Privacy Policy

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework

Hyperlocal is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Hyperlocal, Inc. complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States. Hyperlocal, Inc. has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Hyperlocal, Inc. commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Private Shield policy should first contact Hyperlocal, Inc. at:

Hyperlocal, Inc. has further committed to cooperate with EU data protection authorities (DPAs) with regard to unresolved Privacy Shield complaints. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, please contact the EU DPAs for more information or to file a complaint. The services of EU DPAs are provided at no cost to you.

Information Collection and Use

Hyperlocal is the sole owner of the information collected on our corporate web site, www.hyperlocalplatform.com. hyperlocalplatform.com collects information at several different points on our Web site. Information collected through our corporate site, such as name, address, and phone number, is only collected for purposes of engaging in a sales dialog per a prospect's request. Information collected via the Hyperlocal application is collected on behalf of our customers for event registration or for users of the Hyperlocal administrative application.

Certain modules of the Hyperlocal application allow the communication between direct users, however no end user details are shared unless explicitly requested to be so by both parties. Users have the option to participate in this activity for the purpose of contacting by email or regular mail. A user must provide the transaction information (account transactions), user's login information, user's identity certificate, user's employer, organization department user is employed, user's job title, user's home contact information, user's business contact information, business/organization name, department/division of business/organization and business/organization identity certificate. It is optional for the user to provide User's Identity Certificate, User's Employer, Organization Department User is Employed, User's Job Title, User's Home Contact Information, User's Business Contact Information, Business/Organization Name, Department/Division of Business/Organization and Business/Organization Identity Certificate.

We encourage users to provide optional information so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site. The reason we use this information is to complete the current transaction, contact by email or regular mail and understand your interests.

Tracking Technologies

As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or site functionality.

Tracking technologies:

Technologies such as: Cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Hyperlocal, Inc. and our integration partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our userbase as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies for our web application, to remember users' settings (e.g. language preference), and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

Advertising:

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union click here) Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Local Storage:

Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.

Profiles

Hyperlocal uses Website data to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences. Consequently, collected information is tied to the users personal information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to tailor a user's visit to our Web site, and to direct pertinent marketing promotions to them.

Communications from the Site

When customers provide us contact information for Website (user participation is voluntary) we use the information to contact the user to deliver sales and product information that will be useful to them.

You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing/product emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or you can contact us at support@hyperlocalplatform.com.

Sharing Information

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as payment processing or offering customer support. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. In cases of onward transfer to these third parties for data of EU individuals received pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield, Hyperlocal is potentially liable should any issues or concerns arise.

We may also disclose your personal information

• as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process
• when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request,
• if Hyperlocal is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information,
• to any other third party with your prior consent to do so

Contact Information

Using the following information, you can contact us if you have questions about our privacy policy.

Resolving Privacy Policy Disputes

If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, it can be resolved in the following manner: Contact Hyperlocal Customer Support using the information above.