Privacy Policy

Generally

usbiz.org is provided by Ali Caner Öner and its affiliates (“we” or “us”). Your usbiz.org information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you make purchases from us, when you register with us, when you set up profiles to share with others, when you interact with other users on usbiz.org, or when you log in to usbiz.org as a registered user and interact with usbiz.org products and services. Your usbiz.org information may include (a) registration-related information (such as name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address); (b) member profile about yourself that you can share with others; (c) a profile on your business or your profession that you desire to share with others, (d) transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, or a history of products purchased through us); (e) information about your visits to usbiz.org or our other web sites, pages and services; (f) your responses to our offerings and advertisements; (g) information about the features or offerings you use from us; (h) your billing and shipping information; (i) customer service information; and (j) other information specifically related to your use of a particular usbiz.org feature or offering. Your information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies such as publicly available information and other information that we may append or match to your information.

Your Profile

When you register with us, sign up for an application or service, become a member of a company profile or make recommendations on the service, we use certain information we collect from you (your name, business, and location of your business) to set up a profile on your behalf to share with others, and which information will be available by search to help you promote your business or profession. After you register with usbiz.org, you may provide additional member information about yourself (member profile, company profile) and add company profile information about your business in the My Profile area on usbiz.org. Such member and company profiles could include, at your option, a description of your skills or products, experience, education and membership in organizations. Also in the My Profile area, you can control what information you want to share with others.

Contact Information

We may offer you services to send invitations via usbiz.org or email addresses if they are not usbiz.org users in order to connect with others on usbiz.org. The names and email addresses of people whom you invite will be used to send your invitations and reminders as well as to allow us to help expand your network. You understand and agree that when you send an invitation to connect to another user, that user will have access to your email address because it is displayed in the invitation. Your connections will also have access to your email address. You may not invite anyone you do not know and trust to connect with you.

You Consent to our Collection of Information

By providing information to us for the purposes of creating your usbiz.org account, interacting with usbiz.org's services and features, or adding any additional details to your profile, you understand and agree that we may process information about you and make information about you available to others. In addition, if you post any information about yourself on areas of usbiz.org that are publicly accessible, such as message boards or forums, you understand and agree that such information will be available to others. Google, Inc. supplies the mapping services on usbiz.org. If you decide to use and interact with the mapping services, you agree that Google may collect information in accordance with its privacy policy located at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Your usbiz.org information is used to operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by us; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of our products; to share information about you and your business; to communicate with other users and business contacts; and, to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest or relevance to you. We may share Your usbiz.org information with our service providers, affiliates, partners, agents or other parties whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you or to fulfill a transaction requested by you. Since usbiz.org is design to help companies and business professionals network with others, usbiz.org is designed so that certain information about you and your business is available to others on usbiz.org and via search engines, including, your name, and location of your business, and to help you communicate with companies and business professionals. As we explain below, you can add, enhance, modify or delete what information is made available to others in the My Profile area of usbiz.org.  We may use your usbiz.org information to present offers to you on behalf of business partners and advertisers. We may use agents and contractors in order to help operate usbiz.org and provide usbiz.org services to you. Their use of information is limited to these purposes. The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as a usbiz.org user, may be accessed and disclosed in response: to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena), in other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user, that an emergency exists that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person, when necessary either to protect our property, or for us to render the service you have requested. In the event that our ownership was to change as a result of a merger or acquisition by another company, your usbiz.org information may be transferred. We will provide you notice prior to any such transfer of your usbiz.org information.

Your Information Choices

In the My Profile area on usbiz.org, you have the following choices:

• You may review, enhance, add, change or delete such information in the My Profile area.
• You may choose to make your member profile available to search engines through the My Profile area.
• You may control how other users may send you messages.
• You may change your settings to control visibility on usbiz.org.
• You may remove all information about you and your business by cancelling your account by contacting us. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to block access to your information upon termination of your account; however, you understand and agree that certain information may be retained by us as part of our standard back up and archiving process.

Any e-mails that you receive that contain marketing promotions will provide an option to remove your name from future mailings; provided, however, you understand and agree that this exclusion does not apply to notices we provide you about your usbiz.org services.

Our mobile applications may include location-based services. These services may include applications that can help you search and find businesses located near you. When you sign in and use our location-based services, we must periodically receive your location in order to provide our services to you. We may collect and process information about your actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers. By using our location-based services, you authorize us to locate your device and to record, compile and display your location. We may also collect and store certain information about our users, such as, users’ wireless mobile subscriber ISDN numbers and users’ network access identifier information. We may use third party providers to help operate our services. Google, Inc. provides our location-based mapping services. By using the location-based mapping services, you agree that Google may collect information when you use the maps as described in its privacy policy located athttp://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, which Google may update from time-to-time. You may discontinue any location-based service by going to the location services settings on your device and turn off GPS and other settings that can locate your device. Our applications may give you the ability to store your log-in credentials on a mobile device so that you can be logged-in automatically when your launch our services. You may deactivate the automatic feature by using the log-off feature on our applications. You understand that you are solely responsible if someone else obtains access to your mobile device if it is lost or stolen. You agree to notify your mobile carrier promptly to prevent unauthorized access to your device and your usbiz.org profile. You may also notify us if you believe your profile has been compromised. We make available a secure page for entering sensitive information, protected by industry-standard SSL encryption technology. This technology encrypts your information prior to transmitting it over the Internet. We maintain the confidential information you provide us in a secure database. We further require credentials such as a user identification (e.g., email address) and password to limit access to registered accounts. Please keep in mind that while we have established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of you usbiz.org information, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, in the event of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or our policies).

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