Protecting your privacy while allowing you to openly share information among community members and community and law enforcement is our primary concern and paramount to our success.

Nation of Neighbors is designed to facilitate communication among community members and between community members and law enforcement.  In order to accomplish that goal we need to collect a minimum amount of personal information, such as your name, email address and location.  When you interact with others within your community, some of this information, such as your name, will be shown to other community members.  Most information, other than your name, will not be shown.  For a complete list of the information we collect, what we do with it and who can see it, please read the entire privacy policy.

Information we collect & how it’s used

This page describes our privacy policy. By visiting nationofneighbors.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

About Reports

All reports filed with Nation of Neighbors are anonymous by default.  We do not store identifying information in our databases that would allow an individual member to be linked to a report.

Your name will never be associated with a report you file unless you specifically add your name to the report or add a comment to the report claiming to be the author.  If you would like for Law Enforcement to know your identity, please add your name to the ‘private details’ section of the report.

Reports you file and your location
While we save precise location data in our database, we do not show exact locations to members other than verified law enforcement members.  Other members, who belong to Community Groups that your report is assigned to, will be shown the City and State your report was filed in.  They will not see the street address.  Additionally, the report location as pinpointed on maps will be randomly modified or offset.

Please see the report page for additional details about report privacy.

Your Account

When registering for an account with Nation of Neighbors, you are required to provide certain identifying information including your name, email address and location.  Members have different levels of access to this information depending on whether or not they are a member of your community or a verified law enforcement member.  You can review your personal information, as seen by others, on your account page.

Your Name
We ask that you provide your first and last names at the time you create your account.  Members of your Community Groups and verified Law Enforcement members will be shown your full name when viewing content that you have added to Nation of Neighbors and when contacting you via the Nation of Neighbors message center.  All other members will be shown only your first name.  If you comment on certain public site content your first name may also be shown to site visitors.

Email Address
We ask that you provide an email address at the time you create your account.  We will use your email address to send you information about your account with Nation of Neighbors and to send you alerts and other notices that you elect to receive.  Your email address will not be shared with other members or third parties.  We will never use your email address to send advertising.

Other members of your Community Groups and verified Law Enforcement members will be able to contact you via the Nation of Neighbors message center if you choose to allow them to do so.  However, they will not be given your email address.


Phone Number
Once you create your account, you have the option to add a cell phone number to your account.  Once you verify that the number belongs to you, you may elect to receive certain notices and alerts by text message.  Your phone number will not be shared with other members or third parties.  We will never use your phone number to send advertising.  We will never use your phone number to call you.

Please note that your provider may charge a fee to receive text messages.


Profile Photo
Once you create your account, you have the option to add a profile photo to your account.  If you choose to add a profile photo to your account your profile photo will be shown to other Nation of Neighbors members and other site visitors wherever your first name is shown.

Addresses
We ask that you provide your primary location (physical address) at the time you create your account.  Supporting members have the option of adding additional locations to their account.  We use your location to determine which Community Groups you may join and which other Nation of Neighbors members you interact with.  Your saved locations also allow you to elect to receive alerts when crime or other suspicious activity is reported nearby.

Your Address and Community Groups
We do let Group Managers know if you have a location within their group’s boundaries.  We do not show them your address.

Your Address and Law Enforcement
Verified law enforcement members will have access to your location if your location is within their jurisdiction.

Your Address and Reports You File
Members report most frequently on activity near their primary location. In fact, when logged in, you will find that your location information is pre-entered when you visit the report form.  If you are reporting sensitive information we understand that you may not want your location pinpointed as the report location.  You may also be concerned about the perpetrators of the activity you report seeing your report.  Not surprisingly, this is the most frequent concern we hear about from new and prospective members.  There is a fine line between providing useful factual information to the community and protecting the security and privacy of individual community members.  The success of Nation of Neighbors depends, in large part, on our ability to walk that fine line and balance the benefit of the community with the rights and needs of individuals.

Report locations, as shown on our maps to (non law enforcement) members, are slightly modified to protect the privacy of the person making the report.  The exact modification is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, report type and member density.  If your report requires further obfuscation of the actual location, please enter an alternate nearby location within your community as the report location and list the actual location and reason for the alternate location in the ‘private details’ section of the report which is only available to law enforcement.


If you have comments, questions or suggestions regarding your privacy or the way reports are handled, we’d love to hear from you.

Other Information

Removal of your Personally Identifiable Information from our databases

At any time you may delete your account with Nation of Neighbors.  All personally Identifiable Information will immediately be removed from our databases.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Web browser's "help" file.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site will be limited.

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this site only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties.

Log Files

Like most Web sites, nationofneighbors.com gathers and stores certain information automatically. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, internet service provider (ISP), and a record of the pages you visit on nationofneighbors.com.  This information may also be used in aggregate for research purposes
supporting Nation of Neighbors, Neighborhood Watch or community
participation.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

Automatically-collected data is not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links to third party sites

Nationofneighbors.com contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Nation of Neighbors LLC. Please be aware that we can not be responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Data Security

The security of your personal information is extremely important to us. When you enter sensitive personal information on forms on nationofneighbors.com, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Legal

If we had a team of highly paid attorneys, they would probably advise us to add something like the following:

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

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Unfortunately, the Google Maps API does not work over SSL (HTTPS).  We're working on resolving this problem.  In the meantime, please click 'Yes'.  The data you submit to Nation of Neighbors is still sent via HTTPS.  Only the map display is not secure.

 

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