This Privacy Policy describes our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through our websites, communications (e.g., emails, phone calls, and texts), and mobile applications (collectively, the “Service”). The terms “we”, “us”, and “FBA Advisory” refer to a wholly owned and managed platform by Federation of Buying Agents (FBA) an NGO registered under the 1960 Society Act.
When you use the Service, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may translate this Privacy Policy into other languages for your convenience. Nevertheless, the English version governs your relationship with FBA Advisory, and any inconsistencies among the different versions will be resolved in favor of the English version available
We may collect, transmit, and store information about you in connection with your use of the Service, including any information you send to or through the Service. We use that information to provide the Service’s functionality, fulfill your requests, improve the Service’s quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the Service, personalize your experience, track usage of the Service, provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Service, display relevant advertising, market the Service, provide customer support, message you, back up our systems, allow for disaster recovery, enhance the security of the Service, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not retain such information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long enough to process.
Account Information: When you create a FBA Advisory account, we store and use the information you provide during that process, such as the first and last name you enter, Phone number, email address, zip code, physical address, and any other information you may provide during the account creation process. We may publicly display the User Name that you provide, as well as any photo or other content you submit through the account creation process, as part of your account profile.
Public Content: Your contributions to the Service are intended for public consumption and are therefore viewable by the public, including your photos, ratings, reviews, tips, lists, Collections, compliments, Ask the Community posts, FBA Advisory Talk posts, and edits to business page information. Your account profile (e.g., first name, last initial, city, neighborhood, the month and year you created your FBA Advisory account, profile photos and list of friends on FBA Advisory) is also intended for public consumption, as is some of your other activity through the Service, like how you vote on other people’s contributions (e.g., useful, funny, cool, helpful, or not helpful), which contributions you like, including when friends on FBA Advisory tag you in their own updates, which contributions or users you follow, and which businesses you follow or bookmark.
Contacts: You can invite others to join or become your friend on FBA Advisory by providing us with their contact information, or by allowing us to access contacts from your computer, mobile device, or third party sites to select which individuals you want to invite. If you allow us to access your contacts, we will transmit information about your contacts to our servers long enough to process your invitations.
Professional Information: If you represent a business on FBA Advisory, we may collect and display information about you related to your business activities, such as a business name that may incorporate your name, or a publicly available business address that is also used as a home address. We will also collect and display information about your professional background that you choose to share with us through the Service, such as information about your professional licenses or certifications, or your professional history or specialties.