TIMETRACKINGBUDDY.COM PRIVACY POLICY
TimeTracking Buddy, LLC, is committed to your
privacy. This Privacy Policy details how we use
your personal identifying information. This Privacy
Policy may be modified at any time without notice
to you. Please review this document each time
you visit us or use any of our tools or services.
Our Privacy Policy is our commitment to you that
we provide not only the highest quality services
and products, but that we understand that you
expect us to safeguard the personal and business
information that we collect. To this end, our
Privacy Policy allows you to make an informed
decision regarding your usage of the tools and
services that we provide. As technology and circumstances
change, we will continue to update, modify and
enhance this Privacy Policy for your benefit as
part of our commitment to you to provide the best
possible services and security according to our
high standards of business practices and ethics.
By using our the tools, software and services
that we provide and by visiting our web site,
such activities become your express indication
to us that you consent to our collection and use
of your personal information as described herein.
If we modify or enhance our Privacy Policies and
related procedures, we will publish those modifications
on this web page in order to make you aware of
any such changes.
Confidentiality of Your Data
We will not share with any third party or entity
the personal, business or corporate data or personal
information that we collect a commitment shared
by our hosting company. All such information shall
be confidentially maintained by our hosting community
pursuant to our contractual relationship with
our hosting company and we shall also maintain
strict confidentiality of such information and
data. We shall use such information strictly for
the purpose of providing services to you, our
user.
Exceptions to our Privacy Policy
Possible exceptions to our policy include the
rare following circumstances, and as indicated
herein:
• If a governmental agency, or an attorney,
subpoenas your private information, or makes a
formal request for discovery pursuant to any legal
action, or pending legal action.
• If our attorney requests such information
relevant to a current or pending legal matter
in which you are a potential or actual party or
otherwise contributed in some way to the causation
of the legal matter.
Confidentiality
Registration Data is the property of TimeTracking
Buddy, LLC, subject to and protected by the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act for those residents
of the USA. We will not sell, rent, swap, or otherwise
disclose your Registration Data to any third party.
TimeTracking Buddy, LLC. maintains a secured area
on the Site for transmission of Registration Data,
and stores all Registration Data in a private
database which is not connected to the Internet.
Uses of Registration Data
Unless you select the "Opt-Out" option
as described herein, we reserve the right to use
your Registration Data to send you information
about our software products, the Site, and other
topics in which you have indicated an interest.
Opt-Out Right
If you do not wish to receive any special offers
or other communications from TimeTrackingBuddy.com,
you have the right to select the "opt out"
option during the registration process or at any
time afterwards. You may "opt out" by
clicking on the box marked "I DO NOT WISH
TO RECEIVE SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM TimeTrackingBuddy.com"
when you register your purchase or register your
software at any time afterwards by going to the
"Special Offers" area of the Site.
Cookies
Please note that we employ the use of cookies.
Currently we employ cookies when users create
user accounts, but we may further employ cookies
to assist the functionality of other tools, services
and functions in the future.
Cookies are small programs that enhance your
use of the Internet, in general, and specifically
we use cookies to enhance your usage of our functions.
The information gathered is not shared with third
parties. You may turn off your cookies by adjusting
the appropriate setting on your browser.
Please consult the HELP menu of your browser
to learn how to turn your cookies off. Cookies
do not reveal personal information and if you
turn off your cookies you may find your enjoyment
of the Internet, and our site, to be reduced or
impaired.
In order to seek out and repair functionality
issues with our servers and related programming,
we may use your email and IP addresses for evaluation
and diagnostic purposes.
Cookies may provide Recording Session information,
show us visitor preferences regarding return visits
to our web site, help us to mange subscription
or private areas on our web site, record user
specific tracking or aggregate tracking information
of visitors and deliver user customized content
based on user specific information, such as browser
type, screen type and resolution and so forth.
None of the information gathered is shared with
third parties.
Other possible uses for the information that
we collect includes internal tracking, review,
or is used for contacting purposes and then is
archived by us for future usage. We also use the
information we collect to provide custom content
for our user base. Technical and business statistics
are also collected via cookies: which allows us
to tract the various paths users trace through
web site as they move from one web page to another.
Cookies also account for the number of users who
visit our site and to calculate the visitor capacity
and scalable architecture of our web site. We
do not use cookie technology to gather personal
information about you although such technology
may allow us to serve up focused banner advertisements
and other Internet published advertising content
which appears on one or more pages of our web
site.
Links to Third Party Web Sites
We are not responsible for the practices employed
by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor
the information or content contained therein.
Often links to other Web sites are provided as
a courtesy to you. Always review the Privacy Policies
of such web sites.
