any time to see the data you have given us and request correction or deletion. We strive to ensure a high level of security and confidentiality.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the term "this website" refers to the various web pages located at the Yodle Local.com domain, and excludes any web pages that might be linked to the Yodle Local.com domain that are not owned and operated by Yodle Local, Inc. The term "user" refers to a user of, or visitor to, this website. There terms "we", "us", and "Yodle Local" refer to Yodle Local, Inc. The terms "you", "your" refer to you, as a user of this website.
By using this website, you permit the collection and use of your personal information as outlined below in this Privacy Policy. You should visit this page periodically to review any changes to the Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect:
We collect information that you submit in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on this website (your "Profile Information"), including your name, email address, and location information such as city, state and zip. We also collect information in the form of the content that you submit in the course of your use of this website (your "Content"), such as reviews, ratings, and requests for information from local businesses and service providers.
Finally, to improve the usefulness and quality of our site, we also collect other information relating to your activity on this website that you do not explicitly submit to us (your "Nonpersonal Information"), such as your actions on this website, your browser type, IP address, requested URLs, referring URLs, and timestamps.
How We Use Your Information:
Yodle Local stores information about you and your use of this website, including your Content, Profile Information, and Nonpersonal Information.
Yodle Local may display your Content to other users of this website in order to share your knowledge and insights about local businesses. For example, your reviews and ratings of businesses on this site may be displayed to other users. Your Profile Information (excluding your email address and full last name) may also be displayed in connection with your Content.
Yodle Local enables users of this website to communicate with and request information from local businesses and service providers via an online contact form. Using this form, the user may submit personally identifiable information to the merchant including First Name, Last Name, Phone Number, Email address, and a short message. Upon submission of this contact form, Yodle Local will transmit this information on behalf of the user to the specified merchant. Use of the merchant contact form is entirely optional. Yodle Local will not share personally identifiable information with 3rd parties unless expressly directed to do so by the user as in the preceding example.
Additionally, Yodle Local uses Nonpersonal Information to help us diagnose problems with our server, administer this website, and otherwise provide the highest possible level of service to you. We use Nonpersonal Information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, their advertisements.
Transfer of Information:
As a general rule, Yodle Local does not sell, distribute, or otherwise transfer your Content, Profile, and Nonpersonal Information to 3rd parties, except where explicitly described in this Privacy Policy.
Yodle Local may disclose information about you and your use of this website if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to avoid liability, to comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order, or to protect our rights and property, or that of our affiliates or the public. Yodle Local is not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or other similar governmental request that we may receive.
Further, we may share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud, or to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to transfer information about you and your use of this website in the event of a transfer of ownership of Yodle Local, Inc., such as an acquisition by or a merger with another company. In such an event, Yodle Local will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Other's Information:
In some circumstances, users may provide Yodle Local with information about other individuals. For example, a user may provide Yodle Local with an email address of a friend to invite them to join Yodle Local or to share a business listing with that individual. Yodle Local uses this information to contact and, if necessary, remind the other individual about the invitation or the request. All invitees provided with the ability to "opt-out" or discontinue receipt of future communications. As indicated above, Yodle Local may disclose such information if required to do so in order to comply with legal process.
Links:
This website may contain links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. Except as set forth herein, we do not share information about you and your use of this website with those third parties, and are not responsible for their privacy practices. Yodle Local recommends you read the privacy policies on all such third party websites.
Use of Cookies:
This website requires cookies to function properly. Cookies are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify you as a unique user. We use cookies to refine our website and enhance the user experience. For example, the use of cookies allows a user to enter this website and be directed to the most recent local market without having to re-enter city, state or zip code information.
You should be aware that we cannot control the use of cookies by advertisers or any information advertisers may gather from their use of cookies. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to this and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers will enable you to disable receipt of cookies. You should note that certain features of this website may be unavailable to you with cookies disabled.
Controlling Your Personal Information:
Registered Yodle Local.com users may modify their Profile Information at any time by accessing the "Account" section of this website. Also, upon your request, Yodle Local will use commercially reasonable efforts to close your account, and cease displaying your Profile Information and Content on this website; nevertheless, it may not be reasonably commercially possible to review all of your information from this website, and we may retain some of your information in our backup files or other areas of the site.
Security:
Registered Yodle Local.com user accounts are password-protected. Yodle Local uses industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We limit the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function, such as our customer service personnel. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
You hereby acknowledge that Yodle Local is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Yodle Local may periodically send email to registered and non-registered users. Individuals who receive email from Yodle Local may opt-out of receiving future emails by following the instructions contained within the body of the email.
Children:
This website is not directed at or intended to be used by children, and Yodle Local does not knowingly solicit information from any child under the age of 13. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or a parent or guardian) to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement:
By using this website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the site. Yodle Local may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If a material change is made to this Privacy Policy and/or the way we use our users' personally identifiable information, then we will post a prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it. Your continued use of the site indicates your assent to any changes to this Privacy Policy.
Contacting Yodle Local:
Yodle Local, Inc. is the sole operator of the Yodle Local Web site. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, or if you want to exercise any of the rights that you are given under this Privacy Policy, you can contact:
Yodle Local.com
589 8th Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10009