Privacy Policy
InfoSpace, Inc. ("InfoSpace") owns and operates a number of different
sites on the Web. InfoSpace is strongly committed to protecting the
privacy of its user community. The intent of this privacy policy is to
detail the information InfoSpace may gather about individuals who visit
www.infospace.com and related pages, how that information is used, and
InfoSpace's disclosure practices. Please note that this policy applies
only to the InfoSpace Sites, and not to the Web sites of other
companies or organizations to which we provide links or to any software
that may be downloaded from the InfoSpace Sites.
Anonymous User Information
InfoSpace collects some anonymous information each time you visit an
InfoSpace Site so we can improve the overall quality of your online
experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and
platform type. You do not have to register with InfoSpace before we can
collect this anonymous information.
The InfoSpace Sites do not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or email address, in order for you to use the InfoSpace Sites. The InfoSpace Sites assign an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited the InfoSpace Site, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. InfoSpace analyzes the information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Individual User Information
From time-to-time the InfoSpace Sites request information from you that
may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information
described above. The requested information typically includes contact
information (such as name, email address, shipping address, and zip
code), and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation,
and household income). InfoSpace will not use or disclose your
individual user information except as described in this privacy policy.
InfoSpace collects individual user information in the following ways
from different InfoSpace Sites:
Surveys or Contests
From time to time, InfoSpace may conduct surveys or contests on an
InfoSpace Site. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to
disclose individual user information to the InfoSpace Site. Contest
information will be shared with the contest or survey sponsors to
notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used
for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the
InfoSpace Site. We may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or
contests. These companies may use your personal information to help the
InfoSpace Site communicate with you about offers from the InfoSpace
Site and our marketing partners. Such third parties do not have
InfoSpace's permission to use your personally identifiable information
for any secondary purpose.
Directory Services
InfoSpace offers certain personalization services within its directory
services (i.e., White Pages and Yellow Pages) that enable you to give
us your geographic location so we can remember it for you when you
return to use our service. For example, if we know that you are
searching from Bellevue, Washington for a particular company, we will
pre-populate the city and state fields with Bellevue and Washington.
While you are not required to use this feature of the directory
services, the information enables us to provide you with a more
efficient experience on the InfoSpace Sites. In addition, InfoSpace
allows you to update, correct any errors in the listings, or include
yourself in the directory services. In order to make these
modifications, you may provide InfoSpace with certain individual user
information that InfoSpace will use, along with its affiliates and
third party service providers, to modify and update your information in
the directory services database. To update or delete your existing
business listing in our directory, search for your business by name or
category, click on the business name, then click the link to update or
remove your business listing. To update or delete your existing
residential listing in our directory, search for your name by location,
click on your name, then click the link to update or remove your
residential listing.
User Groups
When you register for a user group on any of the InfoSpace Sites, you
are asked for your individual user information. The individual user
information may be collected and stored by a third party partner. This
partner will store your individual user information on their servers
for a period of time at which InfoSpace will assume such storage
responsibilities and your information will be deleted from their
servers. The partner will not have InfoSpace's permission to use your
individual user information for secondary purposes. If you choose to
participate in a user group, your individual user information will be
used to qualify you and to contact you for various projects at
InfoSpace's discretion. InfoSpace may share your individual user
information with a third party with whom InfoSpace has entered into an
agreement to support such user group projects. You may opt out at any
time by following the opt out provisions of this privacy policy.
Correspondence
If you contact InfoSpace, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your email address.
Third Party Information Gathering
The InfoSpace Sites include content and ads from third parties that may
perform user activity tracking other than that described herein. For
more information about each third party content provider, cookies, and
how to "opt-out", please refer to such third party advertiser's privacy
policy.
The InfoSpace Sites contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that InfoSpace is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Cookies
InfoSpace may set and access InfoSpace or partner cookies on your
computer. A cookie is a small data file that a Web site may send to
your browser and which may then be stored on your system. We use both
session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once
you close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent
cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended
period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet
browser help file directions.
We use cookie and web beacon technology to track which pages on the InfoSpace Sites our visitors view and which Web browsers our visitors use. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you within various InfoSpace Sites in a way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share with us. We also use "action tags" to assist in delivering the cookie. These action tags allow us to compile statistics and other data about our customers on an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying number on each user's browser. Then we track where that number shows up on our site.
Sharing
Although we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to
disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a
current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order,
or legal process served on our Web site. We may also share your
personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of InfoSpace's or such InfoSpace
Site's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
InfoSpace Sites may use third party service providers to serve ads and emails on our behalf. These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and emails and use information about your visits to the InfoSpace Site so that we can provide a better search experience to you. For this purpose, we may also provide these third party service providers anonymous information about your site navigation.
Mergers; Business Transitions
In the event InfoSpace goes
through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by
another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users' personal
information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Choice/Opt-out
We desire to keep you in control of the
personal information you provide to us. Accordingly, you can review,
correct, change or remove the personal registration information you
provide to InfoSpace and that InfoSpace controls. In order to elect not
to receive future communications from us, please email us at privacy@infospace.com
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
to this privacy statement in places we deem appropriate so our users
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Please review this
policy for any updates on a regular basis when you visit the InfoSpace
Sites to ensure you are aware of the current policy.
Special Notification with respect to Children's Privacy (Users under the age of 13)
In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy online,
Congress enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
("COPPA"), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in
which Web sites may collect, use and disclose any personal information
for children under the age of 13. In accordance with InfoSpace policy
and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information given to us or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately delete the information from our servers
Questions regarding children's privacy should be directed to: