Hinesburg Rides Privacy Policy
Effective April 2010:
Hinesburg Rides, (“Hinesburg Rides” or “we”) operates HinesburgRides.com. This Privacy Policy describes Hinesburg Rides’s use and sharing of personally identifiable information (“PII”-- your full name, email address, mailing address, telephone number) that Members voluntarily provide to Hinesburg Rides when they register (also known as “Registration PII”). The Term “User” refers to a Visitor or a Member. This Privacy Policy applies to the services offered by Hinesburg Rides, including any Hinesburg Rides-branded URL (the “Hinesburg Rides Website”), the Hinesburg Rides instant messaging service, Hinesburg Rides mobile services, and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by Hinesburg Rides in connection with the Hinesburg Rides Website (collectively, the “Hinesburg Rides Services”). The Hinesburg Rides Services are hosted in the United States.
The Hinesburg Rides Website is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect PII from children under 13 years of age.
From time to time Hinesburg Rides may modify this Privacy Policy to reflect industry initiatives or changes in the law, our PII collection and use practices, the features of the Hinesburg Rides Services, or technology, and such modifications shall be effective upon posting by Hinesburg Rides on the Hinesburg Rides Website. Your continued use of the Hinesburg Rides Services after Hinesburg Rides posts a revised Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. It is therefore important that you review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes. If Hinesburg Rides materially changes its practices regarding collection or use of your PII, your PII will continue to be governed by the Policy under which it was collected unless you have been provided notice of, and have not objected to, the change.
COLLECTION AND SUBMISSION OF PII AND NON-PII ON Hinesburg Rides
General. When Hinesburg Rides collects PII from you it is because you are voluntarily submitting Registration PII to us in order to register as a Member of Hinesburg Rides. Hinesburg Rides may also collect PII from you if you choose to participate in Hinesburg Rides Services activities like contests, and surveys, because you want us to furnish you with products, services, newsletters, or information, or in connection with content or suggestions you submit to Hinesburg Rides for review.
In addition, Hinesburg Rides collects other non-PII including IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type. This data is used to manage and improve the Hinesburg Rides Services, track usage, and for security purposes.
Hinesburg Rides Members may also choose to provide or store non-PII information in their profiles, including but not limited to date of birth, interests, hobbies, lifestyle choices, groups with whom they are affiliated (schools, companies), videos and/or pictures, private messages, bulletins or personal statements (collectively “Profile Information”). The Profile Information in a Member’s profile is provided at his or her sole discretion.
Hinesburg Rides Members can change their Registration PII and Profile Information at any time and can control how Visitors, other Members and Hinesburg Rides communicate with them by controlling their account settings, available within the “Edit Profile” portion of their Hinesburg Rides profile. Link to Privacy Settings.
Cookies. Cookies are small bits of information that Hinesburg Rides places on your computer. Hinesburg Rides uses cookies to identify your Internet browser, store Users’ preferences, and determine whether you have installed the enabling software needed to access certain material on the Hinesburg Rides Services. Data in cookies may be read to authenticate user sessions or provide services.
Third party advertisements displayed on Hinesburg Rides Services may also contain cookies set by Internet advertising companies or advertisers (known as “third party cookies”). Hinesburg Rides does not control these third party cookies and Users of the Hinesburg Rides Services should check the privacy policy of the Internet advertising company or advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies. See the “Notice” section below for more information on customized advertising on Hinesburg Rides. A pixel tag is a tiny image inserted in a webpage and used to record the number and types of views for that page. Hinesburg Rides may allow third party pixel tags to be present on Hinesburg Rides Services for purposes of advertising, providing services or data and statistics collection.
You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent, block third party cookies or block all cookies. However, by blocking all cookies you may not have access to certain features on the Hinesburg Rides Services.
NOTICE: Hinesburg Rides WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH NOTICE ABOUT ITS PII COLLECTION PRACTICES
When you voluntarily provide PII to Hinesburg Rides, we will make sure you are informed about who is collecting the information, how and why the information is being collected and the types of uses Hinesburg Rides will make of the information to the extent it is being used in a manner that differs from what is allowed pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
At the time you provide your PII, Hinesburg Rides will notify you of your options regarding our use of your PII (See “Choice” below). Except as described in this Privacy Policy, Hinesburg Rides will not share your PII with third parties unless you have given Hinesburg Rides permission to do so (See “Use” below).
Hinesburg Rides Services may be linked to Internet sites operated by other companies. Hinesburg Rides Services may also carry advertisements from other companies. Hinesburg Rides is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or other services operated by third parties that are linked to or integrated with the Hinesburg Rides Services or for the privacy practices of third party Internet advertising companies. Once you leave Hinesburg Rides Services via such a link, access a third party application (such as widgets) or click on an advertisement, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party or advertiser site to determine, among other things, how they will handle any PII they collect from you.
Third party applications (such as widgets) created by third party developers may also be available on the Hinesburg Rides Services. Third party applications are small bits of software, often with interactivity, that can be installed into Members’ profiles or shared with other Users. However, Hinesburg Rides does not control the third party developers, and cannot dictate their actions. When a Member engages with a third party application, that Member is interacting with the third party developer, not with Hinesburg Rides. Hinesburg Rides encourages Members not to provide PII to the third party’s application unless the Member knows the party with whom it is interacting.
CHOICE: Hinesburg Rides WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH CHOICES ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR PII
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, Hinesburg Rides will get your permission before we use the PII you provide to us in a way that is inconsistent with the purpose for which it was submitted or share your PII with third parties that are not affiliated with Hinesburg Rides.
USE: Hinesburg Rides’ USE OF PII
Hinesburg Rides will only use the PII you provide under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If Hinesburg Rides obtains PII from a third party, such as a business partner, our use of that information is also governed by this Privacy Policy.
In order to locate other Hinesburg Rides Members that you may already know in the physical world, Hinesburg Rides allows Users to search for Members using Registration PII (i.e., full name or email address). Hinesburg Rides also allows Users to browse for certain Profile Information in order to help connect with Members (i.e., schools and/or companies where Users may have attended or worked). Hinesburg Rides may also enable Members to publicly display some Registration PII as an element of their Profile Information if they choose to do so via a profile setting under “Edit Profile.” Search engines may index the portion of a Member’s profile (including the Profile Information it contains) that is publicly displayed.
If you have consented to receive promotional materials (e.g., newsletters) or notifications from Hinesburg Rides, Hinesburg Rides may periodically use your email address to send you such materials related to the Hinesburg Rides Services, as applicable. If you want to stop receiving such materials from Hinesburg Rides, you can change your profile settings under “Account Settings,” or follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Hinesburg Rides employees, agents and contractors must have a business reason to obtain access to your PII. Hinesburg Rides may share your PII with those who help us manage or provide Hinesburg Rides Services’ information activities (for example, message board administration, order fulfillment, statistical analyses, data processing), or with outside contractors, agents or sponsors who help us with the administration, judging and prize fulfillment aspects of contests, promotions and sweepstakes.
When a Member who is located in the European Union chooses to post Profile Information that will be publicly disclosed, that Member is responsible for ensuring that such information conforms to all local data protection laws. Hinesburg Rides is not responsible under the EU local data protection laws for Member-posted information.
SECURITY: Hinesburg Rides PROTECTS THE SECURITY OF PII
Hinesburg Rides uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard PII and credit card information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. In addition, Hinesburg Rides uses reasonable methods to make sure that PII is accurate, up-to-date and appropriately complete.
ACCESS, REMEDIES AND COMPLIANCE: HOW TO ACCESS, CORRECT OR CHANGE YOUR PREFERENCES REGARDING YOUR PII AND HOW TO CONTACT Hinesburg Rides ABOUT PRIVACY CONCERNS
Whenever possible, Hinesburg Rides Members may review the Registration PII we maintain about them in our records. We will take reasonable steps to correct any PII a Member informs us is incorrect. If you are a Member, you can view and change your Registration PII, Member preferences and Profile Information by logging into your account and accessing features such as “Edit Profile” and “Account Settings.”
If you ask Hinesburg Rides to stop using your PII, Hinesburg Rides will honor that request while retaining any record of your PII that is necessary to comply with applicable federal, state or local law.
If you would like to communicate with us about this Privacy Policy or Hinesburg Rides’s collection and use of your PII, please use the Contact Hinesburg Rides form.