Privacy Policy
Effective on:
7/24/04
Last Revision: 03/10/07
Welcome to BuySellWebsitetm! BuySellWebsite.com® provides its service to you, subject to the following Privacy
Policy.
BuySellWebsite.com® is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an
independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build users'
trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair
information practices. This privacy statement covers the site
WWW.BUYSELLWEBSITE.COM. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its
commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information
practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by
TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns
regarding this statement, you should first contact JC Phillippon at
jc@buysellwebsite.com or by mail at 2301 IL Route 26 N
Freeport, IL 61032 If
you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has
not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe
http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php . TRUSTe will
then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
Information Collection & Use
Send-a Page-to-a-Friend
If you choose to use
our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you
for your friend’s name and email address. This referral service
is handled by
ConstantContact.com and will automatically send
your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. BuySellWebsite.com® does not store this information.
Special Offers and
Updates
We will occasionally send you information on new Website For-Sale
Listings and infrequent promotions via email.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to
receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and
Opt-out.”
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and
email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your
privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice
and Opt-out” section.
Website For Sale
Listings
When you fill out the form for listing your internet business for
sale, that information is automatically posted to our public database
of websites for sale. All information you provide is freely available
to anyone with the exception of your password. This information
includes your name, business name, email, phone, postal address,
business description, ad headline, net income, total revenue, business
start date, password, url, unique visitors, reason for selling,
financing, employees, and asking price.
When payment is made for listings you are directed to a third party
processor and any information given is only used for the purpose of
completing that one time purchase. This information is then shared
back to BuySellWebsite.com® for the purpose of completing your
transaction.
Appraisals
The information we collect during the website appraisal process is
held strictly confidential. We only release information about you and
your business with your permission first, either written or oral. The
information collected includes your name, business name, url, email,
phone, postal address, business description, password, net income, and
total revenue.
Affiliate
When signing up for
our affiliate program you will be directed to
MyReferer.com, a third party
that manages our affiliate program. No data is shared with
this affiliate management company. BuySellWebsite.com® retains all ownership of the
information collected. Information collected includes, name, url,
email, password and postal address.
Service-related
Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare
occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service
is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
It is not possible to opt-out of these messages.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we
will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password.
We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to
provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will
communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your
wishes.
Information Sharing
and Disclosure
Personally identifiable information:
We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information in ways other than
disclosed in this privacy statement. Any information submitted to the
Website For Sale Marketplace, Start-Up Marketplace and Miscellaneous
Marketplace are considered public information because your contact
information is listed in the listing. “You should be aware that any
personally identifiable information you post there can be read,
collected, or used by other users of this directory, and could be used
to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the
personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these
forums.
Service Providers
We use PayPal®
to facilitate our payment processing. When you make a payment,
you will be automatically transferred to PayPal's site. Please be aware that
their privacy policy governs the use and collection of the information and
some of this information is shared back with BuySellWebsite®
to enable us to fulfill your order. We also use
MyReferer, a third
party, to manage our affiliate program. These companies do not retain, share,
store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right
to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by
law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or
legal process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-out
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional
communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the
instructions included in each newsletter or communication sent to you
or by emailing us at
buysell@buysellwebsite.com.
Access to Personally
Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no
longer desire our service, you may correct, update or delete your
listing by logging into your account by browsing to your ad and
clicking on “Modify Your Ad” or by emailing our Customer Support at
buysell@buysellwebsite.com
or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the
contact information listed below.
To delete your listing simply browse to your ad and click on “Modify
Your Ad” and login, then select the delete button at the bottom of the
page to permanently delete your listing.
Log
Files
As is true of most
Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in
log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and
clickstream data.
We use this
information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze
trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the
site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a
whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally
identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally
identifiable information to authenticate transmissions submitted on
forms.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is
stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use
cookies on this site. We do link the information we store in cookies
to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site to
track who submits what information.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session
cookies to track advertising effectiveness. A session ID cookie
expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on
your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove
persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet
browser’s “help” file.
We set a persistent cookie to track links sent to us by our
affiliates. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site. This
privacy statement covers the use of cookies by BuySellWebsite.com
only.
Clear Gifs
(Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
Our third party
advertising partners, both Overture and Google, employs a software
technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help
us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is
effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier,
similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online
movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a
user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web
pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this
sentence. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our
customers’ personally identifiable information to help us better
target our advertising.
To learn more about
our advertising company’s use of clear gifs, please go to Overture.com
and Google.com
We use clear gifs in
our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by
recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain
communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If
you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and
Opt-out.”
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we
receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of
electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we
strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. However, our
payment processor, Paypal, uses SSL encryption to secure payment
transmission.
Changes in this Privacy
Statement
If we decide to
change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy
statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that
you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right
to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it
frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will
notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us at: 800-564-2749
buysell@buysellwebsite.com or by mail at
North Route 26, #2301, Freeport, IL 61032
*BuySellWebsite.com
is a business of Web Business Properties Inc, a Corporation in good standing in the state of Illinois, USA .
Web Business Properties Inc has been formed in the State of
Illinois, and BuySellWebsite(tm) is a federally registered trademark.
