Privacy Policy
Our Product Beliefs
We believe trust is foundational in what we build or work towards. The only way to repay the trust of users is by providing safety and security, which makes us responsible and accountable. We strive to get only that information that's necessary and secury any data that what we collect.
Our privacy policy is here to accommodate and guide you through:
- What information we collect
- Why we collect this information
- How you can manage, update and delete your information
YRL Privacy Policy
We are building a range of services that will hopefully, one day help millions of people daily to explore and interact with the world in new ways. Our services include:
- YRL, and all its related products and services.
- Products that make YRL, like Google Analytics and our hosting cloud providers.
You can use our services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can sign up with YRL, if you want to create and manage content. You can use YRL and related services when you’re signed out or without creating an account at all, like browsing and going through our products. And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to control what we collect and how your information is used. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us: privacy@getyrl.com
Information we collect
The information YRL collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls. When you’re not signed in to a Product Account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. This helps us do things like maintain your language preferences across browsing sessions. When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your Product Account, which we treat as personal information. YRL uses a lot of Google Infrastructure, including, but not limited to: Google Cloud Platform hosting, Google Analytics, Firebase and related services. Because of this, Google may collect some information as described in their Privacy policy, although we do not share any of your personal information with Google or any third party.
Things you create or provide us
When you create a Product account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number to your account. Even if you aren’t signed in to an Account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to receive updates about our services.
Information we collect as you use our services
Your browsers or devices
We may collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access YRL services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low. The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request.
Your Activity - YRL
The activity information we collect may include:
- Views and interactions with content
- The information you provide
- People with whom you communicate or share YRLs
If you use our services we may collect information about your location when you use our services, which helps us to determine if our service is even accessible to you.
For example, YRL is currently only available in certain countries. We use your location to determine if you should be able to access it or not.
Your location can be determined with varying degrees of accuracy by:
- GPS
- IP address
The types of location data we collect depend in part on your device and account settings. For example, you can turn your device’s location on or off using the device’s settings app. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.
Why we collect this information
To provide our services
We use your information to deliver our services, like processing the YRLs you search for in order to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your contacts.
Maintain & improve our services
We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our services — n we collect to customize our services for you, including providing recommendations, personalized content,for example, if you are more interested in arts or entertainment, then we will show you more YRLs from that category.
Develop new services
We use the information we collect in existing services to help us develop new ones.
Develop new services
We use the information we collect in existing services to help us develop new ones.
- We don’t show you personalized content based on sensitive categories, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or health.
- We don’t share information that personally identifies you with **anyone**, such as your name or email, unless you ask us to.
To communicate with you
We use the information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity, like an attempt to sign in to your Product Account from an unusual location. Or we may let you know about upcoming changes or improvements to our services.
Protect YRL, our users and the public
We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm YRL , our users, or the public.
We use different technologies to process your information for these purposes. We use automated systems that analyze your content, for example YRL Campaigns, to protect you from abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content. We also use algorithms to recognize patterns in data. For example, YRL may show regional and relevant YRLs that might be useful to you based on your location. We also review the content created in a YRL Campaign for abuse.
We may combine the information we collect among our services and across your devices for the purposes described above. If other users already have your email address or other information that identifies you, we may show them your publicly visible Product Account information, such as your name and photo. This helps people identify an email coming from you, for example. We’ll ask for your consent before using your information for a purpose that isn’t covered in this Privacy Policy.
With your consent
We may share personal information outside of YRL only when needed and when we have your consent.. We’ll ask for your explicit consent to share any sensitive personal information.
For legal reasons
We will share personal information outside if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
- Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request. We share information about the number and type of requests we receive from governments in our Transparency Report.
- Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
- Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of yrl, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
We may share "non-personally identifiable" information publicly and with our partners — like publishers, developers, or rights holders. For example, we share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services. If YRL is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Keeping your information secure
We build security into our services to protect your information
All our products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you. And if we do detect something risky that we think you should know about, we’ll notify you and help guide you through steps to stay better protected. We work hard to protect you and YRL from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including:
Sharing your information
When you share your information
Many of our services let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. For example, you can share YRLs publicly or you can decide to keep them private. Remember, when you share information publicly, your content may become accessible through search keywords, YRL titles. When you’re signed in and interact with some yrl services, like leaving comments on an YRL, your name and photo may appear next to your activity.
When YRL shares your information
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of yrl except in the following cases:
When you share your information
Many of our services let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. For example, you can share YRLs publicly or you can decide to keep them private. Remember, when you share information publicly, your content may become accessible through search keywords, YRL titles. When you’re signed in and interact with some yrl services, like leaving comments on a YRL, your name and photo appear next to your activity.
Keeping your information secure
We build security into our services to protect your information
All our products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you. And if we do detect something risky that we think you should know about, we’ll notify you and help guide you through steps to stay better protected. We work hard to protect you and yrl from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including:
- We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit
- We offer a range of security features, like Safe Browsing, Security Checkup, and 2 Step Verification to help you protect your account
- We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems
- We restrict access to personal information to yrl employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
- Other data is deleted or anonymized automatically after a set period of time, such as advertising data in server logs.
- And some data we retain for longer periods of time when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.
Children
Our Web App is directed to and is intended to be used only by persons who are 16 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 16. If you are under 16 years of age, you are not permitted to register for an account or otherwise submit any Personally Identifiable Information to us, including your name, address or e-mail address. If we discover that we have collected any Personally Identifiable Information from a child under the age of 16, we will suspend the associated account and remove that information from our database as soon as possible. By registering for an account or submitting any Personally Identifiable Information to us, you represent and warrant that you are 16 years of age or older.
Compliance & cooperation with regulators
We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your information in ways that comply with it.
Data transfers
All our servers are hosted with Google Cloud Platform which has servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information is processed, we apply the same protections described in this policy. When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that we cannot resolve with you directly.
When this policy applies
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by YRL, and services offered on third-party sites, such as advertising services. This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to:
- The information practices of other companies and organizations that advertise our services
- Services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may include yrl services, be displayed to you in search results, or be linked from our services
Changes to this policy
We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date the last changes were published and we offer access to archived versions for your review. If changes are significant, we’ll provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).
Have more questions?
Please reach out to us at privacy@getyrl.com .