This agreement is effective as of March 1st, 2008.
I. Our commitment to Privacy
At MyBiteSite.com, protecting your privacy is extremely important. We believe that a greater protection of your sensitive information is essential to establishing both trust and confidence. This, in turn, will ultimately lead you to participate more frequently in our online services. To better protect your privacy, we have provided this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
II. The Information We Collect and How It Will Be Used
MyBiteSite.com collects personally identifying information only with your specific knowledge and consent. The majority of the information we collect will be used for internal purposes only. Some of these include improving our content, customizing our layout, and enhancing our navigational features to create a better user experience.
Certain areas of MyBiteSite.com require you to be registered before you can access specific enhanced features within the website. While registering for these features, MyBiteSite.com may request that you voluntarily provide us with personal information, including your e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, or credit card number (only if making a payment). This information will allow you to receive correspondence, make a purchase, or participate in online reviews, contests, surveys, polls or games. We will never use or share your personal information with a third party without giving you the opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
MyBiteSite.com may request demographic information including age, average income, education, and geographic area. Volunteering this information, however, is entirely optional and at your discretion. MyBiteSite.com reserves the right to collect, compile, and use this statistical data. If reported to a third party, such as advertisers or business partners, this data will be an aggregate of the information and will not be tied to individual users.
MyBiteSite.com also stores information such as page views, computer IP addresses, and other statistics in the form of logs. These logs are used solely to enhance the technical performance of MyBiteSite.com which will provide the highest possible level of service to you. In addition, we use this information to perform analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of our website.
III. E-mail and Anti-Spam
MyBiteSite.com will not distribute, sell, or rent your e-mail address to any third party.
We may offer to send you information, specials, restaurant news, or website updates via e-mail. To be included in our mailing list, you must opt-in to this service. We will not include you on our mailing list without your permission.
Also, we use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
IV. Controlling Your Personal Information
MyBiteSite.com has various opportunities for you to contribute information within our public forum. You should know that your postings, reviews, messages, and contributions to any of the other public discussion areas are not private. Any personal information you post in these public areas may be seen, collected and used by others. Such activities are beyond the control of MyBiteSite.com.
V. Cookies
A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a Web server to store in a Web browser so that it can later be read back from that browser. We may use cookies to store some personal preferences for your future visits. Cookies allow us to recognize you more quickly; therefore, your time spent on MyBiteSite.com can be more personalized and productive. You'll find that cookies are an industry standard and are used at most major websites in much the same way we use them here at MyBiteSite.com.
If you wish, you can prevent cookie files from using (non-personal) information about you by either deleting the cookie folder in your browser or by putting your browser's Privacy setting higher, but you should know that cookies may be necessary to provide you certain features available on MyBiteSite.com.
VI. Our Commitment to Security
Securing sensitive information is one of our highest priorities at MyBiteSite.com. We have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to guard against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal information. Some of these security measures include restricting access internally to our database and using 128 bit SSL encryption when transferring and receiving private consumer data. Moreover, all personal information is stored on a secure server. We do not store credit card numbers or related identifying information on a MyBiteSite.com server. All such information is stored by our credit card processing partner, on their secured servers, and is protected via its proprietary methods. Please remember that many services and transactions are performed by our business partners. Our privacy policy and our security or common practices do not apply to other companies.
While no computer system is completely secure, we believe that the physical, managerial, and electronic measures implemented by MyBiteSite.com reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
You hereby acknowledge that MyBiteSite.com is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
VII. Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to MyBiteSits.com. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
VIII. Compliance with Legal Process
Except as outlined in this Privacy Policy, MyBiteSite.com will not sell, rent, share, or trade any of your personal information. MyBiteSite.com will disclose information about individual users to governmental or judicial authorities or law enforcement agencies, or to other individuals or entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes. Further, we may share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud, or to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of MyBiteSite.com, such as an acquisition by or merger with another company. In such an event, MyBiteSite.com will notify you before your information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
MyBiteSite.com will also notify you when your information may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and you will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
IX. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. MyBiteSite.com does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy policies on these third party websites.
X. Terms and Changes to this Privacy Policy
You are responsible for reviewing this policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of all it contains. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time and post the new version on MyBiteSite.com. When we do so, the new version of this Privacy Policy will take effect and will govern all MyBiteSite.com services and your relationship with us:
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commencing one month after the date of posting;
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if earlier, when (following posting of the new Privacy Policy) you make an inquiry or otherwise interact with us or another user; or
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immediately upon the date of posting, if the changes are not to operative provisions, or not capable of adversely affecting you - examples of which would include, without limitation, changes to contact details referred to, or the refinement of provisions that are already included, in this Privacy Policy.
By using our website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not assent to this policy, you should not use MyBiteSite.com.
XI. How to Access or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect and maintain online by logging into our website and adjusting your account settings. To protect your privacy and security however, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or allowing you to make corrections.
XII. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our practices, or your dealings with MyBiteSite.com, we encourage you to contact us at support@mybitesite.com or:
MyBiteSite.com
PO Box 1016
Bradenton, FL 34206
XIII. Use of Materials
The right to download and store or output the materials in MyBiteSite.com is granted for personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproductions, transmission, display, or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without the express written permission of MyBiteSite.com is strictly prohibited. Those wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on MyBiteSite.com may contact us using the contact information above.