EventHive Privacy Policy

In Eventhive, we provide users with a series of functions based on GPS in order to find local events or friends. However, this might become a concern for users and form as  a barrier to new customers. Privacy is a concern for many of us and privacy to a person is “contextual” and “situated” depending on many factors [1]. People would compare the benefits that a website provided to users and the risk of personal information exposure. And from the perspective of “a reasonable person and his or her expectations” of privacy, it is better to allow users to have an alternative choice around disclosing personal data, such as allowing users’ location information is not be visible to others, or only share their experiences with friends [2].

At Eventhive, we take privacy very seriously and value the information you provide to us. We are fully committed to respecting your privacy, and protecting your information. In order to do so, Yani has drafted privacy policies to make it transparent what we would do with your data; meanwhile, we allow people to make a choice to open personal information. This post will introduce what information we collect and explain how it is used and shared when you use our services.

Tips: We collect and use your information below depending on which service you use. And it should be mentioned that if you choose not to open GPS, a lot of useful features and functions in Eventhive would not be supported. 

Basic Account Information

You provide some personal information when you sign up for Eventhive account, such as your name, username, password, and email address. When you log in, your username will be listed publicly on our services, both on your profile page and in search results. Your e-mail address can be used to find your account if you forget your password. If you connect your Eventhive account to your account on another service in order to cross-post between Eventhive and that service, the other service may send us your registration or profile information on that service and other information that you authorize.  You can also permanently delete your Twitter account. It is not viewable on our website when your account is deactivated.

Additional Information

You may provide us with profile information to make public, including your profiles information, (schedules of events you will attend, post list, and friends list), recommended friends from Twitter and Facebook if you sign up through your Twitter or Facebook account, and pictures or records of events, the location of a photos or the date a file was created. You need to think carefully about what you are making public when you share content. You can use account settings to decide if you want to these information to be public or only someone can see them.

Location information

We may use other data from your different devices to determine your location, such as GPS, WiFi signals, or your IP address. When we have your location, you can find local events in your area, communicate with nearby attendees, and join a group talk. You are able to set if we could use your location information in your account setting.

Commerce Services

If you use our services to book tickets on Eventhive, you may provide your purchase or transaction. This includes your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, and your shipping address and contact details. To facilitate future purchases on Eventhive, we store your payment information, excluding CVV code, and shipping address, which you can remove from your account at any time using your account settings.

Third-Parties

We collect information when you visit or use third-party websites and apps that use our Services. This includes information about the websites and apps you visit, your use of our services on those websites and apps, as well as information the developer or publisher of the app or website provides to you or us.

Cookies

Like many websites, we use cookies to understand how you interact with our services in order to improve the quality of our services. For example, to remember your language settings and other preferences, also track your attended events history and help to personalise your experience in our website. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can change settings of your browser to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.

Analysis Information

We collect some information about advertisement, user behaviours (related friends, related groups), and sales based on both product type and user information, such as marriage status, age, education background, and interests. We are able to deliver our Services, personalize content, and make suggestions for you (find events by personal interests and present your friends’ events, local events, and recommended events) by using this information to understand how you use and interact with our Services and the people or things you’re connected to and interested in on and off our Services.  We use analysis tools to test features in development in order to improve products and services, develop new products or features.

This privacy policy is informed by some existing social networking websites, which include Facebook.com, Twitter, and last.fm.

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 Articles Sources:

[1] A. M. Zafeiropoulou, et al., “Unpicking the privacy paradox: can structuration theory help to explain location-based privacy decisions?” presented at conference on ACM Web Science 2013 (WebSci ’13), Paris, France, 02 – 04 May 2013.

[2] R. L. McArthur, “Reasonable expectations of privacy,” Ethics and Information Technology, vol.3, pp. 123-128, 2001. Available from:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1011898010298#page-1 [Accessed 28 April 2015]

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