Privacy Policy-Cookie Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 21, 2022.
We take your privacy very seriously and are committed to being transparent with how we use your information. This website (yourcitybeat.com), mobile application and any of our services and sites directing you to this Privacy Policy are controlled by Yourcitybeat, LLC, hereafter referred to as YourCityBeat, (collectively “we” or “us”). This Privacy Policy also incorporates the terms contained in the Terms of Use (yourcitybeat.com/cookie-policy/) and Cookies Policy.
Our Privacy Policy explains:
- What information we collect and why we collect it.
- How we use that information.
- The notice to you and choices we offer, including how to access and update information.
By using our website, mobile application and services, you consent to our collection and use of your personal data described in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to know more about what information we collect and store, please contact us at: legal@yourcitybeat.com.
Yourcitybeat Privacy Policy and our practices have can be reviewed on the validation page,
The program covers only information that is collected through this website, yourcitybeat.com, behind the log in on our website and the Yourcitybeat mobile application. It does not cover information that may be collected through software downloaded from the website.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact us at yourcitybeat.com/ Dispute Resolution process is only available in English at this time.
For users located in the EU and the US: Yourcitybeat complies with the U.S. & E.U. Safe Harbor framework and the U.S. – Swiss Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. Yourcitybeat has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view Yourcitybeat’s certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/
Company’s privacy practices described in this Statement comply with the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System.
Information we collect
We collect information to provide better services to our users and improve our business. We collect information in two ways:
- Information you give us or information provided through a social network. For example, some of our services require you to sign up for an account, provide information for a contest or award, or link an account through a social network. Examples of the information we collect may include email, name, phone number, address, or credit card information.We work with social networks including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn. We have access to information you directly provide and information through those social networking services based on your privacy settings on those networks.
- Information we get from your use of our services. We may collect usage information when you visit different parts of our site or use our applications. We may also automatically collect certain technical information such as device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, device type, unique device identifiers, and mobile information if you use a mobile device to access the site).
How we use information we collect
We use the information we collect from all of our services and from third parties to provide, maintain, protect and improve our services, to develop new services and offerings and to protect us and our users. We may also use this aggregated and demographic information to offer you tailored content like giving you more relevant search results and ads.
When you contact us, we may keep a record of your communication as well as the other information in this Privacy Policy to help solve any issues you might be facing. We may use your email address to inform you about our services, such as letting you know about upcoming changes or improvements.
Please keep in mind that comments sections, forums, and other similar areas of our services are public. Any information posted in those areas is viewable and usable by anyone that has access.
We will contact you to ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.
This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) is intended to inform you how Yourcitybeat’s Website uses a technology called “cookies” and web server logs. This Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a minute to read and understand the Policy.
What Are Cookies and What do They Do?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies.
Information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed and the time spent at our Website.
The National Advertising Initiative has more information on cookies here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Consent to the Use of Cookies on this Website
By continuing to use our Website, you are deemed to consent to the use of the cookies described in this Policy. If you do not consent to the use of cookies then please read the next section of this Policy entitled “Blocking of our Use of Cookies”.
Blocking our Use of Cookies
You can block our use of cookies by activating the settings in your browser. Please visit All About Cookies where you can find comprehensive information on cookie management and blocking for a wide variety of browsers.
What Happens if I Block Cookies?
In order to use certain services offered through our Website, your web browser must accept cookies. If you choose to withhold consent, or subsequently block cookies, some aspects of the Website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our services available from our Website.
How We Use Cookies
Analytics
We use “analytics” cookies which, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Website and which parts of our Website are most popular. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve our Website and better serve our users. We do not generally store any personal information that you provide to us in a cookie.
Advertising
These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you’ve seen it.
We may also use cookies set by a third party to more accurately target advertising to you. These cookies are anonymous – they store information about the content you are browsing, but not about who you are.
A lot of the advertisements you see on our website are generated by third parties. Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once.
The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and we have no access to read or write these cookies. These third party advertising cookies may be used by those third parties to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our website. For more information about these cookies and how to disable them please visit Your Online Choices. You can find more information about the individual cookies we and our partners use and the purposes for which they are used below:
Cookie Type
Analytics
Purpose
To store information such as the time you visit our Website, whether you have visited before and the website that you visited prior to visiting our Website. These cookies are set by Google and Scorecardresearch.
More Information
For further information about Scorecard research please see:
http://www.scorecardresearch.com/preferences.aspx
Cookie Type
Advertising
Purpose
Please see the section “How We Use Cookies” above
More Information
Our Website uses a variety of advertising cookies which may change from time to time. Therefore, it is not possible to provide a full list of these cookies in our Policy. However, you may contact us for more information by emailing us at privacy@box2281.temp.domains
For more general information about advertising cookies and how to disable them please visit Your Online Choices and All About Cookies
Most of our cookies expire within 30 days, although our analytics cookies may persist for between 2 and 4 years.
