City Business Hub KEEPS YOUR MEMBER INFO PRIVATE PRIVACY POLICY City Business Hub is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the City Business Hub Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the City Business Hub website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION City Business Hub collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. City Business Hub also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by City Business Hub. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by City Business Hub for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the City Business Hub Web site. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through City Business Hub public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: City Business Hub does not read any of your private online communications. City Business Hub encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from City Business Hub so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. City Business Hub is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the City Business Hub and City Business Hub family of Web sites. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION Profile information as well as first name/last initial, gender and photos are displayed to people in a user's personal network to support the function of the site as social community. A users full name is used when a user invites a friend via email to join the service or attend an event, when we send notifications to a user related to their use of the service or when a user specifies in their account to make their full name public. A user's email address, home address or phone number are never shared or displayed. City Business Hub collects and uses your personal information to operate the City Business Hub Web site and deliver the services you have requested. City Business Hub also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from City Business Hub and its affiliates. City Business Hub may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. City Business Hub does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. City Business Hub may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, City Business Hub may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to City Business Hub, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. City Business Hub does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as phone number, email, or address, without your explicit consent. City Business Hub keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within City Business Hub, in order to determine what City Business Hub services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within City Business Hub to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. City Business Hub Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on City Business Hub or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of City Business Hub; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of City Business Hub, or the public. CORRECTING/UPDATING INFORMATION Members can access, change and update their registration and personal information by logging onto City Business Hub and selecting the Modify Profile option. Users who leave the service may choose to have their personal information deleted by contacting us. CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARDS & PUBLIC FORUMS Please be aware that whenever members voluntarily disclose personal information online - e.g., message boards, chat areas, file uploads, events, and listings - that information becomes public and can be collected and used by others. By posting personal information online in public forums, members may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. NEWSLETTER If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Email addresses will only be used to send the newsletter. Members may choose to opt-out of receiving the newsletter anytime. USE OF COOKIES The City Business Hub Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize City Business Hub pages, or register with City Business Hub site or services, a cookie helps City Business Hub to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same City Business Hub Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the City Business Hub features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the City Business Hub services or Web sites you visit. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION City Business Hub secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. City Business Hub secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT City Business Hub will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. City Business Hub encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how City Business Hub is protecting your information. CONTACT INFORMATION City Business Hub welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that City Business Hub has not adhered to this Statement, please contact City Business Hub at http://www.yapclub.com/contactus.aspx. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.