BurgmanUSA Usergroup - Site and Forum Privacy Policy
Document Created February 21st 2006
Last Modified February 1st 2010
BurgmanUSA Usergroup (“BUSA” or “We” or “Us”) have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering, use and dissemination practices for this website. Please take a moment to review the terms of this privacy statement. By using this site, You agree to accept the terms of our privacy statement. If You do not agree to the terms of our privacy statement, please do not use this site. Unless stated otherwise, this privacy statement applies only to information collected on this site and does not apply to information that We may collect by other means.
Personal Information
Information We May Collect
You are not required to provide any personal information in order to obtain general access to this site. However, in order to access certain information, services or features contained on this site, We may require You to provide personal information such as Your name and e-mail address. For example, We will collect certain personal information if You choose to join the forum as a member.
If
You choose to post messages in our message forum or leave
feedback for other users, We may collect such information about You as
You choose to disclose in such forums. Likewise, if other users or
third parties send Us correspondence about Your activities or postings
on our message boards or other areas of this site, We may collect such
information into a file specific to You. BUSA may keep a log of
inactive account information for an indefinite period of time, at
BUSA’s discretion.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Please note that We will not share Your personal information (whether collected online or offline) with any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Any information supplied to Us via the on-line “Contact Us” page, Private messages on the forums or via e-mail may be passed on to BurgmanUSA for the purpose of progressing any problem or request You have made through Us.
Finally,
We reserve the right to disclose visitor information in special cases
when We have reason to believe that disclosing this information is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone
who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally
or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors, or anyone
else that could be harmed by such activities. This includes our right
to exchange information with other organizations in order to protect
against fraud. We also reserve the right to disclose visitor
information when We believe in good faith that the law requires it.
Links to Other Sites
The message boards and other areas of this site contain links to other sites that take You outside this site. These outside sites are beyond our control. They may send their own cookies to visitors, collect data or solicit personal information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly different from our privacy statement. We will not notify You when You are leaving our site and We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of Your personal information collected there.
Aggregate Information
From time to time, We may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of this site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on this site, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. We collect this information through the use of technologies such as “cookies” and “IP addresses”, which are discussed in greater detail below. We collect this information in order to determine which areas of this site are most popular and to enhance this site for visitors. We may also group this and other information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of this site in response to a government or business request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify You or any other visitors to this site.
IP Addresses and Cookies
In
the course of using our site, We automatically track certain
information about You. This information includes the URL that You just
came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL You next
go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser You are
using, and Your IP address (which is a number that’s automatically
assigned to Your computer whenever You are surfing the web). Many sites
automatically collect this information. We use Your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our site. Your IP
address is used to help identify You. We reserve the right to use IP
addresses to identify a visitor when We feel it is necessary to enforce
compliance with this site’s policies or to protect our service or
customers, this site, or others.
Like most websites, our site does
use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers
to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. In some
cases the cookies are linked to Your personally identifiable
information. Cookies are used to simplify functions on our website for
our users. You can reset Your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate
when a cookie is being sent. However, please be aware that some
features of this site may not function properly or may be slower if You
refuse cookies. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers
or other third parties with links on this site. We do not control these
cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is
standard in the Internet industry.
Guidance for Children Under the ages of 13
We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 on this site. If You are under the age of 13, please do not provide any personal information to Us. The only information We will have access to is that supplied upon registration. Whilst excessive and deliberately offensive language will not be tolerated and will be removed, the forums are not censored and may include language that some people, especially those under 13, may find offensive.
COPPA, or the Child Online Privacy and Protection Act of 1998, is a law in the United States requiring websites which can potentially collect information from minors under the age of 13 to have written parental consent or some other method of legal guardian acknowledgement, allowing the collection of personally identifiable information from a minor under the age of 13. COPPA compliance is enforced through the forum software.
Changes to These Terms
The
terms of this privacy statement may change from time to time. We will
notify You of any material changes to this privacy statement by posting
a notice on the homepage of this site, for a reasonable period of time
after such changes are made, that this privacy statement has been
updated, and by changing the “Last Modified” date at the top of this
privacy statement. We encourage You to check this page periodically for
any changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of
changes to these terms will mean You accept those changes.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. If You register as a forum member, You will be required to create an online account and choose a username and password that will protect Your online account information. Access to Your online account requires Your password. We recommend that You do not disclose Your password to any other person. All databases are secured behind a firewall. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while BUSA strives to protect Your personal information and privacy, We cannot guarantee or warranty the security of any information You disclose or transmit to Us on-line and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of Your personal information.
If you have any concerns, questions, or comments about the privacy policy, you may contact us thru the forums or at the email address provided in this link.