Out In Old Town's Privacy Policy
Good news! Out In Old Town takes privacy seriously. We are old-school geeks and like stats and analytics AND like privacy. Because of that combination of values, we created our own analytical system to keep your privacy safe. That's right, we handle statistical data within our own system to maximize privacy while delivering a seamlessly stat-driven experience. Likes, views, and impressions create trends on the site, and views and page time shows business owners what events are popular.
Here are the specifics of how we handle data within the site:
Marketing 3rd Party tracking
✔ Never. We don't use any 3rd party tracking scripts, pixels, or creepy cookies to track your usage and sell your data. We don't advertise.
Analytical 3rd party tracking
✔ Never. We don't use 3rd party analytical systems that can spy on your usage and sell your data. All analytics are handled by our own system and stay within our system.
Payment 3rd party tracking
If you pay for something through our site, you will be paying through Stripe. Your payment information will be handled on their servers, and stored on their servers. Stripe is a highly popular and reputable payment processing system.
How we use visitor data:
We use site traffic data in the way that makes sense: to show what's popular but not invade privacy.
For Events:
Event Impressions: Every time an event is visible in a calendar or list view an 'impression' is added to that event's impression count. Visible to everyone on the event page.
Event views: Each event has a view count. Visible to everyone on the event page.
Event Likes: Every time an event is liked, a like is added to the event like count. Visible to everyone on the event page.
Total event visit duration: Each event has a total time on page, with each visitor adding to that amount. Visible to us and the event owner.
For Places:
Place Impressions: Every time a place is visible in list view an 'impression' is added to that event's impression count. Visible to everyone on the event page.
Place views: Each place has a view count. Visible to us and the place owner.
Place Likes: Every time a place is liked, a like is added to the place like count. Visible to everyone on the place page.
Total place visit duration: Each place has a total time on page, with each visitor adding to that amount. Visible to us and the place owner.
Additional uses:
Trending and Popular places and events are calculated from views, likes, impressions, and time on page. Site visitor data anonymity We log IP addresses and store them internally to determine actions unique to a specific visitor. IP addresses are not shown to account holders and are for internal use only.Data Collected:
Site Visitor Data
- -IP Address
- -Page Loads
- -Time on Page
- -Likes
Account Holder Data
Creating an account with us, by its nature, requires that we store your information
- - Name
- - Phone number
- - Address
- - Email address
If you wish to delete or close your account at any time, we are happy to do so for you.
Cookie Usage
We use cookies the way they used to be used: to keep you logged in. These are not 3rd party tracking cookies and are simply there to make the site function.
Third party data sharing
The only 3rd party system involved is our payment processor, Stripe. If you pay for something, they will collect your information and store it.
All businesses in Alexandria can create an account and access view counts and like counts and statistics of the interactions on their business profile. This is anonymized data, and does not include IP addresses or digital fingerprints.
Data deletion requests
If you wish to delete a user account, write to us and we will remove all traces of you, no questions asked. If you are a site visitor and would like your IP address removed from out stat logs, write to us and we will remove it.
Location privacy
We take photos of locations and try to list every place in a positive light. If you wish to remove a place from our registry we are happy to do so. To minimize any hecklers or tricksters from removing a place that aren't theirs, we will try our best to verify that you are somehow affiliated with the location in question by sending a confirmation code through the contact form on a website, to that business email, or calling.
