Privacy Policy
Peopleuncover, Inc. (“Peopleuncover”) provides the website Peopleuncover.com to
you (“You” or “Your”) subject to this Privacy policy and its other policies.
This Privacy Policy describes the way in which Peopleuncover
collects, uses, or shares any information You provide to Peopleuncover.com or
information about Your use of Peopleuncover.com (“Personal Information”).
Peopleuncover may change this Privacy Policy at
any time. By continuing to access or use Peopleuncover.com, You accept any
changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY DO NOT USE PEOPLEUNCOVER.COM
1. Information Available Through Peopleuncover.com People Search
a) Peopleuncover collects publicly available
information for the purpose of making it available to individuals, businesses,
and government agencies that use Peopleuncover’s products and services,
including the Peopleuncover.com people search. Peopleuncover aggregates the
following eight categories of publicly available information:
(i) Consumer Indexes - Records of consumer
profiles detailing age, name, address and other demographic details drawn from
marketing databases;
(ii) Phone Directories - Phone numbers drawn
from white pages telephone directories;
(iii) Email Databases - Email addresses linked
to marketing demographic data;
(iv) Property Records - Public property records
from government offices around the country, including real estate deeds and
assessor records;
(v) Social Networks - Public social profiles
drawn from social networks;
(vi) Court Records - Public criminal records
from government offices across the U.S. Contains arrest and most wanted
warrants, driving violations, sex offender data and fugitive records;
(vii) Business Directories - Business listings
pulled from the yellow pages telephone directories and other business
directories. These listings include name, title, business address, website and
email; and
(viii) Vital Statistics - Public records about
life events documented by the government, including birth certificates,
marriage licenses and death certificates.
(collectively the “Public Information”).
b) Peopleuncover does not verify and cannot
guarantee the accuracy of this Public Information.
c) The Peopleuncover Terms of user prohibit
users of Peopleuncover’s products and services from reselling the Public
Information disclosed to them through Peopleuncover’s products and services.
d) Personal Information, such as information
that You provide to Peopleuncover.com or information about Your use of Peopleuncover.com
as further described in Section 2 below, is not part of the Public Information
available to users through the Peopleuncover.com people search.
e) To request that Public Information about You
be removed from public listings on Peopleuncover.com, please Contact us at info@peopleuncover.com .
This process is only intended to remove listings available to the general
public on Peopleuncover.com and cannot remove the information from the
third-party public sources, such as phone books, social networks, or government
records. Peopleuncover does not allow individuals to opt-out (i.e. suppress
display) of court records which pertain to them, unless an Order of Expunction
or Sealing is provided. You may email a copy of any such Order to expungement@peopleuncover.com.
Peopleuncover will only suppress or delete only those records specifically
noted in the Order. A conviction may be expunged, but unless the Order also
specifies expungement of the associated arrest record, it will remain on Peopleuncover’s
systems.
2. Personal Information Peopleuncover Collects
Peopleuncover collects the following categories
of Personal Information:
i) Usage Information. Peopleuncover collects
information about Your use of Peopleuncover.com. This may include the pages You
visit, the links You hover over and click on, and the items You purchase. Peopleuncover
also collects data about Your device such as IP address, mobile phone number,
device identifiers, and data about the network, operating system, or software
You use to connect to Peopleuncover’s products and services.
ii) Information From Cookies. Peopleuncover.com
uses cookies, or small text files stored on Your computer, to store data about
Your visits
iii) Account Information. Peopleuncover collects
information that You provide in creating an account at Peopleuncover.com. This
may include information such as Your name, email address, or phone number and
payment data. Peopleuncover also collects passwords and similar security
information used for authentication and account access.
iv) Search History. Peopleuncover retains a history
of the searches You conduct on Peopleuncover’s products.
v) Submissions, Posts, and Uploads. Peopleuncover
collects information from You when You provide, post, or upload it to Peopleuncover,
such as when you fill out a form, (e.g., a request to contact You) or respond
to a survey. If You opt to import Your call log or address book, Peopleuncover
receives Your call log or contacts. Certain features of Peopleuncover’s
products permit You to enter personal information to access Your accounts with
third-party websites. In some instances, this information is not stored by Peopleuncover.
For example, You may choose to provide Your email account login credentials to
import Your address book contacts into Peopleuncover.com. Your email account
login credentials will only be used for the one-time address book import and
will not be stored.
vi) Manually Imported Contact Information. Peopleuncover
collects contact information about You when others import or sync their
contacts with Peopleuncover products.
vii) Manually Entered Login Credentials. Certain
features of Peopleuncover.com must store Your login credentials for other
websites or services to function. For example, You may choose to provide Your
third-party login credentials to syndicate private content from third-party
social networks and websites. Under these circumstances, Your third-party login
credentials will be stored only so long as You continue to enable private
content syndication from these third-party social networks and websites. Should
You terminate Your use of the syndication tool, this information will be
deleted within a reasonable period of time following the termination. Your
third-party login credentials are hashed and stored with the strictest security
standards.
viii) Location Information. When You enable
location-based features of Peopleuncover products, Peopleuncover may collect
location data, such as GPS coordinates. Peopleuncover may also collect location
data derived from Your IP address.
3. Use and Sharing of Personal Information
a) Peopleuncover may use Personal Information
You provide to Peopleuncover.com to create and maintain Your account, to
personalize Your experience, and to send periodic email communications relating
to Peopleuncover’s services, such as purchase receipts, account confirmations,
and customer care correspondence, including emails to customers who have
abandoned the account setup experience and about searches You have previously
performed. Peopleuncover may use Your search history to provide You updates or
notifications on the subjects of Your searches, to suggest other search
subjects that may be of interest to You, and to otherwise enhance Your
experience in using Peopleuncover’s products. Peopleuncover may also use Your
search history and other Personal Information to improve Peopleuncover’s
products and services. If You have made or attempted a purchase on Peopleuncover.com
or accepted a trial of any of Peopleuncover’s premium subscriptions, You will
be deemed to have opted-in to receive promotional emails from Peopleuncover,
and Peopleuncover may use Your Personal Information to send You search tips,
promotions, and information about new products Peopleuncover thinks may be of
interest to You.
b) Peopleuncover uses certain trusted third
parties to help us provide, improve, protect, and promote the services offered
on Peopleuncover.com. Peopleuncover shares Personal Information with these
third parties. These third parties will access Your information only to perform
tasks on Peopleuncover’s behalf and in compliance with this Privacy Policy. For
example, Peopleuncover provides payment data that You provide to certain
payment processors, solely to effect the sale of products or subscriptions that
You have requested, and provides other Personal Information to third party
services for purposes such as delivering email communications, providing
customer support, and preventing fraudulent transactions. Peopleuncover may also
use a third party service provider to facilitate upload of Your contacts from
Your contact management providers, using the OAuth standard whenever possible
(If Your contact management providers support the OAuth standard, use of the
OAuth standard does not require Peopleuncover or its third-party service
provider to have access to, and Peopleuncover and its third-party service
provider, will not in fact have access to, the passwords that You established
with Your contact management providers). Peopleuncover uses the Google Maps
API(s), which is subject to the Google Privacy Policy.
c) Peopleuncover may share IP addresses used to
access Peopleuncover.com with designated third parties for the sole purpose of
preventing and detecting fraud. Peopleuncover may also use services and
technologies provided by other companies to assist Peopleuncover in
understanding how You use Peopleuncover.com. As a result, information about how
You use Peopleuncover.com may be available to these other companies to the
extent that their technology collects such information for Peopleuncover’s use
or for purposes of delivering relevant online or mobile advertising to
You.
d) Peopleuncover reserves the right to disclose
Personal Information to third parties, without notice to You, if required to do
so by law, or if Peopleuncover has a good faith belief that disclosure is
necessary to (1) comply with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend
Peopleuncover’s rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect
someone’s safety.
e) Peopleuncover reserves the right to transfer
Personal Information to any successor in interest to the Peopleuncover
business.
f) Peopleuncover (either directly or via its
third party partners) collects anonymized session and anonymized click-tracking
data regardless of a computer's Do-Not-Track signal.
g) Peopleuncover may provide Your search query
to third party data vendors in order to fulfill requests You make for certain
kinds of reports.
4. Children’s Privacy
a) Peopleuncover.com is directed to people who
are at least 18 years old, and Peopleuncover does not knowingly collect
Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are aware that Peopleuncover
has collected Personal Information from someone under the age of 18, please
alert Peopleuncover at CustomerCare@peopleuncover.com and the information will
be removed from Peopleuncover’s systems as soon as is reasonably possible. This
policy regarding collection of data from children exceeds the requirements of
the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
b) Peopleuncover does not knowingly aggregate or
provide Public Information about people under the age of 18. Peopleuncover’s
email search may return Public Information about children between the ages of
13 and 18 because this Public Information originates from third-party social
networking sites and websites that permit children who are 13 years and older
to create public profiles.
