Privacy | yarding

Effective Date: January 1, 2015

Hey wassup! Welcome to Yarding ("we," "us" or "our"). Yarding is the best way to connect with urban millenials around the world on your own terms.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we and some of the companies we work with collect, use, share and protect information in relation to our mobile services, web site, and any software provided on or in connection with Yarding's services (collectively, the "Service"), and your choices about the collection and use of your information. We hope that sounds fair.
By using our Service you understand and agree that we are providing a platform for you to post content, including photos, comments and other materials ("User Content"), to the Service and to share User Content publicly. This means that other Users may see, use, or share any of your User Content that you make publicly available through the Service, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Our Policy applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service ("Users").

Topics covered in this Policy

Information We Collect
How We Use Your Information
Sharing of Your Information
How We Store Your Information
Your Choices About Your Information
Children's Privacy
Other Websites and Services
How to Contact Us About a Deceased User
How to Contact Us
Changes to Our Privacy Policy

1. Information we collect

For real, For real.

Sure, we collect different types of information, but try to respect your privacy as much as possible in doing so.

We collect the following types of information:

Information you provide us directly:

Profile information that you provide for your user profile.
User Content (e.g., photos, comments, and other materials) that you post to the Service.
Communications between you and Yarding. For example, we may send you Service-related messages (e.g., account verification, changes/updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices). Note that you may not opt out of Service-related communications.

Analytics information:

We use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service. These tools collect information sent by your device or our Service, including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Service. We collect and use this analytics information with analytics information from other Users so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular individual User.

Cookies and similar technologies:

When you visit the Service, we may use cookies and similar technologies like pixels, web beacons, and local storage to collect information about how you use Yarding and provide features to you.
We may ask advertisers or other partners to serve ads or services to your devices, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by the third party or us.
More information is available in our About Cookies section.

Log file information:

Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you make a request to access (i.e., visit) a web page or app. It can also be provided when the content of the webpage or app is downloaded to your browser or device.
When you use our Service, our servers automatically record certain log file information, including your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information. The information allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the Service.

Device identifiers:

When you use a mobile device like a tablet or phone to access our Service, we may access, collect, monitor, store on your device, and/or remotely store one or more "device identifiers." Device identifiers are small data files or similar data structures stored on or associated with your mobile device, which uniquely identify your mobile device. A device identifier may be data stored in connection with the device hardware, data stored in connection with the device's operating system or other software, or data sent to the device by Yarding.
A device identifier may deliver information to us or to a third party partner about how you browse and use the Service and may help others or us provide reports or personalized content and ads. Some features of the Service may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.

Metadata:

Metadata is usually technical data that is associated with User Content. For example, Metadata can describe how, when and by whom a piece of User Content was collected and how that content is formatted.
Users can add or may have Metadata added to their User Content including a geotag (e.g., to mark your location to a post), comments or other data. This makes your User Content more searchable by others and more interactive.

2. How we use your information.

We use your information in different ways to bring you a great experience.

In addition to some of the specific uses of information we describe in this Privacy Policy, we may use information that we receive to:

Help you efficiently access your information after you sign in
Remember information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Service;
Provide personalized content and information to you and others, which could include online ads or other forms of marketing
Provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Service
Develop and test new products and features
Monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns
Diagnose or fix technology problems
Automatically update the Yarding application on your device Yarding or other Users may run contests, special offers or other events or activities ("Events") on the Service. If you do not want to participate in an Event, do not use the particular Metadata (i.e. yarding) associated with that Event.

3. Sharing of your information

We may share your information in certain cases, but try to look out for you when doing so.

We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside Yarding without your consent, except as noted in this Policy.

Parties with whom we may share your information:

We may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Yarding is part of, or that become part of that group ("Affiliates"). Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including by providing analytics) and Affiliates' own services (including by providing you with better and more relevant experiences). These Affiliates will honor the choices you make about who can see your posts on Yarding.
We may also share certain information such as cookie data with third-party advertising partners. This information would allow third-party ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.

Parties with whom you may choose to share your User Content:

Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service, such as User Content, becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy settings that you set. Once you have shared User Content or made it public, that User Content may be re-shared by others.
Subject to your profile and privacy settings, any User Content that you make public is searchable by other Users and subject to use under our Yarding API. The use of the Yarding API is subject to the API Terms of Use that incorporates the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you remove information that you posted to the Service, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users or third parties using the Yarding API have copied or saved that information.

What happens in the event of a change of control:

If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of Yarding or our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), your information such as name and email address, User Content and any other information collected through the Service may be among the items sold or transferred. You will continue to own your User Content. The buyer or transferee will have to honor the commitments we have made in this Privacy Policy.

Responding to legal requests and preventing harm:

We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards. We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. Information we receive about you may be accessed, processed and retained for an extended period of time when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

4. How we store your information

We store some of your info, sometimes in different, exotic places, but do our best to protect it.

Storage and Processing:

Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Yarding its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities.
Yarding its Affiliates, or Service Providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.
By registering for and using the Service you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. or to any other country in which Yarding, its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use commercially reasonable safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Service secure and take reasonable steps (such as verifying your phone and sending you a passcode) to confirm your identity before granting you access to your account. However, Yarding cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to HashChat or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
Please do your part to help us. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your account information. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes the social media services you connect to Yarding make to their services. We are not responsible for the functionality, privacy, or security measures of any other organization.

5. Your choices about your information

You can update your info and we might keep some of it after you delete your account.

Your account information and profile settings:

Update your account at any time by logging in and changing your profile settings.

How long we keep your User Content:

Following termination or deactivation of your account, Yarding its Affiliates, or its Service Providers may retain information (including your profile information) and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

6. Children's privacy

We don't allow users under 17 and delete them and their info if we discover them using our service.

Yarding does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 17 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Service. The Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 17. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 17 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 17, please contact us.

7. Other websites and services

We're not responsible for other websites or services linked to ours.

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Service, including the information or content contained within them. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Service to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link on our website, are subject to that third party's own rules and policies. In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and do not have control over any third-parties that you authorize to access your User Content. If you are using a third-party website or service and you allow them to access your User Content you do so at your own risk.

8. How to contact us about a deceased user

You can contact us about any late user accounts.

In the event of the death of a Yarding User, please contact us. We will usually conduct our communication via email. Should we require additional information, we will contact you at the email address from which you sent your initial note.

9. How to contact us

Hit us at yardingapp@gmail.com

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us at yardingapp@gmail.com

10. Changes to our privacy policy

Our policies might change, keep on top of it.

Yarding may modify or update this Privacy Policy, so please review it periodically. We may provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of Yarding or the Service after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.