EveryTown Privacy Policy
Your Privacy Protecting your privacy is one of our top priorities. Please take a few minutes to
read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data
and how we will treat it.
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for ShopEveryTown.com
(collectively “EveryTown”) with regard to your (“You” or “Your”) use of the application (the
“App”). By using our app, you confirm that you accept the terms of our User Terms and
Condition and this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you must not use the App.
Our privacy commitment
This document sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data we collect from
you on this App. The App is designed for small businesses to increase business by means of
the tools incorporated within the app. Who can see which parts of the App and which parts are
open and have varying degrees of controls, are set out in our Terms and Conditions (clause 5,
“Types of Users”).
We will make every effort to protect your privacy from those you do not wish to share
information with, by informing you as to how your data will be used, adopting a consistently high
level of app security and adhering to strict company policies on how we store and use personal
information. This privacy policy has been developed in accordance with our legal obligations
and may be updated from time to time. We would again like to stress that, in accordance with
European personal data protection laws, strict security procedures are observed to prevent
personal data misuse and unauthorized access.
1. Use of Personal Information
1.1. The information collected by Us through our App is used by Us for various purposes to
enable Us to serve You better including:
a) To find third party service providers;
b) Internal record keeping;
c) To improve Our products and services;
d) To periodically send promotional emails or messages on the App about new products,
special offers or other information which We think You may find interesting using the email
address which You have provided; or
(e) Information to customize the App according to Your interests from time to time.
1.2. We may use personal information to resolve disputes that may arise with the use of Our
Services, help promote a safe service to all the customers, measure consumer interest in
Our services, customize Your experience, detect and protect Us against error, fraud and
other criminal activity, enforce Our terms and conditions.
1.3. We identify and use Your IP address to help diagnose problems with Our server, and to
administer Our Apps. Your IP address is also used to help identify You and to gather broad
demographic information.
1.4. We may use the information from your phone contact list to generate recommended users
or connection to follow.
2. Sharing of Personal Information
2.1. We may disclose Your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith
and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders,
or other legal process. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement offices, third
party rights owners, or others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably
necessary to enforce Our Terms or Privacy Policy; respond to claims that an advertisement,
posting or other content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or
personal safety of Our customers or the general public.
2.2. We and Our affiliates will share some or all of the collected information with another
business entity should We (or our assets) plan to merge with, or be acquired by that business
entity, or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business. Should such a transaction
occur that other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this
Privacy Policy with respect to all the information collected.
2.3. We do not disclose personal information about identifiable individuals to advertisers, but We
may provide economic development research partners with aggregate and/or anonymized
information about You to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We
may make use of the information We have collected from You to enable Us to comply with Our
advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
3. Information Safety
3.1. All information is saved and stored on servers which are secured with passwords and pins
to ensure no unauthorized person has access to it. Once your information is in Our possession
we adhere to strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access. EveryTown
acknowledges the importance of and is committed to maintaining the security of all information
received. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage
is 100% secure or fool proof. Therefore, while EveryTown strives to use commercially
acceptable means to protect the Personal Data; EveryTown cannot guarantee its absolute
security.
4. What information is being collected and how is it used?
4.1. The nature of the personal shopping data we collect from you provide Our research
partners information to predict consumer shopping trends.
What data we collect and how this is used is set out in detail in this policy but general categories
of data we may collect include:
– information that you provide by filling in forms on our app which may include: your name,
address, email address, city, and payment details (if applicable);
– technical information about your use of EveryTown and specifically EveryTown services
including details of your domain name, location and internet protocol (IP) address, operating
system, browser version, the content you view and how long you stayed on a page. This
information contain no personal information about you;
– data collected through the use of “cookies” and/or other devices; and
– other data from time to time to help us provide you with improved products and services
– for example when we ask you to fill in a survey or questionnaire.
