Terms of Service
Last Updated on April 13th, 2009
These terms apply to your use of the www.socialyell.com website and its respective applications and interfaces for mobile devices (collectively, the "Site"). By accessing, browsing, crawling, scraping or in any way using the Site, you agree to these terms, our privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy"), and all other guidelines or policies referenced herein (collectively, the "Terms of Service").
PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM SOCIALYELL. BY USING THE SERVICES OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE SERVICE SITES, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE THAT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SERVICE OR ACCESS THE SOCIALYELL PORTIONS OF THE SERVICE SITES.
1. Definitions.
a. A "user" is anyone who accesses, browses, crawls, scrapes, or in any way uses the Site. The terms "you" and "your" refer to you, as a user of the Site. The terms "we", "us", and "SocialYell" refer to SocialYell.
b. "Content" means text, images, photos, audio, video, and all other forms of data or communication. "Your Content" means Content that you submit, post, or transmit to, or using, the Site, such as the organization ratings, reviews, compliments, details, votes, information that you display as part of your account profile, invitations, or other commentary that you may submit, post, or transmit to, or using, the Site. Your Content does not include the information that you submit in order to create an account on the Site. "User Content" means Content that users submit, post, or transmit to, or using, the Site. "SocialYell Content" means Content that is created by SocialYell and made available on the Site. "Third Party Content" means Content that is made available on the Site by parties other than SocialYell or the users, such as data providers that license data to SocialYell for use on the Site. "Site Content" means all of the Content that is made available on the Site, including Your Content, User Content, Third Party Content, and SocialYell Content.
2. Eligibility.
You must be at least 18 years old and a resident of the United States. Otherwise, you may not use the Site. This Agreement is void where prohibited by law, and the right to access the Service Sites is revoked in such jurisdictions. If you use the Site on behalf of a company, entity, or organization, you must be an authorized representative with the authority to bind it to the Terms of Service (which authority you hereby exercise).
3. Changes to the Terms of Service.
The Terms of Service may be modified by SocialYell at any time. When changes are made, we will notify you by making the revised version available on this webpage and will indicate at the top of this page the date that revisions were last made. You should revisit these Terms of Service on a regular basis as revised versions will be binding on you. Any such modification will be effective upon SocialYell's posting of new Terms of Service. Your continued use of the Site after any posted modification to the Terms of Service indicates your acceptance of the modification.
4. User Accounts.
To use some of the features on the Site, you may be required to create an account and provide information about yourself to us. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password. You are also responsible for all activities that occur in connection with your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. We reserve the right to close your account at any time for any or no reason. There are two types of accounts:
a. A "Personal Account" is an account for your personal, non-commercial use only, and may be used to submit, post, and transmit reviews, ratings, votes, messages, invitations, commentary, photographs, and other types of User Content. In creating a Personal Account, we require that you provide accurate information about yourself, though you may opt to provide information that does not make you personally identifiable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may not impersonate someone else (e.g., adopt the identity of a celebrity, business, or other person or organization, provide an email address other than your own, or create multiple Personal Accounts.
b. A "Business Account" is an account for use on the Site as a representative of a business or organization that is listed on the Site. In creating or updating a Business Account, you must be an authorized representative of the organization in question, you must provide complete and accurate information about yourself and the organization you represent and you must be up to date with any fees or payment required by SocialYell for maintaining your account. You may not provide an email address that is not your own or create multiple Business Accounts for the same business.
5. Use of the Site.
a. Subject to the restrictions in these Terms of Service, SocialYell grants you permission to use the Site, including the ability to: (a) search for organizations and services, (b) read, write, and share reviews and discussions about organizations, (c) vote on discussions, comments or organizations, (d) post messages and comments on user forums and blog posts and (e) invite people you know to register with SocialYell.
b. You will be exposed to User Content and Third Party Content on the Site. You understand that such content may be offensive, indecent, inaccurate, objectionable, or otherwise inappropriate. SocialYell does not endorse User Content or Third Party Content, and cannot vouch for its accuracy.
c. Business Accounts may only participate in discussions on their own organization and agree not to attempt to use the site otherwise. Use of the site may be suspended without refund if any such attempt is made.
