probusinessnetwork.org (PBN) located in New Jersey is committed to protecting
the privacy of its visitors. Our privacy policy covers
probusinessnetwork.org (the “Site”). The following discloses The
PBN Company's information gathering and dissemination practices for the information
collected through this Site. We encourage you to read this Policy before using this
Site. Your use of this Site signifies that you agree with all terms of this Policy,
so please do not use this Site if you disagree with any part of this Policy.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
I. PBN Company’s Collection and Use of Information
A. Personally Identifiable Information
We will collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your name,
postal address, telephone and mobile numbers, email address, when you provide it
to us while on this Site such as when you create an account, sign up for newsletters,
participate in a survey, contact customer service, or otherwise interact with this
website. Your personally identifiable information may be used by us for all legal
purposes, which may include, but are not limited to, responding to your requests,
processing your transactions, for administrative purposes, tracking which parts
of the Site are of interest to you. If you choose to opt-in, we may share your personally
identifiable information with The PBN Company’s subsidiaries or affiliated entities
(“Affiliated Entities) for purposes of sending you information about the programs
of PBN Company or its Affiliated Entities and, occasionally, sending you advertising/promotional
material from some of their advertising and strategic partners. We may also use
your personally identifiable information for internal business purposes, such as
optimizing Site experiences and analyzing and managing our businesses. You may opt-in
to receive certain future information or communications (see the
Opt-In/Choice section below).
Note Regarding Use of this Site by Children
This Site is not directed to children and we request that children do not provide
personally identifiable information through the Site.
B. Demographic Information
We may also collect demographic data, such as your date of birth, gender and zip
code. Demographic data may be used to tailor your experience at this Site, such
as showing you content including special events and advertising that you might be
interested in, and displaying the content according to your zip code.
On occasion, aggregate information that does not identify any particular user may
be compiled and shared with subsidiaries and affiliates of PBN Company, strategic
partners, merchants and advertisers.
C. Passive Collection of Non-Personal Information
This Site often requires the use of encrypted or non-encrypted cookies. Cookies
are data that a web server transfers to an individual's computer for recordkeeping
purposes. Cookies are an industry standard used by most web sites, and help facilitate
users' ongoing access to and use of a particular web site, for example by providing
information used to deliver content specific to your interests and for other purposes,
such as security and other account administrative functions, and which may track
personal identifying information.
Cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files, and only the web
site that transferred a particular cookie to you can read, modify or delete such
cookie. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there
are simple procedures in most browsers that allow you to delete existing cookies,
to automatically decline cookies, or to be given the choice of declining or accepting
the transfer of particular cookies to your computer. Please refer to your browser
instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. You should note,
however, that declining cookies may make it difficult or impossible for you to use
portions of the Site.
Some uses of cookies in connection with the Site may be under the control of unaffiliated
entities that the Company retains for the management of certain programs and fulfillment
of specific visitor/customer requests. The Company requires these entities to confine
their use of cookies to the uses permitted by this Policy, but the Company cannot
be responsible for third party uses of cookies.
The Site may use so-called "pixel tags," "web beacons," "clear GIFs" or similar
means (collectively, "Pixel Tags") to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage
and response rates. Pixel Tags allow us to count users who have visited certain
pages of the Site, to deliver branded services, and to help determine the effectiveness
of promotional or advertising campaigns. When used in HTML-formatted email messages,
Pixel Tags can tell the sender whether and when the email has been opened.
PBN Company also collects "referrers" information, IP addresses
and various environmental variables.
- A "referrer" is information the Web browser passes along to our web servers that
references the URL from which you came.
- The "IP address" is a number used by computers on the network to identify your computer
so that data can be transmitted to you.
- "Environmental variables" include, among other things, the domain from which you
access the Internet, the time you accessed this site, type of Web browsers and operating
system or platform used, the Internet address of the web site you left to visit
this Site, the names of the pages you visit while at this site, and the Internet
address of the web site you then visit.
This information is collected for PBN Company’s internal use such as to enhance
web site security, to detect broad demographic trends, to assist PBN Company in
providing content tailored to your interests, and to otherwise enhance your experience
on this Site. This information may also be shared with third parties on an aggregate
and non-personally identifiable basis.
II. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
PBN Company may share personally identifiable information, including information
that you provide on the Site, with third parties as described below. You should
also be aware that this means that we may transfer information to any country in
the world, including the USA and other countries which do not offer the same level
of data protection as the country where you reside.
A. Affiliated Entities
We may share any information, including personally identifiable information that
you provide on the Site, with our subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide, for the
purposes described in Section I(A).