4.2. In addition to any other uses specified set out in this Privacy Policy, we may use information
provided by you in any one or more of the following ways:
– to ensure that content on our app is presented in the most effective manner for you;
– to monitor, develop and improve our products and services;
– to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel
may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
– to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
– for non-marketing purposes – guidance for which is provided in section 6 below;
– to notify you about changes to our service including to contact you with service messages. By
way of example, we may contact you to let you know that a challenge or flash sale has ended
and inform you of any similar services offered by us and/or any company within our group of
companies and/or a third party partner on our behalf
4.3. EveryTown maintains a strict “No-Spam” policy, which means that EveryTown does not
intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address or your personal information to a third
party without your written consent.
5. What data do we collect for each type of user?
There are two types of App users:
(i) Registered Users,
(ii) Unregistered Users (please refer to the description of these types in our Terms &
Conditions).
5.1. Registered Users
The information we will collect from you is set out on the registration form, which includes your
email address, medical license number, the regulatory body with which you are registered, your
specialty, legal name and current work location.
We may at any time seek additional or alternative verification information from members to
ensure that the relevant user is a licensed Physician. You can set your personal privacy options
so that access to your profile information is limited. We cannot, however, control the actions of
other users who may choose to allow access to their profile information. Whenever you create
content on, or post content to, the App other registered users may see your name and other
details such as your specialty and country of registration. Other information may be displayed in
your profile if so selected by you when customizing your profile.
5.2. Unregistered Users (visitors, including those who have requested to register, but have not
been accepted yet to the platform)
For unregistered users the data we will collect from you is described below in clause 5.
6. What information is collected from the App?
Some detail around access and use of data on the certain sections of the App is set out below:
6.1. Your profile
All Registered Users have the option of creating a profile for themselves and to tell other users
about themselves. You may provide additional information describing your credentials,
professional experiences, academic background, biography and the like. You will be able to
select which information you wish to display and to whom (connections, anyone) and any
mandatory information will be indicated. Providing additional information in your personal profile
beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional and can be altered or removed by you
at any time. We may share information in your profile without your name and contact details with
third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many registered people on the
App are, for example, cardiologists, so that we can improve the App.
6.4. We collect certain information about You to help Us serve You better.
The information collected by Us is of the following nature:
• Name;
• Telephone Number;
• Email Address;
• Profession;
• Information about Your device; and
• Network information
6.5. Information provided during Registration:
To create a profile and use this App and services, You may be asked to provide the following
information: Your name, Your username, Your photograph, password, email address and Your
area of interest (selected from a drop-down menu if applicable), speciality, MCI registration
number, Bio, Educational history, Hospital Affiliation and Awards and recognition.
6.6. You are solely responsible for:
• maintaining the strict confidentiality of Your Account credentials,
• not allowing another person to use Your Account to access the Services,
• any and all damages or losses that may be incurred or suffered as a result of any activities that
occur in Your Account,
6.7. Searching for other users:
Any registered user can use the people search function to search for other Registered Users.
The search provides the full name, country and specialty of EveryTown Registered User, but
does not provide his or her full profile information, unless allowed by him/her. Registered Users
only, will have the option of sending these users a request to connect as colleagues. Private
messages, may be exchanged only among already connected to each other users.
7. Additional uses we will make of your data
7.1. We may use your data to respond and or monitor (as we determine) for any unauthorized
use of our App or any content within. If you post any content in breach of our User Terms &
Conditions, which involves any indication of violence or threats of violence or any similar act, we
may at our absolute discretion inform any relevant third parties including without limitation the
police and other law enforcement agencies. We may disclose any of your details to our legal
advisors should we require advice around any disclosures.
7.2. In addition to ensuring you can use this app properly, on some occasions we use the
information provided to produce aggregate statistics in relation to pages being accessed. We
may also use it to monitor usage patterns on the App in order to improve navigation and design
features to help you get information more easily. This information is provided to us as daily
logged files. In order to help us develop the App and our services, we may provide such
aggregate information to third parties. The statistics however will not include any information
that can be used to identify any individual.
