Privacy Policy

BusinessHammocks's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using BusinessHammocks, located at www.BusinessHammocks.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "BusinessHammocks" or "Website").

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

The Information We Collect

When you visit BusinessHammocks you provide us with three types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us, Business information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Website.

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

When you enter BusinessHammocks, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all BusinessHammocks visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to BusinessHammocks. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use BusinessHammocks, you may set up your personal or business Profile, register services, perform searches and queries and leave feedback on services. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalised features. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.

You post User and Business Content on the Site at your own risk.. We cannot control the actions of other Users or Business with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User or Business Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorised persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on BusinessHammocks is a violation of the BusinessHammocks Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@BusinessHammocks.com

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. Your friend may contact us at privacy@BusinessHammocks.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

BusinessHammocks may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs and instant messaging services in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience.

By using BusinessHammocks, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United Kingdom.

Children Aged Under 16

BusinessHammocks does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for BusinessHammocks or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number or email address. No one aged under 16 may provide any personal information to or on BusinessHammocks. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child aged under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child aged under 16, please contact us at privacy@BusinessHammocks.com.

Use of Information Obtained by BusinessHammocks

When you register with BusinessHammocks, you create your own profile. Your Profile information, as well as your name, email address and photo, are displayed to all users on BusinessHammocks. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by BusinessHammocks that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by BusinessHammocks primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings.

The Profile information that you submit to BusinessHammocks will be available to all users of BusinessHammocks Your name, Business names and Profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the BusinessHammocks network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your users can find you and view your services.

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, BusinessHammocks Platform developers and other users of BusinessHammocks, to supplement your profile.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

BusinessHammocks is about sharing information with others — users looking for services . We allow you to choose the information you provide through BusinessHammocks. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission.

When you use BusinessHammocks, certain information you post or share with third parties, such as personal or Business information, comments, photos, service listings or other information, may be shared with other users. 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, or service listings, this information may become publicly available.

Links

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

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on BusinessHammocks 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 personalise advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognise your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise 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. BusinessHammocks 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 BusinessHammocks unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by BusinessHammocks and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal and business information on BusinessHammocks is readily available through the Profile editing tools. BusinessHammocks users may modify or delete any of their Profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their BusinessHammocks account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of BusinessHammocks.

Security

BusinessHammocks takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secure server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognised as secure communications, we request that you do not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of BusinessHammocks Website, please contact us at privacy@BusinessHammocks.com.

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of BusinessHammocks, 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. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. 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 Website

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@BusinessHammocks.com . You may also contact us by post at 41 Dart Walk, Exeter, EX2 7QF, UK.