MeanFreePath LLC Privacy Policy

MeanFreePath LLC (“MeanFreePath”) knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting or using the MeanFreePath website, MeanFreePath’s services and applications, and any other linked pages, features, or content offered from time to time by MeanFreePath in connection therewith (collectively, the “Service”), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Highlights of our privacy policy:

For the most part, MeanFreePath requires a minimum amount of personally identifiable information to access the Service, except for correspondence related to Account support issues.
Your current GPS location is not displayed or broadcast, directly or indirectly, by the Service.

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers MeanFreePath’s treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that MeanFreePath gathers when you are accessing MeanFreePath’s Service. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that MeanFreePath does not own or control, or to individuals that MeanFreePath does not employ or manage. In addition, the Service contains links to outside sources, both ones we have added ourselves and ones that members have submitted. While we attempt to provide links only to those sites that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any web sites you visit.

Information Collection and Use:

Our primary goals in collecting and using information are to provide and improve the Service, to administer and assist you in administering your Account on the Service, and to provide you with a better experience with the Service. We store and process information in the United States.

Personal Information and Non-Personal Information

MeanFreePath may collect personal and non-personal information from you when you use the Service. Personal Information is information that specifically identifies an individual, including, but not limited to, an individual’s name, phone number, credit card or other billing information, email address and home address. Non-personal information is information that is not, on its own, personal information, such as an individual’s GPS location, but that may be considered part of an individual’s personal information if combined with other identifiers in a way that enables identification of an individual. Personal information does not include aggregate information, which is data we may collect about the characteristics and activities of users of the Service, from which any personal information has been removed. This Privacy Policy in no way limits or restricts our collection of aggregate information or of other non-personal information.

We may collect your personal information, including your email address, in connection with your creation of an Account. You can register for an Account via a MeanFreePath application. Certain components of your Personal Information, such as your username and other information, may always be publicly visible by other users on the Service, including when such users view your Account profile page. Your email address will not be publicly visible to other users on the Service. We encourage you to consider carefully what information to share as part of your Account profile and elsewhere in the Service, and we recommend that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information and not use your real name as your username, as that may allow other users of the Service to identify you. Any information you choose to share should reflect how much you want other users of the Service to know about you. You can review and revise your Account profile information at any time.

We may also request and collect Personal Information when you administer or personalize your Account after registration or otherwise interact with the Service. For example, we may collect Personal Information both when you enter promotions on or in connection with the Service as well as in connection with your transactions (such as, but not limited to, donations or the purchase of products) through the Service or with MeanFreePath’s advertisers. Such transaction-related information may include payment information, such as information regarding your account with an online payment service provider, and information about your use of products and services offered by our advertisers.

When you launch any of our applications, we collect information regarding your device type, operating system and version, carrier provider, IP address, whether you are using a point package, the game version, and unique device ID, and your current GPS location. In addition, we create a unique user ID to track your use of our Service.

We use your personal information (in some cases, in conjunction with non-personal information) mainly to provide the Service. We may combine your personal information with non-personal information and aggregate it with information collected from other users of the Service to attempt to provide you with a better experience, to improve the quality and value of the Service and to analyze and evaluate how the Service is used. We may also use the combined information without aggregating it to serve you specifically, for instance, by delivering products to you according to your preferences or restrictions.

We may share aggregate information with third parties with whom we have a strategic relationship. The information shared with these third parties may be used for industry analysis and demographic profiling.

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, or to assist us in analyzing how the Service is used. These third parties have access to Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and may not use Personal Information for any other purpose.

We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of MeanFreePath or any third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable.

Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. MeanFreePath cookies do not collect Personal Information, and we do not combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Service’s most attractive features.

Sharing of Your Personal Information Using the Service

The Service allows you to connect with certain third party services (e.g. Facebook and other similar services). When you broadcast information to such third party services, such information is no longer under the control of MeanFreePath and is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third parties.

Is Personal Information About Me Secure?

Your MeanFreePath account Personal Information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account, as well as protecting any devices the Service is installed on.

MeanFreePath endeavors to protect user information to ensure that user account information is kept private, however, MeanFreePath cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.

The Service may contain links to other sites. MeanFreePath is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site you should read the privacy policy stated on that site. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Service.

What Personal Information Can I Access?

MeanFreePath allows you to access the following information about you for the purpose of viewing, and in certain situations, updating that information. This list will change as our Service changes.

Username and password
User profile information

Deleting Your Account

Should you ever decide to delete your MeanFreePath account, you may do so by contacting your local site administrator. If you terminate your account, your profile, including any messages, comments, and forum posts by you or to you will be removed from the Service and deleted from MeanFreePath’s servers. Because of the way we maintain MeanFreePath, such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information or posts may remain on backup media.

What Choices Do I Have?

As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information to use, even though it may be needed to take advantage of certain MeanFreePath features.
You are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in the “What Personal Information Can I Access” section above. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

MeanFreePath may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Service or sending you an email. Users are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when he or she uses the Service after such changes have been first posted.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Service, please send us a detailed message to: privacy@meanfreepath.com . We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.

Effective Date: July 14, 2010