Privacy Policy
We are committed to
protecting the privacy of the users of our sites.
This Privacy Policy will provide information to you regarding how we
collect and use your personal information, and about choices you have
concerning our use of such information. Please read this policy
carefully. From time to time, we may revise this policy to address new
issues or changes to our web site. These changes will be posted on
this page so that you will always know our position on privacy. Please
check this policy periodically to see if there have been any
revisions.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please
send an e-mail to The Balanced Approach
Scope Of
Privacy Policy
This policy applies to your use of this web site, which is operated by
The Balanced Approach, and any other site that we may own or operate
currently or in the future (collectively, the "TBA Web
Site"). However, any information that you choose to disclose in a
public forum portion of the TBA Web Site (for example a chat room or
bulletin board) is not covered by this Privacy Policy and may be
viewed by third parties not affiliated with TBA. In addition, once you
leave this web site via a link or otherwise, this privacy policy does
not apply and TBA cannot and is not responsible for how data and
information obtained from you on other web sites is used by the
operators of such web sites.
Information
Collected by TBA
Personal
Identification Information
We will never intentionally disclose any personal information about
you that can be used to identify you as an individual user
("Personal Information") to any third party without having
received your permission other than as set forth in this Privacy
Policy or unless you are otherwise notified. We may request personal
identification information from you in connection with your use of, or
participation in the interactive portions of our web site, (which
includes forums, registrations, content submissions, chat rooms,
bulletin boards, discussion groups, suggestions, or requests for
additional information) or in connection with other services or
resources provided on the TBA Web Site.
If you do provide us with Personal Information, we may use it in order
to conduct the activities or provide you with services and resources
described above. If you identify yourself to us by sending us an
e-mail with questions or comments, we may use your personal
information to respond to your questions or comments. We may file your
comments for future reference.
We may also contact you to confirm your registration and regarding
changes to the TBA Web Site's Terms and Conditions and this Privacy
Policy. If you give us your permission, we may also use Personal
Information for internal or external marketing and promotional
purposes. On occasion, for example, we may send you e-mails to
introduce a product or service that we think might be of interest to
the users of our sites. For us to obtain your permission to send you
this information, we will give you an opportunity to opt-in at the
time our request for your personal information is made. Please note,
however, that under certain circumstances, if you do not choose to
opt-in, you may not be eligible for certain services or functions of
the TBA Web Site for which a name, e-mail address, telephone number or
other personal identification information is necessary. We may also
provide Personal Information to certain of our vendors, advertisers
and suppliers where it is necessary for them to provide us with
products and services related to better operation and maintenance of
the TBA Web Site. We will attempt to require that each of these
vendors, advertisers and suppliers not further use or disclose your
Personal Information for any purpose other than providing us or you
with products and services. However, we cannot guarantee their
compliance with these restrictions
We also reserve the right to provide or use your Personal Information
in the following circumstances. We will release specific information
about you or your account to comply with any valid legal process such
as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also
release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an
attempted breach of the security of the TBA Web Site, or a physical
threat to you or others.
We urge you to be careful about giving out your personal information
in messages sent on our site, for example in a chat room or bulletin
board. Information that you provide on a chat room, bulletin board or
other publicly available area of our web site may be viewed by any
user of the web site. If you make information available in these
forums, it is available publicly and we are not able to protect the
privacy of such information. Your disclosure of such information is at
your own risk.
Information And
The Use Of Cookie Technology
We may collect
information through the use of "cookies" which are computer
files that are transferred to a computer’s hard drive and which
permit us to know frequency of visits to our site as well as what
activities are conducted on the TBA Web Site. Information collected
from a "cookie" might include information regarding your
browser, type of computer, operating systems, Internet service
providers and other similar information. Our system also automatically
gathers information about the areas you visit on our sites [and about
the links you may select from within our site to other areas of the
World Wide Web or elsewhere online.
We use such information in the aggregate to understand how our users
use the services and resources provided on our sites. This provides us
information regarding which areas of our sites are popular with our
users, which areas are not as popular and may require improvement, and
what technologies are being used by users of our site. This
information helps us to update and improve the TBA Web Site.
We may share this aggregate statistical information with our partners,
suppliers and other third parties, but we will not share any
individual names, personal navigational or other personal information.
Some of our advertisers may display ads on our sites which solicit or
contain technology to collect information about our users for the
advertisers, but we will not permit such advertisers to collect any
personal information from our users within our sites.
Most browsers are set to
accept cookies however you can set your browser to refuse cookies, or
to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, please note
that some parts of the TBA Web Site may not be accessible or function
properly.
Links To
Other Sites
Our web site contains links to other web sites operated by third
parties that may be of interest to you. However, we do not and cannot
control the information and content or links contained on these sites.
Furthermore, we do not and cannot control the way in which these web
sites collect and/or use your Personal Information. Therefore, TBA
disclaims any liability for any third party web site’s use of your
Personal Information obtained through using the third party web site.
Use of linked sites, including links through advertisements, is at
your risk.
Security Policy
We believe that protecting the security of your information is
important. Therefore, we have taken certain security measures in an
attempt to protect your information
Privacy of
Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The TBA Web
Site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of
13. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from any
person we actually know is a child under the age of 13.
Access
To/Correction of Information
Please send us an e-mail message to The
Balanced Approach to request access any personal information that we
have retained about you in our user database. At your request we will
revise personal information about you that you inform us is in error.
Please send an e-mail message to The
Balanced Approach to request a correction of your personal
information.
Opt-Out/Opt-In
Your Acceptance of These Terms
The terms of this Privacy Policy are incorporated by reference into
the Terms and Conditions of Use for the TBA Web Site. By using any
part of the TBA Web Site, you accept and agree to the terms of both
our Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not
agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, your sole remedy is to
not use the TBA Web Site. If we update this Privacy Policy, your
continued use of the TBA Web Site following the posting of the revised
Privacy Policy on this page means that you accept and agree to the
terms of the revised Privacy Policy.
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