Privacy Policy

Maintaining your privacy and the security of your personal information is our highest priority.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate are committed to protecting your privacy and giving you a safe and secure online experience. We follow all relevant federal and state laws and industry guidelines regarding your personal information and how it is protected. We constantly strive to exceed these guidelines and protecting your privacy is our topmost priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the YourSiteMate website and governs data collection and usage. By using the YourSiteMate website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

YourSiteMate reserves the right to amend this policy at any time by posting an updated version to the website. Under no circumstances, however, would we change the privacy policy in a way that would permit distribution of your personal information to third persons without your approval.

Information Collected – What, Why and How it’s Used

This website collects personal information about you like your name, contact information (mailing address, phone numbers, and email), and login information (user name, password). YourSiteMate may also collect additional information about you during the registration process unique to their type of organization or business. YourSiteMate may also collect anonymous demographic information which is not unique to you such as ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

Within this website, only authorized administrators of YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate have access to the personal information of the website’s members. YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate will not sell or share membership data to third party vendors.

YourSiteMate and its parent company (BullFrog Software, Inc.) do not collect personal information for its own purposes. All personal information is collected on behalf of YourSiteMate.

This website also collects information about your computer hardware and software when you use the YourSiteMate website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by YourSiteMate for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, to help us improve our products and services and for security purposes.

This website uses "cookies". A cookie is a text file that is saved on your computer by a website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by the website that issued the cookie to you. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the website that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize pages or register with a website and/or its services, a cookie helps to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can easily use the features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the services of websites you visit (including YourSiteMate).

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data using YourSiteMate website features like message boards, blogs and photo galleries, this information may be collected and used by others. YourSiteMate does not read any of the private online communications on the YourSiteMate website.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to or from YourSiteMate so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate family of websites.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate collect and use your personal information to operate the YourSiteMate website and deliver the services you have requested. YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from YourSiteMate, YourSiteMate and their affiliates. YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate keep track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the YourSiteMate website in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data may be used to deliver customized content and advertising within the YourSiteMate website.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on YourSiteMate, YourSiteMate or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the YourSiteMate website.

What We Will Never Do

Neither YourSiteMate, and/or YourSiteMate have direct access to your password. This data is encrypted by the system and cannot directly be accessed. If you forget your password, we can reset it at your request. You will then be required to change it when you next log in.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate will not independently contact you regarding new features, products or other services. YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate will not send unsolicited email (spam) to the email addresses collected.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate do not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. YourSiteMate and/or YourSiteMate may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate. All such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Security

YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. YourSiteMate and YourSiteMate secure the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to the YourSiteMate website, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Within YourSiteMate, only authorized employees, who are trained in the proper handling of confidential customer information, have access to your records. Information collected is stored in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public.

This site is not intended for unsupervised access by children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect information from site visitors of this age group.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Contact YourSiteMate using the "Contact Us" link available on the YourSiteMate website.

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Last Update: February 18, 2008