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Disclaimer
HOME-BASED WORKING MOMS (referred to
herein as "HBWM," "We,"
"Us", or collectively, as
"Company") is committed to
maintaining the privacy of your information
and to safeguard your privacy online. Please
read the information below about our use of
your Personal Information (defined below).
This privacy policy sets forth our practices
regarding the collection and use of
"Personal Information" from people
who have registered with Home-Based Working
Moms ("HBWM") through our
membership registration. If you are a HBWM
member, "Personal Information"
means information that personally identifies
you, including for example, your name,
address, email address, phone number and
your credit card or other payment
information. "Web Site" means this
website under the domain Home-Based Working
Moms or HBWM.
Questions, comments, or requests
regarding this privacy policy should be
directed to us as follows: Home-Based
Working Moms, PO Box 500164, Austin, TX
78750 or by
email.
Collection of Information. We do not
collect any Personal Information about you
unless you voluntarily provide it to us. You
provide certain Personal Information to us
when you (a) register for Home-Based Working
Moms and register your email address with
us; (b) enter sweepstakes or contests
sponsored by us; (c) sign up for special
offers from selected third parties; (d) send
email messages, submit forms or send other
information. In the future, we may also
receive certain Personal Information from
third parties you have authorized to
disclose such information.
We do not wish to obtain Personal
Information from individuals under the age
of 18.
Disclosure of Information. Unless we tell
you otherwise, we do not give, sell or rent
your Personal Information to any third
parties unless we have received your express
approval to do so. You should note that
Personal Information that you voluntarily
disclose in any chat rooms, forums, message
boards and/or news groups that are offered
on the Web Site may be disclosed to and used
by third parties.
Use of Information. We use Personal
Information, among other things, to
anticipate and resolve problems with your
service, to personalize your service, to
investigate activity that may violate our
membership, and to develop and market
products and services that may be of
interest to you. In addition, we use
Personal Information to perform the services
for which such data was collected (i.e., if
you are a HBWM member and submit your
information for the free advertising
opportunities, you agree that we may place
your Personal Information in a database
searchable by HBWM website visitors and
certain portions may be viewable by anyone
viewing the Web Site (as specified above).
We will use Personal Information about you
to deliver information to you that target
your interests. However, unless you tell us
otherwise, we will not use Personal
Information collected from the Web Site to
send unsolicited mailings to you.
Third Party Sites. This policy only
addresses our activities from our servers.
Other sites (including those third party
sites or services which we co-brand) may
have their own policies and practices, which
we do not control, and thus are not
addressed by this policy.
Review and Removal of Your Personally
Identifiable Data. If you provide us with
Personal Information during your use of the
Web, you can opt out of receiving email
messages from us about products and services
that may be of interest to you at any time
by by emailing
us.
You can also opt out of having us
disclose your Personal Information to our
third party partners that provide certain
features of the service (in which case you
will not be able to access these features).
To the extent that such information is also
stored in other databases, we cannot always
ensure that such corrections or deletions
will reach the other databases. If you wish
to have information you provided to us
online removed from our records, please
provide us with the information as you
submitted it to us, as follows:
Postal:
Home-Based Working Moms
PO Box 1628
Spring TX 77383
or by email.
We will use all reasonable efforts to
ensure that your information is removed from
our records. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
you should understand that Personal
Information previously disclosed by us to
third parties before you delete or change
such information in our database will be
used according to such third parties'
privacy policies.
Cookies and Other Tracking Methods. When
you view our Web Site, we might store some
information on your computer. Our servers
automatically collect information about
which pages you visit, your browser type,
your IP address, your most-recently visited
URL, your preferences, and in the future, we
may save your password and other Personal
Information so it doesn't need to be
reentered. This information will be in the
form of a "cookie" or similar
file. Cookies are small pieces of
information stored on your computer hard
drive, not on our site. Cookies do not spy
on you or otherwise invade your privacy, and
they cannot invade your hard drive and steal
information. Rather, they help you navigate
a website as easily as possible. Cookies can
help us provide information that is targeted
to your interests, and they allow us to
better understand how you like to use our
Web Site, which in turn helps us focus our
resources on features that are the most
popular. You are always free to decline our
cookies if your browser permits, but some
parts of our site may not work properly in
that case. In some cases we may track or
collect information about your use of our
service by the numeric address assigned to
the computer you are using (your IP address)
or by the URLs that you come from or leave
to. These methods allow us to resolve server
problems or administer your service.
Generally, we do not associate this
information with any other Personal
Information that you have provided to us. We
may also automatically collect and store
statistics and other information about you
and your use of the Web Site both on an
aggregate, non-personally identifiable basis
and in a manner that may allow us to
associate such information with other
Personal Information about you.
The ads appearing on Home-Based Working
Moms website may be delivered by a third
party. In the course of delivering an ad to
you, the third party collects certain
non-personally identifiable information
about you. This information is used to
deliver tailored ads to you.
Security. We use industry-standard
methods to protect your Personal Information
from unauthorized access. Among other
techniques, we store such information on a
computer in a secure location, and we
restrict the number of employees internally
who can access such data. We are not
responsible if some other third party gains
access to the database or your membership
information by evading our security measures
or otherwise obtains access to the database,
your Personal Information.
Amendments. Amendments to this policy
will be posted at this URL and will be
effective when posted.
Further Information. We cannot ensure
that your private communications and other
Personal Information will not be disclosed
to third parties. By way of example, without
limiting the foregoing, we may be forced to
disclose information to the government under
certain circumstances, or third parties may
unlawfully intercept or access transmissions
or private communications, or we might
disclose your information to other sites as
part of offering additional functionality to
you. Additionally, we can (and you authorize
us to) disclose your Personal Information to
private entities, law enforcement or other
government officials as we, in our sole
discretion, believe necessary or
appropriate. Therefore, we do not promise
that your Personal Information or private
communications will remain private. You
acknowledge that this privacy policy is part
of our Membership and you agree to be bound
by all of its terms and conditions.
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