Last Updated on April 1st, 2009
This privacy policy applies to all of the products, services and
websites related to Bliquo, as well as their respective applications
and interfaces for mobile devices (collectively, the "Service"), but
not does apply to any third party sites that may be linked to them, or
any relationships you may have with the businesses listed on the
Service.
The terms "we", "us", and "Bliquo" refer to the legal entity behind
Bliquo.com: ExperienceOn Ventures S.L. The terms "you" and "your" refer
to you, as a user of the Service. The term "personal information" means
information that you provide to us which allows you to be contacted or
identified, such as your name, phone number, email address, and any
other data that is tied to such information.
BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS
PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU SHOULD NOT
USE THE SERVICE.
I. Information We Collect and How We Use It
We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the collection of
personal information is limited to that which is necessary to fulfill
the purposes identified below. If we use your information in a manner
different than the purpose for which it is collected, then we will ask
you for your consent prior to such use.
When engaging with any service of Bliquo, and especially if you decide
to register as a user of the Service, you provide Bliquo with two types
of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose
that is collected by us, and usage information collected by us as you
interact with our Services.
Account information. If you create an account to take advantage
of the full range of services offered by Bliquo.com, we ask for and
record personal information such as your name, email address, account
password, gender, address or home town, date of birth and any other
personal or preference information that you provide to us. We may use
your email address to send you updates and news, as well as contact you
on behalf of other users (such as other users who send you compliments,
personal messages, or share with you their lists, ratings, bookmarks
and reviews posted within the Service). For certain services, we may
give you the opportunity to opt out these notifications (in order for
you not to receive notifications or e-mail of this type). For certain
services, including but not limited to advertising programs and online
reservations, we may also request credit card or other payment account
information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.
Bliquo may in the future also combine the information you submit under
your account with information from other Bliquo services, affiliated or
third party services, in order to provide you with a better experience
and to improve the quality of our services. If you provided personal
information from a third party shall, previous, to its inclusion been
informed and obtain their consent according with this Privacy Policy
and the Terms of use of the web Bliquo.
Submissions. We store and may publicly display your submissions
in order to provide the services that we offer. When we display your
submissions, we do so together with your account name. The term
"submissions" refers to the information that you submit or post to the
Service for public display, such as your business ratings, lists,
reviews, photos, and the information that you display as part of your
account profile.
Feedback. If you contact us to provide feedback, register a
complaint, or ask a question, we will record any personal information
and other content that you provide in your communication so that we can
effectively respond to your communication.
User Communication. In order to allow you to share with others
your business ratings, lists, or to communicate with other users of the
Service, or to send and receive current status, recent activities or
personal messages to other registered users of the Service, we do
record the actions that you perform using the Service. In case you
choose to also connect with your friends using Facebook Connect, we
also store & retrieve information in accordance with the Terms of
Use and Privacy Policy of Facebook Connect, to which you must then, in
addition to Bliquo´s Privacy Statement & Terms of Service, also
comply. By doing so, you agree to and authorize Bliquo.com´s Service to
post, broadcast or display certain actions (including but not limited
to ratings, lists, reviews, current status or status updates) over
third party communication channels and/or web sites, such as the
Facebook web site. The Facebook Terms of Use and Privacy Policy can be
found at http://www.facebook.com/terms.php and http://www.facebook.com/policy.php .
Activity. We record information relating to your use of the
Service, such as the searches you undertake, the pages you view, your
browser type, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp
information. We use this type of information to administer the Service
and provide the highest possible level of service to you. We also use
this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of
user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and
use of the various areas of the Service. In addition, we may also use
this information to develop new services, ensuring technical quality of
service, and improve the display of customized content and advertising.
You cannot be identified from this aggregate information. Bliquo may
process personal information on our servers, located in a country
outside your own country. In some cases, we may process personal
information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third
party, such as our advertising partners.
Cookies. We send cookies to your computer in order to uniquely
indentify your browser and improve the quality of our service. The term
"cookies" refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to
your computer's hard drive while you are viewing the web site or other
service. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close
your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until
you delete them). Persistent cookies can be removed by following your
browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some
areas of the Service may not display properly, or the service may not
work at all.
Enforcement. We may use the information we collect in connection
with your use of the Service (including your personal information) in
order to investigate, enforce, and apply our Terms of Service and
Privacy Policy.
II. Transfer of Information
We may distribute your submissions to third parties, as permitted
pursuant to our Terms of Service. The third parties may in turn
publicly display or publish your submissions in connection with their
own websites and media platforms. When we distribute your submissions
to third parties, we typically include your account name (but not your
personal information unless you include it within your submissions).