6. Restrictions on Use.
You agree that you will not:
a. use the Site to threaten, stalk, defraud, incite, harass, or advocate the harassment of another person, or otherwise interfere with another user's use of the Site;
b. use the Site to transmit or post spam, chain letters, contests, junk email, pyramid schemes, surveys, or other mass messaging, whether commercial in nature or not;
c. use the Site for promotional or commercial purposes, except as expressly permitted by SocialYell as a certified member or Business Account;
d. use the Site in a manner that may create a conflict of interest, such as trading reviews with other business owners or writing or soliciting reviews;
e. use the Site for keyword spamming or to otherwise attempt to manipulate search results;
f. use the Site to promote bigotry or discrimination against protected classes;
g. use the Site to violate any third-party right, including any breach of confidence, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
h. use the Site to transmit or post pornography or illegal content;
i. use the Site to solicit personal information from minors or to harm or threaten to cause harm to minors;
j. use the Site in violation of the Terms of Service or any applicable law;
k. modify, adapt, appropriate, reproduce, distribute, translate, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display, sell, trade, or in any way exploit the Site or Site Content (other than Your Content), except as expressly authorized by SocialYell;
l. reverse engineer any portion of the Site, except as may be permitted under the law;
m. remove or modify any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notice on the Site or on any materials printed or copied off of the Site;
n. record, process, or mine information about other users;
o. use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index the Site or any Site Content;
p. access, retrieve or index the Site to construct or populate a searchable database of business reviews;
q. reformat or frame any portion of the Site;
r. take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on SocialYell's technology infrastructure;
s. attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, user accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Site through hacking, password mining or any other means; use the Site or any Site Content to transmit any computer viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature (collectively, "Viruses"); use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Site, or otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site; make excessive traffic demands; use the Site to violate the security of any computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes; disrupt or interfere with the security of, or otherwise cause harm to, the Site or Site Content; remove, circumvent, disable, damage or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of the Site, features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of Site Content, or features that enforce limitations on the use of the Site.
7. Permission to Use Your Content.
a. You grant SocialYell the irrevocable right to use Your Content for any purpose, including but not limited to the right to reformat it, edit it, publish it, associate it with your account name, incorporate it into other works, create derivative works from it, distribute it, promote it, and license these same rights to third parties for use in connection with other media platforms ("Other Media").
b. You grant the Site's users and the users of any Other Media the irrevocable right to access Your Content in connection with their use of the Site and any Other Media.
c. You irrevocably waive, and cause to be waived, any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.
8. Responsibility for Your Content.
a. You are solely responsible for Your Content. You assume all risks associated with use of Your Content, including any reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or any disclosure by you of information in Your Content that makes you personally identifiable. You represent that you own, or have the necessary permissions to use, and authorize the use of Your Content as described herein. You may not imply that Your Content is in any way sponsored or endorsed by SocialYell.
b. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if, for example, Your Content violates a third party's rights, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; contains material that is false, intentionally misleading, or defamatory; contains material that is unlawful, including illegal hate speech or pornography; exploits or otherwise harms minors; or violates or advocates the violation of any law or regulation.
9. Use of Content.
a. SocialYell may or may not use User Content in its sole discretion. For example, we may choose not to publish User Content if we believe it violates the Terms of Service or our content guidelines (stated or not). In addition, please note that we have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of Your Content, nor do we guarantee any confidentiality with respect to Your Content.
b. SocialYell and its licensees may display advertisements and other information adjacent to or included with Your Content on the Site and Other Media. You are not entitled to any compensation for such advertisements. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising are subject to change without specific notice to you.
10. Content Feeds
SocialYell makes some of the Site Content (the "Feed Content") available via Real Simple Syndication and Atom feeds (the "Feeds"). You may access and use the Feeds in order to display Feed Content on your personal computer, website, or blog, provided that (a) your use of the Feeds is for personal, non-commercial purposes only, (b) your display of the Feed Content links back to the relevant pages on the Site and attributes SocialYell as the source of the Feed Content, (c) your use or display of the Feed Content does not suggest that SocialYell promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, (d) you do not redistribute the Feed Content, and (f) your use of the Feeds does not overburden SocialYell's systems. SocialyYell reserves all rights in the Feed Content and may terminate the Feeds at any time.
11. Site Availability.
SocialYell reserves the right (but is under no obligation) to modify, update, or discontinue the Site at its sole discretion, at any time, for any or no reason, and without notice or liability.
12. Unauthorized Access.
SocialYell reserves the right to exercise whatever lawful means it deems necessary to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the Site, including, but not limited to, technological barriers, IP mapping, and contacting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) regarding such unauthorized use.
13. Investigations.
SocialYell is under no obligation to monitor the Site or Site Content. However, we reserve the right to investigate possible violations of the Terms of Service, block users from the Site, and refer matters to law enforcement authorities for further investigation. SocialYell may disclose information to third parties, including Your Content, in accordance with its Privacy Policy.
14. Feedback.
a. Dissatisfaction. If you are dissatisfied with the Site, please let us know by providing feedback to the customer support team through our contacts page. Your input is valuable to us. Your only other remedy with respect to any dissatisfaction with (i) the Site, (ii) the Terms of Service, (iii) any policy or practice of SocialYell in operating the Site, or (iv) any content or information transmitted through the Site, is to terminate the Terms of Service and close your account.
b. Suggestions and Improvements. By sending us any ideas, suggestions, documents and/or proposals ("Feedback"), you agree that (i) your Feedback does not contain the confidential or proprietary information of third parties, (ii) we are under no obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Feedback, (iii) we may have something similar to the Feedback already under consideration or in development, and (iv) you grant us an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to use, modify, publish, distribute and sublicense the Feedback.
15. Termination
a. SocialYell may terminate or suspend your account or ability to use the Site, in whole or in part, at SocialYell's sole discretion, for any or no reason, and without notice or liability of any kind. Any such termination or suspension could prevent you from accessing your account, the Site, Your Content, Site Content, or any other related information.
b. You may terminate the Terms of Service at any time by closing your account, discontinuing your use of any and all parts of the Site, and providing SocialYell with a notice of termination on our Contact Us page with the subject "Close my account".
c. In the event of any termination, whether by you or us, Sections 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 20 of the Terms of Service will continue in full force and effect, including SocialYell’s rights with respect to Your Content, as detailed in Section 7.
16. Ownership.
SocialYell owns the SocialYell Content, including but not limited to visual interfaces, interactive features, graphics, design, compilation, computer code, products, software, aggregate user review ratings, and all other elements and components of the Site excluding User Content and Third Party Content. SocialYell also owns the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world (the "IP Rights") associated with the SocialYell Content and the Site, which are protected by copyright, trade dress, patent, trademark laws and all other applicable intellectual and proprietary rights and laws. As such, you may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display or in any way exploit, any of the SocialYell Content in whole or in part except as expressly authorized by SocialYell. Except as expressly and unambiguously provided herein, SocialYell does not grant you any express or implied rights, and all rights in and to the Site and the SocialYell Content are retained by SocialYell.
17. Warranties, Disclaimers, and Limitations of Liability.
a. THE SITE AND ALL SITE CONTENT IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. SOCIALYELL MAKES NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, STATUTORY OR IMPLIED AS TO (1) THE OPERATION AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SITE, (2) THE ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, COMPLETENESS, QUALITY, LEGALITY, USEFULNESS, SAFETY, AND IP RIGHTS OF ANY OF THE SITE CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OF BUSINESS REVIEWS AND BUSINESS INFORMATION LISTED ON THE SITE, AND (3) THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SITE OR SITE CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES SOLD BY BUSINESSES LISTED ON THE SITE. SOCIALYELL FURTHER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, STATUTORY, OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, DURABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, THAT YOU OBTAIN FROM SOCIALYELL OR THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR CONDITION NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN.
b. SOCIALYELL DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY (A) INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, RELIANCE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, (B) LOSS OF PROFITS, (C) BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, (D) LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO REPUTATION OF SOCIALYELL OR ANY THIRD PARTY, OR (E) LOSS OF INFORMATION OR DATA.
c. SOCIALYELL FURTHER DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND SITE CONTENT. YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND SITE CONTENT IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OR DAMAGE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY LOSS OF DATA OR DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER FROM VIRUSES THAT MAY BE DOWNLOADED TO YOUR COMPUTER IN THE COURSE OF USING THE SITE.
