Privacy Policy

Dude where’s my mobile? Privacy Policy

About us

Dude where’s my mobile has provided this privacy policy because we value your right to privacy. This policy is effective from April 1st 2008 and governs the collection and use of personal information through this Site on or after this date.

This policy describes the types of information Dude where’s my mobile collects from its users and how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. Information supplied to Dude where’s my mobile will be treated with respect and in accordance with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation currently in force. Information will only be used by us for the purposes that you have agreed to. By using this Site you agree to Dude where’s my mobile’s use of personal information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not use this Site.

Information we collect
1. Unregistered users
We encourage you to register with us in order to take advantage of the extra features available to Dude where’s my mobile registered users.

If you do not register, then the information we collect from you is limited.
IP Address

We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on how you access the site. It would be extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address, and we make no attempt to do so. If you reached our Site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, then we also log that information. This helps us to maximize our Internet exposure, and to understand the interests of our users. All of this information is collected and used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not reports about individual visitors.
Cookies

We also place a small file known as a “cookie” on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your path through our Site and to determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to identify you.

Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our Site, and to help us to improve our Site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so, you may find that your browser doesn’t properly react when visiting not only our Site, but other Web sites as well. Please note that since cookies don’t provide us with any information from which we can identify you, we suggest you allow us to place one on your computer so you can fully enjoy the Site’s features.

If you visit our Site by “clicking-through” from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our Site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. Regardless of what information was transmitted to us, however, we don’t keep it unless you register with us.
2. Registered Users

If you choose to register with us, you’ll be able to add content to our Site. For example, you may post your own product reviews, post questions, add guides and tips and participate in our discussion forums. The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to know you better and introduce new features. We encourage you to register and add content so that the Dude where’s my mobile community can grow and help more people to get the most from their mobile phone or gadget.

If you register with us, we will collect personal information from you in addition to the non-personal information described above. That personal information including, but not limited to the information you manually enter into our forms such as your name, email address, user name, birth date and password. We may store all or some of that information in a cookie file on your hard drive, so that our system will recognize you each time you visit our site. Authorised Dude where’s my mobile personnel may update your registration information to accurately reflect any new information included in communications received from you.

If you visit our Site by “clicking-through” from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our Site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. We may or may not retain that information; if we do, then we will only use it in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner site from which you came to us.

If you reach our Site through one of our partners (whether or not you have registered with our partner), and you choose to register with us, we may be required to give our partner some or all of your registration information. We will only do so in accordance with this policy, but we cannot control how our partner uses the information. If you have questions about our partner’s privacy policy, you should review their policy before providing information to us. Of course, you can ensure that the personal information you provide to us is not shared with our partners (except in accordance with this policy), by visiting us directly instead of clicking-through from one of our partners.
How we use the personal information we collect.

We use the personal information we collect to help both of us! As we mentioned above, registering with us allows you to post questions, post hints and tips for phones, add product reviews and phone ratings. We may also use your personal information to periodically contact you with news or important information from Dude where’s my mobile and/or to request your feedback on our Site. In addition to these periodic updates, we may email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them. These might include opt-in newsletters, information about special savings or promotions for Dude where’s my mobile members, competitions and other materials that you proactively request from Dude where’s my mobile.

In addition to these communications, if you have provided an email address, we may use your personal information to send you notifications about special offers or to tell you about opportunities available from our partners, subject to your consent (which may be withdrawn at any time in the manner set forth herein).

You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from Dude where’s my mobile in any commercial e-mail we send or at any time, as well as access and update your personal information, by clicking on My Profile at the top of the page.

We may also use certain information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that you may find interesting. This benefits both of us. It benefits us because advertising helps pay the bills, and we can charge our advertisers more if they know that their advertisements will be seen by someone more likely to find it useful. It benefits you because you this revenue helps us to keep the Dude where’s my mobile community free to use and you also see advertising that may actually be interesting to you, rather than annoying.

You can cancel your registration with us by contacting us via our feedback form (Click here to go to our Feedback Form ) and placing your email address in the subject of the message. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. After we receive confirmation, we will remove your information from our active database, but some information may remain in our archives for an additional period of time before being deleted. We may not be able to remove your information from our partners’ databases, if we have transmitted any information to them.
Disclosure of your personal information

Dude where’s my mobile does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party, other than our partners, as discussed in this policy. We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, for marketing, market research and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify you personally.

We also may share your personal information with third-parties specifically engaged by Dude where’s my mobile to provide services to Dude where’s my mobile (such as market research firms, marketing services providers and advertising agencies), in which case we will require those parties to agree to use any such personally-identifiable data solely for the purpose of providing the specified services to Dude where’s my mobile. As you might expect, Dude where’s my mobile must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to legal proceedings. We don’t expect this to happen, but if it does, we will provide only the information required. In other words, we will not simply turn over our database in response to a specific legal requirement. We can also turn over information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing our legal rights. We also may share your information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the unlikely event of insolvency.

Your username and contributions on Dude where’s my mobile will be publicly viewable and identifiable. Dude where’s my mobile encourages its members to create usernames that are not visibly connected to their first and last names.

How you can review and update your personal information

You can review and update the personal information you have provided through the registration process by visiting http://www.dudewheresmymobile.com/wp-login.php. You can access your personal information and correct the information.

Steps we take to protect your personal information

Dude where’s my mobile has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information stored in our systems. For example, we limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information. We also employ processes (such as password hashing) to protect against unauthorised access to your personal information. While we implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal information and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to personal information there is no way for us to guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.
Children’s privacy

This Site is not designed or intended for use by children under 18 years of age. Although children’s products and/or services may be referenced on this Site, this site is intended for use by adults. If you are under 18 years of age, you should use this Site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Children under 18 years of age may not submit any Personally Identifiable Information to us. If we discover that we have inadvertently gathered any such information from a child under 18 years of age, we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration.