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This statement describes what you can expect from us regarding personal data on BestWebSiteDesigners.com, and your associated rights and responsibilities. This statement is a part of the BestWebSiteDesigners user agreement but trumps any conflicts with the agreement. This statement does not address anyone else's practices or our practices beyond the BestWebSiteDesigners.com site.
Cookies, IP Addresses and URLs. Cookies are data snippets that websites store on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to analyze site use, target ads, store your preferences/passwords (if you've registered) and personalize your experience (including tracking your site use to do so). You can configure most web browsers to reject cookies or notify you when cookies are placed. If you're not registered, rejecting cookies won't noticeably affect your experience on BestWebSiteDesigners.com. You must accept cookies to access BestWebSiteDesigners.com as a registered user.
Your access provider assigns an IP address to your computer when you use the Internet. We log each IP address that accesses the site, along with referring/destination URLs. We use this data, as well as other data in our databases, to analyze site and user behavior, troubleshoot technical problems, resolve disputes, address complaints and prepare aggregated reports that we share with others.
Zip Code. You may provide your zip code, which we may store in a cookie. We use zip codes to provide customized information to you, and if you register, we may treat it as part of your registration/member data (discussed below).
Email-Only Registration. You may subscribe to emails or newsletters by providing only your email address and password, which we use to create a username and account for you. For privacy purposes, an email-only account acts like a registered account. However, you cannot use some site functionality until you complete your registration.
Registration/Member Data. When you register, you provide us with some personal data (including your email address). You can also tell us more about yourself through your account pages or through site features such as Wish Lists. Occasionally, a co-brand partner may provide us with data about you.
We use registration and member data for many purposes, including to target ads to you and to email you (including newsletters and alerts). In most cases, you can configure your account to turn these emails on and off. However, some administrative emails (such as emails about user agreement changes or communications about Eroyalties) are not optional while you have an account.
Through your account page, you can choose to publicly display (or hide) some data about yourself (including your photo).
If you register through a co-branded site, in some cases we provide your registration data to the co-brand partner. In these cases, the partner is governed by their privacy policies, not ours.
You may have opportunities to express interest in or register for third parties products and services. If you do, we will provide data about you to the third party to implement your request.
Content and Ratings. You can publish reviews, comments and other content. Members can choose to rate products or reviews, and to trust other members. As an unregistered visitor, we may allow you to rate products and/or reviews.
Your review ratings and trust statements are displayed publicly unless you change the default configuration. Your member name is automatically displayed with reviews and comments you publish, and if other members choose to, they can receive email notifications of your publications or publish their own comments to your reviews.
We, and our licensees, can republish your content as described in the user agreement. We publish product ratings and use them to develop aggregate ratings, personalize site views and merchandise products. We use your review ratings and web of trust to personalize site views and identify/feature popular members. For example, we may promote most popular or highest-earning reviews and members. While we don't expect to transfer the complete review rating and web of trust database to others (except as contemplated elsewhere in this statement), we use the database throughout our networks and to generate results for others.
Eroyalties Redemptions. To request your Eroyalties redemption, you may need to provide additional data about yourself. We use your mailing address to communicate about your redemption and, in some cases, other issues. We do not disclose your social security number to third parties except as required by law or as otherwise contemplated by this statement. BestWebSiteDesigners reports redemptions to the IRS as required by law (including filing a 1099 for redemptions over $600 in a calendar year). Any other data required for redemption may be appended to our records about you and treated like our other business records.
Email Tools. If you send emails through our site, your email will include your email address and any personal message you include. However, these emails aren't private communications. We do not retain, in any easily-retrievable way, the addresses you are emailing. You may not use these tools to send spam or content that violates the user agreement.
Feedback. We may ask for your feedback through a survey, which we treat like other business records.
Other Data Collection. We may get data from or about you in other ways not specifically described in this statement. For example, you might contact Community Care, or we may get a third party complaint about you. We handle this data like other business records. However, if we tell you elsewhere that specific data is governed by rules that supplement or contradict this statement, those rules trump this statement.
Data Changes. If you terminate your account or delete/change your data or content, we usually update our live databases immediately. However, some data may update more slowly, and some old data may remain in our archives and records. Also, we may be unable to propagate changes to partners who receive your data or content. If your account is being terminated or suspended, we may maintain some data to prevent re-registration.
Contractors/Service Providers. We may use third party contractors who can access our databases. Usually these contractors sign a standard confidentiality agreement. In addition, Category Leads may have access to some or all of our databases.
We may use third party service providers who may obtain some of your personal data. For example, we currently use a third party service provider to send Eroyalties redemption checks. Usually we require these providers to use and disclose your personal data only as necessary to perform their services. Also, we may offer, as part of your account, integrated services operated by third parties, in which case we may transfer some or all of your personal data to them if you use the integrated service (we try to notify you before you use that service).
Third party ad servers (including DoubleClick) may place or recognize a cookie and, using the cookie or otherwise, collect and use data (but not your name, address, email address or telephone number) from your visits to this and other websites to serve ads to you. For more about DoubleClick's practices and your options regarding their data collection and use, see DoubleClick's Privacy Policy.
The "Corporate Family." We may share data with any parent company, subsidiaries, JVs, other companies under a common control or acquirors. We expect these other companies will honor this statement. Also, we may allow a potential acquirer or merger partner to review our databases, although we would restrict their use and disclosure of this data during the diligence phase.
Government Relations and Lawsuits. We may disclose data about you to the government if we are required to do so or if we think the disclosure is appropriate; and you authorize these disclosures. We may also disclose data about you in connection with actual or potential lawsuits (a) if we are required to do so, (b) if such disclosures may potentially mitigate our liability, or (c) to enforce our rights.
Communicating with Other Users. You may not harvest personal data (including email addresses) from the site, and specifically you may not use email addresses displayed on the site to ask users to join or contribute to your services.
Leads/Advisors/Top Reviewers. While you are a Lead, Advisor or Top Reviewer, we may contact you or disclose data about you and your activities in ways not described in this statement.
Children. If you are 12 and under, please do not use the site or provide any data to us.
Limits on Our Abilities. Our site is very complicated, so we might inadvertently use or disclose your data in ways inconsistent with this statement. For example, a temporary software glitch could lead to public display of your personal data despite your preferences otherwise. We might also make ad hoc uses of your data in ways not mentioned here. In these anomalous situations, your sole remedy is that we will try to rectify the anomaly as soon as we can.
Security. We use industry-standard security protocols, such as (if and where appropriate) firewalls and restrictions on which employees can access user data. However, perfect security does not exist on the Internet. Also, in theory third parties can intercept Internet transmissions containing your personal data, and we don't control the privacy/security of transmissions to and from the site while in transit.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT