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Privacy Policy
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers how letsfranchise.com treats the personal information that we collect when you visit letsfranchise.com (our Website). If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Website. USE OF THIS WEBSITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control. For example, our Website may contain links to other third party websites (such as those of our marketing partners or advertisers), which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the activities that take place on such websites. Please refer to those sites own privacy policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.
A Special Note About Children
We do not direct our Website to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the age of thirteen. If we learn that we have inadvertently received personal information from a child under the age of thirteen, we will promptly delete that information from our database.
letsfranchise.com requests that children thirteen through seventeen do not submit or post information to the website without a parent or guardian's consent. letsfranchise.com may collect information, including personally identifying information, from users between the ages of thirteen though seventeen, and with the permission of their parent or guardian this information may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by letsfranchise.com and may be shared with prescreened third parties.
Information Collection
- Non-Personal Information
When you visit our Website, our server logs collect non-personal information from you, including your browser type, IP address, and cookie information. We may also collect information about your browsing behavior, including the pages that you visit. - Personal Information
We collect personal information, including but not limited to your email address, name, address, zip code, phone number, gender, date of birth and personal interests, when you register with our Website, enter promotions or sweepstakes, request information on products and services, including those that are advertised on our Website, complete surveys, post messages to a bulletin board on our site, communicate with us via email, and make postings on our site, including any chat areas on our site. - Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to: (1) access your registration preferences so that we can provide you with better and more personalized content; (2) display the most appropriate advertising, based on your interests and activities; (3) estimate our audience size; and (4) measure our audiences traffic patterns. You are always free to decline cookies, but by doing so you may not be able to use certain features of our Website or take full advantage of our offerings. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place third parties ads on our Website. These companies may set and access their own cookies on your computer. This means that, as a result of your visit to our Website, these companies may collect information from you, such as your domain type, your IP address and clicking behavior. These companies collection and use of your information is subject to their own privacy policies. As of the date at the end of this Privacy Policy, we have one such relationship, with an ad serving company named Zedo, Inc., whose Privacy Policy is available at: http://zedo.com/zedo/company/privacy.jsp. If you would like to opt out of the use of cookies by our ad serving companies, we recommend that you send us an e-mail at privacy@ven.com to ensure that you know all of the ad serving companies we are using at that time.
We may use web beacons (an HTML image tag that serves as a pixel) to transfer some or all of the personal and non-personal information that we collect from registrants to third-party advertisers in cases where registrants have expressed interest (such as by clicking on a link for more information) in advertisements on our Website. Third parties may also use web beacons in email to registrants or on our Website, for example, by serving a third-party survey using web beacons framed by one of our pages.
Information Use
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes: (1) to administer sweepstakes and promotions on our Website and to notify winners; (2) to improve the content of our Website, (3) to customize the content and/or layout of our pages for each individual visitor, (4) to notify you about updates to our Website, (5) to conduct research, (6) to fulfill your requests for products and services, (7) to send you information and promotional materials and offers from us as well as from our affiliates, marketing partners, advertisers and other third parties, (8) to contact you when necessary, (9) to help address problems with our Website or marketing services, (10) to administer our Website, (11) to help us better understand visitors' use of our Website, (12) to protect the security or integrity of our Website, (13) to deliver targeted display advertisements and offers to you, and (14) to enable our marketing partners, advertisers and other third parties to communicate with site visitors.
Information Sharing
We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide information, products or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
(1) We provide your personal information to our trusted marketing and business partners, advertisers and other third parties who may communicate with you about offers from us and others.
(2) We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
(3) We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
(4) We may transfer information about you if all or part of our company or our operations are acquired by or merged with another company.
(5) We may disclose your personal information to our employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers and suppliers, if the disclosure will enable any of these entities to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us.
Limitation of Liability
In no event shall letsfranchise.net, its parent or subsidiary companies or its affiliates or suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of or in any way connected with the use of this service or with the delay or inability to use this service, or for any information, software, products, and services advertised in or obtained through the service, letsfranchise.net's removal or deletion of any materials or records submitted or posted on its site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the service, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, even if letsfranchise.net or any of its subsidiary companies, affiliates or suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. This waiver applies, without limitation, to any damages or injury arising from any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, file corruption, communication-line failure, network or system outage, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any record. You specifically acknowledge and agree that FeeForum.com, its parent or subsidiary companies, affiliates or suppliers shall not be liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user of the service. Some States do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from State to State
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless FreForum.com, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or accruing from: (a) any material posted or otherwise provided by you that infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any person or defames any person or violates their rights of publicity or privacy; (b) any misrepresentation made by you in connection with your use of the service; (c) any non-compliance by you with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy; and (d) claims brought by persons or entities other than the parties to this Privacy Policy arising from or related to your access and use of the service, including the information obtained though the service.
Changing Contact Preferences
We and our marketing partners may contact you by email, postal mail and telephone concerning products and services we think may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to be contacted by us, or you wish to correct or update your contact information, please send us an email at feedback@ven.com or visit us at www.letsfranchise.com and provide your full name and the email address, postal address and/or telephone number at which you no longer wish to be contacted. Any personal information we provide to a marketing partner is subject to that marketing partners own Privacy Policy. If you wish to change the way a marketing partner contacts you, you must contact the marketing partner directly.
Child Online Protection Act Notification
Pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230(d) as amended, letsfranchise.net hereby notifies you that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. Information identifying current providers of such protections is available at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Web site, http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Ratings_filters_labeling/, and at the America Links Up Web site, http://www.netpraents.org/parentstips/browsers.html. To view information on our Privacy Policy regarding the privacy of children under the age of thirteen, please see above.
Miscellaneous
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. Although you acknowledge that we will have the ability to enforce our rights in any court of competent jurisdiction, you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in New York, New York, U.S.A., regarding any and all disputes relating to this Privacy Policy or your use of the service. You acknowledge and agree that the warranty disclaimers and liability and remedy limitations in this Privacy Policy are material terms of this Privacy Policy and that they have been taken into account in the decision of letsfranchise.net to provide the service hereunder. You may not assign any of your rights, obligations or privileges hereunder without the prior written consent of letsfranchise.net. Any assignment of the foregoing other than as provided for in this subsection shall be null and void. If any provision of this Privacy Policy shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Privacy Policy, shall be enforced to the fullest extent allowed by law as to effect the intention of the parties, and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This Privacy Policy and any posted operating rules constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. No waiver of any provision or any right granted hereunder will be effective unless set forth in a written instrument signed by the waiving party. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the service or access to the service. The title and subtitles used in this Privacy Policy are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our Website. All revisions shall automatically be effective 5 days after they are posted.
Last revision date: October 21, 2008
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at the email address or phone number on this page.