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Privacy Notice & Agreement
Last updated: October 26, 2007
The following
describes the Privacy Policy & Agreement in which CompuSave's,
HandyBids.com, and HandyBidsFAQS collectively hereinafter
called "site" "sites" "we" and "our" offers you access to our services.
We are aware that people are concerned about how the information you
submit to us is used and shared, and we respect your privacy, and
appreciate you entrusting us with its care.
So What Do We Share?
We do not sell mailing lists to outside third party vendors, nor do we
share information with those who wish to purchase lists from us for
marketing purposes, except in the normal course of doing business with
us, as in for example, sharing your information with our service
providers, or on those occasions, that you specifically allow us, or
tell us to do so.
Information received by
us.
When you as a user or visitor of this site, inputting various
information we reserve the right to retain that information. The
information we receive, whether it be by your input directly on our
site, by email transmissions, information request form submittals, or by
alpha-numeric identifiers, better known as cookies, or any other means
of input, whether it be by us directly or by our screening informational
sources, or server providers, all help us to better serve and protect
our customers. You may choose not to provide us with certain
information, but then it is not always possible to provide you with all
of our features. You have the option to turn off cookies in your web
browser, and their are a number of programs that enable you to visit a
web site anonymously. If you choose to use those programs, we will not
be able to automate some of our features, and you will need to re-input
all information each time you visit us, but nevertheless, we wanted to
let you know that blocking alternatives exist.
Additional input
In order to use our site, visitors and users input additional
various data that we may retain, including but not limited to services,
searches, data input, email transmissions, using our information
submittal form, when posting your name, company name and phone number in
a display profile, your various descriptions of your services, property,
options, condition and general information, your phone number by anyone
who uses this site, calls our company phone, or who has a toll free
number, including the date, time of your call and the phone number that
you called from, and any information from our credit card processing
services, which may provide us with email addresses, names and street
addresses, or any other input provided us, in your course of doing
business with us, including but not limited to those whom we refer
through links on this site, for use of their services.
Other Businesses or Affiliates That We Do Not Control
The convenience of products or services, that are provided from this
site through links, are made available through cooperative arrangements
with companies who specialize in those services, for example, insurance,
inspections, warranties, and financing, and certain information may be
transmitted to, or by us for fulfillment of those services-agreements.
It is understood and agreed that we do not control the privacy policies
of those sites, or declare those to be the same as ours, even though
they may be referred by us. Please consult their individual sites, for
further information pertaining to their user, and privacy agreements.
Emails
By visiting, using this site, or sending us emails, you are
communicating with us electronically. You also agree to allow us to
communicate electronically to you, by either email, or posting notices
on our site. You agree that all such postings, or emails, or electronic
communications, shall be considered satisfying any requirements that you
be contacted in writing. If you do not choose to receive email or any
mail by us, please let us know in writing. (If you do not wish to
receive revisions of our user agreement, or privacy notice, it is your
responsibility to check our site for updates or postings, and you agree
to be bound by them.)
Users or visitors to this site, agree to not use spam, or add emails
acquired in the normal course of business on this site, to any spam
lists, other than those that the user specifically opted into, to be
included, or received.
Page View Counters
Although we rarely place open page view counters on any of our
pages, we reserve the right to do so as an option, for example when
placing a profile page, or listing as a feedback profile, or any data
with our submittal forms, we may place page view counters at the bottom
of those pages, that lets us and all viewers know how many people have
visited that page. We do not normally do that, whereas we have web
statistics from the server that provides us with the information as to
traffic patterns through the site, and you acknowledge, that data is
available to us.
Transferring of Assets or a Business
In the course of business, we may acquire additional companies
or business units. As part of those transactions, existing business
customer information is one of those transferable assets, that we may
acquire. Conversely, if in the unlikely event that this site is acquired
by an outside party, customer information, will be one of the
transferred assets.
Protecting Our Safety and the Safety of Others
We reserve the right to exchange information with other
agencies, companies, or organizations for fraud protection and credit
risk reduction. We also release information that we believe is necessary
to comply with the law, and or fulfill the terms and conditions of this
privacy statement, or our User and Visitor Agreement. Notwithstanding,
we do not share personal information for commercial purposes in
violation of the commitments, as spelled out in this privacy notice.
Children's Use of the Site
This site does not sell its services to children. We only sell
to adults, and if anyone under the age of 18 chooses to use this site,
they must do so with the oversight and involvement of a parent or
guardian.
