Privacy Policy
Your privacy is
important to us, so ComplaintsBoard.com (the "Site") has created
this Privacy Policy to explain how your information is protected, collected and
used. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. You can always review
the most current version here. By using the Site, you consent to the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy and are aware that our policies may evolve in
the future. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Use governing your use
of the Site and this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use control.
Protecting Your Privacy
During
the registration on the Site, we collect "Personally Identifiable
Information", such as your name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail
address, or other information that can be used to identify you or contact you.
- ComplaintsBoard.com will not share
any of your Personally Identifiable Information, except for the
information you choose to publicly disclose in the complaints, comments, questions,
groups (the posts) you submit, with our advertisers or any third-parties
for marketing purposes.
- ComplaintsBoard.com offers email
anonymity & takes up to protect your identity.
- Account information is password
protected. Keep your password safe.
ComplaintsBoard.com,
or people that submit posts on ComplaintsBoard.com, may provide links to
third party web sites, which may have different privacy practices than ComplaintsBoard.com.
We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies on
these third party web sites. We encourage all users to read the privacy
policies of every web site you visit.
Registration
Registration is
required to submit a post through our service or to use other types of
functionality that require the service to recognize a user (e.g., personally
contacting the site users by sending a message). If you decide to register or
sign up for certain services, you will need to give us certain Personally
Identifiable Information, such as a valid e-mail address, postal address,
telephone number. This Personally Identifiable Information will be used to
personalize and improve your experience of our service. This information will
not be disclosed to any third-party without your explicit consent.
Registered users may
choose to receive the notifications or receive other mailings from us regarding
our service or the Site. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings as part
of the registration process.
You can review and
change your Personally Identifiable Information at any time on the My Profile in
the My Account section.
Cookies
Like many web sites, ComplaintsBoard.com
uses a standard technology called "cookies." A cookie is a small text
file stored on your computer's hard drive that can be accessed by a specific
web site to make your experience quicker and more convenient. Cookies allow our
users to login without entering their ID and password each time they use ComplaintsBoard.com.
Cookies also help us understand how our users use the Site, which allows us to
improve the service. We do not use cookies to retrieve any information from
your computer other than the information we provide, such as a user code.
Data We Collect
In addition to
Personally Identifiable Information you provide at registration or by using the
service, we collect the following information:
- Postings' content. When you place a post
or on the Site, we collect a variety of information related to that post.
The public will see any information that you include in your post, and as
such, ComplaintsBoard.com has no control over how this information will
be used. For that reason, please think carefully about what Personally
Identifiable Information you disclose in your post. You can always edit
your posts by contacting our editors.
- Correspondence. Correspondence
between you and the other party initiated through our site, and
correspondence to us.
- "Anonymous Information"
such as your IP address, the type of browser you use, the pages on our
Site that you visit. This information is used to help us diagnose
problems, administer the site and otherwise improve our service to you.
Data We Store
The following information is
stored in our database, even after deletion, and may be archived:
- Registration information.
- All posts' content.
- Messages sent in regard to posts.
Although we make good faith
efforts to store information in a secure environment that is not made available
to the public, we cannot guarantee complete safety.
Use
We may use the
information you disclosed to us to:
- Provide our services to you.
- Provide customer service to you.
- Prevent potentially prohibited or
illegal activities.
- Enforce our Terms of Use.
- Automatically scan messages to check
for spam, fraud, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal
or prohibited content.
Disclosure
ComplaintsBoard.com
may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the
good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
- Respond to a legal process (e.g.,
subpoenas, court orders).
- Respond to claims that a listing or
content violates the rights of third parties.
- Enforce our Terms of Use.
- Protect the rights, property or
personal safety of ComplaintsBoard.com, its users or the general public.
If we merge with or
are acquired by another company, the resulting combined company will use the
information you have provided as described in this Privacy Policy.