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Privacy Policy
FoundValue privacy practices apply to the products and services available under
the domain and sub-domains of www.foundvalue.com (the "web site").
This privacy statement was last updated on March 18, 2008.
By visiting this web web site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions
of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or access our web
web site.
PROTECTING YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO FOUNDVALUE
We recognize that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself,
you trust us to act in a responsible manner. We take the trust you have placed in
us very seriously. We believe that your information should only be used to provide
you with the best service possible.
Information We Collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with an
efficient and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features
that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience
easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary
for achieving this purpose.
If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide us with contact
information such as your name, street address, phone number, and email address,
billing information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated
on the forms in the web site. Under some circumstances we may require additional
financial information including your credit card number, expiration date, and billing
information and other personal information.
Once a user, you may provide additional information in the My WebPage section describing
your experiences, skills, and networking objectives. Providing additional information
beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to
better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the FoundValue Service.
Furthermore in order to invite others to connect with you directly in FoundValue,
you will enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by
FoundValue 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.
To utilize some FoundValue services, we may request your username and password
for other web site(s) that you are using.
This web site uses cookies mainly for the purpose of delivering content specific
to your interests, and to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each
time you access a registered member only page. Cookies may also be used for other
purposes at times.
As you use our services, our servers will automatically track certain information
about you in log files. This information includes your IP address, the URL that
you just came from, which URL you go to next, which browser you are using, and which
operating system you are using. This is not unique to the web site as many existing
web sites automatically collect this information.
The web site may make public web pages, profiles, message boards and blogs available to FoundValue
users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes
public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your
personal information in any of these public forums.
Our Use of Your Information
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use
your personal information, and other information we obtain from your current and
past activities on the web site to: troubleshoot problems; collect fees owed; measure
interest in our products and services, inform you about offers, products, services,
and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud
and other criminal activity; enforce our Agreement; and as otherwise described to
you at the time of collection.
Protection of Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the web site unsupervised
and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are
under the age of 18, you may only use this web site in conjunction with and under
the supervision of your parents or guardians.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise share any personally identifiable information
about you to any third party, except with your consent or for the specific purposes
described in this statement. In addition, except as we describe here we will not
disclose any personally identifiable financial or security related personally identifiable
information such as credit card numbers and or passwords. Unfortunately, we cannot
ensure the absolute privacy of any personally identifiable user information. For
example, we may be forced to disclose information to government and/or law enforcement
agencies or third parties under certain circumstances. FoundValue cooperates with
all law enforcement inquiries and reserves the right to reveal your identity (or
whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action
arising from your use of the services or features on the Web site. In addition,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
Therefore, although we make it a practice not to disclose any personally identifiable
information to any third party, we do not promise that your personally identifiable
information or private communications will remain private. We will disclose your
information to third parties or suppliers as necessary to complete your transactions.
For example, during paid transactions we disclose your credit card number to third
party processors in order to post the charge to your account. It is possible that
we could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination
occur, you should expect that we would share some or all of your information in
order to continue to provide the service. We will require that the new combined
entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy with respect to your
information. We use service providers to help us perform some of the services on
the Web site. When we need to disclose your personal information to these vendors,
we require that they use the information only for the functions we have asked them
to perform in accordance with their privacy policies.
Use of Others’ Information
In the course of using the services at FoundValue you may be exposed to personally
identifiable information of other users. Under no circumstances may you disclose
personally identifiable information about another user to any third party without
the consent of FoundValue and the consent of such other user. FoundValue does not
tolerate spam, and we reserve the right to suspend the registration of any user
who sends unsolicited email to our other users.
Email Use
You may not use the FoundValue email to send spam or otherwise send content that
would violate our Agreement. FoundValue follows all best-practice and legally required
procedures for allowing email recipients to unsubscribe from the FoundValue email.
We do not rent or sell these recipient email addresses, email messages or the email
addresses of eSpecialists.
Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included 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 or other web sites, different
rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them.
Since FoundValue does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are
subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We encourage you to review
their stated privacy policies before you disclose your personal information to others.
Security
FoundValue uses industry standard efforts such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers
to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. However,
even the most robust security systems are not foolproof and you should consider
this when revealing any personally identifiable information to any party over any
form of media.
Notice
We may from time to time revise this Privacy Policy by updating this posting. Amendments
to this policy will be effective when posted. You should therefore periodically
visit this page to review the current web site Privacy Policy, so you are aware
of any such revisions to which you are bound. Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the privacy practices
of FoundValue, you can contact FoundValue by sending an email to support@foundvalue.com