Tracking Technologies
Cookies
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Yourcitybeat and our advertising / marketing partners, affiliates, or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies to remember users’ settings (e.g. geographic location) and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
The use of cookies on our website is governed by our Cookie Policy.
Behavioral Targeting/Re-Targeting
We and our service providers may use advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to customize the advertising and content you receive on our site, to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our site and to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. These cookies remember what you have looked at on the site and other sites, and may be combined with other information acquired from third parties, and we may share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.
Local Storage – HTML5
We may use Local Storage, such as HTML5 to store user preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity may also use HTML 5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.
Nielsen Integration
Our properties may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, such as Nielsen TV Ratings. To learn more about the information that Nielsen software may collect and your choices with regard to it, please see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy at http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy
Log information
When you use our services or view content provided by us, we may automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This information may include:
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- Details of how you used our service, such as your navigation paths and search queries.
- Mobile related information if you access our website using your mobile device.
- Internet protocol address.
- Device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
- Cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, mobile device, or your account.
- Browser type, operating system, and other technical information.
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We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve marketing, analytics, and the products and services we offer you.
Mobile Analytics
We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from.
Push Notifications
We send you push notifications from time-to-time in order to update you about any content, events or promotions that may interest you. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the app or OS level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user/device identification information.
Geo-Locations
We collect your location-based information for the purpose of locating a place that you may be searching for in your area.
If you no longer wish to allow us to track your geo-location information in the mobile app you may turn this off at the device level.
Access and Choice
You have the right to remove your personal information from our databases. To do this, please delete your Yourcitybeat account. If you have any problems or questions, please let us know by contacting us here support@yourcitybeat.com and we will assist you. We will respond to your request to access within 30 calendar days. You may access or correct your personal information that appears on our main site, log into Yourcitybeat.com to view and modify your information or reach out to support@yourcitybeat.com for other correction requests.
Where you have provided us with the appropriate permissions, or where we are legally entitled to do so, we will provide you with marketing materials by email.
You can opt out of receiving these emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the marketing email, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services.
We will also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Information we share
We do not share personal information with companies, outside organizations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances apply:
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- With your consent. We will share personal information with companies, outside organizations or individuals if we have your consent to do so. By continuing to use our website and providing personal information through our website, you consent to us sharing your personal information with third parties for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. We may also seek your additional consent for purposes subsequently notified to you.
- For external processing. We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. - For legal reasons. We will share personal information with companies, outside organizations or individuals if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues or protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
- In case of a sale or asset transfer. If we become involved in a merger, acquisition or other transaction involving the sale of some or all of our assets, user information, including personal information collected from you through your use of our services, could be included in the transferred assets. Should such an event occur, we will use reasonable means to notify you, either through email and/or a prominent notice on our website.
- In anonymous form for business purposes. We may share anonymous, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners such as businesses which we have a relationship with, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information to show trends about the general use of our services.
Please note that third party recipients of your personal information may be located in United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
Frames
Some of our pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to from our partners while preserving the look and feel of our site. Please be aware that you may be providing your personal information to these third parties and not to www.yourcitybeat.com
Comments Section / Forum
Our website offers publicly accessible comments section or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our comments section or community forum, contact us at legal@yourcitybeat.com.
In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Links to 3rd Party Sites
Our website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Yourcitybeat. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
Social Media Widgets
Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.
Single Sign-On
You can log in to our site using such sign-in services such as but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Linkedin, and Twitter. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate your profile.
Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about what you are reading on this site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
Information security
We work hard to protect our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold however no website is entirely secure. You should protect the account information in your possession as well. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at legal@yourcitybeat.com.
Do Not Track
Our services do not respond to do not track signals. Each browser and device work differently and there is no consensus across the industry relating to these signals.
Third-Party Sites
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you on this site. We also do not control the privacy policies and your privacy settings on third-party sites, including social networks.
You should be aware that when you leave our website, whether via a link on our website or otherwise, and enter a third party website, you do so subject to that website’s terms and conditions and privacy policy. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of these third party websites. We will not be held responsible for the practices or the content of such other websites or services and we exclude all liability for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your use of the links on our website and/or your access of third party websites.
Children Under 13
Our website is not directed toward children under 13 and we will not knowingly collect information for any child under the age of 13. If you are the parent of a child under the age of 13 and have a concern regarding your child’s information on our website, please contact us at legal@yourcitybeat.com.
Our Services are Located in the United States
Our website and associated services are hosted in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, your information will be processed and stored in the United States and by using our website or providing us with personal information, you consent to such processing and storage.
Enforcement and Dispute Resolution
We regularly review our compliance with our Privacy Policy. When we receive formal written complaints at privacy@yourcitybeat.com, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow up.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
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