SmallweBusiness.com respects your right to personal privacy. This policy outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use SmallweBusiness.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Types of Information Collected
SmallweBusiness.com collects the following personally identifiable information about you: your name and e-mail address. This information is collected if you request information from us and sign up to join our email list. The information collected is internally reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.
Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other businesses.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive th***end-of-head.shtml***rough your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.
We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our web site to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.
Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ads and content network privacy policy .
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn’t cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
SmallweBusiness.com is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Release of Information
If SmallweBusiness.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.
Correcting or Removing Information
SmallweBusiness.com maintains the accuracy of our information by double opt-in e-mail registration. You may access your own personal information and contact us about inaccuracies you may find.
If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please use our contact us page.
Policy Updates and Agreeing to Terms
SmallweBusiness.com reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. Please periodically review this page so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Your continued use of this site following the posting of updates will mean you accept those changes to this privacy policy. If you do not agree to SmallweBusiness.com’s Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.