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Privacy
Statement for GoSmallBiz.com
GoSmallBiz.com
has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy.
The
following statement discloses the information gathering and
dissemination practices for this Web site, as well as our philosophy
and practices with respect to personal information.
Summary
Statement
As an organization
committed to the advancement of small business, we want to give you
the comfort and confidence you need to fully participate in our
product & service offerings.
Toward that end, we have identified the following points as
critical to maintaining our internet site.
- Adequate notice of
our practices with respect to personal information.
- Choices about how the
personally identifiable information that you provide us may be
used.
- The ability to easily
update or correct the personally identifiable information that
you provide us.
- Protection of
personally identifiable information from loss, misuse and
unauthorized alteration.
- Providing multiple
methods of contact for you to share your opinions and concerns
about our practices with respect to privacy of personal
information.
Notice
with respect to information practices.
To
maximize the value of our services, we may request information from
you when you visit our Web site or use our services. When we collect
information from you, we'll tell you what is being collected, how it
is collected, by whom it is being collected, why it is being
collected and to whom it may be disclosed. We identify the
information that is necessary to fulfill your request. Whenever we
ask for additional or optional information, we identify those fields
appropriately so that you know what is required to provide the
requested service.
When
you register/activate your membership, we request certain personally
identifiable information, including your name, address, phone
number, Fax number, URL, e-mail address and company name. We use
this information to send you our newsletter and communicate with you
about other matters that we believe you will find useful in growing
or running a business.
We
may also use this information to communicate with you with respect
to special offers available to active members. In addition, under
certain circumstances we may share limited contact information with
selected third parties such as selected online service providers, so
that they may provide you with information about special offers we
believe will interest owners of small businesses.
Use
of Cookies
A
"Cookie" is a small piece of information that our Web site
may provide to your browser while you are at our site. Our site uses
Cookies to deliver content specific to your interests.
We will also use Cookies to save your password so you don’t
have to re-enter it each time you visit certain member only portions
of our site.
We may
further use Cookies to supply your browser with identifiers used to
better understand Web site usage in the aggregate so that we know
what areas of our site users prefer (e.g., based on the number of
visits to those areas). Except in member only areas, these Cookies
are not linked to the personally identifiable information that you
provide us elsewhere on the site. You do not have to accept Cookies
from our site. Only the areas that require registration require
Cookies. Most browsers are defaulted to accept and maintain Cookies.
Third
party tracking systems in use on behalf of this Web site may assign
different Cookies to you. These Cookies may be used to track your
involvement with certain links on our site to help us better
understand and improve our site. You may choose not to accept these
Cookies and will still have full access to site functionality. These
Cookies do not follow you once you leave our site, nor are they
linked to personal information you provide elsewhere on our site. If
you have any questions about our third party tracking system, please
contact us at privacy@gosmallbiz.com.
Web Site Usage Data
Our
web site keeps track of usage data, such as the source address that
a page request is coming from, as well as the IP address or domain
name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Web site
(if any) and other parameters in the URL. We use this data to better
understand Web site usage in the aggregate so that we know what
areas of our Web site users prefer. We may also use this information
to track purchases of goods and services to a particular referral
source for payment of commissions.
This log information is not linked to personally identifiable
information gathered elsewhere on the site.
Co-branded and Third-Party
Sites
Our
co-branded sites are identified by a GoSmallBiz logo that states
“powered by GoSmallBiz”.
The co-branded pages do not carry the header and footer
frames that characterize our primary web site and typically are
framed with our partner's look, feel and logo. The GoSmallBiz web
site may provide links to third-party Web sites, such as those of
our business partners and online advertisers. On these sites our
partners may collect information about you. GoSmallBiz is not
responsible for the actions of these third parties. We encourage you
to review their privacy policies to learn more about what, why and
how they collect and use personally identifiable information.
Required and Optional
Information Fields
We
identify the information that is necessary to fulfill your request.
Whenever we ask for additional or optional information, we identify
those fields appropriately so that you know what is required to
provide the requested service.
Service Providers
On
occasion we will outsource the completion of certain processes to
third parties.
It may
be necessary to share certain of your personal information to those
third parties.
For
example, if our newsletter is delivered through a third party e-mail
service, it will be necessary to supply that third party with your
e-mail address.
Service
providers are strictly prohibited from using your personally
identifiable information for purposes other than to act on our
behalf.
Data
Collection from Children
Because
we provide services exclusively to businesses and tailor our content
specifically for business owners, our products & services are
not designed to appeal to children. Therefore, we do not knowingly
attempt to solicit or receive any information from children.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If
we plan to make significant changes to any of our privacy policies
or practices with respect to how we use personally identifiable
information, we'll post those changes to the GoSmallBiz.com Web site
30 days before they take effect.
Legal Disclosures
In
some cases we may be required to disclose certain information to
comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or
search warrant.
Choices
about use of your personally identifiable information
You
have the opportunity to tell us you do not want us to use or share the
personal information for purposes other than fulfilling your request.
We will provide you the opportunity to opt-out of secondary uses of personal
information you provide us.
Simply
notify us during the information collection process or contact us via
email at privacy@gosmallbiz.com.
Update
or corrections of personal information
We provide you the opportunity to update or correct your personal
information online using the My Account feature or
by sending us an e-mail at cservice@gosmallbiz.com.
Protection
of personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized
alteration
We
employ industry recognized security safeguards to help protect the
personal information that you have provided to us from loss, misuse
and unauthorized alteration. Whenever we prompt you to transmit
sensitive information, such as a credit card number, we support
encryption of your data as it is transmitted to us.
We
work to protect personally identifiable information stored on the
site's servers from unauthorized access using industry standard
computer security products, such as firewalls, as well as carefully
developed security procedures and practices. All employees must
review and sign a written statement of these practices, which
include limiting access to sensitive information to those employees
who require such information and enforcing strict password protocols
for all employees. We review the adequacy of our security measures
on a regular basis.
Method
of contact regarding privacy concerns
Questions
regarding the GoSmallBiz privacy statement, our online privacy
policy, our information practices or other aspects of privacy on our
Web site should be directed to us at privacy@gosmallbiz.com.
GoSmallBiz
Membership Activation
When
you purchase a GoSmallBiz membership online or activate a membership
that was purchased offline or received as an integral part of some
other offer, we require you to supply your name, address, phone
number, e-mail address and company name. If you are registering a
membership that you received offline, we also require that you
provide the membership number so that we can track your membership
to payment of the appropriate membership fee.
We use this information to notify you about changes in our
web site and to distribute our newsletter and other data that we
believe will be of interest to owners of small businesses.
Credit card information is used only to provide payment to
the services you have subscribed to. We do not share your credit
card information with third parties except as required to provide
payment for the services for which you have subscribed.
In
addition, under certain circumstances we may share limited contact
information with selected third parties such as online service
providers, so that they may provide you with information about
special offers we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not
wish to receive such notifications in the future, you may opt out of
contact at the time of registration. You can also update your
preferences at any time using the My Account feature on the site.
After registration, you may contact us regarding your privacy
preferences at privacy@gosmallbiz.com
or write to us at:
GoSmallBiz.com
3340 Peachtree Road, Suite 2570
Atlanta, GA, 30326
Newsletters
We
provide you the opportunity to subscribe to e-mail newsletters and
other e-mail communications. You may unsubscribe by following the
instructions provided in each e-mail newsletter.
Contests
and Surveys
From
time to time, we may conduct surveys or run contests on our site.
Participation in these contests and surveys may include
asking you for contact information, preferences, or other
information. This information may be used to conduct research,
improve our offerings, or award prizes. We may also ask for more
specific demographic information such as age or gender to better
understand who uses our site and to make the site more useful for
you. Our contests may be conducted jointly with certain of our
business partners, and certain of the information provided may be
shared with those business partners.
The contest rules will identify how the information that you
supply will be used in each case.
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