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Black Fives, Inc. Corporate Privacy Policy

Black Fives, Inc. takes your privacy seriously.
We will never sell, rent or in any other way make your personal information available to a third party.

We collect information from our visitors during the registration process, if visitors choose to register. This information is used to develop relationships with our visitors and to continually enhance the Black Fives web site. We hold our visitors and your privacy concerns in the highest regard. Maintaining your privacy is critical to us. Please take a moment to read our Privacy Policy for a better understanding of the measures we take to protect you.

We may make content or services from other web sites, including our affiliated or co-branded ones, available to you from links located on BlackFives.com. These other web sites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review each individual web site's Privacy Policy when asked for personal information when visiting them. While we attempt to carefully screen our partners, Black Fives, Inc. assumes no responsibility for the Privacy Policies on any of the sites outside of its direct control.

1. How We Use the Information We Collect

  • For aggregate, statistical information on the audience so that we can continually refine and improve our services and product offerings.
  • Occasionally, we will communicate via email regarding new features, news, and services that you may be interested in. You may "opt out" of these announcements during the registration process or at any time thereafter.

2. How is the Information Collected?

Registration:
During the registration process we ask you to supply personal information such as your name and email address, as well as general information such as your address, zip or postal code, state or province, and country. Black Fives, Inc. collects this information to know our users better, with the goal of providing you with the best possible services.

Our e-commerce partner, Yahoo.com, is responsible for handling your payment authorization. They collect your financial data including contact name, credit card information and demographic information on their secure site. This information is strictly confidential and their Privacy Policy is available online. BlackFives.com does not retain copies of this information on its own servers.

Web Site Usage Information: We automatically collect IP addresses and web site usage information when you visit our web site. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our web site and its pages on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page, and the length of their visits. We do not monitor usage on an individual basis.

Surveys: We may conduct occasional online surveys to improve our service our seek the opinions of our users. These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.

Tell A Friend: You may choose to recommend the BlackFives.com web site to a friend. Once you provide their email address we will add this information to our database and send them announcements, e-newsletters, or other mailings inviting them to visit BlackFives.com. They may "opt out" of these announcements at any time

Cookies: A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive that is necessary to identify and dynamically build customized pages. BlackFives.com does not place cookies on the hard drives of its visitors at this time.

Children: The BlackFives.com web site is not directed at individuals under thirteen years of age, and Black Fives, Inc. does not intend to collect any personally-identifiable information from such individuals.

3. How to Opt-Out?

You may be required to provide registration information if you wish to use select certain features on BlackFives.com, however, you may choose to "opt out" of receiving promotional materials from Black Fives, Inc. at the time of registration. Furthermore, when you receive an email communication from us you will be able to opt-out of future communications. You may also opt out of receiving any communication from us by contacting us at webmaster@blackfives.com.

4. Black Fives, Inc. Rights and Responsibilities.

Security: The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited access servers. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personal information.

Policy Modifications: Black Fives, Inc. may edit this policy from time to time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically. However, please be assured that these changes will not use the personal information you submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy without your prior consent.

Rights: Black Fives, Inc. reserves the right to disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances such as where it is necessary to enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use. We may also disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.
Comments and QuestionsIf you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please send an email to privacy@blackfives.com.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 24, 2007.

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