Privacy Policy
Detectpeople, Inc. (“Detectpeople”) provides the website Detectpeople.com to
you (“You” or “Your”) subject to this Privacy policy and its other
policies.
This Privacy Policy describes the way in which Detectpeople
collects, uses, or shares any information You provide to Detectpeople.com or
information about Your use of Detectpeople.com (“Personal Information”).
Detectpeople may change this Privacy Policy at
any time. By continuing to access or use Detectpeople.com, You accept any
changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY DO NOT USE DETECTPEOPLE.COM
1. Information Available Through Detectpeople.com People Search
a) Detectpeople collects publicly available
information for the purpose of making it available to individuals, businesses,
and government agencies that use Detectpeople’s products and services,
including the Detectpeople.com people search. Detectpeople aggregates the
following eight categories of publicly available information:
(i) Consumer Indexes - Records of consumer
profiles detailing age, name, address and other demographic details drawn from
marketing databases;
(ii) Phone Directories - Phone numbers drawn
from white pages telephone directories;
(iii) Email Databases - Email addresses linked
to marketing demographic data;
(iv) Property Records - Public property records
from government offices around the country, including real estate deeds and
assessor records;
(v) Social Networks - Public social profiles
drawn from social networks;
(vi) Court Records - Public criminal records
from government offices across the U.S. Contains arrest and most wanted
warrants, driving violations, sex offender data and fugitive records;
(vii) Business Directories - Business listings
pulled from the yellow pages telephone directories and other business
directories. These listings include name, title, business address, website and
email; and
(viii) Vital Statistics - Public records about
life events documented by the government, including birth certificates,
marriage licenses and death certificates.
(collectively the “Public Information”).
b) Detectpeople does not verify and cannot
guarantee the accuracy of this Public Information.
c) The Detectpeople Terms of user prohibit users
of Detectpeople’s products and services from reselling the Public Information
disclosed to them through Detectpeople’s products and services.
d) Personal Information, such as information
that You provide to Detectpeople.com or information about Your use of Detectpeople.com
as further described in Section 2 below, is not part of the Public Information
available to users through the Detectpeople.com people search.
e) To request that Public Information about You
be removed from public listings on Detectpeople.com, please Contact us at info@detectpeople.com .
This process is only intended to remove listings available to the general
public on Detectpeople.com and cannot remove the information from the
third-party public sources, such as phone books, social networks, or government
records. Detectpeople does not allow individuals to opt-out (i.e. suppress
display) of court records which pertain to them, unless an Order of Expunction
or Sealing is provided. You may email a copy of any such Order to expungement@detectpeople.com.
Detectpeople will only suppress or delete only those records specifically noted
in the Order. A conviction may be expunged, but unless the Order also specifies
expungement of the associated arrest record, it will remain on Detectpeople’s
systems.
2. Personal Information Detectpeople Collects
Detectpeople collects the following categories
of Personal Information:
i) Usage Information. Detectpeople collects
information about Your use of Detectpeople.com. This may include the pages You
visit, the links You hover over and click on, and the items You purchase. Detectpeople
also collects data about Your device such as IP address, mobile phone number,
device identifiers, and data about the network, operating system, or software
You use to connect to Detectpeople’s products and services.
ii) Information From Cookies. Detectpeople.com
uses cookies, or small text files stored on Your computer, to store data about
Your visits
iii) Account Information. Detectpeople collects
information that You provide in creating an account at Detectpeople.com. This
may include information such as Your name, email address, or phone number and
payment data. Detectpeople also collects passwords and similar security
information used for authentication and account access.
iv) Search History. Detectpeople retains a
history of the searches You conduct on Detectpeople’s products.
v) Submissions, Posts, and Uploads. Detectpeople
collects information from You when You provide, post, or upload it to Detectpeople,
such as when you fill out a form, (e.g., a request to contact You) or respond
to a survey. If You opt to import Your call log or address book, Detectpeople
receives Your call log or contacts. Certain features of Detectpeople’s products
permit You to enter personal information to access Your accounts with
third-party websites. In some instances, this information is not stored by Detectpeople.
For example, You may choose to provide Your email account login credentials to
import Your address book contacts into Detectpeople.com. Your email account
login credentials will only be used for the one-time address book import and
will not be stored.
vi) Manually Imported Contact Information. Detectpeople
collects contact information about You when others import or sync their
contacts with Detectpeople products.
vii) Manually Entered Login Credentials. Certain
features of Detectpeople.com must store Your login credentials for other
websites or services to function. For example, You may choose to provide Your
third-party login credentials to syndicate private content from third-party
social networks and websites. Under these circumstances, Your third-party login
credentials will be stored only so long as You continue to enable private
content syndication from these third-party social networks and websites. Should
You terminate Your use of the syndication tool, this information will be
deleted within a reasonable period of time following the termination. Your
third-party login credentials are hashed and stored with the strictest security
standards.
viii) Location Information. When You enable
location-based features of Detectpeople products, Detectpeople may collect
location data, such as GPS coordinates. Detectpeople may also collect location
data derived from Your IP address.
3. Use and Sharing of Personal Information
a) Detectpeople may use Personal Information You
provide to Detectpeople.com to create and maintain Your account, to personalize
Your experience, and to send periodic email communications relating to Detectpeople’s
services, such as purchase receipts, account confirmations, and customer care
correspondence, including emails to customers who have abandoned the account
setup experience and about searches You have previously performed. Detectpeople
may use Your search history to provide You updates or notifications on the
subjects of Your searches, to suggest other search subjects that may be of
interest to You, and to otherwise enhance Your experience in using Detectpeople’s
products. Detectpeople may also use Your search history and other Personal
Information to improve Detectpeople’s products and services. If You have made
or attempted a purchase on Detectpeople.com or accepted a trial of any of Detectpeople’s
premium subscriptions, You will be deemed to have opted-in to receive
promotional emails from Detectpeople, and Detectpeople may use Your Personal
Information to send You search tips, promotions, and information about new
products Detectpeople thinks may be of interest to You.
b) Detectpeople uses certain trusted third
parties to help us provide, improve, protect, and promote the services offered
on Detectpeople.com. Detectpeople shares Personal Information with these third
parties. These third parties will access Your information only to perform tasks
on Detectpeople’s behalf and in compliance with this Privacy Policy. For
example, Detectpeople provides payment data that You provide to certain payment
processors, solely to effect the sale of products or subscriptions that You
have requested, and provides other Personal Information to third party services
for purposes such as delivering email communications, providing customer
support, and preventing fraudulent transactions. Detectpeople may also use a
third party service provider to facilitate upload of Your contacts from Your
contact management providers, using the OAuth standard whenever possible (If
Your contact management providers support the OAuth standard, use of the OAuth
standard does not require Detectpeople or its third-party service provider to
have access to, and Detectpeople and its third-party service provider, will not
in fact have access to, the passwords that You established with Your contact
management providers). Detectpeople uses the Google Maps API(s), which is
subject to the Google Privacy Policy.
c) Detectpeople may share IP addresses used to
access Detectpeople.com with designated third parties for the sole purpose of
preventing and detecting fraud. Detectpeople may also use services and
technologies provided by other companies to assist Detectpeople in
understanding how You use Detectpeople.com. As a result, information about how
You use Detectpeople.com may be available to these other companies to the
extent that their technology collects such information for Detectpeople’s use
or for purposes of delivering relevant online or mobile advertising to
You.
d) Detectpeople reserves the right to disclose
Personal Information to third parties, without notice to You, if required to do
so by law, or if Detectpeople has a good faith belief that disclosure is
necessary to (1) comply with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend
Detectpeople’s rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect
someone’s safety.
e) Detectpeople reserves the right to transfer
Personal Information to any successor in interest to the Detectpeople business.
f) Detectpeople (either directly or via its
third party partners) collects anonymized session and anonymized click-tracking
data regardless of a computer's Do-Not-Track signal.
g) Detectpeople may provide Your search query to
third party data vendors in order to fulfill requests You make for certain
kinds of reports.
4. Children’s Privacy
a) Detectpeople.com is directed to people who
are at least 18 years old, and Detectpeople does not knowingly collect Personal
Information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are aware that Detectpeople
has collected Personal Information from someone under the age of 18, please
alert Detectpeople at CustomerCare@detectpeople.com and the information will be
removed from Detectpeople’s systems as soon as is reasonably possible. This
policy regarding collection of data from children exceeds the requirements of
the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
b) Detectpeople does not knowingly aggregate or
provide Public Information about people under the age of 18. Detectpeople’s
email search may return Public Information about children between the ages of
13 and 18 because this Public Information originates from third-party social
networking sites and websites that permit children who are 13 years and older
to create public profiles.
