Privacy SpeenDex Business Directory in USA

SpeenDex is committed to the protection of your privacy. This "Statement" sets out how we collect, use and secure the personal information of individuals using any website owned by us. This Statement reflects the requirements of USA's Federal and Provincial privacy legislation as well as our continuous commitment to protecting your personal information.

BY USING SPEENDEX WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT, PLEASE LEAVE THIS SITE IMMEDIATELY.

Personal Information
Personal information is information about you that uniquely identifies you as an individual. Your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number are all examples of personal information. However, the name, address and telephone number of an individual that appears in a telephone directory that is available to the public (where such individual can refuse to have such information appears in such directory) does not fall under the scope of personal information as it is publicly available information. Also, in some circumstances, some of this information may qualify as business information which is not covered by this Statement.

Collection of Personal Information
We do not automatically gather any personal information from users of SPEENDEX Websites. Personal information is only obtained online if you supply it voluntarily, usually through contacting us via e-mail, applying online for a contest, answering online surveys, submitting a business listing, or registering for services. You are not required to supply personal information to view the content of any SPEENDEX Websites. You should also be aware that when you share personal information in public areas of a SPEENDEX Website, such as contacting owners of any business listing, this information may be seen and used by others users. We urge you to exercise good judgment when sharing personal information.

If you decide not to provide us with personal information online, no material consequences will result, although you may be unable to participate in any updates or changes to business listing.

SPEENDEX Websites may use cookies to track user traffic patterns. A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or cookie files created by other websites. SPEENDEX does not correlate this information with data about individual users, nor does it share this information or sell it to any third party. We only use cookies to tailor the visitor's experience to the SPEENDEX Websites. If you prefer not to receive cookies from a SPEENDEX Website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.

We may use software that receives and records the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer that has contacted SPEENDEX Websites. We make no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting SPEENDEX Websites.

We may also use service providers to serve third party's advertisements on SPEENDEX Websites. In serving advertisements these providers may place cookies on your browser computer and may collect certain anonymous information about your visits to other websites or on SPEENDEX Websites. This information may include browser type, IP address, domain name and the name of the web page from which you entered such websites, web activity and time of day. This information is used by these third parties to better understand and optimize the online advertising campaigns.

From time to time, we analyze traffic and use SPEENDEX Websites to determine which features and services people like and do not like so that we can improve particular services. We prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries in order to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and for other lawful purposes.

Use of Personal Information
We will generally collect and use personal information to administer our business directory and other services, to understand our customers' responses, needs and preferences, and to generally manage our business.

We may also use personal information to contact our customers or suppliers with marketing or promotional materials regarding our products, programs and services or to assist our front-line staff in providing tailored sales offers to our customers. We may exchange or merge personal information with data obtained from third parties for the same purposes.

Personal information may be shared with our agents or contractors in connection with services that they perform for us. Our written agreements with such agents and contractors ensure that personal information can only be used for the purposes for which it was shared with them, and that they handle the personal information in accordance with this "Statement". Some of our agents and contractors are located outside of USA and, as such, are subject to foreign laws, including laws that may require disclosure of personal information to government agencies in those countries.

Safeguards and Retention
We use physical, organizational and technological safeguards to protect your personal information against theft, loss or unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or disposal. Generally speaking, you can visit SPEENDEX Websites without revealing any personal information. However, given that electronically submitted data is not 100% secure, we make no warranties as to the security of any personal information you submit online, which you do at your own risk.

General Disclaimers
SPEENDEX intends for the Content on the Site to be accurate and reliable, however, since the Content has been compiled by SPEENDEX from a variety of sources, it is provided to you "as is" and "as available". SPEENDEX ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OF ANY KIND IN THE CONTENT, AND DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE CONTENT AND TO ANY MATTER RELATING TO THE SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF NON INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

We reserve the right to change and update the "Policy" and these changes will be made when appropriate, in a timely manner. We encourage you to examine our "Policy" from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes we may have made.