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AskPeopleYouKnow Privacy Policy

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to let you know what kinds of information we may gather about you, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of the information. Words and phrases used in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as is attributed to them in the AskPeopleYouKnow User Agreement.

1. Personal data, or personal information as we sometimes call it, means data which is capable of identifying a living person. Registered Users of AskPeopleYouKnow will from time to time provide us with personal data, such as the following:

  1. name, address, email address, telephone number(s), photographs and sometimes payment information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
  2. information based on your activities on AskPeopleYouKnow (such as relating to your Registered User Content or your activity as a Buyer or Seller);
  3. correspondence through AskPeopleYouKnow, and correspondence sent to us by you;
  4. other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from AskPeopleYouKnow, ad data, IP address and web log information; and
  5. information we ask you to submit to verify your identity.

2. Your personal data will be collected, processed, stored and used by us, and passed to and processed by our subsidiary and/or affiliated companies and other data processors acting under contract with us to provide and promote AskPeopleYouKnow, to process payments you make to us, to provide customer support, and for other purposes referred to in this Privacy Policy and the AskPeopleYouKnow User Agreement. It is possible that some of the computer systems and companies that process your data on our behalf may be based in countries outside the European Union ("EU"). Countries outside the EU may not have as well developed data protection laws to protect your information as those inside the EU, but we will contractually require that personal data which is processed on our behalf is treated in compliance with EU laws and this Privacy Policy.

3. In the course of using AskPeopleYouKnow, Registered Users may make their personal data available to others. It is Registered Users' responsibility to decide whether they wish to disseminate information about themselves (including personal data) in their use of AskPeopleYouKnow.

4. Cookies are small files which, depending on your browser settings, may be automatically stored on your computer's hard drive when your Web browser accesses a specific Web page. The cookies on the AskPeopleYouKnow are set by us, or (where an advertiser deploys a cookie) by the advertiser. You may not be able to obtain and use an Account on AskPeopleYouKnow, nor will you be able to use certain aspects of the Services, if your browser is set to reject cookies. You can find out how to manage cookies, and to make the changes to your browser that we refer to above at this site: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

5. AskPeopleYouKnow may also include very small files provided by one or more online advertising networks that help them more precisely to target advertising to users of AskPeopleYouKnow, based on users' activity on websites within those networks. These files do not access or use information by which users can be personally identified. If you wish, you can prevent these files from using non-personal information about you by either deleting the cookie folder in your browser or by putting your browser's Privacy setting higher, but doing so will mean that you will not be presented with advertising that reflects the way that you use our, and other, websites - and may well adversely affect your experience of websites that use cookies to enhance or personalize that experience.

6. We may use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of AskPeopleYouKnow. For example, our web server may automatically log which pages of AskPeopleYouKnow users view, their IP addresses and which web browsers they use. This technology does not identify the user personally, but enables us to compile statistics about the use of AskPeopleYouKnow, and to help target content and advertising to them more accurately.

7. The websites you visit, including those of advertisers, have their own privacy policies. We advise you to review the privacy policies of websites before providing them with any of your personal information.

8. We encourage you to tell us how you wish us to use your personal data for marketing of services and products to you.

  1. Emailed communications. We give you the option to receive emailed newsletters and/or marketing communications from us in relation to our or third parties' services and products that we think may be of interest to you; each such communication will give you the opportunity of opting-out of receiving future similar communications. See Clause 9 below concerning our Service Messages.
  2. Post and fax. We may send marketing materials to you by post or fax only if we are permitted to do so by law.

9. Please note that we may send you important emails or text messages concerning your use of AskPeopleYouKnow ("Service Messages"). Service Messages are an integral part of AskPeopleYouKnow, and cannot be opted-out of, unless and until you have cancelled your use of AskPeopleYouKnow. Note that we provide Registered Users with the opportunity to specify the regularity with which, and how, they receive messages from us.

10. We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to guard against unauthorised or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. We have security measures in place to protect our Registered User database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Registered User's responsibility:

  1. to ensure no-one else uses AskPeopleYouKnow while the Registered User's machine is "logged on" to AskPeopleYouKnow;
  2. to log off or exit from your AskPeopleYouKnow Account when not using it; and
  3. to keep his/her password or other access information secret.

11. We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes to which you consent under your agreement(s) with us and this Privacy Policy, or as is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.

12. Your personal data may be disclosed if we or an entity processing your data on our behalf are compelled to do so by law, or receive a valid, legally compliant request by a law enforcement or governmental authority.

13. To inspect, change or correct your identity and contact information, please log-in to your AskPeopleYouKnow Account. If you have other questions about the handling or protection of your personal data, a written enquiry should be addressed by email to privacy@AskPeopleYouKnow.com.

14. This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of England and Wales.