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Privacy Statement
We
are committed to safeguarding your privacy online.
Please read the following statement to understand how your
personal information will be treated as you make full
use of the Our Web site.
Voluntary Submission
We
do not collect personally identifying information about
any individual except when knowingly provided
by such
individual. We may ask you for information when you
register for a contest or survey or to receive
a
newsletter. You always have the option not to provide
the information we request. If you choose not to
provide the
information we request, you can still visit most of the
Our Web site content, but you may be unable to access certain
options and services.
Registration:
In
order to become a Genie Network, Division of Geni
USA user, you must first create an account on this
web site.
To create an account you are required to provide the
following contact information: name, email address, country,
ZIP/postal code), a brief summary of your professional
background (current occupation & networking
objectives), and choose a account name and
password.
Profile Information:
Once
a user, you may provide additional information in the
Profile/Brochure/Web Page section describing your skills,
professional experiences, and networking objectives.
Providing additional information beyond what is required
at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to
better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA system. Your Profile
information
can only be viewed by other Genie Network,
Division of Geni USA users in your network and
users of
the Genie Member Section of the Genie Network
website. We make strong efforts to prevent
and
discourage users from placing home addresses and/or
other contact information in their Profile to
the
public.
Information about your
Contacts
In
order to invite others to connect with you directly in
Genie Network, Division of Geni USA, you will
enter their
names and email addresses. This information will be used
by Genie Network, Division of Geni USA to send your
invitation including a standard message and/or one that
you write. The names and email addresses of people that
you invite will be used only to send your invitation and
reminders.
We
may also invite them to join our newsletter and update
email system where they may opt in or out.You
may also
choose to manually enter or upload data about your
contacts into the private “My Contacts” section of our website
which is intended to be added to the website. All
information entered there will only be viewable by you and will
not be searchable by others in the Genie Network,
Division of Geni USA without your permission. This
will be available in the future. All information that
you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered
by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your
own personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A
cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to
your computer's hard drive when you visit such
sites. A
cookie file can contain information, such as a user
identification code, that the site uses to track
the pages
you have visited. We use cookies solely to track user
traffic patterns throughout the Our Web site. We use this data
on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this
information with personal data of any user.
Most
Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you
can usually change your browser settings to display a warning
before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies.
However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from
our Web site, you may not be able to use certain
features of the site.
Browser Level Information
Our
Web servers automatically collect information about a
site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this
information from the user's browser (information
provided by every user's browser). This information is
collected in a database and used--in an aggregated,
anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns
within our Web site. This information is automatically
logged by most Web sites.
Use of Information
Our
primary goal in collecting user information is to
enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by,
among other things, providing interactive communications
such as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address
that you provide to us, and developing future editorial
content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to
your interests, we use aggregated user information to
determine
which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users
read, but instead how well each page or content area
performs overall. We may show third party advertisements on our
website. In order to attract and retain
advertisers we use the aggregated, anonymous information that we
gather to describe our services to partners and to
assist our
advertisers and sponsors to better understand our
audience. We do not disclose personally identifying information
about our users to these parties.
We
may also disclose information about our users when we
believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is
required by
law. Please be aware that Our sponsors, advertisers or
Web sites that have links on our site may collect
personally
identifiable information about you. The information
practices of those parties and Web sites linked to Our Web site
are not covered by this privacy statement. Our users
should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose
personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards,
that information may be collected by others and may
result in unsolicited messages from others.
Kids under 13
Do
not send any information about yourself to us--including
information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do
not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under 13. In the event that we learn
we have collected any personal information from a child
under the age of 13 without verification of parental
consent, we will delete that information from our
database as quickly as possible.
E-Mail
We
respect the privacy of our readers and shall not
disclose, distribute or rent its e-mail subscriber
newsletter
list to any third party, nor shall it permit anyone else
to do so.
Payment Information
In
order to access or change any of your private
information (like a credit card number), however, you
must log in
securely again with your password even if your computer
contains your cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA site you will need
to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log
in to your account. Due to the communications standards
on the Internet, when you visit the Genie Network, Division of
Geni USA web site we automatically receive the URL of
the site
from which you came and the site to which you are going
when you leave Network Geni, LLC Division of Geni USA. We also
receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your
computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World
Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of
web browser
you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This
information is used to analyze overall trends
to help us
improve the Genie Network, Division of Geni USA service,
but is not linked to personally identifiable information in any
way.
