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Spokeo People Search (or Spokeo, Inc. or Spokeo.com) respects the privacy of its users and non-users. This privacy policy discloses any information we obtain and how we use it. Spokeo, Inc. may modify this policy from time to time, and any change will be posted here.

1. COLLECTED PUBLIC CONTENT

Unless you specify otherwise (see Section 2), ONLY PUBLIC CONTENT FROM PUBLIC WEB SITES ARE SYNDICATED AND DISPLAYED ON SPOKEO.COM. The definition of public content is any information on the Web that is accessible by anyone without special user credentials or permissions.

Spokeo, Inc. displays any collected information for the sole purpose of content syndication. You are not permitted to republish and modify any copyrighted material without owner’s permissions. In addition, you can only direct our machines to collect information from you, your friends, and others who have approved your content access. Spokeo, Inc. does not assume any responsibility if you choose to abuse the system.

Spokeo, Inc. does not claim the ownership of any collected information, public or private, displayed on Spokeo.com.

2. COLLECTED PRIVATE CONTENT

You are not required to provide any personally-identifiable information to use Spokeo.com. You may choose to provide your email account login credentials to import your address book contacts into Spokeo.com.  Your email account login credentials will only be used for the one-time address book import and will not be stored.

You may choose to provide your third-party login credentials to syndicate private content from third-party social networks and Web sites. By entering in your third-party passwords, you explicitly permit Spokeo, Inc. to syndicate all private content accessible by YOU AND ONLY YOU on third-party Web sites.  To protect and preserve the privacy of the original third-party content, Spokeo, Inc. authenticates all users’ access to private content with users’ personal credentials. Users can only view third-party content that they have access to on the third-party Web sites. All passwords and personal information are hashed and stored with the strictest security standards.

3. PRIVATE CONTENT PROTECTION

Spokeo, Inc. regularly checks for the latest changes in the privacy settings of all its collected information.  If the privacy setting of any collected information has been changed from public to private, Spokeo will detect that change and reflect the latest privacy changes in its cached Content. 

SPOKEO, INC. DOES NOT GUARANTEE ERROR-FREE PERFORMANCE.  Spokeo, Inc. will always try its best to protect any user and data privacy; however, it may not catch all unintended privacy issue. Spokeo, Inc. is not responsible for any damages, including incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, relating to the practices described in this Policy.

4. BROWSER COOKIES

Spokeo, Inc. uses cookies, or small text files on your computer that store data about your visit, to maintain your login session.  Spokeo, Inc. does not store any personally-identifiable information.  Spokeo, Inc. may collect and analyze your usage patterns that are not personally identifiable. These non-personally-identifiable data are used to improve our services, and may be shared with third parties at our sole discretion.