Our Plain English Privacy Policy

Welcome to WhosYourNeighbour, the next generation local networking site where members can help find out more about their local community.

The founders and employees of WhosYourNeighbour take your privacy very seriously. Below is a simple and short explanation of our policy on privacy. The following four points can summarise this policy quite well:
 

• Your privacy remains strictly under your control;
• You can end your membership at any time;
• We will never disclose your personally-identifiable information to any third party for marketing purposes unless you expressly tell us to;
• WhosYourNeighbour does NOT spam.

This Privacy Policy statement is effective as of May 1, 2008.

Information Collected by WhosYourNeighbour

When you register to become a member of WhosYourNeighbour, you submit information such as your name, postcode and email address. As part of your personal profile, you may choose to submit additional information such as age, hobbies, and interests and other content, such as photos. We also collect other non-personally identifiable data, which may include your IP address and what browser you are using.

Use of Information

We will display your personal details according to the preferences you set in your account. We will use your email address to contact you from time to time and we will use your email address for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are. You can control the types and frequencies of certain emails you receive.

We may use the non-personally identifiable information, like your IP address, to statistically analyse site usage and to customize our site's content, layout and services. The resulting information will allow us to improve our site and better understand and serve our users.

We may access, preserve, and disclose your personal information and the contents of your account if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process or to protect the rights and property of WhosYourNeighbour, its affiliates or the public.

You Control Who Shares Your Information

Some information will only be given to friends with whom you have specifically agreed to share such information. Non-members will always have limited access to any of your details and will not be able to contact any member of your household.

Reviewing and Changing Your Profile

You can review and revise your personal profile, and who will be given access to your personal profile, at any time.

Your Address Displayed to Other Members

Even though you give us your full address, only the area that you come from will be displayed. If you come from a village or town this name will be displayed. If you come from a city, the area of that city will be displayed along with the city name. In addition we show the first part of your postcode. For example 'Saltley, Birmingham, B8.'

Internet Awareness

Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, like journals, webLogs, message boards, and forums, you should be aware that this information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. Please exercise discretion in deciding what information you disclose.

Children

You must be over 16 in order to register on the site. Children can use the site if their household has been registered by their parents and they have their permission to use the site.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are a standard Internet technology, and many major web sites use them to provide useful features for their members. Cookies allow us to store and retrieve login information on a user's system. They provide us with data that we can use to improve the quality of our service and make it easier to use. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our web site if you do so.

Third Party Advertising

WhosYourNeighbour may share details and aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties in order to present to members more targeted advertising, products and services. In such situations we will never disclose information that will be used to personally identify you. Advertisements that appear on this web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies.

Acquisition

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of WhosYourNeighbour, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.

Security

We have security measures in place to protect our members' details and access is restricted internally. However, it remains each member's responsibility to

• keep their password secret;
• protect against unauthorised access to the Your Details page;
• ensure no-one else uses the WhosYourNeighbour website on that Member's machine while it is "logged on" to the website;
• log off or exit from the WhosYourNeighbour when not using it.

If you have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us.

Changes in Privacy Policy

From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy and will post a notice of any significant changes on our website. You should visit this page periodically to review any such changes to the privacy policy.

Canceling Membership

You always have the option to suspend or cancel your membership at any time. If you are a member and no longer wish to participate in WhosYourNeighbour you can sign in to the site and delete your profile.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this website or your dealings with this website, you can contact us via the Contact Us page.