IncBizNet Privacy Policy Statement
September 1, 2007
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH INCBIZNET OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO OUR WEBSITE, PLATFORM AND SERVICES:Protecting your privacy is a serious matter and doing so is very important to us. Please read this statement to learn more about our Privacy Policy (the "Policy"). The Policy describes the information we collect from you and what may happen to that information, and only applies to such information. This Policy applies to all sites under the IncBizNet.com domain.
1. Information Collection.
1.1 Definitions.
(a) (i) "Your Information" is defined as any information post or other material you provide (directly or indirectly), including through the registration process or through your use of our Platform, in any public message board (including the personal introduction section of each topic group), blog postings, comments, messages sent within IncBizNet ("inmail") or email. You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit for the online distribution and publication of your Public Information (as defined below).
(ii) Your name, company affiliation and location. as well as any of Your Information that, through the use of our Platform or otherwise, you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of our website is referred to as "Public Information;" any other portion of Your Information shall be referred to as "Private Information."
(iii) "Publicly accessible" areas of our website are those areas that are available either to some or all of our members (i.e., not restricted to your viewing only) or to the general public.
(iv) "Personally Identifiable Information" means information that could be used to identify you personally (such as IP address or email address) that has not been previously or subsequently disclosed by you in the publicly accessible areas of our website or in messages you send to IncBizNet Members.
1.2 We automatically track certain basic information about our users (such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, click patterns, etc.). We use this information to do internal research on our members' usage patterns, demographics, interests and general behavior to better understand and serve you and our community.
1.3 We currently contract with online partners to help manage and optimize our business and communications. We use the services of a site analytics partner to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site. To do this, we use web beacons and cookies provided by our site analytics partner on this site. A "cookie" is a piece of data stored on your computer that is tied to information about you. The type of information collected includes the URL you came from and go to, your browser information, and IP address, and helps us learn how to improve our service. No information shared with our site analytics partner is directly linked to your Personally Identifiable Information. If you wish to opt-out of these website analysis tools, you may do so here.
1.4 For our Members' convenience, we also use "cookies" to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session and to provide for an easier registration process. If you configure your browser or otherwise choose to reject the cookies, you may still use our site. However, to best experience our website and Platform and most easily use our Platform you must have cookies enabled. Our use of cookies is consistent with the rights and restrictions set forth in Section 2.
1.5 We may collect information such as postings you make on the publicly accessible areas of our website, messages you send to any IncBizNet Community, messages you send to us, and correspondence we receive from other members or third parties about your activities or postings on our website. Our use of this information is consistent with the rights and restrictions set forth in Section 2.
2. Use of Information
* 2.1. We use the information we collect about you (including your Personally Identifiable Information) to create a better, more personalized experience for you based on your individual usage habits, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our site's content, layout and Services. These uses improve our site and allow us to better customize it to meet your needs. We also use the information we collect about you to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our Terms of Service Agreement.
* 2.2. We may use for promotional, sales or any use that we consider appropriate your correspondence with us or photographs submitted for publication on our website, be it via email, postings on our website, or feedback via the member polls. Our use of such materials is consistent with the restrictions on disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information set forth in Section 3.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
* 3.1. Opt-in requirement. WITHOUT YOUR AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT (ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS), WE DO NOT SELL, RENT OR OTHERWISE SHARE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH OTHER THIRD PARTIES, UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED AS DESCRIBED BELOW UNDER "REQUIRED DISCLOSURES". TO THE EXTENT WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH OUR PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS, WE SHARE ONLY AGGREGATED INFORMATION THAT IS NOT LINKED TO YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. Aggregated information that we may share with our marketing partners includes, but is not limited to, the popularity of certain IncBizNet topics.
* 3.2. You should understand that information you provide through the registration process or post to the public areas of our website, or through the use of our Platform (including your name (if provided) and location information) may be accessible by and made public through syndication programs and by search engines, metasearch tools, crawlers, metacrawlers and other similar programs.
* 3.3. Required disclosures. Though we make every effort to preserve member privacy, we may need to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information when required by law or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website, (b) enforce this Policy or the Terms of Service Agreement, (c) respond to claims that information you have posted violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of IncBizNet, its members and the public. You authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
4. Communications from IncBizNet
Communication from IncBizNet are governed by Section 5 of our Terms of Service. You may manage your subscriptions to all IncBizNet Communications in the Communication Preferences tab of the Your Account page.
5. Reviewing, Updating, Deleting and Deactivating Personal Information
After registration for our Platform, we provide a way to update your Private Information. Upon your request, we will deactivate your account and remove your Personally Identifiable Information from our active databases. To make this request, email privacy@IncBizNet.com. Upon our receipt of your request, we will deactivate your account and remove your Personally Identifiable Information as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law. Nonetheless, we will retain in our files information you may have requested us to remove if, in our discretion, retention of the information is necessary to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems or to enforce the Terms of Service Agreement. Furthermore, your information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints (for example, we will not remove your information from our back up storage).
6. Notification of Changes
* 6.1. If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those changes on http://www.IncBizNet.com/privacy or post a notice of the changes to this Policy on the homepage (http://www.IncBizNet.com/) and other places we deem appropriate, so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy statement under which the information was collected.
* 6.2. If we make any material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a prominent notice on our website notifying you and our other members of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email you and other members who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices. However, if you have deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be contacted, nor will your previously collected personal information be used in this new manner.
* 6.3. If the change to this Policy would change how your Personally Identifiable Information is treated, then the change will not apply to you without your affirmative consent. However, if after a period of thirty (30) days you have not consented to the change in the Policy, your account will be automatically suspended until such time as you may choose to consent to the Policy change. Until such consent, your personal information will be treated under the Policy terms in force when you began your membership.
* 6.4. Any other change to this Policy (i.e., if it does not change how we treat your Personally Identifiable Information) will become are effective after we provide you with at least thirty (30) days notice of the changes and provide notice of the changes as described above. You must notify us within this 30 day period if you do not agree to the changes to the Policy and wish to deactivate your account as provided under Section 5.
7. Dispute Resolution
* 7.1. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Policy or previous Privacy Policy statements shall be resolved through negotiation, mediation and arbitration as provided under our Terms of Service Agreement.
8. Contact Information
* 8.1. If members have any questions or suggestions regarding this Policy, please contact the Secretary of IncBizNet using postal mail or email, as follows:
Postal Address:
IncBizNet Inc.
7 World Trade Center
New York, NY 10007
Email: privacy@IncBizNet.com
This Privacy Policy is governed by the terms of the IncBizNet Terms of Service Agreement, including but not limited to Section 16 of such Terms of Service Agreement.
This Privacy Policy is Effective as of September 1, 2007.