General Information
It is our policy not to send unsolicited emails
or allow third parties to contact you via the
email address that you provide to us. We may,
from time to time, contact you to discuss business
relevant to your membership and, naturally, we
will contact you to respond to inquiries that
you may send to us.
We do not collect information about our visitors
from third party sources, such as public records
or entities, or private organizations.
We do not knowingly collect personal data or
information from minors.
We have implemented security policies, rules
and technical measure to protect the personal
data that we have under our control. These policies,
rules and technical measures help to protect your
data from unauthorized access, improper use or
disclosure, unauthorized modification, and unlawful
destruction or accidental loss. However, note
that no policy, rule or technical measure can
offer 100% protection against unauthorized access,
improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification,
unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
All our employees and data processors, who have
access to, and are associated with the processing
of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality
of our visitor’s and members’ personal
data.
We use your personal information, in a general
sense, to operate our business; that means that
we use the information to provide customer service
and to provide tools and services to our user
base, including, individually, you or your business.
We may also use the information we collect for
the purpose of alerting you about changes to our
business, web site or special offers we think
you will find to be important. All emails sent
to you are done so pursuant to standard industry
security approaches and standards.
Your password is protected by us from unauthorized
access and usage via standard security approaches.
However, no such process is 100% secured. Also,
we advise you to never share your password and
other sensitive information with any third party
and to always verify by examining the address
placed into your browser’s URL section that
you are actually present at our web site before
you enter in your user ID and password information.
Evaluation of our Privacy Policy practices and
internal protocols: from time to time, our operations
and business practices are reviewed for compliance
with internal policies and procedures governing
the security and confidentiality of our information.
We provide ongoing training for regarding our
standards and practices regarding the safeguarding
of your personal information and in general limit
access to any such information to those employees
who are authorized to attend to your information
for such reasonably required and necessary access
thereto.
Credit Card Usage, Aggregated Data and
More
We may collect aggregate (general tracking) information
about pages that users visit on our site. We also
may collect user specific information about pages
that users visit on our site. Any information
that you give us when you complete a contact form
or inquiry form, survey and so forth is collected
by us.
Should you engage in a business transaction with
us, such as purchasing a tool, product or service,
we will collect the information necessary to complete
that transaction. Credit card based purchases
generally require you to provide the following
information: your name, mailing address, e-mail
address, credit card number, home and or business
phone number and other personal information, such
as security codes or information such as your
mother’s maiden name. We maintain your credit
card related information once your purchase has
been verified and processed via your credit card
service provider for future usage, within a secured
system. In the event of a charge back, the credit
card service provider will provide us with such
information for the purpose of our evaluation
of the charge back request, including any protestations
and or feedback issued by our company if we determine
fraud has taken place. In the event of credit
card fraud and similar defaulted payments, the
credit card related information shall be used
for collection related purposes.
Credit card information sent to use via our web
site is transferred and transmitted via secure
server software that provides industry standard
encryption.
Other information that you send via standard email
will not be subjected to this high level of encryption
so we advise you accordingly that you should never
submit sensitive personal information such as
credit card numbers and so forth via standard
email to us.
Lost or Stolen Information
If your credit card or password is stolen or
used without your permission, immediately notify
us. Upon notification we will cancel your credit
card number and/or password and update its records.
Cancellation
You may cancel your membership at any time by
sending an e-mail.
Use of Aggregated Information. We reserve the
right to disclose to third parties information
about Subscriber usage of our web site and any
related services, including information gathered
during your use of the Site. Any information disclosed
will be in the form of aggregate data (such as
overall patterns or demographic reports) that
does not describe or identify any individual user.
Communications
If you communicate with us, via email or telephone
or even via surface mail, we will maintain such
communications and the information contained within
them for the purpose and providing customer services
to you. We employ industry standard protections
for all such communications.
You may be required to complete online registration
forms that provide us with contact information
(such as your name and street address), your email
address, and your phone numbers.
We may, from time to time, send you emails regarding
our service so that we can directly communicate
with you regarding issues we determine to be relevant.
No Liability for Acts of Third Parties
Although we will use all reasonable efforts to
safeguard the confidentiality of the Registration
Data, transmissions made by means of the Internet
cannot be made absolutely secure. We will have
no liability for disclosure of Registration Data
due to errors in transmission or unauthorized
acts of third parties.
We reserve the right to change or update this
Privacy Policy, or any other company policy or
practice, at any time with reasonable notice to
users of the Site. Any changes or updates will
be effective immediately upon posting to the Site.
Most Recent Update
Last Updated: 9/12/2007
Contacting Us
Please contact us
if you should have any questions, comments or
concerns about this privacy policy.
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