User Privacy

With great power comes great responsibility. With the great power to locate a user comes the greatest responsibility of protecting it from unscrupulous use endangering the security of the user. Location can enable you to provide the user with multitude of facilities like finding nearby interesting places, friends around and user profile based ad push. But the need to protect this sensitive user information is much important. SmartGeo platform provides a horde of features catering to the needs of user privacy. Our product vision has enabled us to think most of the scenarios and care is taken at multiple levels so that the user is fully aware of the risks involved. Some of the features enabling this are -

• Privacy Rules
  SmartGeo platform supports configurable privacy rules for honoring subscriber's preference of sharing his location across all application.
  • Time based
  • Geography based
• Location Sharing Policies
  SmartGeo platform supports configurable privacy policies for honoring subscriber's preference of sharing his location with respect to specific applications. Subscriber can choose to make his/her location available for certain application and not for other applications. For example an employee can choose not to have his location available to Work Force Management after work hours.
• Informative alerts of location broadcasting
• Permission controlled location sharing
• Intelligent permission defaults