Privacy Policy

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy. We may also provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to the Services or sending you a notification), such as in connection with making material changes to this Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information directly from you when you create an account, fill out a form, submit or post content through our Services, communicate with us via third-party platforms, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The specific information we collect depends on the context in which you provide it, and could include:

  • Your name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • User name

  • Profile picture

  • Your business information (for real estate agents and brokers)

  • Your feedback

  • Any other information you choose to provide

Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect certain information about your interactions with us or our Services, including:

  • Activity Information: We collect information about your activity on our Services, such as the homes you view, destinations to which you travel, dates that you travel, and distances you travel.

  • Device and Usage Information: We collect information about how you access our Services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, browser type, and app version. We also collect information about your activity on our Services, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services.

  • Your Content: With your permission, we collect information and content stored on your device, such as your calendars and contacts.

  • Other Related Content: We collect information and content shared by other users related to your use of the Services.

  • Location Information: In accordance with your device permissions, we may collect information about the precise location of your device. You may stop the collection of precise location information at any time (see the "Your Choices" section below for details).

  • Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We (and those who perform work for us) use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about your interactions with the Services. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that we use on our Services and in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We obtain information from other sources. For example, we may collect information from service providers, publicly available sources, or business partners through which customers access Company's services. This information includes content related to homes. Additionally, if you create or log into your Tether account through a third-party platform (such as Facebook or Google), we will have access to certain information from that platform, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and profile picture, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such platform.

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your approximate location based on your IP address or infer that you are looking to purchase certain products based on your usage of the mobile application, browsing behavior, and home preferences.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to enable communications between users, organize the home-viewing experience, provide group geolocation features, and facilitate customized travel. We also use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, maintain, improve, and develop new products and services, including to debug and repair errors in our Services;

  • Enhance the safety and security of our users and Services through safety features, such as providing you or users with whom you share your location with geofencing alerts in the event you or other users with whom you are connected leave a geofenced area; proximity timers to record how long you or a user with whom you share your location has been in a particular location or the time it will take to arrive at a particular location; and turn-by-turn directions to instruct you or a user with whom you have shared your location how to return back to a geofenced area;

  • Personalize your experience with us;

  • Send you technical notices, security alerts, support messages and other transactional or relationship messages;

  • Provide customer support;

  • Communicate with you about products, services, and events offered by Tether and others and provide news and information that we think will interest you;

  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our products and services;

  • Detect, investigate, and help prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and help protect the rights and property of Tether and others;

  • Comply with our legal and financial obligations;

  • Create de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated information; and

  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We disclose personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:

  • With your consent, when you connect to other users or invite others to join your group, we will share your location information.

  • We disclose personal information with vendors that access personal information to perform work for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, shipping and delivery, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, and marketing and advertising.

  • If you provide a product review or otherwise disclose content on our Services, we disclose this information publicly/with other users of our Services.

  • If you choose to use integrations we offer on our Services, such as disclosing your location through our MapBox integration, we may disclose certain information with the integration partners.

  • We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

  • We may disclose personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Tether, our users, the public, or others.

  • We disclose personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.

  • We may disclose personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.

  • Personal information is disclosed between and among Tether and our current and future parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership.

  • We disclose personal information with your consent or at your direction.

We also disclose aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

ANALYTICS

We engage others to provide analytics services across the web and in mobile apps. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by Tether and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand your online activity.

YOUR CHOICES

Account Information

You may update and correct certain account information (including first or last name, email address, phone number, and profile photo) at any time by modifying the account information within the website or the mobile application. If you wish to delete your account, please delete the app from your device, but note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for our legitimate business purposes.

Location Information

When you use any features of our mobile apps that collect location information, you will be asked to consent prior to the app’s collection of this information. If you initially consent to our collection of such location information, you can subsequently stop the collection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device. You may also stop our collection of this location information by following the standard uninstall process to remove all of our mobile apps from your device.

Cookies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.

Browser Do Not Track

Our website does not support Do Not Track (DNT) at this time. DNT is a privacy preference you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your web page visits tracked and collected across websites. For more details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@tetherlife.com.