Privacy Policy
Last
Updated: July 2022
Our
Commitment to Privacy
NeighborhoodCutie
, with address at
1990 Main Street, Suite 750, Sarasota, Fl 34236
are the Data Controllers of the website neighborhoodcutie.com (the
“Site”). If you have any
concerns related to the processing of your personal
data, please
[email protected]
.
We take your privacy seriously, and we want to provide a
safe and secure user experience for
you. This Policy is designed to help you understand how
and why we process your personal
information, and what you can do about it.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of
your rights under the General Data
Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), as well as, if you are a
California resident, under the
California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 ("CCPA"). Please
read this Policy carefully, along with
our
Terms of Use
and our
Cookies Policy
, as these constitute a binding Agreement between you
and neighborhoodcutie.
What
Personal Data Do We Collect?
Through the Site, we collect certain types of
information:
-
Information you submit to neighborhoodcutie, such as name,
location, email address, age and
gender, in order to complete your registration. If
you want to complete your profile on the
Site, there is some additional information you can
voluntarily provide us, such as pictures
of you, body type, your preferences, personal
attributes, ethnicity, orientation, and any
other personal information that you may want to
include; and
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Information automatically collected on our server
logs about your use of the Site, such as
internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type,
internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time
stamp, and/or clickstream data.
By providing this information and by clicking on the “I
accept” (or equivalent checkbox)
incorporated in the registration form, you declare that
the information and data you have
provided are accurate and truthful, and you explicitly
consent the processing of special
categories of personal data that belong to you.
When you want to subscribe to any upgrade services, you
may also provide us financial
information such as your credit card number.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small piece of data that a website
stores in a designated file on your
computer, smartphone, tablet or smart tv. Cookies are
commonly used to store usernames and/or
passwords to facilitate access to the site. Cookies can
also be used to store user
preferences, login dates and times, and content viewing
history. Cookies are sometimes used to
store basic information about the user's or your
computer's browsing habits, up to the point,
as the case may be, of being able to recognize you. When
you visit a website, that site can
access that information which it stored in a cookie.
Cookies make your online experience
easier and more personalized.
Our Site’s servers automatically identify your computer
by its Internet Protocol (IP) address
(a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your
computer by your Internet Service
Provider) each time you access the site, and maintain
logs of the specific content on the site
that you access. Our servers also record various
information pertaining to your computer
configuration, including the Web browser software you
use, the resolution settings of your
monitor, and the website from which you were referred to
us, if any. We use this information
anonymously to help us determine what is the most
beneficial for our users and how we can
create a better overall user experience.
You can allow, block or delete cookies installed on your
computer by setting your Internet
browser options. If you block them, certain services
that require their use may not be
available to you. Below are links to information on how
you can activate your preferences in
the major browsers:
Please be advised that when Cookies are disabled or
rejected, you may not be able use the
Member Services or experience the full functionality of
the Site.
For more information about the cookies we use and your
choices regarding cookies, please visit
our Cookies Policy.
What Do We
Do with Your Personal Data?
The main reason we collect data is to operate
effectively and provide a quality experience for
you. Please read below to obtain a more detailed
explanation of the purposes for which we may
process your personal data:
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To manage the contractual or pre-contractual
relationship: We use information about you to
provide the services to you, including to process
transactions, manage your registration as
a user, allow your access to the private or members
area, authenticate you when you log in,
provide customer support, operate and maintain the
Site, provide you with the services you
have requested and attend to your requests for
information, as well as to facilitate the
exercise of your rights. We also analyze your
profile, Site activity and preferences to
recommend connections and to recommend your profile
to others.
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Based on the existence of a legitimate interest of
the Site: We use information about you to
customize your experience, keep you informed about
the services of the Site, send you news
and other activities that we carry out related to
the services of the Site that may be of
your interest, and to carry out periodic reviews of
our services and satisfaction surveys in
order to evaluate and improve the quality of the
service we provide. We may also process
your personal data in order to carry out internal
reviews and, if necessary, contact you in
the event that a possible fraud, misbehavior, or
identity theft is detected or there are
well-founded suspicions. However, if you do not want
your data to be processed for these
purposes, you may object at any time by
[email protected]
.
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On the basis of your explicit, free and unequivocal
consent that you grant at the time of
collecting your data: to process the special
categories of personal data that belong to you,
in order to provide you the services. By clicking on
the “I accept” button incorporated in
the registration form, you expressly consent the
processing of your personal data for these
purposes.
- Safari for IOS (iPhone, iPad)
Use of the information collected by neighborhoodcutie
We use personal information from the users for a number
of purposes, including:
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to provide users with products, services, or
information related to
neighborhoodcutie;
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to process, or in connection with, any payments or
transactions that users authorize;
- to verify that any credit card a user
submits is valid and active;
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to send service-related communications to users
about the Site and/or
neighborhoodcutie products;
- to respond to users’ inquiries;
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to deliver marketing communications or promotional
materials that may be of interest,
subject to other terms of this Privacy Policy;
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to generate and analyze statistics about usage of
the Site (e.g., to determine the
demographics of our visitors);
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for internal business purposes (e.g., to analyze and
manage our business, to allow us to
better tailor the Site to visitors’ needs);
- to customize the user experience on the
Site; and
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to detect and protect against fraud, infringement,
or other violations of our
Terms of Use
.
We also may aggregate, anonymize, or merge any of the
information we collect through the Site
or elsewhere for these purposes, except as expressly
stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy.
Who Is
Your Data Shared With?
We may share the information we collect from users with
the following third parties, for the
following purposes:
-
Affiliates and Service providers:
(a) credit card processing
companies
to process payments for goods and services and to
verify that user credit card account is
valid and active;
(b) e-mail service providers
to send out e-mails on our behalf;
(c) sales partners
to sell our services;
(d) data partners
to process data on our behalf (e.g., removing
duplicate information, analyzing data, etc.);
and
(e) marketing partners
who may market our products for us and provide
analysis of such marketing efforts. These
affiliates and service providers will have access to
user information as needed to perform
their functions on our behalf, but we do not permit
them to use your information for other
purposes. In addition, apart from the circumstances
described above, we will not share
credit card information with any third parties
without prior informed consent from you;
- Third-party marketing
companies:
to send users selected marketing, other than
Sensitive Information (defined as a credit card
number, financial account number, Social Security
number, driver’s license number, or credit
score). These businesses and third parties may
include: (a) providers of direct marketing
services and applications, including lookup and
reference, data enhancement, suppression,
and validation vendors; (b) e-mail marketers; (c)
telemarketers (where permitted by
applicable law); (d) text-message-based marketers
(where permitted by applicable law); (e)
direct marketers; and (f) online advertising
networks. While Qkkiw strongly encourages these
third parties to adopt responsible approaches to
online marketing,
neighborhoodcutie is not responsible for their information
practices, which are governed by
their respective privacy policies, which may differ
from this Privacy Policy;
- Other Third-parties: (a) social
media companies:
when the users access certain features or buttons
that allows them to login with their
social media credentials to our online services,
they will share information with other
social media companies, such as the fact that they
have interacted with us. These third
parties may combine this information with other
information they may have about the users.
These companies are exclusively responsible of the
data processing that they carry out in
relation with your information when navigating their
sites. Additionally, we encourage users
to proactively review the corresponding Privacy
Policies from these social media companies;
(b) business partners:
we may establish commercial relationships with other
companies aiming to create a broader
community able to enrich your experience with neighborhoodcutie
products and services. These
third parties may offer the users a broader
catalogue of relevant services, products and or
eligibility to promotional offers. These companies
are exclusively responsible of the data
processing that they carry out in relation with your
information when navigating their
sites. Additionally, we encourage users to
proactively review the corresponding Privacy
Policies from these companies;
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To any acquiring entity in connection with any sale,
merger, consolidation, change in
control, transfer of substantial assets,
reorganization, or liquidation of
neighborhoodcutie;
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To respond to a subpoena, court order, or legal
process served on us or otherwise to comply
with the law;
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When we believe that disclosure is necessary to
protect the rights of
neighborhoodcutie, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, joint
ventures, or third-party
service providers, and each of their respective
members, officers, directors, employees,
agents, shareholders, co-branders, content
licensors, suppliers, contractors, attorneys, and
other partners, such as to enforce or apply this
Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use, and other
applicable neighborhoodcutie agreements and policies; and
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To protect the rights, property, or safety of users
or others (e.g., by exchanging
information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection purposes, by
providing information to law enforcement where we
believe the Site is being or has been used
to commit unlawful acts).
In this regard, we inform you that any transfer will be
made taking into account all the
necessary legal safeguards. We also guarantee that we
sign specific contracts with all our
service providers as required by the applicable
regulations.
Certain systems, data and services are hosted on Amazon
Web Services (“AWS”) and in the Google
Could Platform. Your data may be transferred
internationally to that company’s servers in the
United States. neighborhoodcutie will adopt the appropriate
mechanisms in order to ensure that
the transfer of personal data is conducted under a
framework equivalent to that provided in
the European data protection regulations.
More information on our main Service Providers is
available at the following links:
How Long
Do We Keep Your Data?
