Privacy Policy (Updated 5/24/18)

 

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://www.wassupinlasvegas.com and Wassup! LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Wassup! LLC include https://www.wassupinlasvegas.com and Wassup! The Wassup! website is a news, information, directory and social media site. By using the Wassup! website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

 

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Wassup!’s public message boards, including reviews, this information may be collected and used by others.

 

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message.  When submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services from our Site, you will be directed to the appropriate third-party website (e.g. PayPal) for processing. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

 

Use of your Personal Information 

 

Wassup! collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.  Wassup! may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Wassup! and its affiliates.

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties

 

Wassup! does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

 

Wassup! may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. Wassup! may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Wassup!, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

 

Wassup! may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Wassup! or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Wassup!; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Wassup!, or the public.

 

Tracking User Behavior

 

Wassup! may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Wassup!, in order to determine what Wassup! services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Wassup! to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

 

Automatically Collected Information

 

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Wassup!. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Wassup! website.

 

Use of Cookies

 

The Wassup! website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Wassup! pages, or register with Wassup! site or services, a cookie helps Wassup! to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Wassup! website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Wassup! features that you customized.

 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Wassup! services or websites you visit.

 

Links

 

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or 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 any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

 

Security of your Personal Information

 

Wassup! secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Wassup! uses the following methods for this purpose:

 

– SSL Protocol

 

When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

 

Children Under Thirteen

 

Wassup! does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

 

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe from Third Party Communications

 

Wassup! respects your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of Wassup! via the following means:

 

– Customizing their notification settings

 

– Email support@wassupinlasvegas.com

 

E-mail Communications

 

From time to time, Wassup! may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

 

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Wassup!, you may opt-out of such communications by changing your e-mail notification settings and account management via their profile. However, communications for listings claims and service purchases are considered a standard business function and necessary for sending invoices, reminders and expiration notices.

 

External Data Storage Sites

 

Wassup! may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

 

Facebook Comments

 

Wassup! uses a Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

 

GooglePlus Comments

 

Wassup! uses GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

 

Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share Official Buttons

 

Wassup! uses an embed Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

 

Twitter Tweet Official Button

 

Wassup! uses a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update.

 

GooglePlus, GooglePlus Share Official Buttons

 

Wassup! uses a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

 

Linkedin Share Official Button

 

Wassup! uses a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

 

Pinterest Save Official Button

 

Wassup! uses Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.

 

Reddit Badge Official Button

 

Wassup! uses Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy.

 

Google Analytics

 

Wassup! uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

 

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

 

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.

 

Google AdSense

 

Wassup! uses Google AdSense, a service for including advertisements from Google Inc. (“Google”). It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

 

Google AdSense uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files stored in your computer that enable an analysis of the way you use the website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). Through these web beacons, information such as the visitor traffic on these pages can be evaluated.

 

The information generated by cookies and web beacons relating to your use of this website (including your IP address), and delivery of advertising formats, is transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. This information can be passed on from Google to contracting parties of Google. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data you have stored.

 

The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.

 

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Please be aware that in this case, you may not be able to make full use of all the features of this website. By using this website, you agree to the processing of data relating to you and collected by Google as described and for the purposes set out above.

 

Google reCAPTCHA

 

Wassup! uses “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

 

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

 

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place.

 

The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.

 

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

 

PayPal

 

Our website accepts payments via PayPal. Wassup! does not process your payment via our own website.  Rather, you will be directed to PayPal’s own secure site after making your selections for processing.

 

Changes to this Statement

 

Wassup! reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

 

Contact Information

 

Wassup! welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Wassup! has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Wassup! at support@wassupinlasvegas.com.

 

Effective as of May 24, 2018.