privacy policy
Thank you for visiting DashLocal.com. Please read our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy carefully, as you must agree to both in order to use our Service.
Our privacy policy is designed to help you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site, products and services.
What information do we collect?
When you visit our website, you may provide us with two types of information: Personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
Personal information you choose to provide:
- Registration Information You will provide us information about yourself and/or your company when you register to be a member of dashlocal.com, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see dashlocal.com servicing your needs and interest.
- E-mail Information If you choose to correspond with us or one of our clients via e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and response.
- Phone Number Information If you choose to correspond with us or a client via phone, we may collect the phone number and track how long the duration of the call was for reporting purposes.
- E-mail a Friend We sometimes offer you the ability to send e-mail to a friend or other third party. E-mail a Friend functionality is for informational purposes only and may not be used for any unlawful purpose
Use of you information:
We may use your information to:
- Enhance or improve User experience, our Site, or our Service
- Process transactions.
- Send e-mails about our Site or respond to inquiries.
- Send e-mails and updates about DashLocal, including our newsletter.
- Send third party offers.
- Perform any other function that we believe in good faith is necessary to protect the security or proper functioning of our Site or Service.
Third party access to your information
Although you are entering into an Agreement with Facebook to disclose your information to us, we do use third party individuals and organizations to assist us, including contractors, web hosts, and others.
Throughout the course of our provision of our Service to you, we may delegate our authority to collect, access, use, and disseminate your information. For example, our web host stores the information that you provide us, and we may hire outside contractors to perform maintenance or assist us in securing our website.
It is therefore necessary that you grant the third parties we may use in the course of our business the same rights that you afford us under this Privacy Policy. For this reason, you hereby agree that for every authorization which you grant to us in this Privacy Policy, you also grant to any third party that we may hire, contract, or otherwise retain the services of for the purpose of operating, maintaining, repairing, or otherwise improving or preserving our website or its underlying files or systems. You agree not to hold us liable for the actions of any of these third parties, even if we would normally be held vicariously liable for their actions, and that you must take legal action against them directly should they commit any tort or other actionable wrong against you.
Widget use information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you browse on our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other shoppers so your personal information is only available to you. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
We also enable third party advertiser/cookies that may use information about your visit to display ads to you while visiting other sites.
Ip addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as "traffic data" so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.
Referrers
A Referrer is the information passed along by a web browser that references the Web URL you linked from, and is automatically collected by our web server as "traffic data". We use traffic data to credit your referral to a partner or affiliate who referred you to our web site. This information may also be used by dashlocal.com to identify broad demographic trends that may be used to provide information tailored to your interests. You will not be personally identified from this information.
Link to other sites
Our website links to other websites and other websites link to us. These websites may collect personally identifiable information about you. DashLocal.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites.
DashLocal may post links to third party websites on its Site. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security issues by DashLocal, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. DashLocal bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.
Account protection
Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters, and special characters and do not disclose your dashlocal.com password to anyone. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify dashlocal.com and change your password.
Accessing, Editing, and Removing Your Information
Users may in some cases be able to review and edit the personal information they have provided to us by logging into your account on the Site and editing their account. Although most changes may occur immediately, information may still be stored in a web browser’s cache. We take no responsibility for stored information in your cache, or in other devices that may store information, and disclaim all liability of such. In addition, we may, from time to time, retain residual information about you in our backup and/or database.
With whom do you share collected information?
We may share personal information with partners, service providers, or third parties as needed to fulfill our service commitment to you and/or deliver products and services to you. In every case, we will strive to require said third party to use your personal information only to complete the necessary transaction. dashlocal will share only the personal information necessary to complete the required transaction.
We may also disclose personal information if permitted to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
Do you sell or share any of the collected personal information with third parties?
Yes, we share your information as needed to connect you with a service provider, if you have requested us to do so. Requesting information about a service provider will cause us to share your information with third parties. Depending on the product, service, or referral requested, we will share with others your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the Website.