BiZnected.com.com Privacy Policy Your privacy here on BiZnected.com is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy: - We do not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
- We do not share your contact information with another User without your consent.
- Any personally identifiable information that you provide will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. By continuing to use the services here at BiZnected.com, after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on the BiZnected.com website, you are consenting to the changes. Policy on Personal Information Collected The purpose of BiZnected.com is to allow businesses to voluntarily provide information about their companies for the purposes of developing, maintaining, and enhancing a network of professional contacts. You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow you to benefit from the BiZnected.com website. If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the BiZnected.com website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you should not become a member of the BiZnected.com community. We collect your personal information in the following ways: Registration In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including BiZnected.com, to identify you: name, name of business, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, a brief summary of your company, and a password chosen by you. Profile Information Once you become a User, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your company’s skills and achievements, professional experiences, and networking objectives. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration to become a User is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the BiZnected.com system to build and leverage your professional network. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of being a User, including receiving ads that are more targeted to your interests. Contacts Information As BiZnected.com is a referral website, you as the User are encouraged to give referrals to those companies that may be in your contacts or whom you may have seen while on the website. In turn, users are also able to receive referrals. This information will be used by BiZnected.com to send your invitation including a message that you write. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders. All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own information. Customer Service BiZnected.com may collect information through the website or through the Customer Service website in order to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to a customer’s inquiry and deliver appropriate service levels. Cookies Like most websites, BiZnected.com uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows BiZnected.com to recognize you as a User when you return to the BiZnected.com website using the same computer and web browser. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use the BiZnected.com website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on our website. One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your BiZnected.com account. The next time you visit the BiZnected.com website, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number) or to send a message to another User, however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the BiZnected.com website you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the BiZnected.com website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing User preferences and tracking User trends. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Any information provided to third parties through such cookies will not be personally identifiable but may provide general segment information, e.g. your industry or geographic location, your occupation, or information about your professional or educational background, for greater customization of your user experience. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies or you opt to refuse all cookies, you may not be able to use the BiZnected.com website or services. BiZnected.com does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies. Uses of personal information BiZnected.com is an online referral service dedicated to helping all types of professionals more effectively connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on our website is used to help you describe yourself to other Users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by BiZnected.com from Users (such as, for example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by BiZnected.com. This information can be utilized by BiZnected.com in such manner as BiZnected.com, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. BiZnected.com Communications BiZnected.com will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the BiZnected.com website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. If we send any communications to you via the carrier service with which you have a mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand you will pay any service fees associated with any such access (including text messaging charges for messages to your mobile device). These include a series of up to five welcome emails which help inform new Users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from BiZnected.com related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another User in your network sends you an opportunity. BiZnected.com may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your ‘Account & Settings’ and amending your email notification choices. If you wish, you can also opt-out of receiving promotional emails, by sending a request to customer_service@BiZnected.com.com. Customized Content Information provided to BiZnected.com (or to third parties with whom it offers combined services) is also used to customize your experience on our website. For example, when you login to your account we will display the screen names of new Users who have recently joined your network. Forums/Chats/Blogs If you post on the Answers section of BiZnected.com, or use a bulletin board, import a blog, or participate in a chat room on BiZnected.com, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to provide there can be read, collected, or used by other Users of these forums, as well as Platform Developers and other third parties, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. BiZnected.com is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
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