Sharelst instantly connects people for
sharing list of their favorites things. Any registered
user can share a list, which is a message containing
information on a certain topic such as wines, places, books, movies etc., that
is public by default and can include other content like photos, videos, and
links to other websites.
This Privacy Policy describes
how and when Sharelst collects, uses and shares your
information when you use our Services. Sharelst
receives your information through our websites, and in the future may share it by
SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, widgets, and ads (the
"Services"
or "Sharelst") and from
our partners and other third parties. For example, you send us information when
you use Sharelst from our website, post or receive emails,
or access Sharelst from an application. When using
any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, manipulation,
storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this
Privacy Policy. Irrespective of which country you reside in or supply
information from, you authorize Sharelst to use your
information in
If you have any questions or
comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Information Collection and Use
We collect and use your
information below to provide our Services and to measure and improve them over
time.
Information Collected Upon
Registration: When you create or reconfigure a Sharelst account, you provide some personal information,
such as your name, username, password, and email address. Some of this
information, for example, your name and username, is listed publicly on our
Services, including on your profile page and in search results. Some Services,
such as search, public user profiles and viewing lists, do not require
registration.
Additional Information: You
may provide us with profile information to make public, such as a short
biography, your location or a picture. You may provide information to customize
your account. We may use your contact information to send you information about
our Services or to market to you. You may use your account settings to
unsubscribe from notifications from Sharelst. We may
use your contact information to help others find your Sharelst
account, including through third-party services and client applications. Your
privacy settings control whether
others can find you by your email address. If you email us, we may keep your
message, email address and contact information to respond to your request. If
you connect your Sharelst account to your account on
another service in order to cross-post between Sharelst
and that service, the other service may send us your registration or profile
information on that service and other information that you authorize. This
information enables cross-posting, helps us improve the Services, and is
deleted from Sharelst within a few weeks of your
disconnecting from Sharelst your account on the other
service. Providing the additional information described in this section is
entirely optional.
Sharelst, Following, Collaborations and
other Public Information: Our Services are primarily
designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information
you provide us is information you are asking us to make public. This includes
not only the list you share and the metadata provided with the Sharelst, such as when you add an item to a list or create
a new list, but also the people you follow, the items you mark as favorites or
send to your Whishlst, and many other bits of
information that result from your use of the Services. Our default is almost
always to make the information you provide public for as long as you do not
delete it from Sharelst, but we generally give you
settings to make the information more private if you want. Your public
information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For instance, your public
user profile information and public Tweets may be searchable by search engines
and may be delivered via SMS and our API to a wide range of users
and services. When you share information
or content like photos, videos, and links via the Services, you should think
carefully about what you are making public.
Location Information: You
may choose to publish your location in your Sharelst
and in your Sharelst profile. You may also tell us
your location when you set your trend location on Sharelst.com or enable your
computer or mobile device to send us location information. We may use and store
information about your location to provide features of our Services, such as sharing
list with your location, and to improve and customize the Services, for
example, with more relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and
suggestions for people to follow.
Links: Sharelst may keep track of how you interact with
links across our Services, including our email notifications, third-party
services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other
means. We do this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant
advertising, and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how
many times a particular link was clicked on.
Cookies: Like
many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional
website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies
for many parts of our Services such as searching and looking at public user
profiles or lists. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your
computer's hard disk. Sharelst may use both session
cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our
Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on
our Services, and to customize and improve our Services. Most Internet browsers
automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by changing its
settings, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie
from the websites you visit. However, some Services may not function properly
if you disable cookies.
Log Data: Our
servers automatically record information ("Log Data")
created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as
your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages
visited, location, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, search
terms, and cookie information. We receive Log Data when you interact with our
Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services,
interact with our email notifications, use your Sharelst
account to authenticate to a third-party website or application, or visit a
third-party website that includes a Sharelst button
or widget. Sharelst uses Log Data to provide our
Services and to measure, customize, and improve them. If not already done
earlier, for example, as provided below for Widget Data, we will either delete
Log Data or remove any common account identifiers, such as your username, full
IP address, or email address, after 18 months.
Third-Parties: Sharelst uses a variety of third-party services
to help provide our Services, such as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and
to help us understand the use of our Services, such as Google Analytics. These
third-party service providers may collect information sent by your browser as
part of a web page request, such as cookies or your IP address. Third-party ad
partners may share information with us, like a browser cookie ID or
cryptographic hash of a common account identifier (such as an email address),
to help us measure ad quality and tailor ads. For example, this allows us to
display ads about things you may have already shown interest in.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not disclose your private personal
information except in the limited circumstances described here.
Your Consent: We
may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you
authorize a third-party web client or application to access your Sharelst account.
Service Providers: We
engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in
Law and Harm: Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Policy, we may preserve or disclose your
information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law,
regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address
fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Sharelst's
rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to
limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including
a government’s, request to disclose your information.
Business Transfers: In
the event that Sharelst is involved in a bankruptcy,
merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be
sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this Privacy
Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
Non-Private or Non-Personal
Information: We may share or disclose your
non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your
public user profile information, public Sharelsts,
the people you follow or that follow you, or the number of users who clicked on
a particular link (even if only one did).
If you are a registered user
of our Services, we provide you with account settings to access or modify the
personal information you provided to us and associated with your account.
You can also permanently
delete your Sharelst account. When your account is
deactivated, it is not viewable on Sharelst.com. For up to 30 days after
deactivation it is still possible to restore your account if it was
accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. After 30 days, we begin the process of
deleting your account from our systems, which can take up to a week.
Our Services are not directed
to persons under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with
personal information without your consent, please contact us. We do not
knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become
aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take
steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
We may revise this Privacy
Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern
our use of your information and will always be at Sharelst.com. If we make a
change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify
you via an email to the email address associated with your account. By
continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective,
you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Effective: May 1, 2014