Social Media Disclaimer

The following describes the Social Media Disclosure for our gotosignal.com website.

Social Media Issue

We live in an interesting time when privacy rights are championed alongside an unprecedented voluntary willingness of people to share their most intimate and superfluous life details with the world, even in places such as our gotosignal.com website. While apparently benign on the surface, the dangers of unrestrained public disclosure of sensitive information is beginning to surface.

Key social media players are being sued for unauthorized or abusive use/misuse of personal information. Failure to protect and warn are likely going to be focal factors. Lawsuits are filed seeking damages for statements held to be responsible for people’s death or suicide. Bloggers presuming to operate under an unfettered freedom of speech or greater latitude offered to members of the press are losing civil cases for defamation, slander, libel, and so on.

As social media rapidly advances to allow more technologically sophisticated and easy dissemination, the simultaneous fallout of revelation without boundaries is mounting. Thus, a sober approach to the benefits of social media, while sidestepping the perils of imprudent disclosure, can facilitate an enjoyable online experience, without the consequences of excess, in settings such as our own gotosignal.com website.

Presence/Scope of Social Media

You should assume that social media is in use on our gotosignal.com website. A simple click of a button to endorse a person, product, or service is building a cumulative profile about you, which you should always assume can be discovered by others. Attempting to share a website with someone, whether by direct press of a button or else by email forwarding facilitated on a website, you should assume that this may not stop with the intended recipient, and that this can generate information about you that could be seen by a veritable infinite number of people. Such a domino effect could initiate right here on our gotosignal.com website.

Something as simple as a blog comment provides the opportunity for knee-jerk reactions that can become public and may not truly represent a position (at least in strength or severity) that you might hold after a period of more reasoned contemplation. You should also note that the ease of accessing one site through the login credentials of another, or the use of a global login for access to multiple sites can accumulate a dossier on you and your online behavior that may reveal more information to unintended parties than you might realize or want. Any or all of these features could exist on our gotosignal.com website at one time or another.

These few examples illustrate some possible ways that social media can exist, though it is not an exhaustive list and new technologies will render this list outdated quickly. The objective is to realize the reach of social media, its widespread presence on websites in various forms (including this website), and develop a responsible approach to using it.

Protecting Others

You should recognize the fact that divulgences made in and on social media platforms on this website and others are rarely constrained just to you. Disclosures are commonly made about group matters that necessarily affect and impact other people. Other disclosures are expressly about third parties, sometimes with little discretion. What can appear funny in one moment can be tragic in the next. And a subtle “public” retaliation can have lifetime repercussions.

Ideal use of social media on our website would confine your disclosures primarily to matters pertaining to you, not others. If in doubt, it's best to err on the side of non-disclosure. It's doubtful the disclosure is so meaningful that it cannot be offset by the precaution of acting to protect the best interests of someone who is involuntarily being exposed by your decision to disclose something on our gotosignal.com website (or another).

Protecting Yourself

You should likewise pause to consider the long-term effects of a split-second decision to publicly share private information about yourself on our gotosignal.com website. Opinions, likes, dislikes, preferences, and otherwise can change. Openly divulging perspectives that you hold today, may conflict with your developing views into the futures. Yet, the "new you" will always stand juxtaposed against the prior declarations you made that are now concretized as part of your public profile. While the contents of your breakfast may hold little long-term impact, other data likewise readily shared can have consequences that could conceivably impact your ability to obtain certain employment or hinder other life experiences and ambitions.

As with sharing information about other people, extreme caution should be used before revealing information about yourself. If in doubt, it’s likely best not to do it. The short term gain, if any, could readily be outweighed by later consequences. Finally, you should note that we are not responsible for removing content once shared, and we may not be able to do so.

Restrictions on Use of Social Media Data

You, as a visitor to our gotosignal.com website, are not permitted to "mine" social media or other platforms contained herein for personal information related to others. Even where people have publicly displayed data, you should not construe that as though you have the liberty to capture, reproduce, or reuse that information. Any use of social media or related platforms on our website are for interactive use only, relevant only during the website visit.

Business Profile Sharing Features

Our platform provides various features for sharing your business profile, including QR code generation, vCard downloads, and social sharing capabilities. These features allow you to share your business information widely, but you should be aware of the implications.

QR Code Sharing: QR codes generated through our platform link directly to your business profile. Once a QR code is shared or displayed publicly, anyone who scans it can access your profile and the information you have chosen to make public. Consider where and how you share QR codes, as they can be easily copied or photographed by others.

vCard Downloads: When someone downloads your vCard file, they receive a copy of your contact information that can be imported into their address book, email client, or contact management system. This information may be stored on their devices or in cloud services outside our control. Once downloaded, you cannot control how this information is used or shared by the recipient.

Profile Embedding: Your business profile may be embedded or linked to from other websites, social media platforms, or third-party services. When you share your profile URL, others may link to it, embed it, or reference it in ways you did not anticipate. We are not responsible for how third parties use or display your profile information.

Public Profile Information: Information you include in your business profile may become publicly accessible when your profile is deployed. This includes contact information, business details, social media links, and any content you choose to display. Consider carefully what information you include, as it may be indexed by search engines, shared on social media, or accessed by anyone with your profile URL.

Search and AI Discoverability: If you enable discoverability for a deployed profile, search engines and AI/answer tools may crawl, index, cache, and summarize your public profile content. Cached and indexed copies are outside our control and may persist even after you edit or remove your profile. You can disable discoverability, but we cannot guarantee every third-party crawler will honor that setting.

Permanent Nature of Shared Information: Once you share your business profile through QR codes, vCard downloads, or social sharing, the information may persist even if you later modify or delete your profile. Downloaded vCard files, screenshots, cached copies, and shared links may continue to exist outside our control. We cannot guarantee that shared information can be completely removed from all locations.

Best Practices: Before sharing your business profile widely, consider:

• Reviewing what information is included in your profile
• Understanding that shared information may be difficult to retract
• Being cautious about sharing personal contact information publicly
• Regularly reviewing and updating your profile information
• Understanding that profile URLs may be indexed by search engines

Accuracy of Social Media Data

As any social media platform is built on user-generated content, you should consider this fact in seeking to determine the authenticity of anything you read. We are not responsible for verifying any user-generated content for accuracy. A best practices policy would be to view all such content as strictly opinion, not fact.

Potential Issues of Liability

You should also be mindful of the fact that your words could trigger liability for harm caused to others. While you have the right to free speech, you do not have the right to damage other people. Under basic principles of tort law, you are always responsible, personally, for situations where either:

1. you were required to act, but did not (i.e. – some “duty of care”)

2. your were required to refrain from acting, but did not (i.e. – slander, defamation, etc.)

These “sins of omission and commission” could cause problems for you, irrespective of whether you assert you are conducting business under the guise of one or more business entities. Illegal and unethical conduct, when done in the name of a corporation or LLC, is still illegal and unethical conduct. As it is rarely part of a business plan to engage in illegal and unethical conduct, you are doubtfully operating in any official capacity, but rather, perhaps, leveraging that capacity to effectuate personal wrongdoing. You should consult a licensed attorney if you wish legal advice as to the (potential) ramification of your situation or legal problems stemming from this website or another.

CHANGE NOTICE: We may update this Social Media Disclaimer from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. If this page is important to you, please check back periodically.

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