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Your privacy on the Internet is of the
utmost importance to us. At bizhound, we want to make your
experience online satisfying and safe. This Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions
and Acceptable Use Policy, set out our policies applicable to your
account and disclose what information we gather and how we use it.
bizhound gathers and keeps track of:
. Information that users provide through
optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions
made by You in order to receive our electronic newsletters, to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend,
and from participation in polls and surveys:
. Information bizhound gathers through
aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page
views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better
tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers
and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience.
Because bizhound offer low cost products and services improving
the quality of service by gathering this information is
imperative. Under no
circumstances does bizhound divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
bizhound gathers information about its users
as follows:
OPTIONAL VOLUNTARY INFORMATION SUBMISSION
bizhound offers the following free services,
which require some type of voluntary submission of personal
information by users:
Polling
bizhound occasionally offers interactive
polls to users in order to enable the users to share their
experience with other users as well as to improve bizhound's
services. The collected information, including user opinions,
testimony and other submitted information is aggregated. This
information is not identifiable to any particular user. However, bizhound
may employ action "tags" (also known as single pixel
gifs or web beacons) to tag users after they have voted, in order
to prevent the same user from voting multiple times on the same
issue. This "tag" is not correlated with the subject
user's individual information.
Surveys
bizhound may occasionally conduct user
surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes
share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with
our sponsors, advertisers and partners. However, in doing so, we
will never share specific user information with any third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), we will never
knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone
under legal age without first requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
bizhound tracks user traffic patterns
throughout its various sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with specific data about individual users. bizhound
does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's
domain name, browser type, and Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extension ("MIME") type by gathering such information
from the browser string (information contained in every user's
browser).
bizhound sometimes tracks and catalogs the
search terms entered by users in our Search function. However,
this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use
tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read, but rather how well each page
performs overall. This helps us continue to improve our services
for our users.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a
"cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The
cookie itself does not contain personal information, although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that
you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal
information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the
user. A cookie cannot read data from the user's hard disk or read
cookie files created by other sites. bizhound uses cookies to
track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning the cookie
function off in your browser. If your browser is set to provide a
warning before the cookie is accepted, you will receive the
warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies
turned on to use bizhound's site. However, you may need to
enable/accept cookies if you wish to actively participate in our
message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
bizhound uses information voluntarily
submitted by our users to enhance the user experience in our
network of sites, whether by providing interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or by improving future content in response
to the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that
users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic
newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys,
message boards, and forums. bizhound never shares
newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
We use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users
read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you. We track search
terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what
interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular
user enters.
bizhound may create aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and
partners. This enables our advertisers to advertise more
effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that
are tailored to their needs. Because we don't track the usage
patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never
know which particular user clicked their advertisement.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
bizhound uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our
advertisers better understand its audience's demographics. We will not share
information about individual users with any third party, except in
order to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to
protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
bizhound operates secure data networks
protected by industry standard firewall and password protection
systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically
reviewed and enhanced as necessary. Only authorized individuals
have access to the information provided by our customers.
Our sites contain links to other sites. bizhound
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of
such other websites.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and
practical. Such choices include:
- The option to not register to receive our
electronic newsletters; and
- The option to not participate in certain
interactive areas, which completely obviates our need to
gather any personally identifiable information from our users.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the
collection and use of this information by bizhound. If we decide
to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this
page so that you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
NECESSARY DISCLOSURE
We will not share your personal information
except with a third party to assist us in the processing or
securing of your personal information or when we are required by
law unless we have given you notice and choice, in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the
edicts of the law, or we must comply with a legal process served
on our web site.
PERSONAL INFORMATION FOLLOWING
TERMINATION OF ACCOUNT
When your bizhound account is cancelled
(either voluntarily or involuntarily) all of your personally
identifiable information is placed in "deactivated"
status within our corresponding databases. However, you should
know that deactivation of your account does not mean your
personally identifiable information has been deleted from our
database entirely. We will retain and use your personally
identifiable information if necessary in order to resolve disputes
or enforce our agreements.
This document was last
revised 6:49 PM on 02/02/10
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