8. What else do we collect when you use the App
Each time you use the internet, an Internet Protocol (IP) address is assigned to your computer
or internet-capable device via the internet service provider. This number may either be the same
or different each time you access the internet. Each time your computer or internet-capable
device requests information from our App, we log your IP address on our server and may log
operating systems and browser types for system administration and to report aggregate
information. We may use this in order to gather information about the App traffic and usage.
Whether you are an Unregistered or Registered User, our web server collects certain
information such as (a) IP address; (b) host names (c) domain name (d) time and date
information as requested (e) the browser version and platform when it is requested, (f) a record
of which pages have been requested; (g) location data from your IP address.
Location data may be necessary for us to “geo-block” or regionalize our App content or
services.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and use it to contact you in
response and/or to update our records.
In addition to responding to complaints or claims received or discovered referred to above or
any breaches of our User Terms and Conditions, we may use all information supplied or
collected on this App to enforce our legal rights and protect against unauthorized access, use,
activity and/or copying, either personally or via third party contractors and advisors. This may
involve using any details supplied by you including your name and contact details.
9. When will we contact you?
You are always given the opportunity to opt in or out (as applicable) from receiving marketing
emails from the EveryTown and third parties. For users who have opted to receive marketing
emails from EveryTown (and others where indicated and there is a jointly supplied product or
service), and visit our Apps through links provided in these emails, we may send information
about your App usage to our third party email direct marketing provider, however will not include
any information that can be used to identify any individual. This is for the purpose of
understanding the effectiveness of our email marketing campaigns and for targeting future email
campaigns. We may send you non marketing emails or other non-marketing communications,
the nature or purpose of these emails and communication may include but shall not be limited
to:
– welcoming you to the EveryTown community and encouraging you to join discussions;
– internal record keeping;
– providing you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel
may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
– where you have indicated your consent to be contacted for these purposes: allowing you to
participate in interactive features of our service, this may include sending email prompts and
reminders to you after long periods of your inactivity on the app or to alert you to responses
which have been made to your Discussions or Article posts by other users of the App;
– periodical updates regarding activities in groups, discussions or other app parts that you may
have been registered into;
– notifying you about changes to our service including to contact you with service messages. By
way of example, if any service for which you have registered is no longer available, we may
contact you to let you know that it has closed and inform you of any similar services offered by
us and/or any company within our group of companies and/or a third party partner on our behalf;
and
– periodically (though not at an excessive frequency) sending you emails about EveryTown
updates and functionality.
Within each such non-marketing email, you will be given the option to unsubscribe from these
non-marketing emails. We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare
occasions when it is necessary to do so.
For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an
email. EveryTown communicates via e-mail with you to provide requested services and to
resolve issues relating to your account.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If
you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
10. How long do we keep the information we collect?
We keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill our obligations to you and
to protect our legal interests.
11. Use of cookies
Once you have accessed the App, we may store a temporary ‘cookie’ on your computer,
indicating that you are authorized to use the app. Cookies are small text files that are saved by
your web browser and enable you to move throughout the app without having to sign in each
time you look at a different page.
We cannot identify you from these cookies. They simply tell us whether pages have been
requested by the same person or two different people. In addition we also have non expiring
cookies which will identify when the same user (or user from the same terminal) returns to the
app. We do this to assist with the user experience and so we can restore the last used screen
when new pages are loaded. If you wish to delete such cookies, please refer to the instructions
for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. We may
from time to time use cookies to identify the nationality of our users which enables us to present
users with appropriate corporate branding and to conduct surveys as mentioned above. More
information about Cookies, including how to block them and/or delete them, can be found at
www.aboutcookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you
may not be able to access certain areas or features of our app.
