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This privacy policy explains what information is collected when you use the Web sites, applications, content and services of kikichor.com and its affiliated properties (“Kikichor”), why this information is collected, and how we use it to improve your experience.
Kikichor is provided by Kikichor.com, a California Corporation and its affiliates (“we” or “us”). Your Kikichor information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you make purchases from us, when you register with us, when you set up profiles to share with others, when you interact with other users on Kikichor, or when you log in to Kikichor as a registered user and interact with Kikichor products and services. Your Kikichor information may include (a) registration-related information (such as name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address); (b) member profile about yourself that you can share with others; (c) a profile on your business or your profession that you desire to share with others, (d) transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, or a history of products purchased through us); (e) information about your visits to Kikichor or our other web sites, pages and services; (f) your responses to our offerings and advertisements; (g) information about the features or offerings you use from us; (h) your billing and shipping information; (i) customer service information; and (j) other information specifically related to your use of a particular Kikichor feature or offering. Your information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies such as publicly available information and other information that we may append or match to your information.
When you register with us, sign up for an application or service, become a member of a company profile or make recommendations on the service, we use certain information we collect from you (your name, business, and location of your business) to set up a profile on your behalf to share with others, and which information will be available by search to help you promote your business or profession. After you register with Kikichor, you may provide additional member information about yourself (member profile, company profile) and add company profile information about your business in the Profile area on Kikichor. Such member and company profiles could include, at your option, a description of your skills or products, experience, education and membership in organizations. Also in the Profile area, you can control what information you want to share with others. Please use https://www.kikichor.com/resources/faq/ to obtain information about Kikichor’s various features and services and the options you have to use those services.
We may offer you services to send invitations via Kikichor or email addresses if they are not Kikichor users in order to connect with others on Kikichor. The names and email addresses of people whom you invite will be used to send your invitations and reminders as well as to allow us to help expand your network. You understand and agree that when you send an invitation to connect to another user, that user will have access to your email address because it is displayed in the invitation. Your connections will also have access to your email address. You may not invite anyone you do not know and trust to connect with you.
By providing information to us for the purposes of creating your Kikichor account, interacting with Kikichor’s services and features, or adding any additional details to your profile, you understand and agree that we may process information about you and make information about you available to others. In addition, if you post any information about yourself on areas of Kikichor that are publicly accessible, such as message boards or forums, you understand and agree that such information will be available to others.
Google, Inc. supplies the mapping services on Kikichor. If you decide to use and interact with the mapping services, you agree that Google may collect information in accordance with its privacy policy located at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Your Kikichor information is used to operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by us; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of our products; to share information about you and your business; to communicate with other users and business contacts; and, to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest or relevance to you.
We may share Your Kikichor information with our service providers, affiliates, partners, agents or other parties whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you or to fulfill a transaction requested by you. Since Kikichor is design to help companies and business professionals network with others, Kikichor is designed so that certain information about you and your business is available to others on Kikichor and via search engines, including, your name, and location of your business, and to help you communicate with companies and business professionals. As we explain below, you can add, enhance, modify or delete what information is made available to others in the Profile area of Kikichor. Please use https://www.kikichor.com/resources/faq/ to learn about all of Kikichor’s services and offerings, and what options you have to take advantage of such services. We may use your Kikichor information to present offers to you on behalf of business partners and advertisers. We may use agents and contractors in order to help operate Kikichor and provide Kikichor services to you. Their use of information is limited to these purposes.
The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as a Kikichor user, may be accessed and disclosed in response: to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena), in other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user, that an emergency exists that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person, when necessary either to protect our property, or for us to render the service you have requested.
In the event that our ownership was to change as a result of a merger or acquisition by another company, your Kikichor information may be transferred. We will provide you notice prior to any such transfer of your Kikichor information.
In the Profile area on Kikichor, you have the following choices:
We and certain third party partners may place “cookies” on your Web browser when you visit our properties (including our websites and emails). Cookies are small pieces of information or text files that a website sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is stored in a file on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies make Web‑surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate and improve your use of Kikichor. Please note that you will not be able to access and use all of Kikichor’s features if you delete or refuse to accept cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set certain personalized preferences, and/or you may have difficulty completing transactions on Kikichor. Also, we, and certain third party companies under agreement with us, may deploy and read cookies, pixel tags, web beacons or similar technologies to collect and assemble non-personal, demographic, behavioral and technical information about the use of Kikichor from our users in order to group such users that share a common interest into general interest categories (collectively, “Audience Segment Cookies”). Such Audience Segment Cookies, which do not identify you personally, may be placed when you access Kikichor, share content from Kikichor, when advertisements are presented on Kikichor, and/or when you respond to advertisements or other offerings on Kikichor.
We and these third party companies may use such non-personally identifiable information in combination with your visits to Kikichor and other sites in order to present advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you, to measure the effectiveness of Kikichor and advertisements, and to help predict the characteristics and preferences of our audiences and the audiences of our third party companies. We may share certain information about you as a user that is not personally identified to you (such as user industry and position) with certain advertising network providers in order to help them deliver more relevant advertisements through their ad networks. The use of cookies by ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies.
Please click here to learn more about how cookies are used and to find out what choices you have to “opt out” of the targeted advertising delivered by these networks. Many of the advertising networks participate in the opt-out program offered by the Network Advertising Initiative. Please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising to learn more about such audience behavior advertising practices. As an additional step, these advertising companies may participate in one of the following self-regulatory programs for online behavioral advertising, with corresponding user opt-outs:
Our mobile applications may include location-based services. These services may include applications that can help you search and find businesses located near you. When you sign in and use our location-based services, we must periodically receive your location in order to provide our services to you. We may collect and process information about your actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers. By using our location-based services, you authorize us to locate your device and to record, compile and display your location. We may also collect and store certain information about our users, such as, users’ wireless mobile subscriber ISDN numbers and users’ network access identifier information. We may use third party providers to help operate our services. Google, Inc. provides our location-based mapping services. By using the location-based mapping services, you agree that Google may collect information when you use the maps as described in its privacy policy located at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, which Google may update from time-to-time. You may discontinue any location-based service by going to the location services settings on your device and turn off GPS and other settings that can locate your device.
Our applications may give you the ability to store your log-in credentials on a mobile device so that you can be logged-in automatically when your launch our services. You may deactivate the automatic feature by using the log-off feature on our applications. You understand that you are solely responsible if someone else obtains access to your mobile device if it is lost or stolen. You agree to notify your mobile carrier promptly to prevent unauthorized access to your device and your Kikichor profile. You may also notify us if you believe your profile has been compromised.
We make available a secure page for entering sensitive information, protected by industry-standard SSL encryption technology. This technology encrypts your information prior to transmitting it over the Internet.
We maintain the confidential information you provide us in a secure database. We further require credentials such as a user identification (e.g., email address) and password to limit access to registered accounts. Please keep in mind that while we have established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of you Kikichor information, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, in the event of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or our policies).
If you have further questions or concerns that have not been addressed in this statement, please send your inquiries to:
Kikichor.com Privacy Policy
2245 Railroad Avenue, Suite 100
Pittsburg, CA 94565
Please be sure to include your name, address and daytime phone number so we can contact you.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to our information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from us as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.