The conservation period for your data lasts as long as
you maintain your membership or
affiliation to the Site and as long as necessary to
fulfill the purposes we collected it for
as set put in this Privacy Policy, including to satisfy
any legal, accounting, or reporting
requirements, to comply with our legal obligations,
resolve disputes, and enforce our
agreements and policies. We may also retain information
for internal analysis purposes. If we
no longer need to process your personal data for the
purposes described in this Privacy
Policy, we will delete your personal data from our
systems.
How To Change Account Information and Preferences
Through the account settings page, you may make changes
to your personal information and
notification options. If you want to opt-out of
promotional communications from us, you may do
so by following the instructions in those
communications. However, users may receive marketing
e-mails in the future if users opt in to a different
e-mail marketing program. User can always
unsubscribe from such programs as well by following the
instructions contained at the end of
the e-mail received or by contacting us at
[email protected]
.
Additionally, please note that the cancellation or
unsubscription from
neighborhoodcutie’s products and/or services does not automatically
imply the unsubscription
neither from our own marketing communications nor from
our business partners if you opted in
for their reception.
How To
Exercise Your Rights
In case you are a European citizen or resident and are
subject to the GDPR, you may exercise
the following rights:
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Right to access your personal data to know what data
is being processed and the processing
being carried out on it.
- Right to rectify inaccurate personal
data.
- Right to erasure of your personal data
where possible.
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Right to request the restriction of the processing
of your personal data when the accuracy,
legality or need for the data processing is in
question, in which case, we may keep the data
for exercising or defending legal claims.
- Right to object to automated
decision-making.
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Right to object to the processing of your personal
data when the legal basis for our
processing is the legitimate interest.
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Right to data portability, when the legal basis for
us to process your data is the existence
of a contractual relationship or your consent.
- Right to withdraw the consent granted to us.
California
Residents
If you are a California resident and are subject to the
California Consumer Privacy Act
(CCPA), please note that you may exercise the following
rights:
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The right to know and request from us what personal
information has been collected during
the past 12 months and for what purposes it will be
used. Specifically, information
regarding the categories of data processed, the
sources from which the data was obtained,
the purposes of the processing and/or whether such
information will be sold to third
parties, and the categories of third parties to whom
such personal information will be
disclosed to. For this purpose, you may consult the
previous sections
"What personal data do we collect"
,
"What do we do with your personal data?"
and
"Who is your data shared with”
.
- The right to delete your personal
information where possible.
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"Do Not Sell My Information" meaning the right to
object to the sale of your personal
information to third parties as mentioned herein.
We also inform you that by exercising any of the above
rights, you will not be discriminated
against or subject to different treatment.
You may exercise your rights (under both the GDPR and
the CCPA) at any time and at no cost by:
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Contacting us through this
email
in which you specify the right you want to exercise
and identify yourself. Please identify
in your request in the Problem field by writing
"Exercise of RGPD rights"
or
"Exercise of CCPA rights"
, whichever is applicable. State the rights you wish
to exercise, and how you will prove you
are a California resident, if applicable.
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When you receive any communication from us, by
clicking the "opt-out" button in the notice,
you can unsubscribe from all the previously accepted
commercial notices.
Under the GDPR, you may also file a claim with the
corresponding Supervisory Authority if you
believe we have violated the data protection legislation
when processing your personal data.
Confidentiality And Security
The Site employs industry standard security measures to
ensure the security of all data. Your
personal information is protected by physical,
electronic, procedural and organizational
safeguards in compliance with applicable regulations, as
well as further administrative,
managerial, and technical safeguards, including
firewalls and data encryption.
Minors
Minors under 18 years old cannot use the services
available via the Site. The Site does not
knowingly collect, process, market or sell information
to or about minors. Parents and/or
guardians shall undertake and implement the necessary
measures and mechanisms to prevent
minors from accessing the Site and/or providing personal
data, and the Site accepts no
liability in this regard.
Changes To
This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from
time to time. Any such changes will be
posted to this site and will be effective as of the date
written above at “Last Updated.” Your
continued use of or access to the Site after any posted
amendment or revision to this Privacy
Policy constitutes an affirmative acknowledgment and
acceptance.
Links
The Site contains links to other websites on the
Internet that are owned and operated by third
parties. In some instances, these websites may be
co-branded and the third parties may be
entitled to use neighborhoodcuties name and logo on their websites.
Please be aware that
neighborhoodcutie is not responsible for the data practices of such
websites, which shall be
subject to those websites’ privacy policies. Please read
the privacy policy of each and every
website that you link to from the Site. This Privacy
Policy applies solely to information
collected by the Site.
Questions
And Suggestions
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy
or your personal data, please feel
free to
[email protected]
.
All communications with us or our authorized agents may
be monitored or recorded.