Privacy Policy
BestGovGrantsReviewed.com (hereinafter "BestGovGrantsReviewed") is committed to respecting the privacy rights of users of the website (the "Website") and the services available through the Website (the "Services"). BestGovGrantsReviewed created this Privacy Policy to give you ("You" or "Your") confidence as You visit and use the Website, and to demonstrate its commitment to fair information practices and to the protection of privacy.
This Privacy Policy is only applicable to the Website, and not to any third-party websites that may be linked with the Website ("Third-Party Websites"), which may have data collection, storage and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy. For additional information, see the section concerning Third-Party Websites, below.
BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF, THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE WEBSITE.
Each time You use the Website, the then-current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, each time You use the Website You should check the date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the end) and review any changes since the last time You used the Website. For additional information, see the section concerning Updates and Changes to Privacy Policy, below.
- 1. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
BestGovGrantsReviewed does not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 14. If BestGovGrantsReviewed obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 14, BestGovGrantsReviewed will immediately delete such information from its database. Because BestGovGrantsReviewed does not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 14, BestGovGrantsReviewed has no such information to use or disclose to third parties. BestGovGrantsReviewed has designed this Privacy Policy in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Act ("COPPA").
- 2. CONSENT TO RECEIVE EMAIL
By submitting your Personal Information (as defined Section 3(c), below), you consent to receive periodic email communications from BestGovGrantsReviewed concerning BestGovGrantsReviewed's products and services ("Email Communications"). Email Communications have clear instructions about how to unsubscribe from such communications. Should you wish to cease receiving Email Communications, you can opt-out of receiving Email Communications at anytime by following the unsubscribe instructions contained therein.
- 3. INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES
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- (a) Traffic Data. Like most website operators, BestGovGrantsReviewed automatically gathers information of the sort that browsers automatically make available, including: (i) IP addresses; (ii) domain servers; (iii) types of computers accessing the Website; and (iv) types of Web browsers accessing the Website (collectively "Traffic Data"). Traffic Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify You.
- (b) Cookies. A "Cookie" is a string of information that a website stores on a user's computer, and that the user's browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website. The purpose of a Cookie is to identify the user as a unique user of the Website. BestGovGrantsReviewed uses Cookies to customize Your experience on the Website to Your interests and to ensure that You do not see the same advertisements or informational messages repeatedly. For additional information on BestGovGrantsReviewed's uses of Cookies, see the section concerning Information Use and Disclosure Practices/Traffic Data and Information Gathered Using Cookies, below.
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE COOKIES PLACED ON YOUR COMPUTER, YOU SHOULD SET YOUR BROWSERS TO REFUSE COOKIES BEFORE ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN OF THE SERVICES AND CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE WEBSITE MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF COOKIES. IF YOU REFUSE COOKIES, YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY. - (c) Personal Information. In order for You to use the Services, You must provide to BestGovGrantsReviewed certain information that personally identifies You ("Personal Information"). Personal Information may include, without limitation: (1) "Contact Data" (such as Your name, mailing address, and e-mail address); and (2) "Demographic Data" (such as Your zip code and age). In each case, You will be asked to provide Personal Information; the Website will not gather it surreptitiously. BestGovGrantsReviewed may supplement the Personal Information You provide with additional Personal Information gathered from public sources or from third-parties (e.g., consumer reporting agencies) who may lawfully provide such information to BestGovGrantsReviewed.
You are under no obligation to provide Personal Information, with the caveat that Your refusal to do so will prevent You from using the Services.
- 4. INFORMATION USE AND DISCLOSURE PRACTICES
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- (a) Traffic Data and Information Gathered Using Cookies
BestGovGrantsReviewed analyzes Traffic Data and information gathered using Cookies to help BestGovGrantsReviewed better understand who is using the Website and how they are using it. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, BestGovGrantsReviewed is able to better design the Website to improve Your experience, and to serve You more relevant and interesting content and advertisements. From time to time, BestGovGrantsReviewed may release Traffic Data and information gathered using Cookies in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Website. BestGovGrantsReviewed does not attempt to link information gathered using Cookies to Personal Information.
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- (b) Personal Information
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- (i) Generally. BestGovGrantsReviewed uses Your Contact Data to contact you when necessary in connection with the Services, and to send You information about BestGovGrantsReviewed and BestGovGrantsReviewed's products and services. BestGovGrantsReviewed uses Your Demographic Data to customize and tailor Your experience on the Website. As with Traffic Data and information gathered using Cookies, from time to time BestGovGrantsReviewed may release Demographic Data in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Website.
- (ii) Disclosure in Connection with Services. BestGovGrantsReviewed discloses Personal Information to those who help it provide Services, including those who perform technical, administrative and data processing tasks such as hosting, billing, shipping, fulfillment, and data storage and security.
- (iii) Other Disclosure. BestGovGrantsReviewed also discloses Personal Information under the following circumstances:
- By Law or to Protect Rights – BestGovGrantsReviewed discloses Personal Information when required to do so by law, or in response to a subpoena or court order, or when BestGovGrantsReviewed believes in its sole discretion that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of BestGovGrantsReviewed, third parties or the public at large.
- Marketing Communications – BestGovGrantsReviewed may, at its sole discretion, provide Your Personal Information to third parties, so that they may contact You directly with information about additional products and services ("Marketing Communications"). By submitting Your Personal Information, You hereby consent to receive Marketing Communications from such third parties. You may opt-out of receiving Marketing Communications at any time by following the specific unsubscribe instructions contained in each Marketing Communication. It is Your sole responsibility to opt-out of Marketing Communications.
- Business Transfers; Bankruptcy – BestGovGrantsReviewed reserves the right to transfer all Personal Information in its possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of BestGovGrantsReviewed's assets. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred Personal Information will be subject to this Privacy Policy, or to a new privacy policy if You are given notice of that new privacy policy and an opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of it. Personal Information submitted or collected after a transfer, however, may be subject to a new privacy policy adopted by BestGovGrantsReviewed's successor organization.
- SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
BestGovGrantsReviewed has implemented and maintains reasonable security procedures and practices to protect against the unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure of Your Personal Information.
- 6. USER ABILITY TO ACCESS, UPDATE, AND CORRECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
BestGovGrantsReviewed wants Your Personal Information to be complete and accurate. By using the Website, You represent and warrant that all information You provide on any registration form or otherwise in connection with Your use of the Website and Services will be complete and accurate, and that You will update that information as necessary to maintain its completeness and accuracy. To confirm the completeness and accuracy of, or make changes to, Your Personal Information, please contact us at admin@BestGovGrantsReviewed.com.
- 7. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
BestGovGrantsReviewed neither owns nor controls Third-Party Websites. Accordingly, Third-Party Websites are under no obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy except with respect to Personal Information provided directly to them by BestGovGrantsReviewed. Before visiting or providing Personal Information to a Third-Party Website, You should inform Yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of that Third-Party Website, and should take those steps necessary to, in Your discretion, protect Your privacy.
- 8. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of information the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding year.
To request a copy of the information disclosure provided by BestGovGrantsReviewed pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, please contact us at admin@BestGovGrantsReviewed.com.
- 9. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
Although most changes are likely to be minor, BestGovGrantsReviewed reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, update, change or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such update, change or modification on this page. Any such addition, update, change or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Website. Each time You use the Website, the then-current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, each time You use the Website You should check the date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the end) and review any changes since the last time You used the Website. Unless BestGovGrantsReviewed obtains Your express consent, any revised Privacy Policy will apply only to information collected after the effective date of such revised Privacy Policy, and not to information collected under any earlier Privacy Policy.
Effective Date: December 9, 2008
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