When you visit a My USA City Guide site you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
 

When you register with a My USA City Guide site, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
 

When you enter a My USA City Guide site, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all a My USA City Guide site visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to a My USA City Guide site. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
 

When you use a My USA City Guide site, you may set up your personal profile, post classified ads, add business listings, post local events, participate in online discussions, send messages, perform searches and queries, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.
 

You post content on My USA City Guide sites at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on My USA City Guide sites. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of visitor and registered user submitted content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your submitted content.
 

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on a My USA City Guide site is a violation of the My USA City Guide Terms and Conditions and should be reported to privacy@myusacityguide.com.
 

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. My USA City Guide stores this information to send this one-time invitation and to track the success of our referral program.
 

A My USA City Guide site may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of a My USA City Guide site in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
 

By using a My USA City Guide site, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Use of Information Obtained by a My USA City Guide site

When you register with a My USA City Guide site, you create your own profile.  We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by My USA City Guide that we think you may find valuable.
 

Profile information is used by My USA City Guide primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service.
 

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of My USA City Guide, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

My USA City Guide is about sharing information with others while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about My USA City Guide sites, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links).

In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to My USA City Guide site-specified purposes.

We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the My USA City Guide world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.

We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the My USA City Guide service or using the My USA City Guide name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.

We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on a My USA City Guide site. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on a My USA City Guide site, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.

Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive some information even if you are logged out from a My USA City Guide site, or that pertains to non-My USA City Guide users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where a My USA City Guide site receives information on users that are not logged in, or on non-My USA City Guide users, we do not attempt to associate it with individual a My USA City Guide site accounts and will discard it.

If the ownership of a My USA City Guide site were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
 

When you use a My USA City Guide site, certain information you post or share with third parties, such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, listings or other information, may be shared with other visitors. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, listings or other items , this information may become publicly available.

Links

A My USA City Guide site may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by a My USA City Guide site.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on a My USA City Guide site are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to visitors by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. My USA City Guide sites do not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on a My USA City Guide site unless you choose to share it with them.
 

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by all My USA City Guide sites and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on a My USA City Guide site is readily available through the profile editing tools. Registered My USA City Guide site users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately.

Security

My USA City Guide sites take appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email is not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email. If you have any questions about the security of a My USA City Guide site, please contact us at privacy@myusacityguide.com.

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of a My USA City Guide site, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms and Conditions and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the bottom of this page the policy's updated date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting My USA City Guide

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@myusacityguide.com.