BackgroundPi.com
PRIVACY POLICY
Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide
this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you
can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this
notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point
where personally identifiable information may be requested.
This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted
to the following Backgroundpi web sites, but to make this notice easier
to read we will use the
term "our Web Site", which means http://www.BackgroundPi.com/.
Your consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of the information
you provide according to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change
our Privacy Policy from time to time. If this policy is changed, we will post
these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Links This Web site may contain links to other sites. Please
be aware that Backgroundpi is 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.
Application of This Notice
This Notice applies only to the information collected by Backgroundpi from the
users of our Web Site. It does not apply to information collected by Backgroundpi
in any other way, including offline.
The Information We Collect
Our Web Site is not set up to automatically collect personally identifiable
information from each visitor to our Web Site. It does recognize the home server
of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which Internet
Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other information
about our visitors that would allow us to identify the particular visitors
to our Web Site. This information is used only for internal purposes by our
technical support staff.
Our Web Site does track certain information about the visits to our Web Site.
For example, we compile statistics that show the numbers and frequency of visitors
to our Web Site and its individual pages. These aggregated statistics are used
internally to improve our Web Site, as well as for product development and
marketing purposes generally. Those aggregated statistics may also be provided
to advertisers and other third parties, but again, the statistics contain no
personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.
In a few areas on our Web Site, we ask you to provide information that will
enable us to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information,
materials and services available from our Web Site, or to enable us to enhance
your site visit, to assist you with customer service or technical support issues,
or to follow up with you after your visit, or to otherwise support your customer
relationship with Backgroundpi. It is completely optional for you to participate.
However, failure to participate may mean that you cannot access and use certain
information, materials and services.
For example, we request information from you when you:
· Place
an order
· Participate
in a sweepstakes or other promotional offer
· Provide
feedback in an online survey.
In each of the instances above, we typically ask for your name, e-mail address,
phone number, address, business information, credit card information, billing
address Backgroundpi ID number and password, as well as other similar personal
information that is needed to register or subscribe you to services or offers.
On occasion, we may ask for additional information to enable us to provide
you with access to and use of certain information, materials and services.
In the case of newsletters or mailing lists, you will be able to unsubscribe
to these mailings at any time.
How We Use Information:
Backgroundpi only uses your personal information for specific purposes.
The personal information you provide to us when using our Web Site, such as
your name, postal or e-mail address or telephone number will be kept confidential
and used to support your customer relationship with Backgroundpi, and, only if
you sign up for the Backgroundpi newsletter and/or Backgroundpi special offers email
lists, to send you newsletters, to notify you of special offers, updated information,
and new products and services from Backgroundpi, or offers from third parties that
we think may be of interest to you.
Agents or contractors of Backgroundpi who are given access to your personal information
will be required to keep the information confidential and not use it for any
other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for Backgroundpi.
Backgroundpi may enhance or merge your information collected at its Web Site with
data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or services to you
if you opt in to our special offers email list.
Circumstances may arise in which we are required to disclose your personal
information to third parties for purposes other than to support your customer
relationship with Backgroundpi, such as in connection with a corporate divestiture
or dissolution where we sell all or a portion of our business or assets (including
our associated customer lists containing your personal information), or if
disclosure is required by law or is pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations
or proceedings.
You can opt out of receiving further marketing from Backgroundpi at
any time.
We will only send you information about our various products and
services, or other products and services we feel may be of interest
to you, if you opt
in to the email lists Backgroundpi has set up for these purposes. Only Backgroundpi
(or agents or contractors working on behalf of Backgroundpi and under confidentiality
agreements) will send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive
such mailings, simply click on the "unsubscribe" link on any such
email sent to you. Or you can easily opt out of receiving further marketing
from Backgroundpi by e-mailing us at info@BackgroundPi.com
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct
use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic,
and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect
online.
Backgroundpi implements a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of
your personally identifiable information. User personal information is contained
behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of employees
who have specific access rights to such systems. When you place orders or access
your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit
information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
Should it be necessary to transmit your personally identifiable information
to a reputable third party vendor to: (1) fulfill our service commitment to
you, (2) include you in our opt-out program, or (3) process your credit card,
Backgroundpi will require all recipients of such information to maintain the information
as confidential information, use the information for the limited and intended
purpose and agree not to disclose such information to third parties.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
You can request a copy of the personally identifiable information that Backgroundpi
has collected about you via the Internet by contacting us at the address below.
You can also have factual inaccuracies in this information corrected by contacting
this same person. Please allow thirty days for a response to any request herein
identified.
How to Contact Us
If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices,
please write the following address:
Backgroundpi, LLC
OR email us at mailto:info@BackgroundPI.com
Frequently Asked Questions 1. Can Backgroundpi remove information
about me from Backgroundpi Reports? No. Backgroundpi does not maintain the
databases used in our searches. Rather, we access separately maintained third
party databases to collect information for the reports we provide. For this
reason, Backgroundpi cannot change, modify, or remove information from these databases.
2. Does Backgroundpi use "cookies" or pixel "tags"? Yes.
Backgroundpi may use cookies to help provide you with a better experience
on our site; however, we do not store personally identifying information
in cookies. Cookies are bits of electronic information that a Web
site can transfer to a visitor's hard drive to help tailor and keep
records of his or her visits to the site. Cookies allow Web site
operators to better customize visits to the site to your individual
preferences. The use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many
major Web sites use them.
Like many Web sites, Backgroundpi may also use pixel tags, also known as beacons,
spotlight tags or web bugs, to improve our understanding of site traffic, visitor
behavior, and response to promotional campaigns, as a supplement to our server
logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement. We may also implement
pixel tags provided by other companies, and limit the collection of information
for the same purpose. We do not store personally identifying information in
pixel tags.
3. What happens if there is a transfer of Backgroundpi business? As
we continue to develop our business, we may acquire or divest businesses
and/or assets, or be acquired ourselves. In such transactions, customer
information generally is one of the transferred business assets.
Backgroundpi
PRIVACY PROTECTION STATEMENT
At no other time in history has access to, and dissemination of, information
been such a critical element of business and commerce in the United States
and throughout the world. At the same time, public concern, especially in the
area of privacy, is also running at a high level.
As a conscientious participant in the management and dissemination of critical
business, government and legal information, Backgroundpi and its employees adhere
to the highest ethical standards in providing outstanding service to its customers.
Backgroundpi does so while respecting individuals' privacy with regard to personally
identifiable information contained in its information services.
Backgroundpi remains committed to the responsible use of personally identifiable
information and safeguarding individual privacy. Backgroundpi will comply with
all applicable law regarding the collection, use and distribution of personally
identifiable information. The Backgroundpi PRIVACY POLICY includes principles
on education, security, notice, choice, access and correct ability, and compliance
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