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Carolina Business Directory Inc.
Privacy Policy
Last Updated Oct 2009
Carolina Business Directory Inc. is a publisher of business information for cities and business communities across the United States. The privacy policies described below are applicable to each site in the Carolina Business Directory network. You can view the sites included at Carolina Business Directory.com
Our main goal is to provide you with a customized and targeted user experience within the Carolina Business Directory network. For instance, your personally identifiable information enables us to provide you with news and services we think will be of interest to you. We review our users' preferences, demographics, traffic patterns, and other information in the aggregate so that we can better understand who our audience is, and what it is you want. Tracking user preferences also helps us serve you targeted advertising. Targeted advertisements are probably more interesting for you, and are definitely more productive for our advertisers.
We have basic listing information provided for U.S. businesses. This information includes business name, address, city, state, zip code and phone numbers, maps to your business as well as the business category heading. If you choose to provide more information about your business for our viewers we will ask for your email address so that we can send a confirmation email message to you. This helps us ensure we are listing information for the correct business. Keeping a record of your email address along with the business profile you submitted also helps us in the event there is some question concerning the source of the information.
We use a third party to serve ads when you visit our site. This third party ad server may use certain information about your visit to our site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you, but they are not entitled to collect or use personally identifiable information about you i.e., your name, address, email address or telephone numbers). We, or third party ad servers, acting on our behalf, act as the middleman between you and the advertisers that want to reach you. We use the information we collect in non-intrusive common sense ways, like using your credit card number to provide you with products and/or services that you request. All credit card information is transmitted in an encrypted form, using SSL (secure socket layer) encryption, the industry-standard. Although, we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of your personal information, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. The Carolina Business Directory network assumes no liability for disclosure of data due to errors in transmission or unauthorized third parties.
If you register for one or more of our sites or services, from time to time, we will send information to you via e-mail about our products and services, or third party products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive these mailings, you can opt out and you will no longer receive such offers and mailings. Also, please remember that third party vendors also sell products and services on the Carolina Business Directory network, and their policies may differ from ours.
Certain Partners who provide or enable any functionality on the Service may also collect information from you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of our Partners. In addition, any web sites that you click to from one of our Results Pages may have been developed by third-parties over which we exercise no control. Such web sites may send their own cookies to end-users, collect data, or solicit personally identifiable information from you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites, including such web sites’ use of any information collected when our end-users click through to such web sites. Even though such information might not identify you personally, we strongly encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of those web sites.
When you visit a Carolina Business Directory Website, a cookie that uniquely identifies your browser may be sent to your computer. A "cookie" is a small file containing your preferences that is sent to your browser and sent back by your browser each time your browser accesses our servers. Cookies that we may use may only be read by the server that placed them there. We use cookies to improve the quality of our Service (for example, by fulfilling your language, filtering, and other preferences) and to better understand how people interact with our Service (for example, by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search). Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. If you wish to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your browser, you should refer to the documentation accompanying your browser.
Most, if not all, of the advertisements appearing on the Website are delivered to you by one of our Web advertising partners (“Ad Serving Partners”). In the course of delivering such advertisements, our Ad Serving Partners may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Thereafter, information about your visits to the Website, such as your search terms or phrases or the number of times you have viewed an advertisement (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to deliver advertisements to you. The information collected by our Ad Serving Partners through cookies is anonymous, and our Ad Serving Partners are not authorized to collect any personally identifiable information about you.
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