BusBud, Inc. ("BusBud ", "we" or "us") provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of www.BusBud.com (the "Website").
Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service. As used in this policy, the terms "using" and "processing" information include using cookies on a computer, subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis and using or handling information in any way, including, but not limited to collecting, storing, evaluating, modifying, deleting, using, combining, disclosing and transferring information within our organization.
Be sure to return to this page periodically to review the most current version of the Privacy Policy. We reserve the right at any time, at our sole discretion, to change or otherwise modify the Privacy Policy without prior notice, and your continued access or use of this Website signifies your acceptance of the updated or modified Privacy Policy. If we modify it, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of the Privacy Policy. By continuing to access or use the Website, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified the Privacy Policy. If the modified Privacy Policy is not acceptable to you, please do not use this Website.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve our Website, Application, services, features and content, to administer your use of the Website and Application (together, the "Software") and to enable users to enjoy and easily navigate the Website.
SESSION
We automatically collect session information about your computer when you visit the Website. For example, we will collect your IP address, Web browser software (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer), and referring website.
When you visit the Website, whether as a non-registered user just browsing, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website, pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.
We use this information to monitor and analyze use of the Website and for the Website's technical administration, to increase our Website's functionality and user-friendliness, and to better tailor our Website to our visitors' needs. We also use this information to verify that visitors to the Website meet the criteria required to process their requests. We do not treat Log Data as personal information or use it in association with other personal information, though we may aggregate, analyze and evaluate such information for the same purposes as stated above regarding other non-identifying information.
COOKIES
Like many websites, we use "cookies" to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies for two purposes. First, we utilize persistent cookies to save your login information for future logins to the Website. Second, we utilize session ID cookies to enable certain features of the Website, to better understand how you interact with the Website and to monitor aggregate usage by BusBud users and web traffic routing on the Website. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the Website and then close your browser. Third party advertisers on the Website may also place or read cookies on your browser. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Website.
REVIEWS, COMMENTS AND OTHER SUBMISSIONS
Please be aware that by submitting content to this Website by electronic mail, postings on this Website or otherwise, including any information related to a bus company name, schedule, price or duration for bus travel on a route, reviews, questions, comments, suggestions, feedback, ideas or the like contained in any submissions (collectively, “Submissions”), you grant BusBud a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised, with or without the name you used to make such Submission. You also hereby waive all moral rights you may have in the Submissions.
You acknowledge and agree that your Submissions are not your confidential or proprietary information. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any Submissions posted or submitted by you. We have no obligation to post your comments; we reserve the right in our absolute discretion to remove or alter any Submission. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not provide us with any Submissions.
We reserve the right to store personal information submitted by you the user at the time of making a Submission, including name, city, country and email. We store this information in order (i) to add your name to the Contributor Roll on the public website to thank you for your Submission and (ii) to notify you when the Submission is posted online, if applicable and if you have explicitly showed interest in being notified. We do not spam. We will store your Submission with a timestamp.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION AND NON-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts will not contain your Personal Information.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER
YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO - AND MAINTAINED ON - COMPUTERS LOCATED OUTSIDE OF YOUR STATE, PROVINCE, COUNTRY OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL JURISDICTION WHERE THE PRIVACY LAWS MAY NOT BE AS PROTECTIVE AS THOSE IN YOUR JURISDICTION. YOUR CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOLLOWED BY YOUR SUBMISSION OF SUCH INFORMATION REPRESENTS YOUR AGREEMENT TO THAT TRANSFER.