explore404 respects the privacy of visitors to our website. This Privacy Policy governs the use and collection of information from you by UnitOne, LLC d/b/a explore404 ("we" or "us") through your use of this website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to us through other means; for example, through contract, at a live event, via mail, facsimile or telephone.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our online privacy practices. By visiting this website, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Visitor Agreement. Questions regarding privacy issues should be directed to: info@explore404.com
Types of Information We Collect. The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information (for example, your name and address) that you voluntarily supply (for example, when you register as a visitor to the website, or customize our service to provide you services specific to your neighborhood), and (2) information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as visitors navigate through our website. In some cases, it is an agent or affiliate of ours that collects the information on our behalf. Third-party providers featured on or linked to by our website, such as vendors of products and services offered through our website, may be gathering the same kinds of information. We may use your registration information to contact you for customer service purposes, to inform you about the services offered over our website or of important changes or additions to our website, and to send you newsletters, offers and information that you request or that we think may interest you.
Contests and Other Promotions. From time to time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes or other promotions on our website. If you enter one of these promotions, you will have to provide information about yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number and email address) so that we can contact you if you win. We may share this information with any affiliate entity of explore404 and any co-sponsor of the promotion (we will identify any co-sponsor in the official rules for the promotion). If you do not want us to collect the information requested in the registration form or to provide it to any affiliate entity of explore404 or contest co-sponsors, please do not enter the contest or sweepstakes.
Email Newsletters. We may offer you the opportunity to subscribe to email newsletters on topics that we believe are of interest to our visitors. If you have opted to receive a particular newsletter, you may always unsubscribe later if you decide not to receive further mailings of the newsletter from us. Each newsletter will include instructions on how to unsubscribe from future issues by using either a designated reply email address or hyperlink.
Cookies. To help make our website more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random number that resides on your computer. The cookie does not actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our website. The only personal information that a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read unrelated data off of your hard drive. Our advertisers and the third parties that provide products or services through our website may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we do not control. We use cookies to help us tailor our website to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. For example, we may use cookies to allow you to search for those businesses closest to your home. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our website visited by our users. Of course, you can set your browser not to accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors to our website.
Other Methods of Collecting Information. Our web pages may contain electronic images (called "single-pixel GIFs" or "web beacons") that allow us and our vendors to count users who have visited particular pages or to access certain cookies. We may use these tools and other technologies to recognize which pages users visit, and which links they click on. These features may also be included in our email newsletters so that we can learn which messages have been opened and acted upon. We may also be able to verify your online purchases from us or from third party sites that have agreed to share such information with us.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration when you visit our website, including the type of browser software you use, the operating system you are running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you, and your IP address. We also use IP address information for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you are. We use this information to deliver web pages to you upon request, to tailor our website to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our website.
Purpose. We collect information to make the website more useful and relevant to you. For example, we may ask you for an address so that you can map a route from your work or home address to that of a service provider, or so that you can narrow your search to businesses that serve your neighborhood.
Third Parties. We will not share the personally-identifiable information you provide when registering on our website with third parties. We may, however, take the information you provide and aggregate it with data from all the other people that use this website and associated services. Then we may use that pool of information to inform third parties about our audience without identifying you personally. For example, we will be able to say to a third party: "We have 5,000 website visitors in this ZIP code," which happens to be your location.
Vendors and Provider Partners. To make our website more valuable to our visitors, we may offer some features in conjunction with other providers ("Provider Partners"). Our email newsletters, email services and online classifieds for example, may be made available through cooperative arrangements with providers that specialize in operating such services. In some instances, our Provider Partners will have the same access to your information as we do. Their use of the information will be subject to the terms of their respective privacy policies, which you can find on their websites. We may also use vendors and third-party contractors to help us operate our website, analyze or process data on our behalf, or improve the services that we offer to you. We may provide these vendors and contractors with information about our visitors that is necessary for them to perform the services that we request.
Statistical Information. Much of the information we collect is in the form of aggregated statistics, such as the traffic that visits various pages within our website, and the habits and preferences of our audience. Such aggregated information does not include any information that would identify you personally. We may use such aggregated information and disclose it to third parties as we see fit.
Sites to Which We Link. Our website includes links to plenty of other websites, and provides access to services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through our website, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the website you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.
Other Disclosures. We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our website, the public, our customers, or our company and its employees, agents, partners and affiliates. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that our company, or the bulk of our assets relating to this website, is acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.
Children's Privacy. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We will not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to register with our website, to provide business information to our website, or to provide any other personally identifying information. If you are under 18, please do not provide us with any personally identifying information about yourself (such as your name, your email address or your phone number).
Storage of Information. All information gathered on our website is stored within a database operated by us or by a contractor on our behalf. Sensitive information, such as password or information, is encoded (not encrypted) for storage. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Changes to This Privacy Policy. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we will post the changes before they take effect.