We may share your personal information with third parties to provide
you with services that we offer through the Service, conduct quality
assurance testing, facilitate creation of accounts, provide technical
and customer support, or provide specific services, such as
synchronization of your contacts with other software applications, in
accordance with your instructions. These third parties are required not
to use your personal information other than to provide the services
requested by you.
We may share your personal information with our parent company,
subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control
(collectively, "Affiliates") that we may have now or in the future, in
which case we will require them to honour this Privacy Policy. Bliquo
may also come to offer some of our services in connection with other
services, websites and/or business partners. Personal information that
you provide to those sites may be send to Bliquo in order to deliver
the service. We process such information in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy policy
and practices, and we encourage you to read their privacy policy. If
another company acquires our company or our assets, that company will
possess your personal information, and will assume the rights and
obligations with respect to that information as described in this
Privacy Policy.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good
faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) take
action regarding suspected illegal activities; (b) enforce or apply our
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy; (c) comply with legal process,
such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (d)
protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users,
affiliates, or the public. Please note that we are not required to
question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or
other similar governmental request that we receive.
We may disclose information in the aggregate to third parties relating
to user behavior in connection with actual or prospective business
relationship with those third parties, such as advertisers and content
distributors. For example, we may disclose aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of users that have been exposed to, or
clicked on, advertising banners, offerings or made online reservations
through the Service.
We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads when you
visit the Service. These companies may use information (not including
your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your
visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements
about goods, services and offerings of interest to you. We do not share
sensitive, personal information with such third parties, and such
information that we may share does not identify you individually.
III. Invitation of Others
You may choose to provide us with another person's e-mail address to
invite the person to use the Service. We use this information to
contact and, if necessary, remind that person about the invitation. By
providing us with another person's e-mail address, you represent to us
that you have obtained the consent of the person to share his or her
e-mail address with us. We may disclose such information if required to
do so in order to comply with legal process, as described above.
IV. Links
The Service may contain links to third party websites to which we have
no affiliation. Except as set forth herein, we do not share your
personal information with those third parties, and are not responsible
for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy policies
on all such third party websites.
Bliquo may within and across our services present links in a format
that enables us to keep track of whether these links has been followed.
We use this information to improve the quality of our search
technology, customize content and advertising.
V. Controlling Your Personal Data
To the extent you include personal information within your submissions
(such as a photo of yourself), third parties may be able to identify
you, associate you with your user account, and contact you. Third
parties can also associate you with your user account using the social
features on the Service, but only if the third party already knows your
name and you include information in your submissions that allow the
third party to distinguish you from other users who might share the
same full name. Please do not include information in your submissions
that you expect to keep private.
As a registered Bliquo user, you can modify some of your personal
information and your privacy preferences by accessing, for example, the
"My account" section of the Going Out Application. Furthermore, you may
choose to disable the Facebook Connect and thus no longer be able to
communicate lists, ratings, reviews with your facebook friends.
Registered users who wish to close their account should provide Bliquo
with a notice of termination: accounts@bliquo.com. If you close your
account, we may still retain your personal information in our systems
ir order to fulfill with our legal obligations. After, we will
erase your data.
You may exercise the rights of access, rectification, erasure and
object by mail to our address specified in the first part of this
document or by our support email accompanying copy of a document that
identifies you.
VI. Security
Your account is password protected. We use industry standard measures
to protect the personal information that is stored in our database. We
limit the access to your personal information to those employees and
contractors who need access to perform their job function, such as our
customer service personnel. If you have any questions about the
security of the Service, please contact us. Although we take
appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of
information, we cannot assure you that your personal information will
never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy
Policy.
You hereby acknowledge that Bliquo is not responsible for any
intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release
us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of
intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
VII. Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will post any new
versions on this page. We will not reduce your rights under this
Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect that most
changes will be minor. However, in case we make any material changes in
the way we use your personal information, we will provide a prominent
notice (including, for certain services, e-mail notification to the
last e-mail address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting
notice of the changes on our website). Any changes will be effective
immediately for all users of the Service. Please note that at all times
you are responsible for updating your personal information to provide
us with your most current e-mail address. In the event that the last
e-mail you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not
capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch
of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute
effective notice of the changes described in the notice. In any event,
changes to this Privacy Policy may affect our use of personal
information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of
the changes. Continued use of the Site following notice of such changes
shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be
bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy
Policy, please feel free to contact us at anytime through
support@bliquo.com.
VIII. Enforcement
Bliquo will review its compliance with this Privacy Policy regularily.
If you believe that Bliquo has not adhered to this Privacy Policy you
may write to support@bliquo.com. In your correspondence, please
describe in as much detail as possible ways in which you believe the
Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your
complaint promptly.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the privacy
practices of this website, or if you want to exercise any of the rights
that you are given under this Privacy Policy, you can contact us using
the contact information listed above.
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