B-LineXpress
is committed to providing those who use or visit the Company’s Internet Web
sites with a safe and secure Internet environment that respects and protects
their personal privacy. The following privacy policy is in effect for every
Web site maintained or operated by the Company (the “Web site”), and we ask
you to read it thoroughly.
Our Pledge
We will not release
personally identifiable information about you if you have specifically
instructed us not to (except as may be needed to provide services you
have expressly requested, or if we believe disclosure is necessary under
one of the exceptions discussed below).
We will provide
mechanisms for you to communicate your privacy questions and concerns to
us and that we will make every effort to respond to them.
Your
Consent
By using
the services provided to you through the Web site, you consent to the
collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, but all
changes will be posted to this page so that you are can remain informed as
to what information we collect and how we use it. Changes are effective when
posted to this page, and your continued use after any change is posted is an
acceptance of the change.
Helpful
Definitions
"Personally identifiable information" is information-such as name, birth
date, e-mail address or mailing address, financial information and other
types of information that can be used to uniquely identify a user.
"Anonymous
Information" is information that does not personally identify you. This
includes information on how you use our site (such as places visited and
search queries performed). Anonymous information also includes the domain
names and/or I.P. addresses (as explained in greater detail below) of
browsers that visit our site, time of day the site was visited, and other
non-personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is
information that is not tied to any individual.
Collection
and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Registration
You can
visit our Web site without telling us who you are or revealing any
personally identifiable information about yourself to us. It is only when
you wish to receive additional services or goods that we may require you to
register with us by providing certain personally identifiable information
and we may ask you to select a user name and password. The Company will use
this information to:
Welcome you to the Web
site.
Send communications
from to you about the Web site, including new features and services
available through the Web site.
Share your information
with affiliates, and allow them to contact you directly, if you have
consented to this beforehand.
Verify your
qualifications for receiving goods or services we offer over the Web
site or for other programs or activities.
If you
indicate to us that you do not want to receive certain types of
communications at the time of registration, we will respect your wishes, and
comply with your preferences, however there may be cases where this will
limit the Web site services available to you.
Sharing
Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
If we
share Personally Identifiable information with third parties to which you
have consented, they may use the data we provide them (sometimes, in
connection with other information they may have gathered about you), but are
generally prohibited from sharing this information with other companies or
people without your consent.
PLEASE
NOTE: In certain special cases, we may disclose your personally identifiable
information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who
may be causing injury to you, or otherwise injuring or interfering with the
Company's rights, property or operations, other Web site users, or anyone
else who could be harmed by such activities. We may also disclose your
personally identifiable information when we believe the law requires it, or
in response to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection with
a criminal investigation, or civil or administrative authorities in
connection with a pending civil case or administrative investigation.
Anonymous
Information
When you
use the Web site, we may collect anonymous information, even if you have not
registered with the Company. We may use this information to examine how the
Web site is used or to help the Company improve the services it offers to
users. The Company will not share any anonymous information about your use
of the Web site with third parties if we know that this anonymous
information will be linked by third parties with personally identifiable
information of yours obtained from another source, unless we have given you
notice as described above and you have given us authorization to do so.
Cookies
A "cookie"
is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and
stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are harmless bits of code that
an Internet site assigns to your browser to keep track of who you are when
you use a Web site. There is no risk of the information on your hard drive
being exposed to the outside world since a web site can only read the
cookies it creates.
Cookies
are sometimes used on the Internet to improve the delivery of services to
users by enabling the Web site to "customize" the particular services or
information offered to each user.
The
Company may employ or use cookies from time to time. You will be given a
choice as to whether you want to participate in the use of cookies before
they are used. Third parties, however, may have their own policies about
the use or cookies, and the Company does not have control over these
practices. You are responsible for obtaining information about cookies on
third party Web sites if you believe this is important to know.
As a
general rule, you can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the
settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies,
or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose
not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites
may be diminished and some features will not work as intended.
Use of IP
Addresses
An
Internet Protocol (IP) address is a set of numbers that is assigned to your
computer. Web servers - the powerful computers that provide web pages for
viewing - automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to
it during your session online.
The
Company may collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration and
to monitor and audit the use of the Web site. We can and will use IP
addresses to identify users of the Web site when we feel it is necessary to
enforce compliance with the Company's terms of use or terms of service, or
to protect our service, site, or other users. We will not share or sell
linked user behavior and personal user information with any third parties
unless you have given us authorization to do so.
PLEASE
NOTE: Under certain circumstances, IP addresses and/or domain names may be
linked to personally identifiable information, when said information is
stored in databases managed by Internet registrars or registries such as
Network Solutions.
Third
Party Relationships
WEB SITES
THAT ARE OPERATED OR MAINTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES ARE NOT COVERED BY THIS
PRIVACY POLICY. Whenever you authorize the Company to share information
about you with third parties, you are responsible for determining whether
the third party employs an acceptable privacy policy. The Company does not
automatically make this determination for you, and does not warrant that any
particular third party maintains a privacy policy that is acceptable to you.
Security
The
Company operates secure data networks protected by industry standard
procedures, to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of
your user data under our control.
Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide us. For
example, we impose strict rules on employees who have access either to the
databases that store user information or to the servers that host our
services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data
will not occur; we will make every effort (such as the use of employee
passwords and non-disclosure agreements) to prevent such unfortunate
occurrences.
Contacting
Us
If you
have questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site,
please contact:
