navmarker privacy policy
This policy is effective as of October 25, 2009.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This privacy policy pertains to the use of the NavMarker Service at http://www.navmarker.com/
This privacy policy covers how NavMarker treats personal information that is collected and stored on NavMarker servers. 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 InformationNavMarker collects very little personal information when you register to use NavMarker services.
Upon registration, you are asked to provide a valid email address, username (pseudonym) and a password.
After registration, you can optionally enter more information such as your full name, address, locations, an avatar (image), and activities.
NavMarker automatically receives and records information on our server logs from the following sources:
NavMarker uses all of the preceding information for the following general purposes: free services provision, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and internal reporting.
IP AddressesIP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser and the Software each time you view a web page, or share your position. Your IP address may stored in our log files.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:
- To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users 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.
- To estimate the total number of users visiting NavMarker from specific geographical regions.
- To log unique views of NavMarker user posts, or "Markers".
The NavMarker Mobile Applications (Software) may use available ambient data such as the default gateway 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.
NavMarker does not track your location unless you explicitly choose to do so by voluntarily entering a personal Marker. Voluntary updating also includes setting the Software into "Auto Update" mode, where the Software might continually update NavMarker servers with your position at predefined intervals. NavMarker will never change this setting without user awareness and confirmation. Auto Update mode is expected to be included in a future release.
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. NavMarker uses two types of cookies:
- A session cookie that persist a user's browser session.
- A cookie for automatic logins that is used when you check "Remember Me" during Sign In.
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 NavMarker products or services that require you to "Sign In", and you may not be able to take full advantage of the NavMarker service or Software.
NavMarker uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
- Access your information when you "Sign In".
- Manage variances in user Time Zones. All NavMarker times are based on UTC (the Universal Time Zone), and then converted during delivery of content to the user based on their own Time Zone. This variance, or offset, is stored in a NavMarker cookie.
- Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
- Conduct research to improve NavMarker's content and services.
NavMarker may enter into partnerships with other companies to deliver advertistements to our users through the website. These other companies may set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to NavMarker cookies.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
When you post a message, comment, or a location description, your NavMarker ID or alias that you are posting under is visible to other users.
If you post personal contact information online that is accessible to the public, such as an email address or standard address, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
NavMarker may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with the law or when your actions violate the NavMarker Terms of Service.
NavMarker may share demographic information with business partners, such as information related to age, geography, and activity. However, no private personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission.
NavMarker 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 NavMarker's Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
We will transfer information about you if NavMarker is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, NavMarker will notify you by email or by putting a notice on the NavMarker web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
NavMarker may display targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles or location.
Editing and Deleting Account Information
You can change your NavMarker Account Information at any time.
We may send you certain communications relating to the NavMarker service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, which are considered part of your NavMarker account. However, you may opt out of certain emails that relate to self-marketing by unchecking the appropriate checkbox in your personal Profile.
You can delete your NavMarker account at any time from your Profile page; however, please note that your identification and contact information may remain in NavMarker'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 NavMarker Profile and Account Information is password-protected.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
NavMarker 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 NavMarker account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
If you have questions or suggestions you can contact NavMarker using the Contact Page.
