US State Consumer Privacy Notice 

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

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This notice to consumers who reside in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, and Montana, is provided under relevant US state consumer privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act, all final implementing regulations and all associated amendments and updates, and any similarly applicable US state consumer privacy laws (collectively, the “US State Consumer Privacy Laws”). This notice supplements our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services and applies solely to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, and Montana consumers that use or interact with our Consumer Services or whose personal data we obtain from third parties. This notice does not apply to individuals in their professional capacity as a representative of an enterprise customer, business partner, data supplier, developer or vendor (for this, please see our Privacy Policy for Developer & Enterprise Services instead), or in their capacity as an employee or job applicant. 

Personal Data We Collect

The types and sources of personal data, including sensitive personal data, we collect are detailed in the Personal Data We Collect and Process section of our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services. Below, you may review our US State Consumer Privacy Laws Data Collection, Disclosure & Sale/Sharing Chart for more details regarding the  data categories we collect (or have collected within the last 12 months), as well as the sources of the data, as specified under the US State Consumer Privacy Laws.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We provide information on how we use your personal data, including your sensitive personal data, (or have used your personal data within the last 12 months) in the How We Use your Personal Data section of our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services. In addition, we may use (or may have used during the last 12 months) your personal data for the following business purposes specified under the US State Consumer Privacy Laws:

1. auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance;
2. helping to ensure security and integrity;
3. debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; 
4. short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your same interaction with us;
5. performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing analytics services, providing storage, or providing similar services;
6. providing advertising or marketing services;
7. undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration; and
8. undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us.

Our use of deidentified data is covered in the Foursquare’s Data Collection – Consumer Services section of our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services.

Disclosing Your Personal Data

We provide information on how we disclose your personal data, including sensitive personal data in the Disclosing Your Personal Data section of our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services

We disclose personal  data to third parties for the business purposes described in the How We Use Your Personal Data section above, including  for the performance of services on our behalf.  For more information on the categories of third parties to whom we disclose your personal data for a business purpose (or have disclosed your personal data for a business purpose within the last 12 months), please review our US State Consumer Privacy Laws Data Collection, Disclosure & Sale/Sharing Chart. 

Sale and Sharing of Your Personal Data

Your personal data, including sensitive personal data, may be incorporated into the products and services sold to our enterprise customers and advertising partners or shared with them for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. To learn more about our product and service development, as well as the privacy-protecting measures we incorporate, please refer to our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services.

In addition, we may allow certain third parties (such as online advertising services and social networks) to collect your personal data, including your sensitive personal data, via automated technologies on our Consumer Services for the purposes of online advertising or to provide third-party social network features and functionality. You have the right to opt out of disclosing your personal data for these purposes, which may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under US State Consumer Privacy Laws.

For more information on the categories of third parties to whom we may sell your personal data or share your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising (or may have sold or shared your personal data within the last 12 months), please review our US State Consumer Privacy Laws Data Collection, Disclosure & Sale/Sharing Chart. 

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising the personal data of minors under 16 years of age.

Foursquare is a registered data broker in certain US states, including California, Vermont, Texas, and Oregon. Additional information about Foursquare’s status as a data broker is available in the respective data broker registries of such US states.

Retention of Personal Data

We will retain your personal data, including sensitive personal data, as described in the How We Secure & Retain Your Personal Data section of our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services.

Your Privacy Choices

Under US State Consumer Privacy Laws, you may have the right to access, correct, and delete your personal data, limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal data, and opt out of the sale of your personal data and the sharing of your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising. In addition to those rights, Foursquare will also honor all privacy rights outlined in Your Privacy Choices. For information about how to exercise these rights, including instructions for authorized agents, please visit Your Privacy Choices. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.    

US State Consumer Privacy Laws – Rights Metrics

Foursquare honors privacy rights for all users, regardless of where they are located, and we seek to be transparent about the requests we receive by providing certain metrics. Our global privacy metrics are available here.  

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact us in accordance with the Contact Us section of our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services.

Foursquare’s US State Consumer Privacy Laws Data Collection, Disclosure & Sale/Sharing Chart

* Further details regarding the types of Data Sources and Third Parties can be found in our Privacy Policy for Consumer Services.