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Citysense Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Effective date: June 2, 2008
Summary of Terms
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY. BY INSTALLING THE CITYSENSE MOBILE DEVICE APPLICATION, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE CLICK THE "I DO NOT ACCEPT" BUTTON. BY CLICKING THE "I ACCEPT" BUTTON, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AS WELL AS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CITYSENSE™ PRIVACY POLICY BELOW.
Sense Networks, Inc. ("Sense Networks" or "We") reserves the right to revise or remove any part of the Terms in its sole discretion at any time and without prior notice to you by updating this posting. Persons who download this application (‘you") thus should visit Citysense.com ("Citysense.com" or the "Downloading Site"), or our related website Sensenetworks.com, periodically for changes.
Citysense.com is continually under development and changes in Citysense.com may be made at any time. Any changes to these Terms are effective upon posting to Citysense.com. If you disagree with the revised Terms, your sole remedy is to discontinue your use of the Citysense™ mobile device application software ("Citysense™ Application"). Your continued use after a change has been posted constitutes your acceptance of those changes.
OUR SERVICE
The Citysense™ Application is owned and licensed to
you by Sense Networks. The Citysense™ Application was built to collect
and map patterns of movement throughout urban areas (collectively, the
"Services"). This program runs continuously in the background of your
mobile device, collecting global positioning data ("GPS" or
collectively "location data") as you move throughout the city. By
collecting location information from thousands of users, the Citysense™
Application can show you the busiest hotspots in the city as well as
what spots have unusually high activity. By clicking on these hotspots,
you can view activity statistics and link to third party websites to
search for local reviews, or to upload multimedia and messages. Please
note that although Sense Networks does not charge a fee for use of
these Services, data usage fees may be incurred with your mobile device
service provider. Please contact your service provider with regards to
fee information.
DATA PROTECTION POLICY
The Citysense™ Application does not
collect personally identifying information such as your name, telephone
number or e-mail address. Location data from your mobile device is
collected and then aggregated together with all other Citysense™
Application users. That is, we do not and will not track an individual
person. An individual's location information is simply collected
together with all other users in order to create a hotspot map for our
users and commercial clients.
Sense Networks was founded on the core belief that people should easily own and control their data. Therefore, if you are not happy with the way we use your data, you can have the data removed…all of it. Everything we do is opt-in, and we not only clearly explain this to you in plain language, but we will remind you on a regular basis that you have the option to opt-out.
As a general matter, we believe there is tremendous value in combining massive amounts of anonymous data to promote the Common Good. Aggregate and anonymous location data can dramatically improve society. Patterns of how people move around can be used for early identification of infectious disease outbreaks, protection of the environment, and public safety. It can also help measure the effectiveness of various government programs, and improve the transparency and accountability of government and non-profit organizations. Understanding patterns in how people move around can also ensure citywide efficiency by helping to organize everything from bus routes to the location of coffee shops. Further detail regarding our privacy practices can be found in our Privacy Policy below.
GRANT OF LICENSE
The Citysense™ Application software is owned
by Sense Networks and is protected by copyright and other intellectual
property laws and treaties. Sense Networks grants you a limited,
revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use the Citysense™
Application conditioned upon your continued compliance with these Terms
of Use and as amended from time to time.
PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
You may not sell or redistribute the
Citysense™ Application. You may not incorporate it or any portion of it
into another product. You may use the Citysense™ Application only for
your personal use. You may not reproduce, republish, post, modify,
copy, alter, distribute, sell, resell, transmit, transfer, decompile,
license, assign or publish, in any way, any aggregate statistics or
content obtained through the Citysense™ Application.
You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Citysense™ Application or otherwise attempt to derive the source code (except where expressly permitted by law). You may not modify, adapt or create derivative works from the Citysense™ Application in any way or remove proprietary notices in the Citysense™ Application. You may access the Citysense™ Services only through the application software, interfaces and protocols provided or authorized by us. You agree to abide by all laws and regulations in effect regarding your use of the Citysense™ Application software and Services. Finally, you may not authorize or assist any third party to do any of the things prohibited in this paragraph.
