This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the weKnow Terms of Use. Your use of the Site and any personal information you provide on the Site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Because our business needs may change over time, weKnow reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to change, modify, add or remove portions from this Privacy Policy. If at any time in the future we plan to use your personal information in a way that differs from this Privacy Policy, we will revise this Privacy Policy to reflect such change. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes. This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date indicated at the beginning of the policy. Please review this Privacy Policy from time to time and before you provide any personal information to the Site.

Information We Collect

weKnow collects user submitted account information such as name, Login, password and Email address to identify you and send you notifications related to the use of the service. weKnow also collects user submitted location information such as city, state or zip. weKnow also collects user submitted photos & reviews. Some information collected is not explicitly submitted by the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp, your computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and timezone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.

How We Use Your Information

Information such as your full name, profile photo, and any personally identifiable information you have included in your reviews may be shown to friends or other users primarily in conjunction with reviews and comments you have contributed. If a person is a friend they can also see your name or Email address in their list of friends.

Your full name and Email address may also be used when you send an Email notification to a friend (such as in an invitation, or when sharing a review). We may also use your Email address to send you updates or news regarding our site web. Additionally, we use your Email address to contact you on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends you a personal message).

Browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp data help us diagnose problems with our server, administer weKnow, and otherwise provide the highest possible level of service to you. In addition, we use this information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.

We may use click-stream data and other non-personally identifiable information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Site, how visitors navigate throughout our Site and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our Site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze how our Site is used, as well as to offer you programs or services.

We keep track of your interactions with us, including but not limited to your site activity, correspondence and any other related activity. We use this information for such purposes as providing recommendations on what we think will be enjoyable, personalizing the site to better reflect particular interests, tracking your available instant-viewing hours, helping us quickly and efficiently respond to inquiries and requests and otherwise enhancing our service offering for our customers.

Transfer of Information

We may sell your reviews to third parties. Your first name and last initial, profile photo, any submitted photos of businesses, and any personally identifiable information you have included in your reviews may be transferred to such third parties and displayed on their websites in connection with such third parties' publication of your reviews.

We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or Email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your Email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Site changes or for customer service purposes).

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information. weKnow will disclose information about individual users to governmental or judicial authorities or law enforcement agencies, or to other individuals or entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes. Further, weKnow may share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud, or to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of weKnow, such as an acquisition by or merger with another company. In such an event, weKnow will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

weKnow will notify you when information about you may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and you will have the option to prevent such information sharing.

Links

Our website may contain links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation.weKnow does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy polices on these third party websites.

Cookies

To enhance your online experience with us, we may use "cookies." Cookies are text files placed on your hard disk by our web server to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not contain your Email address or other personal information. However, once you choose to provide the personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies as a convenient feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used, and to improve the content and offerings on our Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages or recall your specific information on subsequent visits. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs or services.

We may also use Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our Website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. You can opt to have your browser reject cookies. If you do that, you may need to re-register with us every time you visit our Site in order to participate in certain promotions and programs.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via reviews, messages, Comments, Photo album or in other areas of the weKnow site, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of weKnow Please do not post any personal information on the weKnow site or in other areas that you expect to keep private.

As a registered weKnow user, you can modify your personal information at any time. Also, upon your request, weKnow will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove you and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained by weKnow Registered users who wish to close their account should contact   admin@weknow.com

Security Notice

Your weKnow account is password-protected. weKnow tries very hard to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We limit the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

You hereby acknowledge that weKnow is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

Emails and Opt-out

At this time, registered members cannot opt-out of personal messages initiated by friends and users, however they may opt-out of receiving notifications initiated by weKnow Unregistered users that do not wish to receive Emails may opt-out of receiving any communications by following the instructions contained in all Emails.

For Parents/Guardians

This website is not directed to children, and weKnow does not knowingly solicit information from any child under the age of 13. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or a parent or guardian) to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.

Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Policy

By using the website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the site. weKnow may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If a material change is made to this Privacy Policy and/or the way we use our users' personally identifiable information,
then we will post a prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Policy and also on our home page. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it. Your continued use of the site indicates your assent to any changes to this Privacy Policy.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, or if you want to exercise any of the rights that you are given under this Privacy Policy, you can contact:

weKnow, Inc.
560 S. Winchester Blvd.
Floor 5,
San Jose, CA 95128.
Fax: 408-273-6375