Entrepreneur.com Online Privacy Statement
(The policies stated within this document are applicable to Entrepreneur.com and other sites owned and operated by Entrepreneur.com Inc. on the World Wide Web.)
Your Privacy Is Serious Business To Us!
The privacy of our visitors and members is very important to us. Since we do gather information about you, we provide this privacy statement to enable you to understand the terms and conditions associated with the collection of this data, as well as how we use it and how you can correct or change it. In addition, we make to you the following pledge:
The Entrepreneur.com Privacy Pledge
1. The information we collect about your business will be used for purposes of site research and development in an effort to better serve your needs.
2. We will never contact you without your permission, and we will immediately terminate any communications with you upon request.
Electronic Newsletters
You can choose to subscribe to one of our FREE electronic newsletters. These newsletters are distributed through our list manager, PostMasterDirect. To subscribe, simply check the box for each newsletter you wish to receive, provide your e-mail address and submit. In order to complete the subscription request, you will be asked to supply additional information such as zip code, job title, number of employees, country of origin, and type of business. You will be sent a confirmation e-mail to verify address. As a subscriber to our newsletter, you will also receive, from time-to-time, special communications from Entrepreneur and its partners. You can remove yourself from our newsletter e-mail lists by simply following the "Unsubscribe" directions included in each newsletter you receive. Please be assured that information you voluntarily give us will not be shared with any third party beyond our list manager, PostMasterDirect.
Special Offers
We have partnered with PostMasterDirect, one of the world's largest suppliers of opt-in e-mail lists, to provide our members with information and valuable offers by e-mail. Subscription to these lists is completely voluntary, and you may unsubscribe at any time. To subscribe, simply check the box for each category of interest, provide your e-mail address and submit. In order to complete the subscription request, you will be asked to supply additional information such as zip code, job title, number of employees, country of origin, and type of business. You will be sent a confirmation e-mail to verify address. Offers you receive through this subscription will be identified in the message header as part of your participation in the Entrepreneur.com list. To unsubscribe, simply follow the directions provided in the header of the e-mail. We want you to receive only those offers of interest to you. Please be assured that information you voluntarily give us will not be shared with any third party beyond our list manager, PostMasterDirect.
Franchise & Business Opportunity Lead Submission
Entrepreneur collects lead information for franchise and business opportunity advertisers conducting recruitment campaigns on the site. Submitting information to Entrepreneur under this lead generation program is completely voluntary. Should you choose to provide Entrepreneur with information as a part of this program, this personal information will only be sent to the company you selected. The lead information will also be retained by Entrepreneur through an archive account submitted to an Internet-based email account.
SmallBizBooks.com Registration
You will be required to register in order to make purchases at our online store, SmallBizBooks.com. To register, you are required to supply your name and shipping address, phone number, a username and password. Optional information includes the name of your company and a fax number. The information gathered from this process is stored in the SmallBizBooks.com database and is also saved to a cookie. This allows SmallBizBooks.com members to enter the site without having to login each time. When you make a purchase at SmallBizBooks.com, your credit card information is secured using 128-bit SSL encryption technology.
Message Boards & Public Postings
Entrepreneur is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the course of discussions in our message boards or other forms of publicly accessible interaction.
Contests And Sweepstakes
All contests and sweepstakes conducted on any site operated by Entrepreneur.com are conducted in accordance with both federal and state laws. Information collected during any contest or sweepstakes event is used to verify user identity and to contact winners. Once again, no information regarding individual users is sold or rented to any third party. Winner name and address data will be supplied to a third-party fulfillment source for the shipment of your prize.
Usage Reports
In order to better understand traffic patterns on any site owned and operated by Entrepreneur.com, we analyze our site activity to obtain overall usage statistics. These usage statistics provide us with certain information obtained from data within the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Information we collect from the browser string includes domain name, browser type, operating system and MIME type.
Email Data Analysis
From time-to-time, we provide our email lists (newsletters & special offers) to third party companies who provide specialized services, such as email message deployment, merge-purge (identifying and removing duplicate addresses) of lists, statistical analysis, and other data processing. These companies work on our behalf and we do not provide our lists or other data to them for their own, permanent, use.
Cookies
All sites owned and operated by Entrepreneur.com use cookies. A cookie is a small data file written to your hard drive. We place a cookie on your hard drive in order to recognize you as a member when you enter our site, which avoids your having to login as a member each time you visit us. Cookies also allow us to understand user behavior so that we can more effectively develop information and programs to serve you better. Our third party ad serving company, Adforce, delivers a one-time cookie to your hard drive in order to better track ad impressions and click-through rates. Advertisers require information regarding ad impressions and click-through rates, and by providing them with this information, we are able to keep our sites FREE to our visitors.
This site uses the services of DoubleClick for the serving and/or targeting of ads, promotions and other marketing messages. To do this, DoubleClick collects anonymous data through the use of cookies. To learn more about DoubleClick, including your ability to opt out of the DoubleClick system, go to http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy/default.asp?asp_object_1=&.
If you are concerned about the use of cookies, you have the option to set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or to turn off cookies entirely. The options to warn or disable cookies can be found in the "Options" or "Preferences" feature of your browser. YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENABLE COOKIES IN ORDER TO USE ANY SITE OWNED AND OPERATED BY ENTREPRENEUR.COM INC.
Beacons
Like many web sites, Entrepreneur may also use pixel tags, also known as beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, to improve our understanding of site traffic, visitor behavior, and response to promotional campaigns, as a supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement. We may also implement pixel tags provided by other companies, for the same purpose.
Correcting Information
You can correct or update any information you have provided to Entrepreneur.com by following the instructions in any electronic newsletter or offering we send. Or you may correct your information by sending an email to memberservices@entrepreneur.com.
Deactivating
Any user receiving our electronic newsletter or who receives regular offers from our partners may opt out of our email list at any time by simply following the instructions to "Unsubscribe" within each newsletter or offering.
Reporting Unsolicited E-mail
Despite our concerted efforts to prevent unsolicited (spam) e-mail relayed through Entrepreneur.com servers, unsolicited e-mail may sometimes get through.
Entrepreneur.com NEVER sends unsolicited or spam e-mail. We view spam as a serious violation of privacy and a misuse of the Internet in general. If you receive an unsolicited e-mail with a domain of Entrepreneur.com, please send it immediately to abuse@entrepreneur.com. Upon receipt of the email, we will do our utmost to track down the offender and take any actions necessary to stop spam messages.
Changes to the Entrepreneur Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time. If there is a significant change, we will indicate on our sites that our privacy policy has changed and provide a link to the new policy.
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