Privacy Policy Statement
Last updated: August 6, 2009
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how Bizmore treats personal information that Bizmore collects and receives in connection with its website. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, or credit card number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
Information Collection and Use
Bizmore collects personal information when you register with Bizmore to access certain parts of its website, and when you generally visit Bizmore’s website.
When you register with Bizmore we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Bizmore and sign in to Bizmore’s website, you are not anonymous to us. Furthermore, if you sign up for certain premium services on the Bizmore site, you may be required to provide your credit card information.
Bizmore automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Bizmore cookie information, and the page you request.
Bizmore uses the information collected from you for the following general purposes: carrying out the services offered through our website; meeting legal and regulatory requirements; making our website easier to use by reducing the need for you to enter information; and contacting users regarding products and services offered by Bizmore and, to the extent the user has agreed to it, by its trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Bizmore does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except when we have your permission or under the following circumstances:
- When we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or
- When we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Bizmore's terms of use, confidentiality pledge and standards or as otherwise required by law; or
- When Bizmore from time to time engages third parties, including its own subsidiaries and affiliated companies, to preserve, analyze or otherwise store or manipulate data received by Bizmore from its users; however, in all such cases, such third party service providers will be required to treat all such data with the same degree of care as Bizmore and they will be prohibited from disclosing such data to any other person or party, except as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy; or
- In the case Bizmore is sold, the information collected from users may be transferred to the new owners.
Bizmore may also disclose aggregate, anonymous, data based on information collected from users to third parties. In such cases, statistical information only will be disclosed and personally identifiable data will be kept strictly confidential in accordance with this privacy policy.
Cookies
Bizmore may set and access cookies on your computer.
Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored in your computer’s hard drive when you visit a web site. This file or piece of information allows a user to move quickly and easily around our web site and is used to identify returning users. We also use a cookie to track a user’s sessions. We use this information to find out what site features are most popular so we can develop our web site and content in light of our analysis of people’s usage.
The use of cookies is an industry standard and done on most websites.
We do not, however, use cookies to retrieve involuntary information about your computer.
Accordingly, if you would prefer, you can set up your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you to their presence and thereby allow you to remove them from your computer.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to staff who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide services to you or in order to do their jobs.
The information provided to Bizmore is saved indefinitely and may be stored on one or more databases directly or indirectly maintained by Bizmore. We take all reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure and we have put in place industry standard physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards designed to protect personal information about you. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur; we make every effort to prevent such occurrences.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You are responsible for the security of your account information, such as usernames and passwords, which give you access to your private information maintained by Bizmore. Make sure you keep your account information in a safe place and do not share it with others. Note that key-loggers, viruses, or other surveillance devices can intercept login information on the computers from which you access our website, so you should take precautions regarding such devices, especially from public computers.
COMPROMISE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
In the event that your personally identifiable information is compromised as a result of a known or suspected breach of security, Bizmore will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this privacy policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES
It is the policy of Bizmore to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to our users via e-mail notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our web site page, as determined by Bizmore in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Bizmore reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our web site users.
Links to other websites
The Bizmore website contains links to other websites; however, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and do not make any representation as to the existence, sufficiency, accuracy or completeness of their websites or privacy policies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Due to changes in legislation and best practice or enhancements to functionality and content on Bizmore’s website, Bizmore may update this privacy policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address or by placing a prominent notice on our website and, accordingly, you should check here from time to time.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at Bizmore, Inc., 832 Sansome Street, First Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111-1508, Attention: Office Manager.
