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Privacy Policy

By using or accessing SupplierEvaluations.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

When you register, you provide us with certain personal and business information, such as your name and/or business name, your email address, your telephone number, your address/business address, and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on the SupplierEvaluations.com website is a violation of the SupplierEvaluations.com Terms of Use and should be reported through the e-mail address on our “help” page or “contact us” page.

By using SupplierEvaluations.com, you are consenting to have your submitted data transferred to and processed in the United States.
When you register with SupplierEvaluations.com, you create your own profile. Your profile information, as well as your name, business name, and email are displayed to people in the network, to enable you to connect with people on the network. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by SupplierEvaluations.com that we think you may find valuable.

Screen name information you submit to SupplierEvaluations.com will be available to users of SupplierEvaluations.com.  You agree that SupplierEvaluations.com shall be permitted to use your screen name, industry, title and location on the site in connection with the content in conjunction with SupplierEvaluations.com’s marketing, promotion and publicity efforts in any media known now or in the future. SupplierEvaluations.com will use business names or any other private information ONLY with the specific permission from the user. By default the identity of users is hidden and will not be shared. Suppliers’ specific information is available via the downloaded SPE Reports.  Basic screen name and profile information will be available in search results across the SupplierEvaluations.com network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines.

SupplierEvaluations.com may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if you submit information for a SPE Report, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact that the submission has been accepted.

SupplierEvaluations.com may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people are in the network or fit a membership category.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) legally required or, 2) permitted by you. For example:

  • Some limited profile information may be made available to third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). Specific information is blocked, however, limited information may be allowed, to allow others to find you, and to help grow the community as well as your business.
  • We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about SupplierEvaluations.com, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links).
  • We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the SupplierEvaluations.com service or using the SupplierEvaluations.com name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
  • We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on SupplierEvaluations.com, such as www.authorize.net. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on SupplierEvaluations.com, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
  • If the ownership of all or substantially all of the SupplierEvaluations.com business, or individual business units owned by Peer Evaluations LLC., were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

When you use SupplierEvaluations.com, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items, this information may become publicly available.

Links

SupplierEvaluations.com may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by SupplierEvaluations.com.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on SupplierEvaluations.com are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. SupplierEvaluations.com does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on SupplierEvaluations.com unless you choose to share it with them.

Co-Branded Partners:
Co-branded sites are sites that appear labeled with another company’s logos or trademarks. As indicated herein, information collected on co-branded pages hosted by SupplierEvaluations.com is collected by co-branded partners. The contact information and transaction data (excluding credit card numbers) provided by customers on our co-branded sites and registered or transacted through the partner’s co-branded ’ SupplierEvaluations.com’ are essentially shared by SupplierEvaluations.com and the owner of that co-branded website. Your choices about being contacted are included with that information so that partner may respect your preferences. However, please understand SupplierEvaluations.com does not control information actually owned by co-branded partners. Please refer to their respective privacy policies for information on how they will handle your information. All information provided by you will be used according to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Testimonials and Photo Usage

If you submit testimonials, photos, blogs, writings, customer satisfaction surveys or other writings or media in connection with use of SupplierEvaluations.com and its services, user approves the right to use the user’s name, home city and such writings, or media testimonials in connection with SupplierEvaluations.com’s marketing and publicity efforts in any and all media in perpetuity. Said media shall include, without limitation, print, radio, television, internet, email, magazine and any other form of communication whether now known or hereafter devised.

No consideration is being paid for this release, and the user understands that SupplierEvaluations.com is relying on this release without consideration if it avails itself of any or all of the rights granted herein.


Security

SupplierEvaluations.com takes appropriate precautions to protect our users’ information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of SupplierEvaluations.com Web Site, please contact us .

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of SupplierEvaluations.com, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy’s new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us. You may also contact us by mail at: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)