Introduction

The City Joints Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information that you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using the City Joints web site located at www.cityjoints.com (the "Web Site"). This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that City Joints does not own or control, or to individuals that City Joints does not employ or manage.

What Personal Information About Users Does City Joints Collect?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you. We collect the following types of information from our users:

1. Information You Provide to Us:

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. The personal information you provide is used for such purposes as:

• Registration: In order for you to use City Joints services, such as receiving personalized restaurant recommendations, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require your email address.

2. Automatic Information:

• We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. City Joints automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, City Joints cookie information, and the page you requested. City Joints uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
• City Joints may also add on any page display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes member profile pages.
• Social sharing of data: City Joints allows other users to browse restaurants that you have rated, submitted, or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile at www.cityjoints.com/users/username. City Joints may choose to post this data on other areas of the site.
• Profile information: City Joints allows other users to browse your full name and location as per your member profile should you provide this optional information.
• Syndication: City Joints allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website.
• Friends Data: Much like other social services City Joints allows non-friends to browse through your friends' activities (cityjoints.com/users/usersname/friends).
• Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While City Joints will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.

What About Cookies?

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. City Joints cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
• The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies.
• Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Can Children Use City Joints's Services?

You must be 13 years and older to register to use the City Joints website. As a result, City Joints does not specifically collect information about children.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

• City Joints displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area. City Joints does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• We may be required to disclose customer information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law or to protect our interests or property. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
• If the ownership of all or substantially all of the City Joints business were to change, your user information would likely be transferred to the new owner.

If you do not want us to share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, please submit a request by clicking HERE. We will make every effort to implement any choice you make as soon as possible.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

• You can edit your City Joints Account Information at any time.
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the City Joints service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your City Joints account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• You can delete your City Joints account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click HERE to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Is Information About Me Secure?

• Your City Joints account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

Links

This site may contain links to other websites. City Joints is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by City Joints.

Third Party Advertising

Our advertising partners deliver advertisements that appear on City Joints. Our advertising partners may download cookies to your computer. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. City Joints does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers.

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by City Joints and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes to this policy on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy.