Privacy Policy
At Get Your Funk On ("Get Your Funk On" or "we" or "us" or "our"), we appreciate your use of and contributions to our Web sites (defined to include all properties (mobile, web or otherwise) owned and operated by Get Your Funk On) and features (known as the "services"). Get Your Funk On respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This is our privacy policy and we will comply with it, as well as applicable U.S. privacy law, when we gather and use information from users of our services. We encourage you to read this privacy policy to understand what we do with the information we collect from you.
Advertising-Supported Business Model
The Get Your Funk On Web sites and our extensive set of features are generally funded through advertising dollars. This advertising revenue helps keep Get Your Funk On free of charge for our user community. It also allows us to explore and build new features.
We strive to make advertisements relevant and useful to you. Therefore, we may serve advertisements to you based on the information we collect from you or in relation to your interaction on our site.
We pledge to be transparent about the information we monitor and collect from you. We keep information private between you and Get Your Funk On, except as explained below.
Collection of Information
When you use Get Your Funk On, we collect a variety of information.
- Information you provide. When using our Web sites and services, you may provide information about yourself, such as name, address, and e-mail. This may occur when you register on Get Your Funk On, claim a home, or complete other forms, such as a loan request. We may combine this information with other information we collect from your activity on our Web sites or from other companies.
- Cookies. Cookies are bits of electronic information that can be transferred to a computer to uniquely identify that computer's browser. When you visit our Web sites and use our services, we may place one or more cookies on your computer. The use of cookies helps us improve the quality of our services to you, by identifying information which is most interesting to you, tracking trends, or storing information you may want to retrieve on a regular basis, such as your favorite bands and venues. At any time, you may adjust settings on your browser to refuse cookies. However, if you choose to disable cookies, many of the free features and services on Get Your Funk On will not operate properly.
- Third-party cookies. We work with service providers and advertising networks to track and manage cookie information and your activities while you're on Get Your Funk On or using our services. You may opt-out of cookie tracking and analysis from any of these ad networks by Opting Out of Collection of Information, which is explained further below.
- Usage logs. When you use the services, your computer communicates a variety of information to computer servers, including the existence of cookies, your Internet Protocol address, and information about your browser program. We also create a record of what information you are requesting, such as the page or subject areas you're visiting.
- Calls. Calls to Get Your Funk On or to third parties through Get Your Funk On may be recorded or monitored for quality assurance and customer service purposes. If a call is recorded between you and a third party, it will be deemed private information of both you and the third party, and may be released to either of you.
Usage and Disclosure
In general, Get Your Funk On uses the information collected from you to communicate with you and operate our features and services. Get Your Funk On also uses this information to present you with advertising that we believe will be of interest or useful to you.
Your privacy is important and we are committed to protecting information that identifies you personally, where you have chosen to keep it private. We will only share personal information that you provide outside the public areas of our services in the following circumstances:
- Consent. When you consent or direct Get Your Funk On to share the information. For example, if you choose to contact a real estate agent or lender through Get Your Funk On, your name and e-mail address will appear to the recipient of the message.
- Service providers to Get Your Funk On. When Get Your Funk On hires a service provider to help operate the services or our business, Get Your Funk On may give access to personal data only as necessary to perform the service for Get Your Funk On, and subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
- Legal obligation or protection from harm. When Get Your Funk On has a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the personal information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, or (d) protect the rights, property, or safety of Get Your Funk On, its users, or the public against harm.
- Merger or sale. If and when Get Your Funk On is involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its business, personal information may be transferred along with the business
When you provide public information without identifying yourself, we will protect your personal identity as described above. If your account profile does not identify you personally, Get Your Funk On won't reveal your identity to third parties except in accordance with this policy.
When we deliver ads based on data about your use of the services, we keep your identity anonymous. We won't identify you personally to third parties, except in accordance with this privacy policy. Of course, if you choose to respond to an advertised offer with your name and contact information, you will no longer be anonymous to the advertiser.
Some Things are Not Covered
This privacy policy will not apply to the following:
- Public posting. You should keep in mind that the information that you choose to provide in a public area of the services (such as performances or your profile page) will not be protected by this privacy policy because you have made an active choice to make that information public.
- Aggregated non-personal information and other information without personal identification. While we do not share your personal information with third parties unless permitted above, Get Your Funk On may share aggregate anonymous information with third-parties. This information does not personally identify individuals, but instead provides a helpful understanding of the groups of people who prefer certain types of information and services.
E-mail Management
You may receive e-mail from Get Your Funk On for a variety of reasons - for example, if you took an action on the Get Your Funk On Web sites, you signed up for a regular report, or you posted your home for sale and a buyer sent you a message. We respect your desire to manage e-mail correspondence. If you have an account with Get Your Funk On, you can select your preferences through your account tools. Also, you can manage your receipt of some types of communication by following the instructions included in the e-mail we send you.
Opting Out of Collection of Information
Get Your Funk On, its third-party ad network providers, and third-party advertisers (the "Get Your Funk On Ad Providers") may provide you with advertisements that you may see on the services or on other affiliated Web sites. To improve the relevancy and help measure the effectiveness of such advertisements, the Get Your Funk On Ad Providers may use cookies, clear .gifs or similar technologies. These are used to record users' online activity, such as the pages visited, and to learn what types of information are of most interest to the users.
Get Your Funk On marketing service provider. If you do not want Get Your Funk On and its marketing service provider to follow your usage of our services via cookies, you can opt-out of by discontinuing use of the Get Your Funk on services.
Opting out of these services does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the service from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your Web preferences and usage patterns.
Location Data
Get Your Funk On can provide you with helpful information based on where you are. If you tell Get Your Funk On where you are (eg., by allowing your mobile device to send Get Your Funk On your location), Get Your Funk On may use that information to provide you with location-based information and advertising. If you wish to deactivate this feature, you can disable location services on your mobile device.
Throughout the services, we may link to the Web sites of other companies and/or individuals. Further, certain functionalities on Get Your Funk On may involve the distribution of your listing information to third-party Web Sites. These third-party Web sites may collect personal information about users on those Web sites, and Get Your Funk On's privacy policy does not extend to these external Web sites and third parties. Please refer directly to these third parties and Web sites regarding their privacy policies.
Children Under the Age of 13
Get Your Funk On will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any person under the age of 13. Our services are not designed to attract the attention of persons under the age of 13.
Storage and Security of Information
Personal information will be processed and stored by Get Your Funk On in databases hosted in the United States. Get Your Funk On has taken reasonable steps to protect the information users share with us, including, but not limited to, setup of processes, equipment and software to avoid unauthorized access or disclosure of this information.
Contacting Get Your Funk On
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the privacy practices of Get Your Funk On, please e-mail us at gyrfo@proomnibus.com.
Please note that this policy may be amended from time to time. You should check back for the most current version before relying on any of the provisions in this privacy policy.