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Last updated on October 1, 2008.
Privacy Policy
LayoverLink recognizes that your privacy is important. This policy applies to all LayoverLink websites, which currently includes the following domains:
Use of this site and application of this policy is subject to our Terms of Use Policy. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please feel free to contact us at privacy@layoverlink.com.
About LayoverLink
LayoverLink is a social networking service that is designed primarily for airport travelers to locate other airport travelers. Based on profile settings, users of our site can find known acquaintances at airports, as well as initiate contact with fellow travelers who share similar profiles, such as professional association membership, same employer or alma mater, etc.
LayoverLink strives to provide the best services possible to its users, including a simple interface and relevant matching. In order to provide the best service possible to our users, LayoverLink only allows registered users who are 18 years of age and older.
A message to our users
When browsing our website and utilizing our services, exercise common sense, and know that you are posting information on the world wide web. Although the best efforts are made to protect the information posted on our website, it can be accessed by other users, and you are allowed to grant others permission to view information that you post on our website, including photos, blogs, and profile information.
In following with our Terms of Use Policy, we reserve the right to filter content posted on our site that we deem to be inappropriate, but we do not actively police the content that users post on our site. We are not responsible for personally identifiable information that you choose to share in forums, messages, blogs, photos, or other areas on our website.
Age restrictions
To protect minors and offer the best overall experience to our users, LayoverLink only allows users to register who are 18 years of age and older. If we learn of any violations of this policy, we will terminate the violators' accounts immediately.
Information that we collect
When using our website, we collect certain types of information to enhance your web browsing experience. The information that we collect is provided to us from our visitors, either via HTTP headers containing data about your visit to our site, or via forms completed on our website. We collect and store the following types of information:
Personal Information
LayoverLink collects personally identifiable information from our users at several points throughout our site. When registering for an account, you provide us with information about yourself, such as your name, contact information, contact preferences, and affiliations. In order to most effectively use our website, you also provide us with information related to your travels - specifically, exactly when you will be at a particular airport. This information is used to help offer social networking possibilities to you, based upon previous information that you have provided to us.
Email Communications
We allow our users and site visitors to contact us via email using our website. These email communications are used to respond to your requests and to help improve our online services. These messages are retained until it is deemed by LayoverLink that they are no longer needed.
Communications from LayoverLink
From time to time, LayoverLink sends messages to registered users and others who are on our mailing list, including enhancements to our services, offers from our partners, and changes to our policies. Messages are only sent to you using the preferred communication channels that you have indicated in your profile settings. By default, general communications to you are turned off in an effort to best respect your privacy.
Information sharing and disclosure
LayoverLink shares aggregated information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. However, this information does not identify individual users or the practices of individual users. We share this data in order to provide relevant services, offers, and advertisements to our users via this website.
We do not share any of the personally identifiable information collected from this website with others unless (a) we have your consent; (b) we have a good faith belief that information must be disclosed to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, or legal process.; or (c) we must use it to protect our legal rights or property. Employees or contracted affiliates of LayoverLink may only access your personally identifiable information for business purposes and under no circumstances, except as listed above, may such individuals disclose this information with other third parties. Our information sharing policy does not apply to information that you decide to share using our website, including but not limited to photos, blogs, and messages that contain personally identifiable information. This shared information, in many cases, is available to other users, registered or otherwise, to view and browse, so be mindful of what you are posting and who can view it.
Choice / opt-out
LayoverLink gives users the opportunity to create accounts in order to locate friends and fellow travelers at airports. During the account creation process, you provide us with information about yourself, including your name, email address, and date of birth. After your account has been created, you control which additional information you provide to us and how we may communicate with you. This includes profile information, blogs, messages to LayoverLink users, photos, and any other information transmitted through this website.
If you no longer wish to receive communications from LayoverLink, you may opt-out by changing your communication preferences in your user profile settings. Similarly, if you would like to cancel your user account completely, you may do so by changing the settings in your account. If you cancel your account, LayoverLink may retain any information previously supplied to us, from this website, via email, or otherwise provided. If you are not a registered user and would like to be removed from our mailing list, please send an email requesting to be removed from our mailing list to privacy@layoverlink.com. Requests are processed in the order that they are received.
Log files
Our servers automatically log data about each visit to our website, including but not limited to your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, the web page requested, and the date and time of your visit. We review these logs to learn how our site is being used and how to better enhance your visit to our site.
Cookies
We use cookies to store information while you browse this website. Cookies are small data files stored on your computer that uniquely identify your web browser to our servers. We use cookies to store user-browsing preferences. We do not store personally identifiable or financial data in cookies. Most browsers are setup to accept cookies by default, but they can be configured to reject cookies as well. If cookies are disabled by your browser, this website will not function properly.
Third party advertisers may use cookies while presenting advertisements on our site. This privacy policy only covers the use of cookies by LayoverLink and does not cover the use of cookies by our advertisers or other third parties.
Third party advertisers
The advertisements appearing on this website are delivered by third party advertisers. This privacy policy applies only to LayoverLink and not our third party advertisers. LayoverLink does not transmit personally identifiable information to our advertisers or other third parties using our website.
For more information about our advertisers and their privacy policies, you may contact us at privacy@layoverlink.com.
Links to other sites
We may offer links to other sites, and other sites may link to us. We do not exercise any control over these sites or their privacy policies. Please be aware of the website that you are currently visiting. LayoverLink currently owns and operates the domains stated at the beginning of this privacy policy.
Business transitions
Should LayoverLink undergo a major business transition, it will likely involve a change of ownership or control of your personal information, which includes any information that you provide to us using this website. In such an event, all registered users will be notified using the preferred communication method associated with your account, and we will use this website for additional announcements and communications. If you have elected not to receive communications from us, please visit this website for information regarding changes to the organization.
Changes to this policy
Our privacy policy may change from time to time. Changes can be found by visiting this web page and can be identified by the date at the top of the page. All prior versions of this policy will be archived and available to you.
For any additional information regarding your privacy, contact us at privacy@layoverlink.com. |
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