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Contents What This Privacy Policy Covers This policy covers how The Personal Bee, Inc. ("BEE") treats information which personally identifies you (personal information) that BEE collects and receives. The personal information we collect may include your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address. Once you provide BEE with personal information, you are not anonymous to us. Please note that any posting made on the Bee website (“Bee website?), including but not limited to comments or user edited editions, is not considered “Personal Information? and is not considered the type of information protected by this privacy policy. When you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. There are several links from the BEE website to third party information and service providers who may collect personal information from you in order to provide you with information or services. BEE may keep track of whether these links have been followed in order to improve the quality of our customized content or advertising. BEE has no control over the privacy policy of any third party company, so please examine their privacy policy prior to submitting any personal information. This privacy policy only applies to the BEE website. [Back to Top.] Information Collection and Use
When you read BEE editions or articles, BEE does not collect any personal information from you. BEE does, however, collect some non-specific visitor information, such as topical category and article used to evaluate the importance of a topic, edition, feed, or article, analyze the usage of the BEE website, and customize online advertising and promotional offers. BEE collects personal information when you: subscribe to an edition, create a new edition, or answer survey questions. We may also receive personal information from you, for example when you: participate in a group edition or provide personal information in feedback and comments. When you visit the BEE website, we may collect certain information about your visit from your browser, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet, the date and time you access the BEE website, the pages that you access while at the BEE and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to the BEE website, and BEE cookie information. BEE aggregates non-specific visitor information for statistical purposes. This information is used to help improve the BEE website, analyze trends, and administer the site. BEE uses your personal information for the following general purposes: to fulfill your requests for products and services, to contact you (if we have your permission), to customize the content and advertising you see, to improve our services or to develop new services. BEE uses aggregate and non-personal information to conduct research and to provide reports for BEE business partners and customers. [Back to Top.] Information Sharing and Disclosure BEE does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested. Advertisements served by third party Internet advertising companies may appear on pages throughout the BEE website. Some advertisements may request personal information directly from you or take you to websites that may request your personal information. BEE has no control over its advertisers' privacy policies, so please examine the privacy policy of any company advertising on the BEE website prior to submitting any personal information. In addition, advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser and may use information about your visits to the BEE website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Please be aware that when you provide personal information to BEE and authorize BEE to share the information with a third party, your personal information becomes the property of BEE and/or the third party. BEE and/or the third party may use your personal information to process your request and provide valuable services. BEE will only share your personal information with trusted third parties under a confidentiality agreement or similar arrangement that restricts the third party from sharing your personal information with others. If you do not want your information to be used for marketing by BEE and/or a third party, do not "opt in" or agree to such use when you provide your personal information through the BEE website. Please note that whenever you opt in to receive future communications from a third party, your information will be subject to the third party's privacy policy. If you later decide that you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party directly, as we have no control over how third parties use information. You should always review the privacy policy of any party that collects your information to determine how that entity will handle your information. We may share your personal information in order to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may also transfer personal information about you if BEE is acquired by or merged with another company or in any form of sale of some or all of our assets. BEE may display targeted advertisements based on your activity on the BEE website or based on personal information you have provided, but BEE does not provide your personal information to the advertiser in order to display the targeted ads. BEE and third-party advertising companies note some of the pages you visit through the use of pixel tags. BEE and third-party advertising companies (which may include network advertisers) may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. The information collected by third-party advertising companies through the use of these pixel tags is not personally identifiable. For more information about our third-party advertiser, please click here. To opt out of the targeting program, please click here. BEE utilizes various third party service providers (such as Revenue Science, Inc.), to track and analyze non-personally identifiable aggregate usage information from visitors in order to continuously improve the quality of the BEE website. All data collected by third party service providers on behalf of BEE is owned and used only by BEE. To view Revenue Science's privacy policy, please click here. [Back to Top.] BEE may set and access BEE cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies can improve the quality of service by simplifying the process of delivering relevant content, easing site navigation, and so on. When you return to the website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the site's features that you customized. BEE lets other companies, including business partners and companies that show advertisements on some of our pages, set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. Advertisers or other companies may have access to BEE's cookies. 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 this or other websites you visit. [Back to Top.] BEE uses Web beacons (also known as clear gif technology, or action tags) to access BEE cookies inside and outside our website and to collect data and allow other companies to collect data. Web beacons may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our site. This technology is a tool we may also use to compile aggregated statistics about the BEE website usage, such as how many visitors clicked on key elements (such as links or graphics) on a page. We may share aggregated site statistics with other companies, and we may allow other companies to place their clear gifs or cookies on our site. [Back to Top.] Protection of Children's Personal Information BEE is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children. [Back to Top.] Changes to This Privacy Policy BEE may occasionally update this privacy policy. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy policy. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will place a prominent notice at the top of the privacy policy and you will also see the word "Updated" next to the Privacy Policy link on the front page of the BEE website. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy policy to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy policy and any updates. Please direct any questions, comments or complaints regarding our privacy policy to privacy@personalbee.com or to The Personal Bee, Inc., 1900 Addison Street, Suite 350, Berkeley CA 94704.[Back to Top.] Last Updated: February 24, 2006 |