Privacy Policy

These days, we all need to be smart about the way we use our own personal data. OpenBusinessCard™ has always been on the forefront of privacy issues, and we're constantly refining our Privacy Policy to ensure that you can get your job done - all on your own terms. OpenBusinessCard.org continues to strive to provide the safest possible environment for you to search and find business cards online, so you can be smarter about the way people contact you.

OVERVIEW

We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting information you submit. This Privacy Policy only applies to data gathered on the OpenBusinessCard.org web site (the "Site"), and does not apply to any other information or web site. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may update it from time to time. This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 17, 2008. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, you are, by doing so, accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy at that time. You agree that by using the Site you are expressly and affirmatively consenting to our use and disclosure of the information that you provide, based on the consent you give us pertaining to your information.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

In order to operate the Site in an efficient and effective manner and provide users with information on business cards that may be of interest to them, OpenBusinessCard.org may collect personal information, including contact information (such as account enhancements), from its users. In addition, this information allows us to provide users with private and secure areas to post and modify their original content on our site (e.g., online business cards). We also automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site and use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve users in general. This information may include the URL that a user has just come from (whether this URL is on our Site or not), the URL a user goes to next (whether this URL is on our Site or not), a user's computer browser information, and their IP address.

You agree that OpenBusinessCard.org may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests (such as account enhancements), or provides administrative notices or communications applicable to your use of the Site. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of any further receipt by following the opt out provisions provided in each such communication.

We do not sell our users' personal information to anyone for any reason whatsoever. When posting online business cards and other personal information, our users decide for themselves how much contact information they wish to display (we enable private communication for those who choose to hide this information).

All users should be aware, however, that when they voluntarily display or distribute personal information (such as their email address or business information), that information can be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties for which OpenBusinessCard.org is not responsible. Also, you may have arrived at this Web site by following a link from a OpenBusinessCard.org affiliate. If so, please be aware that OpenBusinessCard.org may share your information with that affiliate and the affiliate may use the information consistent with its privacy policy instead of this one.

OpenBusinessCard.org may also disclose specific user information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of OpenBusinessCard.org or other users of the Site. In addition, personal information we have collected may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets or a bankruptcy of OpenBusinessCard.org.

ABOUT COOKIES

At OpenBusinessCard.org, we use cookies only for the protection and convenience of our users. Cookies enable us to serve secure pages to our users without asking them to sign in repeatedly. If a user's system is idle for more than an hour, however, the cookie will expire, forcing the user to sign in again to continue their session. This prevents unauthorized access to the user's information while they are away from their computer. You may have the ability to reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent; however, some OpenBusinessCard.org features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Third-Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

ADVERTISING

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information about you and your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services of interest to you.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

OpenBusinessCard.org cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although we are committed to protecting your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. As a user of the Site, you understand and agree that you assume all responsibility and risk for your use of the Site, the internet generally, and the documents you post or access and for your conduct on and off the Site.