d. SOCIALYELL ALSO DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF YOUR COMMUNICATIONS OR DEALINGS WITH ANY OF THE BUSINESSES, ADVERTISERS, OR USERS ON THE SITE. YOUR COMMUNICATIONS OR DEALINGS WITH SUCH BUSINESSES, ADVERTISERS, AND USERS ARE SOLELY BETWEEN YOU AND THEM, THOUGH SOCIALYELL RESERVES THE RIGHT (BUT HAS NO OBLIGATION) TO MONITOR DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND THEM.
e. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, OR LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY MAY LAST, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU RESIDE IN SUCH A JURISDICTION, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO YOU TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
f. SOCIALYELL’S MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSES WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION (WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY ARISES DUE TO NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT, MISREPRESENTATION OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON), WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (I) THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO SOCIALYELL IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR (II) US$100.00.
18. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold SocialYell, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, any related companies, suppliers, licensors and partners, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of them harmless, including costs, liabilities and legal fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of (i) your access to or use of the Site, (ii) your violation of the Terms of Service, or (iii) the infringement by you, or any third party using your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. SocialYell reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims. You agree not to settle any matter without the prior written consent of SocialYell. SocialYell will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action or proceeding upon becoming aware of it.
19. Third Parties.
a. The Site may include links to other websites (each, a "Third Party Site"). SocialYell does not control or endorse any Third Party Site, and you agree that SocialYell is not responsible for the availability or contents of such Third Party Sites.
20. Miscellaneous.
a. If there is any dispute about or involving the Site or SocialYell, you agree that any such dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts in New York County, New York.
b. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of the Terms of Service, and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind SocialYell in any respect whatsoever.
c. SocialYell may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms of Service by email, regular mail or postings on the Site.
d. Except as otherwise stated in Section 19 above, nothing herein is intended, nor will be deemed, to confer rights or remedies upon any third party.
e. The Terms of Service contain the entire agreement between you and SocialYell regarding the use of the Site, and supersede any prior agreement between you and SocialYell on such subject matter. The parties acknowledge that no reliance is placed on any representation made but not expressly contained in these Terms of Service.
f. The failure of SocialYell to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder.
g. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that the Terms of Service shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
h. The Terms of Service are not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by you except with SocialYell’s prior written consent, but may be assigned or transferred by SocialYell without restriction. Any assignment attempted to be made in violation of the Terms of Service shall be void.
i. The section titles in the Terms of Service are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
21. Contact and Violations.
Please contact us with any questions regarding the Terms of Service. Please report any violations of the Terms of Service to our legal department through the Contact Us page.
22. Marks.
SocialYell and the SocialYell logo including the “Yell Bubble” are proprietary service marks of SocialYell.
Privacy Policy
Last Updated on April 13th, 2009
SocialYell cares about how your personal information is collected and used. This document sets forth the protections and uses of your information on www.socialyell.com any mobile application or any other SocialYell services (collectively “Service Sites”)
By using this site you acknowledge reading these practices and policies (the "Privacy Policy") and acceptance of them. Please do not use the Service Sites if you do not want the Privacy Policy to apply to you.
This Privacy Policy covers SocialYell's treatment of information that SocialYell may gather when you access or use the Service Sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to sites owned, operated or controlled by third parties. Information that you provide to such third parties and their sites will be subject to the privacy policies of such sites.
Information SocialYell May Collect
SocialYell collects two types of information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. The first is personally identifiable information ("PII") - information that can identify you, the use of the Service Sites, as an individual. Examples of PII are names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses. The other category is "everything else" - that is, information that is not PII, and cannot identify you as an individual. Examples of this category would be the things you post to the site (as long as they are not tied to you as an individual), the companies in which you show an interest, any statistical or aggregate information, the friends you follow or the comments, ratings or votes you make on the site.
We use both types of information that we collect from users, on or through the Service Sites to personalize and improve the Service Sites and the services we offer to you. SocialYell is the sole owner of all information collected on or through the SocialYell portions of the Service Sites.
