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Privacy Policy

This page is designed to help businesses create an online privacy policy for use on the Internet. When a business is conducting e-commerce or collecting sensitive data online, the BBB Code of Business Practices (BBB Accreditation Standards) requires that BBB Accredited Businesses have some sort of privacy policy on their website. To meet BBB accreditation standards, privacy policies must be based on the following five elements:

• Policy (what personal information is being collected on the site)

• Choice (what options the customer has about how/whether her data is collected and used)

• Access (how a customer can see what data has been collected and change/correct it if necessary)

• Security (state how any data that is collected is stored/protected)

• Redress (what customer can do if privacy policy is not met)

• Updates (how policy changes will be communicated)

This webpage will attempt to give some resources to use in developing your privacy policy. Whatever final policy you develop is up to you, and will be your responsibility to maintain. The Better Business Bureau does not recommend any one set of privacy practices, nor any single privacy policy.

Your business bears full responsibility for the policy that you post.Once a privacy policy is posted online, it is crucial that a business adheres to it. An online service provider that doesn’t follow its privacy policy may violate state and federal consumer protection laws, the Texas Business and Commerce Code Sec. 501.052 andSection 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Below is a sample privacy policy that you may want to use as a guide for your privacy policy. Note that there is a place for your business name or URL in the first paragraph, and a place for your phone number and email address in the last paragraph. Please make sure to personalize these. DO NOT simply cut-and-paste this policy as is.

Should you have questions about privacy policies and Standard 7 of the BBB Code of Business Practices, feel free to contact Tamera Jinks, Operations Manager at (903)581-5888 ext. 104.

Sample Privacy Policy

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for(website address). This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.

• Change/correct any data we have about you.

• Have us delete any data we have about you.

• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at XXX YYY-ZZZZ or via email.

The above notice (or policy) probably does not describe your privacy practices exactly. You need to personalize your statement to fit your business practices. Here are some sample clauses that you can use to help describe other specific practices that fit your business model:

Optional Clauses

If your site has a registration page that customers must complete to do business with you, insert a paragraph like this in your privacy policy:

Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.

If you take and fill orders on your site, insert a paragraph like this in your privacy policy:

Orders
We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

If you use cookies or other devices that track site visitors, insert a paragraph like this in your privacy policy:

Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

If other organizations use cookies or other devices that track site visitors to your site, insert a paragraph like this in your privacy policy:

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

If you share information collected on your site with other parties, insert one or more of these paragraphs in your privacy policy:

Sharing
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

And/or:
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.

And/or:
We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

If your site has links to other sites, you might insert a paragraph like this in your privacy policy:

Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or 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 any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

If you ever collect data through surveys or contests on your site, you might insert a paragraph like this in your privacy policy:

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

For more privacy policy information, please click the following links:

Privacy Policy: A Best Practice

Tips on Establishing a Privacy Policy

ZIP Code Qualification

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