LOCALNOODLES Privacy Notice
LOCALNOODLES, Inc. ("LOCALNOODLES") recognizes that its customers, visitors,
users, and others who use
www.LOCALNOODLES.com or other web sites owned or operated by
LOCALNOODLES (the "LOCALNOODLES Sites") (collectively or individually "Users")
value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information
regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the
LOCALNOODLES Sites. LOCALNOODLES provides this Privacy Notice to help you make
an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the LOCALNOODLES
Sites.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the
LOCALNOODLES Terms of Use. Your use of the LOCALNOODLES Sites and any
personal information you provide on the LOCALNOODLES Sites remains subject to
the terms of this Privacy Notice and our
Terms of Use.
Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of
Users onto the LOCALNOODLES Sites becomes published content and is not
considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.
The Information LOCALNOODLES Collects
User Provided Information:
You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and
email address) to LOCALNOODLES when choosing to participate in various
activities on the LOCALNOODLES Sites such as uploading videos, posting messages
in our forums or in the video comments section, entering contests or
sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or
subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.
Cookies Information:
When you visit the LOCALNOODLES Sites, we may send one or more cookies - a
small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your
computer that uniquely identifies your browser. LOCALNOODLES uses both session
cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close
your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent
visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web
browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears
after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all
cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of
the LOCALNOODLES Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept
cookies is disabled.
Log File Information:
When you use the LOCALNOODLES Sites, our servers automatically record certain
information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These
server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol
("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and
URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages
viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular
pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may
uniquely identify your browser.
Clear GIFs Information:
When you use the LOCALNOODLES Sites, we may employ "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web
Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users
anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we
may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which
emails are opened by recipients.
The Way LOCALNOODLES Uses Information
If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the
LOCALNOODLES Sites, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain,
and provide to you the features and functionality of the LOCALNOODLES Sites.
Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online
(on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile
page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you
upload videos or send messages through the LOCALNOODLES Sites and other Users
can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to
the LOCALNOODLES Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other
media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information
to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part
of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in
or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for
non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major
LOCALNOODLES Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain
non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data,
cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the
quality and design of the LOCALNOODLES Sites and to create new features,
promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing
User preferences and trends.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember
information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the
next time you visit the LOCALNOODLES Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized
content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing
campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors,
pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in
promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
When LOCALNOODLES Discloses Information
We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable
information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or
persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We
require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with
our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such
information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email
address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing
use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for
which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User
usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks,
etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage
patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or
functionality on the LOCALNOODLES Sites.
We may release personally identifiable information and/or
non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with local laws or
respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
LOCALNOODLES also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable
information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that LOCALNOODLES
believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our
Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and
defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist
government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our
web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of
LOCALNOODLES, our Users or others.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information
through the LOCALNOODLES Sites, in which case LOCALNOODLES may not be able to
provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal
profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your
account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to
the LOCALNOODLES Sites cannot be removed and remain subject to our
Terms of Use.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as
requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you
profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the
secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Please contact LOCALNOODLES with any questions or comments about this Privacy
Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out
choices using this contact form.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
LOCALNOODLES may allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad
networks, to serve advertisements within the LOCALNOODLES Sites. These
third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your
browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the LOCALNOODLES Sites.
They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use
other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the
effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising
content you see.
LOCALNOODLES does not provide any personally identifiable information to these
third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of
a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or
opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks LOCALNOODLES to show
an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or
audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels
of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server
may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to
reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the
LOCALNOODLES Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any
personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad
servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for
instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. LOCALNOODLES' privacy
policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other
advertisers or web sites.
Our Commitment To Data Security
LOCALNOODLES uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical
safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information.
We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to LOCALNOODLES and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your
transmission of information, LOCALNOODLES makes commercially reasonable efforts
to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a
guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or
destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial
safeguards.
If LOCALNOODLES learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to
notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps.
LOCALNOODLES may post a notice on the LOCALNOODLES Sites if a security breach
occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive
notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a
security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice)
you should notify us using this contact form.
Our Commitment To Childrens' Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that
reason, LOCALNOODLES does not knowingly collect or maintain personally
identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the
LOCALNOODLES Sites from persons under 16 years of age, and no part of our
website is directed to persons under 16.
Special Note to International Users
The LOCALNOODLES Sites are hosted in Hong Kong and are intended for and
directed to Users everywhere. If you are a User accessing the LOCALNOODLES
Sites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or
regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that
differ from Hong Kong laws, please be advised that through your continued use
of the LOCALNOODLES Sites, this Privacy Notice, and our
Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to Hong
Kong and you consent to that transfer.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that LOCALNOODLES is acquired by or merged with a third party
entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or
assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger,
acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles
affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your
personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by
the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any
changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner
described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal
information you provided. Your continued use of the LOCALNOODLES Sites
constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on
our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to
us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions
with respect to such information.
Date Last Modified:
This Privacy Notice was last modified April 26, 2007.
Contact Information:
Please contact LOCALNOODLES with any questions or comments about this Privacy
Notice.
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