Information You Provide to Us. We receive and store any information you supply to us, on or through Service Sites, such as the searches you perform, the organizations or businesses you evaluate, the people with whom you share the Service Sites or any other site activity. To use the Service Sites and our services you may need to register, and will need to give us PII such as your email address as part of the registration process. You can choose not to provide us with information, but then you will not be able to use or take advantage of some of the features or services on or through the Services Sites. The information, including PII, that you provide is used for such purposes as responding to your requests for certain products and services, customizing the advertising and content you see, and communicating with you about specials and new products. If you provide PII to us through one of our services, we may use it for these purposes in connection with other SocialYell services or Service Sites; for example, if you provide your email address to us in connection with a SocialYell mobile application you are giving us permission to use that email address in connection with responding to your requests, advising you about other services, and so forth. Information that is not PII is also used as aggregate data, in the manner described below.
Information Collected Automatically. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with the Service Sites. SocialYell automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information, and the page or portion of the Service Sites that you requested. This information may be used to offer you a personalized experience on or through the Service Sites, including, without limitation, to advise you on related Service Sites and services of ours that you may want to access.
SocialYell also automatically collects usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its components. SocialYell only uses automatically collected information in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. This type of aggregate data enables SocialYell to figure out how users are accessing and using the Service Sites so that we can improve them and focus our efforts on the more popular features. As part of this use of information, we may provide aggregate information to our partners about how our customers, collectively, use the Service Sites. We share this type of statistical data so that our partners also understand how often people use their services and the Service Sites, so that they, too, can improve their offerings.
Sharing Information Collected by SocialYell
Aggregate Information. As noted above, SocialYell may share aggregate information with others to help improve the Service Sites, our Services, and third party services and products.
Contractors. SocialYell may contract with other companies and people (e.g., for data analysis, financial and other specialties) to perform tasks on our behalf. We need (and you are authorizing us) to share your information, including PII, with them for the limited purpose of allowing us to fulfill your requests using the Service Sites. We bind these contractors to agreements that prohibit them from using or disclosing any information they receive from SocialYell for any purposes except the ones they are hired to provide to us.
Legal Compliance. SocialYell reserves the right to disclose your PII when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to (1) comply with the law; (2) enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; (3) or protect the rights, property or safety of SocialYell, our employees, our users, or others.
Business Transfers. If a third party acquires SocialYell or most of its assets, or in the unlikely event that SocialYell goes out of business through bankruptcy or otherwise, information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired to a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of SocialYell may continue to use all information, including PII, as long as it does so only as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Information Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, SocialYell maintains appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure all information that we collect online. Should we collect PII about you through registration, we will protect that PII with a password and logon process. You must, however, ensure that your password is not disclosed to others and it is your responsibility to select an appropriate password and change it regularly.
Changing My Information
You may be required to register to use the Service Sites and any SocialYell services available on or through them, which will require that you provide us with your name and possibly other PII. You may, choose not to provide such PII but in that case you will not be able to access or use all of the features of the Service Sites and our services. For registered users, you will have the opportunity to access and edit all of your PII associated with your registration.
Automatically gathered and aggregate information cannot be changed or accessed by individuals. As noted, such information does not link to any PII about you.
Cookies and Similar Tools
SocialYell may use cookies, pixels, widgets and other tools to track session data and allow us to personalize your experience on or through the Service Sites. We do not use cookies, or other tools, to collect or reveal PII to SocialYell, and we do not combine cookie information with other PII. Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, or erasing existing cookies. If you elect to turn off cookies, SocialYell will not be able to store cookies on your system or collect information from them. However, you will not be able to use the personalized features of the Service Sites and our services that depend on cookies and the information they contain.
Some of our advertisers may use cookies on the Service Sites, as may the owners of those Service Sites that are not controlled by SocialYell (including, without limitation, mobile application websites operated by third parties). We have no access or control over these cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by SocialYell only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links to Other Sites
Service Sites contain links to other websites, including (but not limited to) the citations to the providers of the databases that we use to rank and evaluate companies and products. These other sites are not owned or controlled by SocialYell. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other sites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
SocialYell may amend the Privacy Policy as we add new features to the SocialYell portions of the Service Sites, our services, or as the law or circumstances change. Accordingly, we reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy we will post those changes here and will indicate at the top of this Privacy Policy the date that revisions were last made. You should revisit this Privacy Policy on a regular basis as revised versions will be binding on you. Any such modification will be effective upon SocialYell's posting of new Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Site after any posted modification to the Terms of Service indicates your acceptance of the modification.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, the Service Sites, our services or SocialYell in general please contact us at [email protected]