12. How we share Personal Information with other parties
We may share your Personal Information with other third parties in the following manners:
Service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations (e.g.,
marketing, technology services), though we require that these service providers only use your
information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit; To
a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control
(collectively, ‘Affiliates’), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy
statement; To a company that merges with us, acquires us, or purchases our assets, in which
case such company may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this
Privacy statement; Law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties when we are
compelled to do so by a court order or similar legal procedure we need to do so to comply with
law we believe in good faith that we need these information to protect or defend the rights or
property of Company or users of the software or other services.
Other third parties with your consent or directed to do so, except as set forth above, we do not
sell, share, rent or trade your personal information or geo-location information other than as
disclosed within this privacy policy.
The Company may share aggregated information that includes non-identifying information and
log data with third parties for industry analysis and demographic profiling.
13. How personal information is stored and protected
Your personal data is stored in our databases and is only available to web administrators of
EveryTown. The data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination
inside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We will take all steps reasonably necessary to
ensure that your data is treated securely by us and our contractors and in accordance with this
privacy policy. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which
enables you to access certain parts of our app, you are responsible for keeping this password
confidential. Please do not share your password with anyone.
13.1. Security
We understand that the security of your information is important to you. We also understand that
our continued success on the web relies on our ability to communicate with you in a secure
manner. We adhere to the highest standards of decency, fairness, and integrity in our
operations. We use several measures to authenticate your identity when you visit our app. We
also take steps to protect your information as it travels the internet, and to make sure all
information is as secure as possible against unauthorized access and use (for example, by
hackers). We review our security measures regularly.
Despite our best efforts, and the best efforts of other firms, ‘perfect security’ does not exist on
the internet, or anywhere else. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is
not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot
guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our app; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to
try to prevent unauthorized access.
13.2. Authentication
You should not share your user name and password with other people. If you think you might
lose or forget these identifiers, we will help you recover your login details securely.
13.3. Email
Any email between you and EveryTown is not encrypted.
13.4. Data within our walls
The information we collect about people visiting the app is stored in secure environments which
are not available to any unauthorized individual or party. We have mechanisms in place to
protect data. One such mechanism is called a “firewall”. A firewall is a barrier that allows only
authorized traffic through. It safeguards our computer systems and your information. We also
use system and application logs to track all access. We review these logs periodically and
investigate any anomalies or discrepancies.
14. Your Rights regarding your Data
You are entitled to the following rights, to the extent applicable and permissible by law. You can
access or request these rights by signing into your account, or by contacting us at
info@EveryTown.com as applicable:
– the right to be informed about the collection and use of your data: you can review the
information contained in this Privacy Policy or can contact us for more detailed information
– the right of access to the data you have provided to us: you can view this data by signing in to
your account or contacting us for more detailed information
– the right to rectification of your data: you can request for inaccurate or incomplete data to be
rectified or completed, respectively; we will take any reasonable steps to do so
– the right to erasure of your data: you can request us to erase personal data if you would like to
withdraw consent for its processing; we will take any reasonable steps to do so as applicable by
law
– the right to restrict processing of your data: you can request us to restrict processing your
personal data; we will take any reasonable steps to do so as applicable by law
– the right to portability of your personal data: you can request us to provide you with a copy of
the personal data we have collected and stored; we will take any reasonable steps to do so as
applicable by law
– the right to object to processing of your personal data: you can request us to stop processing
your personal data; we will take any reasonable steps to do so as applicable by law
– the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling, which produces
legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you: our services are not intended
to produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you. If for any reason you
would prefer not to use our services or restrict your data processing you can request so (either
through one of your other rights or specifically for this), and we will take any reasonable steps to
do so as applicable by law.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please contact us at
info@EveryTown.com.
15. Your consent
By submitting your information, you consent to the use of that information as set out in this
policy. You should review this policy regularly, to note any changes as to how we collect and
use personal information.
Thank you for reviewing this information.
If you have any questions, please send us an e-mail at info@EveryTown.com.
