MavenHaven's Privacy Policy
Posted on July 17, 2007
Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. MavenHaven cares about your personal information and takes great pains to insure your privacy and security. Get in touch with us if you have any questions.
This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Use.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, personal profile, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. Currently, we do not require you to provide personal information in order to have access to portions of our Site. If you would like to receive any email notifications or updates from us, please register to create a profile and provide your email address. At a later time, you may add additional Personal Information to your profile.
We strive to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy. Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, we intend to adhere to the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy even if we transfer your personal information from your country to other countries that may not require an "adequate" level of protection for your personal information as a matter of law
.1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information.
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register to be a member of mavenhaven.com, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see mavenhaven.com servicing your needs and interests.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Security
We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information both online and off-line. All information we collect from you are stored by us on secure computers housed within secure, professionally serviced facilities. Some of the information you submit is encrypted and is protected with leading encryption software - SSL (Secured Socket Layers) SSL, 128 bit encryption services the web security standard created and approved by Thawte. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. While on a secure page, such as our registration form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'. Moreover, additional encryption methods are added to protect highly sensitive data such as credit card numbers, so that even a physical break-in to our database would not compromise this data. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
We are committed to continually seeking to enhance our security procedures as new technology becomes available. While we make every effort to ensure that your personal information is secure on our system, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email.
Disclosure to Third Parties
We never sell, rent or disclose your personal information to any third parties unless we have your express permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the disclosure is required to comply with valid legal processes (subpoenas, warrants) or as required by law. However, we will share your personal information only with our agents, representatives, service providers, and contractors for limited purposes, including fulfilling you orders; offering certain products and services in connection with this Site; communicating to you; providing you service; enhancing and improving you Site experience; preventing fraud; and completing payment method processing. Other than for the reasons described above, we will never pass on your personal information to a third party without your consent. We may share aggregated demographic and statistical information with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
Children's Privacy
The Site is not structured to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personal information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
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 solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update, modify or change this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice to you. Your use of the Site following any such update, modification or change constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by this Privacy Policy as updated, modified or changed. The current version of this Privacy Policy will be the version displayed on our Site and will supersede all previous versions.
All terms and conditions with respect to this site is governed by a Terms of Use Agreement.