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| Effective: August 8, 2004 |
| Middletownbid.com is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Indeed, protection of your data is one of the key
success criteria by which we measure our performance. Middletownbid.com would like its visitors to feel secure that their personal data is properly managed. If you have
questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Stefania Sande. If you
do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact Netcougar.com.
Netcougar.com will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns. |
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| This document discloses the privacy practices for www.middletownbid.com including: |
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| · | What personally identifiable information of yours is collected |
| · | What organization is collecting the information |
| · | How the information is used |
| · | With whom the information may be shared |
| · | What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information |
| · | What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Middletownbid's control |
| · | How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. |
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| Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to Middletownbid.com via our contact form |
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| Table of Contents |
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| 1. Under 18s: We ask that minors (under 18 years of age) do not submit any personal
information to us. |
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2. Information We Collect: Our primary goal in collecting personal
information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and
personalized experience while using our services. This allows us to provide
services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our
service to make your experience easier and quicker.
To fully use our
services, you may need to contact us using our online registration form,
where you will be required to provide us with your contact information
(e.g. e-mail address). We automatically track certain information about you based upon your
behaviour on our site. We use this information to do internal research on
our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand and serve
our users. This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated
basis.
Using the Site's web server log files, we use IP
addresses to analyze trends, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information. This information may include the URL that you just
came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to
(whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser and operating system you
are using, your IP address etc.
In addition, we may use cookies on
certain pages of our site. We may also offer certain features that are only
available through the use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us provide
information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard
drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they
are automatically deleted at the end of a session. The other type of cookie we
use is a 'persistent' cookie. The cookie itself contains no personally identifiable information.
We do this to allow us to let you know on the homepage what has
changed on the site since your last visit. We also use the cookie to track how
often you visit the site so we know who our most loyal users are. You are always
free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you
will not be able to use certain features on our site. This privacy statement covers the use
of cookies by middletownbid.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any
advertisers.
From time-to-time our site
may request information from users via surveys, contests or for a particular
service (e.g. newsletter). Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose this information. Information requested will include contact
information (as supplied to the site by completing the contact us form and supplementary
information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences (e.g.
choice of software, working practices, opinions on industry issues, feedback on
the E-consultancy.com web site). We will use the contact information to notify
winners. We will not publish winners' details on the site though on request we
will provide details of any winners' name and organization. If the survey or
contest has a sponsor then we will share information given by entrants with the
sponsor. |
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3. Our Use of Your Information: We use personally identifiable
information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to
statistically analyse site usage, to improve our content and product
offerings and to customise our site's content, layout, and services. We believe
these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users'
needs.
We use your e-mail address to send you newsletters or other
communications (for example, coupons or special events) that you have requested
from the site. Out of respect for our users we offer an opt-out (see 4.
below).
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other
information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to
resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At
times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve
disputes, and in particular on rare occasions we may evaluate your information
to look for users using multiple User IDs or email masquerading.
Your Personal Information
is stored in our databases, which are located in the US. |
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| 4. Opt-Out of Email Communications: You can let us know that you are no longer interested in receiving emails
from this site. By contacting us at middletownbid.com
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5. Our Disclosure of Your Information: Unfortunately, due to the
existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private
communications and other personally identifiable information will never be
disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
By way
of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose
information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications. We can (and 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 to legal liability.
As a general
proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information
about you to any third party.
Advertisers - We do
aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such
information in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional
purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any
information that could be used to personally identify
you.
Legal Requests - Middletownbid.com cooperates with
law enforcement inquiries and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual
property and other rights. Local, and international law enforcement agents can
request and may receive your personally identifiable
information.
Suppliers and Other Service Providers - From time to
time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our
services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from
you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a
survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or
Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be
strictly optional. |
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| 6. "Tell a friend" services: Middletownbid.com may offer services
whereby you can e-mail site content (for example, information on rental
property) to a friend or colleague. This will involve entering the e-mail
address of your friend. We do not use the e-mail addresses you enter for any
purpose other than to send your e-mail. We do not store, rent or sell these
e-mail addresses. |
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| 7. Other Information Collectors: Except as otherwise expressly
discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and
disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose
your information to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site or
other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or
disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. |
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| 8. Changes to Privacy Policy: If we are going to use your
personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time of collection we will notify you via email, prior to making such
changes. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in
this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our
privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our
database, we will post a prominent notice, before changes go into affect, on our
web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice
we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us,
notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices. |
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Provided by Director J. Degnan |