5. Contacting Detectpeople
If You have any questions regarding this Privacy
Policy, please contact us by email at info@detectpeople.com
6. California Privacy Disclosure
a) This Privacy Policy describes Detectpeople’s
handling of personally identifiable information as required by the California
Online Privacy Protection Act and personal information under the California
Consumer Privacy Act. California residents have the additional rights described
in this section.
b) Right to Know Public Information – You have
the right to request that Detectpeople disclose what Public Information it
collects, uses, discloses, and/or sells. To make a Right-to-Know request
related to Public InformationCalifornia law excludes information from federal,
state, and local government agencies from the scope of Right-to-Know requests.
You will be required to submit information about Yourself in order for Detectpeople
to perform a search of its database to locate the Public Information it has collected
about You. Your search must sufficiently match the Public Information in Detectpeople’s
database in order for Detectpeople to verify Your request. An authorized agent
may make a request on Your behalf. No additional proof will be required from an
authorized agent.
c) Right to Know and Request Deletion of
Personal Information – You have the right to request that Detectpeople disclose
what Personal Information it collects, uses, and discloses. Detectpeople does
not sell, exchange, transfer, or give Personal Information to any other party.
You also have the right to request that Detectpeople delete the Personal
Information it has collected. To make a Right-to-Know request related to
Personal Information and/or make a deletion request.. You will be required to
log-in to Your Detectpeople account or provide sufficient matching information
in order for Detectpeople to verify Your request. Detectpeople cannot delete
Personal Information that it is under a legal obligation to maintain. An
authorized agent may make a request on Your behalf. No additional proof will be
required from an authorized agent, except that, for Your protection, we will
only disclose the categories of Personal Information collected to authorized
agents that make requests through Detectpeople’s toll free number.
d) Right to Opt-Out Public Information – Detectpeople
does not sell Your Personal Information. However, You have the right to opt-out
of the sale of Public Information. To make an opt-out request related to Public
Informationplease contact us at info@detectpeople.com You can also call Detectpeople
to make an Opt-Out request related to Public Information. While Detectpeople
will not sell Your Public Information that has been opted-out, Detectpeople
reserves the right to disclose Public Information to third parties, without
notice to You, if required to do so by law, or if Detectpeople has a good faith
belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with legal process served on Detectpeople;
(2) protect and defend Detectpeople’s rights or property; or (3) act in an
emergency to protect someone’s safety. Detectpeople also reserves the right to
transfer Public Information to any successor in interest to the Detectpeople
business.
e) Detectpeople will not discriminate against
You for exercising Your rights under this section of this Privacy Policy.
7. Specific Clauses for EU Data Subjects
The following applies only if You are in the
European Economic Area or Switzerland (collectively the “EU”):
a) The following clauses only apply to Personal
Information You provide to Detectpeople.com. To request that Public Information
about You be removed from public listings on Detectpeople.com, please contact
us at info@detectpeople.com This page also contains information about sending
written requests for removal of public listings.
b) Detectpeople relies upon the following lawful
grounds to collect and use Your Personal Information:
(i) It is necessary for the performance of a
contract.
(ii) Detectpeople’s or a third party’s
legitimate interests, including but not limited to, identity verification and
fraud prevention.
(iii) Your consent.
c) You may use Your account to access, correct,
or change any Personal Information that You have provided to us or that is
associated with Your account. You may also email info@detectpeople.com to
request access to, transfer of, and rectification or erasure of Your Personal
Information, or restriction of processing, or to object to processing. You will
need to specify the nature of Your request and the information that is subject
to Your request. Detectpeople may require You to submit additional information
necessary to verify Your identity and status as an EU data subject. Detectpeople
will respond to Your request within 30 days.
d) If Detectpeople is processing Your Personal
Information based upon the lawful ground of Your consent, You have the right to
withdraw Your consent for such processing at any time without affecting the
lawfulness of the processing based on consent before it is withdrawn. To
withdraw consent, email info@detectpeople.com.
e) If You are an EU data subject and have
inquiries about Your Personal Information, please contact Detectpeople’s Data
Protection Officer at info@detectpeople.com.