5. Contacting Peopleuncover
If You have any questions regarding this Privacy
Policy, please contact us by email at info@peopleuncover.com
6. California Privacy Disclosure
a) This Privacy Policy describes Peopleuncover’s
handling of personally identifiable information as required by the California
Online Privacy Protection Act and personal information under the California
Consumer Privacy Act. California residents have the additional rights described
in this section.
b) Right to Know Public Information – You have
the right to request that Peopleuncover disclose what Public Information it
collects, uses, discloses, and/or sells. To make a Right-to-Know request
related to Public InformationCalifornia law excludes information from federal,
state, and local government agencies from the scope of Right-to-Know requests.
You will be required to submit information about Yourself in order for Peopleuncover
to perform a search of its database to locate the Public Information it has
collected about You. Your search must sufficiently match the Public Information
in Peopleuncover’s database in order for Peopleuncover to verify Your request.
An authorized agent may make a request on Your behalf. No additional proof will
be required from an authorized agent.
c) Right to Know and Request Deletion of
Personal Information – You have the right to request that Peopleuncover
disclose what Personal Information it collects, uses, and discloses. Peopleuncover
does not sell, exchange, transfer, or give Personal Information to any other
party. You also have the right to request that Peopleuncover delete the
Personal Information it has collected. To make a Right-to-Know request related
to Personal Information and/or make a deletion request.. You will be required
to log-in to Your Peopleuncover account or provide sufficient matching
information in order for Peopleuncover to verify Your request. Peopleuncover
cannot delete Personal Information that it is under a legal obligation to
maintain. An authorized agent may make a request on Your behalf. No additional
proof will be required from an authorized agent, except that, for Your protection,
we will only disclose the categories of Personal Information collected to
authorized agents that make requests through Peopleuncover’s toll free number.
d) Right to Opt-Out Public Information – Peopleuncover
does not sell Your Personal Information. However, You have the right to opt-out
of the sale of Public Information. To make an opt-out request related to Public
Informationplease contact us at info@peopleuncover.com You can also call Peopleuncover
to make an Opt-Out request related to Public Information. While Peopleuncover will
not sell Your Public Information that has been opted-out, Peopleuncover
reserves the right to disclose Public Information to third parties, without
notice to You, if required to do so by law, or if Peopleuncover has a good
faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with legal process
served on Peopleuncover; (2) protect and defend Peopleuncover’s rights or
property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone’s safety. Peopleuncover
also reserves the right to transfer Public Information to any successor in
interest to the Peopleuncover business.
e) Peopleuncover will not discriminate against
You for exercising Your rights under this section of this Privacy Policy.
7. Specific Clauses for EU Data Subjects
The following applies only if You are in the
European Economic Area or Switzerland (collectively the “EU”):
a) The following clauses only apply to Personal
Information You provide to Peopleuncover.com. To request that Public
Information about You be removed from public listings on Peopleuncover.com,
please contact us at info@peopleuncover.com This page also contains
information about sending written requests for removal of public listings.
b) Peopleuncover relies upon the following
lawful grounds to collect and use Your Personal Information:
(i) It is necessary for the performance of a
contract.
(ii) Peopleuncover’s or a third party’s
legitimate interests, including but not limited to, identity verification and
fraud prevention.
(iii) Your consent.
c) You may use Your account to access, correct,
or change any Personal Information that You have provided to us or that is
associated with Your account. You may also email info@peopleuncover.com to
request access to, transfer of, and rectification or erasure of Your Personal
Information, or restriction of processing, or to object to processing. You will
need to specify the nature of Your request and the information that is subject
to Your request. Peopleuncover may require You to submit additional information
necessary to verify Your identity and status as an EU data subject. Peopleuncover
will respond to Your request within 30 days.
d) If Peopleuncover is processing Your Personal
Information based upon the lawful ground of Your consent, You have the right to
withdraw Your consent for such processing at any time without affecting the
lawfulness of the processing based on consent before it is withdrawn. To
withdraw consent, email info@peopleuncover.com.
e) If You are an EU data subject and have
inquiries about Your Personal Information, please contact Peopleuncover’s Data
Protection Officer at info@peopleuncover.com.