B. Strategic Partners
From time to time we may enter into a special relationship with another company
that is not owned by or affiliated with PBN Company to provide additional features
on this Site. These special relationships may include business partners, sponsors,
and co-branded sites (referred to here as “co-branded pages”). Any information,
including personally identifiable information that you provide on one of these co-branded
pages will be shared with these third party partners. By participating in activities
or providing your information on these co-branded pages, you also consent to our
providing your personally identifiable information to those third parties. Since
these third parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy
practices, you should check their Web sites for information regarding their privacy
policies.
C. Service Providers
We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and this
site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending emails, order fulfillment
and administration. We may share your information with these third parties for those
limited purposes.
D. Other Disclosures
Personally identifiable information of any individual user may be shared with other
companies outside PBN Company: (i) as permitted by law, (ii) in the event of a transfer
of ownership, assets or a bankruptcy of PBN Company, (iii) where we determine that
disclosure of specific information is necessary to comply with the request of a
law enforcement or regulatory agency or other legal process, or (iv) to protect
the interests or safety of PBN Company or other visitors to this Site.
E. User Generated Content Functions
This Site enables users to submit their own content in challenges and other functions.
Please remember that any information you disclose in connection with a submission
becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose
your personal, financial or other information in a submission. PBN Company cannot
prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Privacy
Policy, the law, or your personal privacy and safety and is not responsible for
the results of such postings.
III. LINKS AND THIRD PARTIES' PRIVACY PRACTICES
This Site may contain links to other sites which are not operated by PBN Company.
PBN COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OR THE CONTENT OF SUCH
OTHER WEB SITES, INCLUDING WEBSITES OPERATED BY AFFILIATED ENTITIES.
We provide such links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on the
site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by PBN Company. If you provide
any personally identifiable information through any such third party web site, your
transaction will occur on such third party's web site (and not on this site) and
the personally identifiable information you provide will be collected by, and controlled
by the privacy policy of, that third party. PBN Company recommends that you review
the privacy policy of third party Web sites arrived at from links on this Site.
IV. SECURITY
This Site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse
and alteration of the personally identifiable information under its control. PBN
Company employs security measures consistent with standard industry practice to
help protect against public access to personally identifiable and account activity
information collected on and used by PBN Company at this Site. For instance, access
to our databases with personally identifiable information is logged for security
purposes and access is limited to key personnel. Certain specific activities are
protected using a secure communications encryption technology called SSL. SSL (stands
for Secure Sockets Layer) is a method for hiding information to prevent others from
intercepting and reading the data sent between the client (your computer) and the
server (this Site). Personally identifiable information and account activity are
also protected through the use of user names and passwords. In order to help maintain
the security of your information, you should protect the confidentiality of your
user name and password.
V. OPT-IN/CHOICE
This Site may provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to receive marketing communications
from PBN Company. If you do not opt-in, PBN Company will not send you its promotional
offers. However, regardless of your opt-in preferences, PBN Company may still at
times need to send program emails for administrative reasons. If you opt into receive
communications and then change your election, your opt-out preference may not be
effective in certain instances where you agreed to receive brand-specific communications.
PBN Company also gives you convenient methods for removing your information from
our database so as not to receive future communications or to close your account:
- You may opt-out on the account profile page;
- You may email PBN Company Customer Service at:
pbnwarren@gmail.com
This site gives you several options for reviewing, correcting, updating or otherwise
modifying information you have previously provided:
- You may make changes and updates on account profile page;
- You may email PBN Company Customer Service at
pbnwarren@gmail.com
Please note, changes may not be effective immediately. In each event, you must clearly
indicate the information that you wish to have changed, or clearly indicate that
you wish to have your personally identifiable information removed from our database.
We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible. Note
that despite any request for removal of or change to personally identifiable information,
we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, and there
may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other
records, which will not be removed or changed. We also reserve the right, from time
to time, to re-contact former users of the site for important administrative purposes.
Finally, we are not responsible for informing third parties (including without limitation
our third party service providers or strategic partners) with whom we have already
shared your personally identifiable information of any changes requested pursuant
to this section, or for removing information from or causing information to be removed
from the databases or records of such entities.
VI. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
PBN Company reserves the right to make changes in this Privacy Policy. In the event
that PBN Company makes a material change to this Privacy Policy, it will be posted
here. We encourage you to check this page regularly since your continued use of
this site following any changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed to constitute
your acceptance of such change. In the event that PBN Company makes a material change
to this Privacy Policy, a notice will be posted regarding such change.
VII. CONTACTING PBN COMPANY