Privacy Policy
How Listings Hub collects, uses and protects your information.
Six Verbs
Almost everything a privacy policy has to say can be filed under six verbs: collect, use, share, keep, protect, and control. This Privacy Policy for our website is built on them. The first five describe what we may do. The sixth describes what you can do.
Two things should be said first. One is that our website may be simpler than the text implies. We talk about sign-ups, public contributions, analytics, and adverts because many websites have them, and whatever we say about them holds only if our website has them too. The other is that this Privacy Policy is about our website alone. We cannot speak for other websites, even ones we link to.
As for the law, this Privacy Policy is intended to address the privacy and data-protection requirements applicable to our website. Those may include the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR and applicable UK data-protection legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), other U.S. state privacy laws, cookie and electronic communications rules, and other national, state, or regional privacy regulations. We address each where it applies. We do not say that all of them apply to you, since that depends on where you are, what our website does, what information is involved, and which technologies are used.
Collect
What arrives automatically
Your browser gives our website certain details whenever it loads a page. We may collect the IP address, the browser type, the device type, and the operating system. We may log the referring URL, the pages visited, and the date and time. The IP address may tell us your general geographic area. If cookies and similar technologies or analytics tools are running, they may collect further data.
What you decide to give
Nothing else is collected unless you provide it. You might send a message through a contact form. You might register, if registration is available. You might submit content for publication, listings, bookmarks, press releases, directories, comments, profiles, or similar functionality, if our website has it.
What a submission can contain
On a website that takes submissions, users may send in articles, business listings, directory listings, press releases, URLs, website submissions, bookmarks, comments, profiles, business information, contact information, images, documents, and other content.
Use
We may use what we collect in the following ways, as far as each is relevant to our website:
- To operate and maintain our website and provide its functionality
- To process submissions, review them, publish those that are approved, and manage listings
- To respond when someone makes an inquiry
- To prevent spam, fraud, and abuse and to maintain security
- To carry out analytics and performance measurement, understand usage, and improve functionality
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements and enforce our policies
- To support advertising, where applicable
Legal bases
If the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or a similar law applies, we need a legal basis for each use. We may rely on consent, on performance of a contract, on legitimate interests, or on compliance with legal obligations. The specific processing activity determines which.
Cookies
Cookies are one of the tools we may use. They may be essential, functional, analytics, advertising, or third-party cookies, and they may be accompanied by pixels, tags, and similar tracking technologies. The selection varies from website to website, and ours may not use every kind.
Analytics
We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve its performance.
Advertising
We may show third-party advertisements, though our website does not necessarily do so. Where we do, advertising partners and advertising networks may use advertising cookies, device identifiers, and other advertising technologies, and the advertisements may be contextual, personalized, or interest-based.
Share
With the public, when you ask us to publish
Publishing is a form of sharing, and the widest one. Information you voluntarily submit for public display may be published on our website, where visitors can access it. Search engines may index and cache it. Third parties may view it and share it through external websites. It may be copied or redistributed outside our control.
That is why we ask you not to submit confidential, private, or sensitive personal information in content intended for publication.
With service providers
We may use external hosting providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, security services, spam-prevention tools, content delivery networks, embedded media providers, social media services, technical service providers, and other vendors. They may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and legal obligations.
With advisers, authorities, and successors
Where applicable and legally permitted, we may disclose information to professional advisers, to legal authorities, courts, regulators, and law enforcement, and to successors in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale, or transfer of assets.
Sale or sharing in the legal sense
Some laws define "sale" and "sharing" to include certain disclosures for advertising. If activities conducted through our website constitute a sale or sharing of personal information under applicable law, eligible users may have the right to opt out.
A word on external links
Following a link is not us sharing your information, but it does take you somewhere we have no say. Links to external websites may appear in articles, press releases, directory entries, bookmarks, and listings. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites. They have their own privacy policies, and you should review them before providing personal information.
Keep
We keep personal information only while there is a reasonable need for it. A need may arise from providing functionality, processing submissions, maintaining published content, administering our website, security, fraud prevention, recordkeeping, legal obligations, resolving disputes, or enforcing agreements. Once no such need remains, we have no reason to keep the information and do not intend to.
Where it is kept
Information may be processed, stored, or transferred in countries other than your country of residence. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we may use them.
Protect
Safeguards
We may use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. We cannot promise they will never fail. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Sensitive information
Protection works best when sensitive data is not collected in the first place. Please avoid submitting government identification numbers, financial account credentials, medical information, or other highly sensitive personal details through public submission forms, unless we specifically request them and they are necessary.
Children
Our website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children below the age required by applicable law. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has submitted personal information, please contact us through the Contact Us page.
Control
Cookies and advertising
You can manage cookies in your browser settings, through cookie controls on our website where we provide them, and through consent management mechanisms where applicable. You may also have advertising choices, including opt-out mechanisms required by applicable law.
Browser signals
We may recognize Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals where applicable law requires. Do Not Track signals have no common standard, and our website may not respond to them unless required by law.
Rights under the GDPR
Where the GDPR applies, you may have the right of access, the right to correction or rectification, the right to deletion or erasure, the right to restrict processing, the right to object, the right to data portability, the right to withdraw consent, and the right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate supervisory authority.
Rights under UK law
Where the UK GDPR and applicable UK data-protection legislation apply, you may have corresponding rights, including the right to complain to the UK supervisory authority.
Rights under California law
Where the CCPA and CPRA apply, you may have the right to know, the right to access, the right to correct, the right to delete, the right to opt out of the sale of personal information where applicable, the right to opt out of sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising where applicable, the right to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information where applicable, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights.
Rights under other U.S. state laws
If you live in another U.S. state with a privacy law, you may have rights under it, depending on your place of residence, applicability thresholds, our website's activities, and applicable law.
Conditions
All of these rights depend on applicable law, may be subject to exceptions, and may require identity verification.
How to exercise control
Send any request about access, correction, deletion, data portability, restriction, objection, consent withdrawal, advertising opt-outs, sale or sharing opt-outs, or other legally available privacy rights through the Contact Us page on our website. We may request additional information to verify your request. Some requests may be subject to legal exceptions. We will handle requests from authorized agents where required by applicable law.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically because of changes in our website's functionality, data-processing practices, technologies, cookies, third-party services, business practices, applicable laws, or regulatory requirements. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on our website. This Privacy Policy becomes effective when published on our website and may be revised from time to time.
Contact
Questions about privacy, your personal information, your rights, a privacy request, or this Privacy Policy are welcome. Please send them through the Contact Us page on our website.