We may offer occasional updates through Citysense.com to improve the
performance and capability of the Citysense™ Application software. We
will alert you of available updates by way of notices within the
program itself. We will not call, e-mail or text your mobile device
with this information. All information transmitted from your device is
encrypted to remove any identifying information. This encrypted
information is, in turn, related only to a particular installation of
the Citysense™ Application, not to a particular device.
You may
not use the Citysense™ Application at any time for any purpose that is
unlawful or prohibited. By clicking "I AGREE" you agree to comply with
these Terms and with any applicable local, state, or national laws when
using the Citysense™ Application. In using the Citysense™ Application,
you also agree not to restrict, discourage, or inhibit any person from
using the Citysense™ Application or assist any persons in engaging in
any of the activities described above.
You are using the Citysense™ Application software and services AT
YOUR OWN RISK and we are under no obligation to provide you with any
support, error corrections, updates, upgrades, bug fixes and/or
enhancements, although we reserve the right to do so.
OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The content on the Citysense™
Application, Citysense.com and our affiliated site, Sensenetworks.com,
including without limitation, the text, software, scripts, graphics,
photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features and the like
(collectively "Materials") and the trademarks, service marks and logos
contained therein ("Marks"), are owned by or licensed to Sense
Networks, subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights
under United States and foreign laws and international conventions.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
As you view Citysense.com,
Sensenetworks.com or use the Citysense™ Application, you may notice
links to third-party websites. These links are for convenience only. If
you use these links, you will leave Citysense.com, Sensenetworks.com or
the Citysense™ Application. Certain of these linked websites may make
use of Sense Networks proprietary intellectual property rights (such as
copyrights, trademarks, service marks, logos and trade names) under
license from Sense Networks. Sense Networks is not responsible for the
availability or content of these other websites or for any viruses or
other damaging elements encountered in linking to a third-party
website. In addition, providing links to these websites should not be
interpreted as endorsement or approval by Sense Networks of the
organizations sponsoring such third-party websites or their products or
services. These Terms do not apply to any other websites.
SECURITY
You are prohibited from violating, or attempting to
violate, the security of the Citysense™ Application software,
Citysense.com, or Sensenetworks.com. Any such violations may result in
criminal and/or civil penalties against you. Sense Networks will
investigate any alleged or suspected violations and if a criminal
violation is suspected, we will cooperate with law enforcement agencies
in their investigations.
JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
Unless otherwise specified, the
Citysense™ Application is offered solely to collect location data and
to provide the Services. This application is controlled and operated by
Sense Networks from its offices within the United States of America.
Sense Networks makes no representation that the Citysense™ Application
is appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who
choose to access Citysense.com from other locations do so on their own
initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and
to the extent local laws are applicable. Access to Citysense.com from
jurisdictions where the contents of this site are illegal or penalized
is prohibited.
VIOLATION OF TERMS OF USE
Sense Networks may terminate your use
of the Citysense™ Services at any time and for any reason without
notice for conduct violating these Terms. Upon any such termination,
you must uninstall the Citysense™ Application obtained from
Citysense.com and all copies thereof. The provisions of these Terms
concerning security, prohibited activities, copyrights, trademarks,
disclaimer, limitation of liability, indemnity, and jurisdictional
issues shall survive any such termination.
DISCLAIMER
THE CITYSENSE APPLICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, SENSE NETWORKS
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SENSE NETWORKS DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE
APPLICATION SOFTWARE IN TERMS OF ITS CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION
OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL SENSE NETWORKS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY COMPENSATORY, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
THAT RESULT FROM (1) THE USE OF THE CITYSENSE™ APPLICATION; (2) THE
INABILITY TO USE THE CITYSENSE™ APPLICATION; (3) MISUSE OF THE
CITYSENSE™ APPLICATION OR 4) THE LOSS OF, OR DAMAGE TO YOUR MOBILE
DEVICE FOR ANY REASON, EVEN IF SENSE NETWORKS OR A SENSE NETWORKS
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF
LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Sense Networks
and its directors, officers, employees, agents and contractors harmless
from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including
without limitation reasonable attorneys' fees) or other expenses that
arise directly or indirectly out of or from (i) your breach of any
provision of these Terms; or (ii) your activities in connection with
the Citysense™ Application.
CHILDREN
This application is not intended for children under the
age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, you may not download this
application at any time or in any manner. By clicking the "I AGREE"
button, you affirm that you are over the age of 13. Sense Networks does
not collect personal information from or about any users.
OTHER
If any provision of these Terms is unlawful, void, or for
any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable
from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability
of any remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between the
parties relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified
except in writing.
If you have any questions or complaints regarding these Terms, please
submit your questions or complaints via an email to
contact@citysense.com. We will endeavor to respond to you promptly.
PRIVACY POLICY
Use of the Citysense™ Application and
Citysense.com is also governed by Sense Networks' Privacy Policy set
forth below and also available at Sensenetworks.com and in the footer
of Citysense.com.
The following sets forth our privacy practices and policies ("Privacy
Policy"). That is, what information about you we collect, how that
information is used, maintained, and shared.
The Citysense™ Application collects location data transmitted from your mobile device. By downloading the Citysense™ Application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. As described in greater detail below, we will store and use location data from your mobile device which we will aggregate with location data from other users to use for our Citysense™ Application. We will share and sell non-personal, aggregate location data to unaffiliated third parties. Such information does not identify you individually, but is used to provide general demographics or statistics regarding movement patterns in the city in which you are located.
INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU AND OUR USE OF SUCH INFORMATION
The following describes the types of personal and other information we
may collect about you through the Citysense™ Application, Citysense.com
and our related website, Sensenetworks.com, and how we use and maintain
that information.
Individual User Information
You may download and use the
Citysense™ Application and visit Citysense.com without revealing any
personal information such as your name, address, e-mail or telephone
number. Global position and technology related information, however,
will be collected from your device as long as the application is
running. All information transmitted from your device is encrypted to
remove any identifying information. This encrypted information is, in
turn, related only to a particular installation of the Citysense™
Application, not to a particular device.
Likewise, you may visit our related website, Sensenetworks.com and
access information while not revealing any individual user information
other than technology related information. When contacting Sense
Networks, however, either by e-mail or by phone, we may retain any data
you provide to us for the purpose of tracking the types of questions we
receive. In addition, we may use this information to send you periodic
publications or news associated with Sense Networks or promotional
materials about Sense Networks, unless you inform us that you opt out
from receiving such communications via email. Note that we will not
send you promotional materials or communications by text messaging or
by phone.
To the extent that you provide us with personal information, Sense
Networks wishes to maintain accurate personal information. When we
collect personal information from you, our goal is to provide a means
of contacting Sense Networks should you need to update or correct that
information. If for any reason those means are unavailable or
inaccessible, you may send updates and corrections about your personal
information to contact@citysense.com and we will make reasonable
efforts to incorporate the changes in your personal information that we
hold as soon as practicable.
Note that you may choose whether or not to provide personal information to Sense Networks. If you choose not to provide the personal information requested, you can still visit Citysense.com, Sensenetworks.com and use the Citysense™ Application but you may be unable to access certain options, offers and services that involve our interaction with you.
Individual Usage Information
As stated above, once you download
the Citysense™ Application, we will collect and store global
positioning data that is generated automatically from your mobile
device as you travel through the city in which you are located. This
data will be continuously collected so long as your mobile device is
turned on. Please note that the Citysense™ Application will continue to
run as a background application unless you quit the application
software or power off the device.
Our related website, Sensenetworks.com, employs browser cookies to
store users' preferences and record session information. "Cookies" are
bits of information that are stored by your browser on your hard drive.
This technology allows for the storage of user preferences and the
delivery of content (including third-party content) that is specific to
your interests. You can turn off the "cookie" function through most
standard browsers. However, some features of Sensenetworks.com may not
function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
In addition, when you browse Citysense.com or Sensenetworks.com our
system automatically collects 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 these pages,
videos watched, 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. This information is used to analyze trends,
administer the website, improve the design of our website, track user
movement, and otherwise enhance the services we provide. Likewise, when
you use the Citysense™ Application, our system will automatically
collect information such as areas viewed, frequency viewed, the amount
of time spent on viewing, and the date and time of your request. This
information will be used to analyze trends and improve the Citysense™
Application.
If you visit Citysense.com or Sensenetworks.com, we may also use "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons; invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to recognize users and access traffic patterns. Additionally, we may use clear GIFs in HTML based emails to track which emails are opened by recipients. We may tie information collected from clear GIFs to personally identifiable information.
WHEN YOUR INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED OR DISCLOSED
We may share
non-personally identifiable, aggregate location data to other parties.
If you do not wish to have your location data shared, you have the
right to recall and remove all location data that we have collected
from your use of the Citysense™ Application.
As stated in our Terms of Use, you have a right to delete your data from the system. You can opt-out of this data collection and receive your data by sending a request to Sense Networks through the Citysense™ Application itself.
We will not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with unaffiliated 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 will comply with any subpoenas, court orders or other legal
processes for any of the information about you in our possession, and
we may use such information to establish or exercise our legal rights,
or to defend against legal claims. We reserve the right to disclose
information about you, including data on which pages you have visited,
to third parties if we feel it is necessary to protect the security of
our systems, Application, sites, business, users or others.
Information about you in our possession may also be disclosed as part
of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets, or transition of
service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of
insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which your personal
information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the
company. Sense Networks does not guarantee that any entity receiving
such information in connection with one of these transactions will
comply with all terms of this Privacy Policy.
DATA SECURITY
Whenever Sense Networks handles information that
you enter on Sensenetworks.com or that we receive from the Citysense™
Application, regardless of where this occurs, we take steps to ensure
that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. Sense Networks 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 during transmission to us, and
you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make
our best effort to ensure its security on our systems but we do not
accept liability for unintentional disclosure.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
If you are under the age of 13, you may not
use the Citysense™ Application or access Citysense.com or
Sensenetworks.com in any way. We will not knowingly collect or use any
personal information from any children under the age of 13. If we
become aware that we have collected any personal information from
children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our
databases.
OTHER WEBSITES
For your convenience, the Citysense™ Application
allows you to link to other websites. You may also be referred to other
websites in the future, including websites administered by Sense
Networks or administered by other companies on behalf of Sense
Networks, as well as to websites unrelated to Sense Networks. This
Privacy Policy does not apply to any linked websites. Each website
should be checked for its own privacy policy.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Sense Networks may update this Privacy
Policy from time to time. In the event that Sense Networks merges with,
or is acquired by another company, a change to this Privacy Policy may
result. Whenever a change to this Privacy Policy is significant, we
will place a prominent notice on Citysense.com, Sensenetworks.com and
will send a notice through the Citysense™ Application.
GOVERNING LAW
Citysense.com and Sensenetworks.com are hosted
within the United States and are intended for and directed to users in
the United States. By choosing to use the Citysense™ Application or
otherwise provide information to Sense Networks, you agree that any
dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will
be governed by the laws of the State of California. If you are a user
accessing Citysense™ Application from any region with regulations or
laws governing personal data collection, use and disclosure, that
differ from United States laws/regulations, please note that through
your continued use of either the Citysense™ Application or
Sensenetworks.com, which is governed by U.S. Law, this Privacy Policy,
and our Terms of Use, you are transferring personal information to the
United States and you consent to that transfer. You also consent to the
adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with the Citysense™
Application, Citysense.com or Sensenetworks.com in the federal and
state courts of, and in accordance with the laws of the State of
California.
UPDATE INFORMATION / SUGGESTIONS
If you would like to update or
correct any information that you have provided to Sense Networks
through your use of the Citysense™ Application, Sensenetworks.com or
otherwise, or you have suggestions for improving this Privacy Policy,
please send an email to contact@citysense.com.