Privacy Policy

At Local Genius (hereinafter referred to as “Local Genius” or “we/us”), we know your privacy is important and would like to share how we protect your data and implement our security measures. This Privacy Policy explains how information about you is collected, used, held, and disclosed by us and our subsidiaries when you use our website (the “Website” or the “Service”) or when you otherwise interact with us. Please read it carefully.

Please note: if you wish to contact customer support for an app you are using, you can find their information in the settings of your app via the button: “Report a Problem”. For further privacy policy information, please contact:

[email protected]

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Personal Data We Collect About You

We collect most of this Personal Data directly from you when you submit information to us, for example when you sign up for an account. Additionally, we may collect anonymous information about your usage behavior, such as how you got to our Website, how you use our Service, and which parts of our Service you use the most.

“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, including the following:

NameAddressTelephone numberEmail addressIP addressInformation about your ordersInformation about the apps you visitInformation about the device and browser you use to access the ServiceUploaded images

How We Will Use Your Personal Data

Unless you give us your separate and express consent to use your Personal Data in other ways, we collect, store, and use your Personal Data only to the extent required for use of our Services or to the extent allowed by law, even without your consent, in particular for responding to your inquiries.

Personal Data submitted directly by you will only be used to provide and improve the Service in the following ways:

Identify you as a customerContacting you, if necessarySupporting and processing ordersRisk and fraud screeningConducting automated decision-makingIdentifying, delimiting, and removing malfunctions and errors in the ServiceAuthenticationIssuing invoicesImages uploaded by you will strictly be used for the provision of services.

We will use anonymous information gathered about you to provide better service to all of our users and to evaluate our Service activities.

Who We May Share Your Personal Data With

We work with a variety of third parties and service providers to provide the Service and we may share Personal Data with them to support these efforts. Specifically, we may share Personal Data with local businesses whose products and services you subscribe to.

We may also share your information in the following circumstances:

To prevent, investigate, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or any other agreement related to the Services, or as otherwise required by law.If you visit or access an app that directs us to transfer Personal Data.To conform to legal requirements, or to respond to lawful court orders, subpoenas, warrants, or other requests by public authorities (including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).If our business or the business of a local business you access through our Service is acquired, whether through merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or other similar transaction, then your Personal Data may be shared with the acquiring company.

How We Use Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a service for the marketing analysis of this Website, of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses codes consisting of text and numbers, which will be stored on your computer and which allow for an analysis of the use of the Website (“Cookies”). The information generated by the Cookies about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transferred to and stored by a Google Server. Google will use this information, to evaluate your use of the Website, to prepare reports about the Website activities for the Website operators and to provide further services connected to the use of websites and the use of the Internet. Google may transfer this information to third parties, if legally obliged to do so or if third parties process these data on behalf of Google. In no case will Google connect your IP address with other data from Google.

You can remove or deactivate such Cookies using the settings of your computer. In such a case you might not be able to fully use all functions of this Website. By using this Website, you agree to the processing of your Personal Data by Google to the extent and purpose stated above. You can refuse to allow your data to be passed on by using a deactivation add-on for browsers under

https://tools.google.com/dlpag....

How We Use Cookies

We make use of cookies to store session information, to help you sign up for our Services, to protect your data, and to provide users with a customized Service through identifying unique visitors and their respective usage patterns. Cookies are identifiers (miniature text files) that can be saved temporarily or permanently on a User’s hard drive by the server. Cookies guarantee the consistency of each communication process. Temporary cookies can be used to identify which visits are all part of a single session. Permanent cookies are for pre-recognizing a user, for instance, so that individual settings can be made. Users are free to decide whether to let their browser use cookies. All browser programs allow cookies to be deactivated or deleted. When we use cookies no personally identifiable information will be collected.

All information, whether on data processors on our premises or on servers acting on our behalf, remains in our complete control at all times.

Comments: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.Login: If you have an account and you log in to this Website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.Editing or Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Keep Your Personal Information Up to Date

You will be able to update your account information that you submitted to us at any time. Please change or delete your information that becomes obsolete.

Security

We employ technical and organizational measures including a two-step verification process, password and physical security measures in order to safeguard the Service against loss, theft, misuse, destruction, access, alteration, or the disclosure of your data by unauthorized persons. Despite regular controls, complete protection against all dangers is not possible. Access to your account is possible only after entering your personal password. You should always treat your access information confidentially and close the browser window once you have ended your communication with us, particularly if you share the use of the computer with others. We cannot warrant security for data transmitted to our Service because, unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Local Genius is based in Nevada. The information we collect is governed by the applicable Nevada and US law. If you have any queries about the security of our Service, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time at

[email protected].

How We Store Your Data

We will store all Personal Data you submitted directly to us in our database. All Personal Data will be handled by our website and company in strict confidence according to legal provisions.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile indefinitely. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, if the changes are significant, we will provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our Website). To better protect your privacy you may review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Service to stay informed about our information practices.

Contact

For further information, please write to us at:

[email protected]

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