Privacy Policy

This explains how your information is protected, collected and used by Hey Neighbor!.

1. Protecting your privacy.

We don't run pop-ups or pop-unders advertisements.

We don't reveal, sell or rent any personal information that users provide to us to any third party, unless stated otherwise in this policy, required by law, or as required to protect Hey Neighbor!'s rights.

We don't employ tracking devices for marketing purposes ("cookies", "web beacons," single-pixel gifs).

We don't send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.

We offer email anonymization & relay, to reduce 3rd party harvesting & spam.

Forum account information is password-protected. You need to keep your password safe.

People who post on Hey Neighbor! may provide links to third party web sites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor can we have any control over those third party web sites. We encourage users to read the privacy policies for each web site they visit.

Please remember that any information you share in public areas, such as Hey Neighbor!'s forum and classifieds ads, etc, becomes public, and therefore this Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you choose to make public. Please be careful about what you disclose and do not post any personal information that you expect to keep private.

2. Data we collect.

When you place a classified ad on Hey Neighbor!, we collect your email address for the purposes of sending post confirmation email, allowing respondents to contact you, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc. We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. By sending Hey Neighbor! email, you demonstrate your consent to knowingly and voluntarily provide us with personal information. Please do not post any personal information on Hey Neighbor! that you expect to keep private.

Hey Neighbor! does not store credit card details. Credit card transactions are transmitted to a financial gateway 'PayPal', and to protect the security of your payment information during transmission, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is used.

Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and time-stamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Hey Neighbor! site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.

You can choose to electronically forward a listing from our Site to a friend by entering the friend's e-mail address. We don't sell or share the addresses used in our "E-mail This to a Friend" service or our alerts to any third-party.

Some of our services require you to register for an account, such as our forum. We will ask you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and to establish a user id and password for your account) and we will use that information in connection with providing these services.

3. Data we store.

All classified and forum postings are stored in our database, even after "deletion," and may be archived elsewhere. Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

4. Archiving and display of Hey Neighbor! postings by search engines and other sites.

Search engines and other sites not affiliated with Hey Neighbor! - including archive.org, google.com, and yahoo.com - may archive or otherwise make available Hey Neighbor! postings, including resumes.

5. Circumstances in which Hey Neighbor! may release information.

We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or with legal process, protect and defend our rights and property, protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the site or protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).

In addition to what is stated above, we share customer information only under the following, limited circumstances:

Hey Neighbor! may disclose information collected from the web site to its agents, contractors and other third parties as may be necessary to perform certain functions on behalf of Hey Neighbor!. However, they are prohibited from using the information collected on the web site for any other purpose.

6. Links to Other Sites.

Hey Neighbor! contains links to other Web sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Be aware that when you click on links and/or advertisement banners that take you to third-party Web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies, not ours. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, we are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of third parties and other Web sites.

We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement and user terms and conditions whenever interacting with, and prior to providing any personal information to, any other Web site. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Hey Neighbor! on this Site.

7. Under 13's.

Hey Neighbor! does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13. If Hey Neighbor! learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 13, Hey Neighbor! will remove that post.

8. Security.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect. We do not keep credit card information on our website server; all credit card transactions occur on PayPal, which has strong security measures in place. While we make reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or information we transmit to you from our Site, and you do so at your own risk.

9. IP address tracking.

All computers and servers on the Internet use IP addresses to recognize and communicate with each other. eRoom collects IP addresses to administer and analyze our site and report aggregate, non-personal information (such as how many visitors we have). When you call up our site on your computer, our servers enter the IP address of that computer into a log. To maintain our users' anonymity, we do not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. We do not and cannot use cookies or IP address tracking to retrieve personal information from your computer.

10. Your Ability to Access, Review and Change your Personal Information.

You can access, review and edit your forum user profile, at any time. You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password. Therefore you must not disclose your Hey Neighbor! forum password to any third parties.

11. Governing Law.

Hey Neighbor! is published in Oregon, so Oregon law shall govern in any and all disputes, including privacy or defamation issues or otherwise.

12. Sale of the Company.

If Hey Neighbor! is sold in whole or in part, the email database and all user information shall accrue to the new owners so that the services provided to our users may continue uninterrupted. Any such sales are not anticipated to otherwise alter the basic terms of this Privacy Policy.

13. Changes to Our Privacy Policy.

As Hey Neighbor! continues to develop, we may add new services and features to our site. In the event that these additions, changes to the law or changes to Hey Neighbor!'s terms of use affect our Privacy Policy, this document will and can be updated when appropriate. When materially significant changes happen we will alert you to this via a forum announcement. Your continued use of the web site after the effective date of any changes will constitute your acceptance of all of the changes.

14. Your Comments.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, you can email us at info@heyneighbor.info or use our contact form.