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For your protection, BetterLisitngs.com
does not sell, share, or distribute your e-mail address
or personal data to anyone without your permission. This
privacy policy will inform you of all practices and policies
related to the protection of your personal information in
the following ways.
1. What personally identifiable information of yours
or third party personally identification is collected from
you through the web site 2. The organization collecting
the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection,
use and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place
to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information
under BetterListings.com's control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection and Use
BetterListings.com is the sole owner of the information
collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent
this information to others in ways different from what is
disclosed in this statement. BetterListings.com collects
information from our users at several different points on
our web
site.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form.
Here a user must provide contact information (like name
and shipping address) and financial information (like credit
card number, expiration date). This information is used
for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we
have trouble processing an order, this contact information
is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie
is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the
cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie
on our site, the user would not have to log in a password
more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If
a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site.
Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests
of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Sharing
We will not share aggregated demographic information with
our partners and advertisers. We use an outside credit card
processing company to bill users for goods and services.
These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Your
name, contact information, and credit card information will
also be given to Altavista.com, Netsol.com, Teoma.com, Lycos.com
so as to create accounts for your express listing services.
This information is required by each search engine for its
inclusion service.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of
such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of
each and every web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask
for contact information such as name and email address.
This information will only be used to send our newsletter
to you and nothing else.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users
via surveys or contests. 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 may include contact information (such
as name and shipping address), and demographic information
(such as zip code). Contact information will be used to
notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information
will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the
use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing
a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name
and email address. eheaven.com will automatically send the
friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site.
eheaven.com stores this information for the sole purpose
of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact betterlistings.com
at www.betterlistings.com to request the removal of this
information from their database.
Security
This web
site takes every precaution to protect our users'
information. When users submit sensitive information via
the web site, your information is
protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order
form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as
credit card number and/or social security number), that
information is encrypted and is protected with the best
encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure
page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom
of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked,
or open, when you are just 'surfing'. While we use SSL encryption
to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything
in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of
our users' information, not just the sensitive information
mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees
who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative)
are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers
when they leave their desk. When they return, they must
re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security
and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time
new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or
reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what
they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected.
Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable
information on are kept in a secure environment, behind
a locked cage. If you have any questions about the security
at our web
site, you can send an email to
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password
and username. Established members will occasionally receive
information on products, services, special deals, and a
newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users
we present the option to not receive these types of communications.
Please see our choice and opt-out below. Site and Service
Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates.
Members that "opt out" will not receive these updates. We
communicate with the user to provide requested services
and in regards to issues relating to their account via email.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes
(such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires
our service, we will provide a way to correct, update or
remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can
be done by logging into your account at betterlistings.com
or by emailing our Customer Support.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having
their information used for purposes not directly related
to our site at the point where we ask for the information.
For example, our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so
users who buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing
material, can keep their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional
materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these
communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject
line in the email. A customer may opt out of our marketing
at any time by simply emailing us at care@betterlistings.com
and put unsubscribe in the subject field. Users of our site
are always notified when their information is being collected
by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make
an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with
services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we
decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner
different from that stated at the time it was collected,
we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have
a choice as to whether or not we use their information in
this different manner. We will use information in accordance
with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected.
Contacting BetterListings.com
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about
our privacy policies or practices, we would like to know
what they are so we can address them. Please e-mail us at
care@betterlistings.com
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