Privacy Policy
Introduction
Circle Connect, LLC, respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the type of data we collect via our Circle Connect Mobile applications and how we use and share it. If parts of our app service connects you to third party services, please review the privacy policy for those services to understand their data collection and usage regarding personal information.
Data we collect via the Circle Connect Mobile Applications
We collect information such as first name, last name, email address, zip code and birth month and day to create a Circle Connect Mobile app account. The account will be used so you can personalize your Circle Connect Mobile app experience. We also collect demographic information that is entered by you to help us improve our product and services. You can access and modify this information on the account section of the Circle Connect Mobile App and you can request to de-activate your account at any time by contacting us through the Contact Us section of this policy.
How we collect your Circle Connect Account data
- Your first name, last name and email address are collected via the Google Account or Facebook login while zip code and birth month/day are collected by you updating your account information via the Account section of the Circle Connect Mobile app. See Facebook or Google for their privacy policies.
- For the Circle Connect Merchant Mobile app, merchants provide email, username, password and phone number to create an account.
What you should know about how we use your information.
- We use your information for the purposes of creating an account for app personalization such as saving filter, sorting and merchant favorite preferences.
- We may use your data, including location, to provide aggregated data to our local merchant members for marketing analytics.
- We collect and use your location to provide local merchants summary information.
- We may share aggregate or anonymous information with Merchant partners. For example, we may tell our merchants the number of app users that were within a certain mile radius of their business, how many app users clicked on their electronic business card and the break down of zip codes of the app users.
- We may utilize your email address to contact you directly and in the future, we may utilize your birth month and day to send promotional offerings.
- For the Circle Connect Merchant Mobile app, we may use email and phone number to contact merchants regarding our services and promotions.
- You can contact us regarding your account information at any time using our contact information in the Contact Us of this policy and our website.
Information we collect and how we use it when you use Circle Connect Mobile Applications
When you use the Circle Connect Mobile app, we may collect data for the following purposes:
- When you use the app, we capture information about your current location. The app needs this to provide relevant content based on location including, but not limited to a listing of localized merchants and their advertising messages. We do not collect location data unless you expressly use the location feature, which can be turned on and off at any time through your phone or you can remove the app from your device entirely.
- Information about the areas of the app that you access and use to allow us to improve Circle Connect Mobile app features and to provide summary information to local merchants.
- If you make use of our social media or email login we access only the public information. For instance, we offer you to register and login with our app via the Facebook Login feature which enables you to register and subsequently login into the Circle Connect Mobile app using your Facebook account without entering the required data manually. We access public information such as: name, first_name, last_name, email to create a Circle Connect account. We do not store or use any data related to the friends with whom you are connected.
- We utilize your Circle Connect account information to allow you to personalize your experience using the app including saving local merchant favorites.
- We may use zip code and birth month and day for analytics and promotional messages.
- We may use email to contact and communicate to you directly
- We may provide aggregate summary information to our local merchants to improve their products and services and for their business marketing purposes.
Privacy Policy
Circle Connect, LLC reserves the right to modify this policy at any time.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of personal information and this policy, please contact us.