Revisions, Notices, and User Conditions
By visiting or using this site you agree that your visit, or
use is subject to this Privacy Notice/Policy, and our User Visitor
Agreement, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes,
and application of the law of the state of Pennsylvania. Please contact
us with any concerns you may have about your privacy, and we will
attempt to resolve it.
Amendments and Changes
Our business is an evolving medium, and though we may find it
necessary to make updates and changes to our user agreements, and you
agree to those terms and conditions, predicated by your continued use,
we will not make changes that materially affect your protection of your
information, without first asking for the consent, either through
emails, or by posting the newly revised agreements on this site, with
their date of publication.
How We May Use Your Information
We use your personal information to fulfill the services you
request, or in any files we maintain about you, or from any activities
you have participated on this site. At times we may look across multiple
users to resolve disputes, improve fair trading, collect any monies
owed, troubleshoot problems, measure your interest in online products or
services, inform you about online products, services, updates, or
offers, inspect and protect against fraud, or enforce our agreements. We
may compare your personal information from within our site, and from
other sources, to determine their accuracy, and any errors or
omissions.
We may gather user information in order to determine those areas of
interest, that may be beneficial to our users, and service providers,
who are attempting to target users interests. Specific information, such
as your name, email address, are NOT disclosed to third parties in a
personally identifiable manner without your written consent, and your
credit card numbers or financial information is never disclosed, except
in the normal course of business conducted here, and it is limited by
the conditions as stated in this agreement.
Outside vendors may require some of your information in order to fulfill
tasks, such as providing services, profile layouts, web design,
postings, reminders of insurance policy expirations, and other
procedures that we may sublet, or subrogate to third parties,
including collections. We can not guarantee that those vendors adhere to
the same privacy and user guidelines that we adhere to, please refer to
their individual policies.
Legal Requirements
This site may use your information in order to cooperate with
legal authorities, or other parties, in order to protect and enforce
laws, such as fraud, intellectual and copyrights. Therefore in response
to a request by any legal authority or government official, pertaining
to any alleged illegal activity or criminal investigation, you agree and
authorize, that we can disclose any personal information provided to us
via the descriptions of various input methods contained herein, without
a subpoena. In respect to your privacy, we will not disclose to any
third party, your information, without a subpoena, or court or legal
order, except as stated above, or in the case that we believe in good
faith, that the necessary disclosure will help prevent imminent physical
or financial loss, or in order to report suspected illegal activity.
Therefore we can, and you authorize us to disclose your name, street
address, city, state, zip code, email, and any other pertinent
information that we may deem appropriate or necessary in the
investigation of a fraud, infringement, or any other illegal activity.
Security
We use technical safeguards, including multiple layers of
firewalls, both hardware and software based, secure socket layer
encryption, passwords, and permissions, and further safety and privacy
tools in place by our site service providers. All data placed or derived
from our site is considered information that must be protected against
loss or unauthorized use. Even though we employ various technologies to
protect this site, we understand and agree that "perfect security" does
not exist on the internet.
Notices
We reserve the right to amend or change this agreement at any
time, but posting the revised version on this site. All amendments shall
be effective within 30 days of posting them on the site, or for any new
services performed, or renewed, on or after the posting date, whichever
is sooner.
Publishing Contact Information
Users and visitors do hereby agree that this site may publish
including but not limited to, your name company name and phone number
Users agree to hold us harmless in the event of an error or omission
pertaining to the same, and user does agree to monitor their listed
information, included in their profile page, and notify us of any
editing directly if they wish to change the listed information.
Additionally, users and visitors, understand and agree that sending
requests, will result in the information that they provide going
directly to the service providers, and a copy of which may reside on our
servers, and that the recipient service provider, will receive that
information in order to directly contact you.
The above information includes the privacy policy and agreement in its
entirety, and supersedes any agreements either expressed or implied,
unless reduced to writing and signed by both parties, notwithstanding
that postings pertaining to privacy or use of this site, may appear in
various locations on the site, and will be considered a part of this
agreement, and binding to the parties contained herein.
It is our intention to make your experience here a pleasant and
profitable one. We may find it necessary to create and exercise these
terms and conditions in order to protect fair trade practices, and the
integrity of the site. If you have any suggestions as to how we can
improve or protect those that use this site, please contact us by
clicking on Contact Us.
Thank you for your continued use, and for giving us the opportunity to
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