| Venture Forward is committed
to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online
experience. This Statement of Privacy applies
to the Venture Forward Web site and governs data
collection and usage. By using the Venture Forward
website, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Venture Forward collects personally identifiable
information, such as your e-mail address, name,
home or work address or telephone number. Venture
Forward also collects anonymous demographic information,
which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code,
age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer
hardware and software that is automatically collected
by Venture Forward. This information can include:
your IP address, browser type, domain names, access
times and referring Web site addresses. This information
is used by Venture Forward for the operation of
the service, to maintain quality of the service,
and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Venture Forward Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose
personally identifiable information or personally
sensitive data through Venture Forward public
message boards, this information may be collected
and used by others. Note: Venture Forward does
not read any of your private online communications.
Venture Forward encourages you to review the
privacy statements of Web sites you choose to
link to from Venture Forward so that you can understand
how those Web sites collect, use and share your
information. Venture Forward is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on
Web sites outside of the Venture Forward and Venture
Forward family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Venture Forward collects and uses your personal
information to operate the Venture Forward Web
site and deliver the services you have requested.
Venture Forward also uses your personally identifiable
information to inform you of other products or
services available from Venture Forward and its
affiliates. Venture Forward may also contact you
via surveys to conduct research about your opinion
of current services or of potential new services
that may be offered.
Venture Forward does not sell, rent or lease
its customer lists to third parties. Venture Forward
may, from time to time, contact you on behalf
of external business partners about a particular
offering that may be of interest to you. In those
cases, your unique personally identifiable information
(e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not
transferred to the third party. In addition, Venture
Forward may share data with trusted partners to
help us perform statistical analysis, send you
email or postal mail, provide customer support,
or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties
are prohibited from using your personal information
except to provide these services to Venture Forward,
and they are required to maintain the confidentiality
of your information.
Venture Forward does not use or disclose sensitive
personal information, such as race, religion,
or political affiliations, without your explicit
consent.
Venture Forward keeps track of the Web sites
and pages our customers visit within Venture Forward,
in order to determine what Venture Forward services
are the most popular. This data is used to deliver
customized content and advertising within Venture
Forward to customers whose behavior indicates
that they are interested in a particular subject
area.
Venture Forward Web sites will disclose your
personal information, without notice, only if
required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform
to the edicts of the law or comply with legal
process served on Venture Forward or the site;
(b) protect and defend the rights or property
of Venture Forward; and, (c) act under exigent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of
users of Venture Forward, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Venture Forward Web site use "cookies"
to help you personalize your online experience.
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your
hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot
be used to run programs or deliver viruses to
your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to
you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to
provide a convenience feature to save you time.
The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server
that you have returned to a specific page. For
example, if you personalize Venture Forward pages,
or register with Venture Forward site or services,
a cookie helps Venture Forward to recall your
specific information on subsequent visits. This
simplifies the process of recording your personal
information, such as billing addresses, shipping
addresses, and so on. When you return to the same
Venture Forward Web site, the information you
previously provided can be retrieved, so you can
easily use the Venture Forward features that you
customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies.
Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can usually modify your browser setting
to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose
to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully
experience the interactive features of the Venture
Forward services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Venture Forward secures your personal information
from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Venture
Forward secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled,
secure environment, protected from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. When personal information
(such as a credit card number) is transmitted
to other Web sites, it is protected through the
use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Venture Forward will occasionally update this
Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer
feedback. Venture Forward encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Venture
Forward is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Venture Forward welcomes your comments regarding
this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that
Venture Forward has not adhered to this Statement,
please contact Venture Forward at podaniel@firstegg.com.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to
promptly determine and remedy the problem. |
