Privacy

This Privacy Policy sets out the rules for the information collected & stored about you by this website, and is to be read in conjunction with our user agreement. The purpose of this Policy is to protect your privacy whilst at the same time ensuring that the site is optimised to respond to your individual preferences. Please ensure that you read the latest versions of this and the related User agreement posted on the site, and refrain from using Flocklocal if there are parts of either that you can’t agree to, as using the site constitutes your acceptance of these ‘house-rules’.

If you have any questions about any part of this Policy, please email legal[@]flocklocal (remove the square brackets).

Unregistered Users

We encourage people to register with us to ensure the site’s personalisation features are set up for them. If you choose not to, the information we collect is limited to logging your IP address. This allows us to track usage statistics, but we cannot and do not attempt to identify you from this.

We also place cookies on your computer’s hard drive, which allows us to identify the way you navigate through the site and to determine whether you have visited before, data we analyse to improve how the site functions. However, without registration, a cookie contains no personally identifiable information about you. You can turn off any cookies relating to this site or any other via your web browser.

If you reach our site via a third party site with whom you have registered, some of that information may be transmitted to us under the terms of their privacy policy. However, unless and until you register separately with us, we make no attempt to act upon it or store information received in this way.

Registered Users

Once registered, you can create and post your own events (Flocks) and fully participate in all the site functions available to users.

When registering, you supply all of some of the following: your name, email address and password. We will store this information on our server and an unique identifier will be stored in a cookie on your computer so that the site recognises you on your subsequent visits. If you leave Flocklocal, any events that you have created or attended will remain on the system.

If you reach the site via a third party site with whom you have registered, then we may also add any information transmitted to us to your profile stored on our server, but only on the terms of this Privacy Policy, not that of the third party.

We may use your personal information to contact you periodically with news or important updates from Flocklocal, or to provide you with events relevant to you, or to request your feedback on the site. In addition, we will ask whether you want to opt-in to receiving further types of additional material. Your current list of newsletters and other types of information that you are set to receive can be accessed and amended at any time in the ‘Account Settings’ section of ‘Your FLOCKLOCAL’.

The site will be serving you targeted advertising. It is doing this via Google Adsense, and Google is using a cookie to collect and store data about you for this purpose. If you wish to opt-out of receiving these ads, please go to http://www.google.co.uk/privacy_ads.html

Disclosure of your personal information

Flocklocal does not make any of your personal information available to any third party, other than purely aggregated data from all users for the purpose of advertising and marketing the site.

Your profile will be publicly viewable on Flocklocal. Your email address will not be viewable or accessible by any other users.

Children

The Site is not directed to persons under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us at legal[@]Flocklocal (remove the square brackets). If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal identifiable Information, we will delete such information from our files.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration.