Privacy Policy for Agree Network

Effective Date: December 19th, 2023

Introduction

At Agree Network, we value your privacy and strive to empower you as the master of your identity. This Privacy Policy helps you understand how Agree Network ("Agree Network," "we," or "us") collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our Chrome plugin and services or interact with us.

We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don't need an account. We don't automatically track your precise location. You can share as much or as little about yourself as you want. You can create multiple accounts, update information as you see fit, or ask us to delete your information.

Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our services, which are focused on allowing people to come together and form communities, the vast majority of which are public. If you have questions about how we use your data, you can always ask us for more information.

What Information We Collect

Information You Provide to Us

  • Account Information: While an account is not required to use Agree Network, if you choose to create one, we require your name, email, and password. Your name is public and needs to be related to your real name.
  • Optional Information: You may provide interests, community preferences, a bio, gender, age, location, or profile picture, which can be removed anytime.
  • Content You Submit: Including votes and comments.
  • Actions You Take: Interactions with content and other users, including voting and commenting.
  • Other Information: You may provide additional information for customer support or other communications with us.

Information We Collect Automatically

  • Log and Usage Data: Includes IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, pages visited, and search terms.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: To enhance your experience and gather data about your preferences.
  • Location Information: Approximate location derived from your IP address.

Information Collected from Other Sources

  • Linked Services: If you link third-party services to your account, we receive information about your use of those services.
  • Integrations: Information from third-party sites that integrate our Services.

How We Use Information

  • To provide, maintain, and improve our services.
  • To personalize content and features.
  • To protect the safety of Agree Network and our users.
  • To optimize and measure ad effectiveness.
  • For customer service and communication about our products and services.
  • To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities.

How We Share Information

  • Publicly: Most information on Agree Network is public, including your content and profile information.
  • With Your Consent: We share information at your direction or with your consent.
  • For Legal Reasons: In response to legal requests or to enforce our policies.
  • Aggregated or De-Identified Information: Shared in a way that cannot reasonably identify you.

How We Protect Your Information

  • We use measures like HTTPS and access controls to protect your information.
  • You can enhance security with two-factor authentication.

Your Rights and Choices

  • Accessing and Changing Information: You can access and change information through our Services.
  • Deleting Your Account: You may delete your account and request the deletion of your personal information.
  • Controlling Cookies: You can set your browser to reject cookies.
  • Opting Out of Targeted Advertising: Control how we use information for advertising.
  • Do Not Track: We do not respond to Do Not Track signals; instead, we offer choices described in this policy.

Additional Information for EEA Users

Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent. These rights can be exercised as described in the "Your Rights and Choices section above. EEA users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority.

As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have a legal basis for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. We process your information on the following legal bases:

  • You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose;
  • We need to process the information to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services;
  • It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, personalizing the Services, and marketing and promoting the Services; or
  • We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations

International Data Transfers

Agree Network is based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States. We may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law.

When we transfer the personal data of users in the EEA, UK and/or Switzerland, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for such transfers or other transfer mechanisms deemed ‘adequate' under applicable laws.

Additional Information for California Users

The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA”), as amended, requires us to provide California residents with some additional information, which we address in this section.

In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:

  • Identifiers, like your name, email address, IP address, and cookie information.
  • Commercial information, including information about transactions you undertake with us.
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information about your activity on our Services and limited information about your activity on the services of advertisers who use our advertising technology.
  • Geolocation information based on your IP address, or more specific location information if you authorize your device to provide it to us.
  • Professional or employment-related information or demographic information, but only if you explicitly provide it to us, such as by applying for a job or filling out a survey.
  • Inferences we make based on other collected data, for purposes such as recommending content, advertising, and analytics.

You can find more information about (a) what we collect and sources of that information in the "Information We Collect” section of this notice, (b) the business and commercial purposes for collecting that information in the "How We Use Your Information” section, and (c) the categories of third parties with whom we share that information in the "How We Share Information” section.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, including the right to opt out of any sales or sharing of your personal information, to request access to and information about our data practices, and to request deletion or correction of your personal information, as well as the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. Agree Network does not "sell” or "share” personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information except to provide you the Services or as otherwise permitted by the CCPA.

You may exercise your rights to access, delete, or correct your personal information as described in the "Your Rights and Choices” section of this notice. When you make a request, we will verify your identity by asking you to sign into your account or if necessary by requesting additional information from you. You may also make a rights request using an authorized agent. If you submit a rights request from an authorized agent who does not provide a valid power of attorney, we may ask the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request to exercise rights on your behalf. In the absence of a valid power of attorney, we may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us or confirm to us that you otherwise provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

Children

  • Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Additionally, if you are located outside the United States, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian.

Changes to This Policy

  • We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may also notify you by sending an email to the address associated with your account (if you have chosen to provide an email address) or by otherwise providing notice through our Services. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy.

By using Agree Network, you agree to the terms of this policy. This policy, along with our User Agreement and other policies, governs your use of Agree Network. For any questions or concerns, please contact us at nick.swekosky@gmail.com.