HOME-BUSINESS-EXPO.COM
PRIVACY DISCLOSURES
Introduction
Home-Business-Expo.com takes your privacy seriously. The following
privacy statement describes how your personal information is collected
and used on Home-Business-Expo.com. Please read the following information
to learn more about our privacy practices.
Information Collection & Use
It is not necessary to register with Home-Business-Expo.com in
order to use our website. However we do have some optional services
that require submission of personal data. The way we use this
personal information is outlined below.
Brown House Media, Inc. is the sole owner of the information
collected on Home-Business-Expo.com. Brown House Media, Inc. collects
personally identifiable information from our users at the following
points on our Web site.
News Alerts
If you choose to utilize our News Alerts service, we request certain
personally identifiable information from you upon signup. The
information we collect during this signup includes your email
address.
Signup for our News Alerts Service includes an email verification
process. No news alerts will be sent until your email address
has been verified. When you signup, an email is sent to your email
address with a unique verification code. You must enter this verification
code in our verification form. A link to this form is included
in the verification email.
Upon verification we will use your email address to send you
an email notification each time a news story is published on Home-Business-Expo.com.
We will not share your email address with third parties other
than a service provider that mails the News Alerts for us.
Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe.
You can simply click the 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom of each
email or contact customer service directly
to have your email address removed from our system.
Comments
If you post a comment on one of our pages that accepts user comments,
we do request certain personally identifiable information from
you. The information we collect during this process includes name,
email address and your URL. Your email address is not required
and will only be used if we wish to respond to your comment or
suggestion. We may make public any information that you provide
including your name, URL and e-mail address.
If you post comments on this site, you should be aware that any
personally identifiable information you submit there can be read,
collected, or used by other users of this website, and could be
used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible
for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit
in your comments.
Wiki Submissions
If you post a question or topic suggestion to our Wiki Program,
we do request certain personally identifiable information from
you. The information we collect during this process includes name
and email address. Your email address is not required and will
only be used if we wish to respond to your question or topic suggestion.
We may make public any information that you provide including
your name and e-mail address.
Wiki Contributors
If you sign up to become a contributor to our Wiki Program, we
do request certain personally identifiable information from you.
The information we collect during this process includes name,
address, phone number, email address and your URL. This information
will be used to communicate with our contributors. We may make
public any information that you provide including your name, address,
phone number, email address and URL.
Surveys
Occasionally we may provide you the opportunity to participate
in surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain
personally identifiable information from you. Participation in
these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a
choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested
information typically includes contact information (such as name
and email address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information tabulate the results for the survey. We
may share this information with third parties.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about
our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address.
We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting
him or her to visit the site. Brown House Media, Inc. stores this
information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email
and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us to request
that we remove this information from our database.
Contact Us
If you submit personal information, such as your email address,
to us by following the "Contact Us" link located throughout our
Site, we will use that information to respond to your question
or request for information. This information will not be shared
with third parties without your explicit permission.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare
occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our
service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send
you an email. You may not opt-out of these non-promotional communications.
If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate
the service related to the service announcement.
Choice/Opt-out
If you no longer wish to utilize services such as our News Alerts,
you may opt-out of receiving them by clicking the unsubscribe
link included in each News Alert. You can also opt out of any
communications by contacting us directly.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain non-personally
identifiable information automatically and store it in log files.
This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser
type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating
system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users,
to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track user navigation
around the website and to gather demographic information about
our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally
identifiable information.
We also use a third-party tracking service called HitsLink that
uses log files to track and aggregate the same non-personally
identifiable information listed above.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer
for record-keeping purposes. We do use cookies on this site. We
do link the information we store in cookies to any personally
identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We do use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate
our site. 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 Internet browser's "help" file.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies
on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this site
only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers
See "Third Party Advertisers."
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs. Clear gifs
are often referred to as pixel tags or Web Beacons. These clear
gifs are used to help us recognize and assess traffic patterns
on our website. Clear gifs are actually small graphics that contain
a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used
to track the online movements of Web users. Unlike cookies, which
are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded
invisibly into Web pages. We do not tie the information gathered
by clear gifs to our user's personally identifiable information.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by third
party advertisers. We may share Web site usage information about
users with reputable third parties for the purpose of targeting
our advertisements on this site.
Third party advertisers may uses cookies and clear GIFs on this
site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user
visits this site. The collected and shared through this technology
is not personally identifiable.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned
or controlled by Brown House Media, Inc. Please be aware that
we, Brown House Media, Inc., are not 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.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you
no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete
or deactivate this information by contacting Customer
Support.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us.
When you enter sensitive information on our registration or order
forms, 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.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you
can send email by clicking here.
Business Transitions
In the event BROWN HOUSE MEDIA, INC. goes through a business transition,
such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all
or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information
will likely be among the assets transferred.
Legal Disclaimer
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.
Data Retention
We retain your information for as long as necessary to permit
us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you
and comply with applicable law or regulations.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate
so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any
time, so please review it frequently. It is your responsibility
to review this document for changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy
policy, please contact us.
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