Ipoki's Privacy Policy
This policy is effective as of October 18, 2007.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
* This privacy policy pertains to the use of the Ipoki Service at https://www.ipoki.com/ and https://apps.facebook.com/ipoki
* This privacy policy covers how Ipoki treats personal information that Ipoki collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, email address, or location.
Information Collection and How it is used
General Information
Ipoki collects few personal information when you sign-up with Ipoki to use Ipoki services.
When you sign-up we ask you only for your E-Mail address, username (pseudonym) and location.
You can optionally enter information such as your full name, address, birth date, gender, photo, friends, activity or tags.
Ipoki automatically receives and records information on our server logs from the following sources:
* From your browser: Your IP address, cookie and the page you request.
* From the Ipoki Plug-in: Your IP address, and location technical data (GSM/3G cellId and GPS coordinates).
Ipoki uses information for the following general purposes: free services provision, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.
IP Addresses
IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser and plug-in each time you view a web page or share your position. Your IP address is stored in our log files.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:
* To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
* To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
* To estimate the total number of users visiting Ipoki from specific geographical regions.
Ambient Data
The Ipoki client Software (the 'Plug-in') may use available ambient data as the default gateway's IP address in your LAN ('IP address'), identification of GSM/3G cell towers ('Cell ID'), and GPS coordinates of attached GPS receivers to share your location. Ipoki does not track your location unless you explicitly choose to do so by voluntarily check-in to a specific location.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Ipoki uses two types of cookies:
* Session cookie that persist one browser session.
* Cookie for auto log-ons that is used when you check 'remember me' on login
About the use of cookies on ipoki.com:
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Ipoki products or services that require you to 'log in', and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Ipoki service.
Ipoki uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
* Access your information when you 'log in'.
* Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on Ipoki.
* Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
* Conduct research to improve Ipoki's content and services.
Ipoki lets other companies (such as Google) that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to Ipoki cookies.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
When you post a comment, or a location description, your Ipoki ID or alias that you are posting under is visible to other users.
If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ipoki may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with the law or when your actions violate the Ipoki Terms of Service.
Ipoki may share demographic information with business partners, such as '53% of users who regularly user Ipoki are between 18 and 24' or the like. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (i.e. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial)
Ipoki does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested or when we have your permission.
It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Ipoki's Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
We will transfer information about you if Ipoki is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Ipoki will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Ipoki web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Ipoki displays targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles or location.
Editing and Deleting Account Information
You can change your Ipoki Account Information at any time.
We may send you certain communications relating to the Ipoki service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, which are considered part of your Ipoki account.
You can delete your Ipoki account at any time from your account page; however, please note that your identification and contact information may remain in Ipoki's records for some period.
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
Your Ipoki Account Information is password-protected.
In certain areas, Ipoki may use SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Ipoki may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your Ipoki account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
If you have questions or suggestions you can contact us at: [email protected]