Information Sharing
Sharing Information With Third Parties: Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA takes the privacy of
our users very seriously. We will never sell,
rent, or
otherwise provide your personally identifiable
information to any third parties for marketing
purposes.
We will only share your information with third parties
to carry out your instructions and to provide specific
services. For instance, we use a credit card processing
company to bill users for subscription fees. These third
parties do not retain, share, or store any personally
identifiable information except to provide these services
and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which
limit their use of such information.Warranties:This website may
contain other proprietary notices and copyright
information, the terms of which must be observed
and followed.
INFORMATION ON THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Information on this web site may contain
technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.
Information may be changed or updated without notice. Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA, LLC may also make
improvements and/or changes in the products
and/or the services described in this information at any
time
without notice. Notices will be posted on the website
may be emailed to you if
significant.
Partnering
with Other Organizations to Offer
Combined Services:
Genie
Network,Division of Geni USA partners with other online
services to give you the combined results of both services. For
example we partner with SitePal.com, My Fax.com.
We offer such combined services, it will be clear who the
partner is and it will be your choice to make use of the
combined services or not. In these cases, none of your
personally identifiable information will be passed from
Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA, LLC to the partner.
All information about people in your Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA, LLC network is served
by Network Geni, LLC Division of Geni USA and contained
in a frame
at the top of the combined services display page. No
personally identifying information is provided in that frame
at any time.
Communications Between
Users:
Many
emails you initiate through Genie Network, Division of
Geni USA, an invitation sent to a non-user for instance, will not
list your email address and name in the header of the
message. Emails you initiate may also provide aggregate
information about your network (for instance how many
people are in your network), but will never list the people to whom
you’re directly connected. Other communications that you
initiate
through the Genie Network, Division of Geni USA website,
like a request for introductions, will list your name as the
initiator but will include your personal contact
information and may include parts of your profile. Your contact
information will only be shared with another user if
both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact
with each other.
Legal Disclaimer:
It
is possible that we may need to disclose personal
information when required by law. We will disclose
such
information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it
is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial
proceeding, or other legal process served on our company
or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal
claims.
Accessing and Changing Your Account
Information
You
can review the personal information you provided us and
make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for
your Genie Network, Division of Geni USA account,
at any time by logging in to your account on the Genie Network,
Division of Geni USA website and editing the
information
on your Profile/Brochure/Web page. You can also close
your account through the Genie Network, Division of Geni USA
website. If you close your Genie Network, Division of
Geni USA account, we will remove your name and other personally
identifiable information from our database. To request
that we
close your account and remove your information please
follow the termination of membership found on the
website. You may also send your request to
info@geniusa.com .
Please send your request
using an
email account that you have registered with Genie
Network, Division of Geni USA under your name. You will receive a
response to requests sent to info@geniusa.com allow three business
days of our
receiving it.
Security
In
order to secure your personal information, all
communications between you and
the Genie Network, Division of Geni USA,
LLC website are protected through secure socket
layer (SSL) encryption.
Additionally, private information like your
address or credit card number can be accessed only by
providing
your password.
Changes to this Privacy
Policy
Genie Network, Division of Geni USA, LLC
may update this privacy policy. In the event there are
significant changes in the way we treat your personal
information, we will send a notice to the primary email
address
specified in your Genie Network, Division of Geni USA,
LLC account or by displaying a prominent notice on this site.
Questions or Comments
If
you have questions or comments about this privacy
policy, please email us at Info@GeniUSA.com or contact us at:
Genie Network, Division of Geni USA, LLC
Attn: Privacy Policy Issues Geni USA,
LLC
13570 Grove Dr. #261, Maple Grove, MN
55311
DEFINITIONS
IP
address: Every computer connected to the Internet has a
numeric address called an “IP address." This may or may not
correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some
cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may
indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider,
employer, university, etc. As part of its database analysis
We resolve IP addresses to domain names.
Browser type: A user’s browser is a software
program running on a computer that allows users to
access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be
either text or graphic. They read HTML coded
pages that
reside on a server and interpret the coding into what
the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser
type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system,
and browser software and version.
Referrer: The referrer is the URI of the Internet
resource or page that causes a browser to request a page
or image
from Our servers.
Posted 2005 - Revised and
posted: January 1st, 2008
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