Balanced Corporate Solutions™,
LLC Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies
Last Updated: February 22, 2006
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Website Terms and Conditions
To assist you in using our Balanced Corporate Solutions™,
LLC websites,
www.balanced-cs.com,
www.bcsnvent.com or our client sites, and any other websites we may launch from time to time
(collectively, the “Website”), and to ensure a clear understanding of the
relationship arising from your use of our Website, we have created a set of
Website Terms and Conditions and a Privacy Policy. Our Website Terms and
Conditions govern your use of our Website generally, and our Privacy Policy
explains how we protect information you provide to us through the Website.
Please read on to learn more.
Your use of our Website constitutes your agreement to comply with the
Website Terms and Conditions and your acknowledgment of the collection, use and
disclosure of personal information as described in the Privacy Policy. If you do
not agree, you are not authorized to visit or use our Website or the Services
(defined below).
If you have any questions and/or comments regarding our Website, you may contact
us as provided in Section 12.0
of our Privacy Policy.
PLEASE READ THESE AGREEMENTS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR
WEBSITE.
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Website Terms and Conditions
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Privacy Policy
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Privacy Policy
1.0 Applicability
2.0 Scope of Policy
3.0 What Information We Collect and Use
4.0 What We Do with Information We Collect and Use
5.0 Changing or Removing Information; Opting Out
6.0 Communications to our Users
7.0 Security of Personally Identifiable Information
8.0 Children
9.0 Notification of Changes
10.0 Relationship to Website Terms of Service
11.0 Your Consent
12.0 Contact Us
1.0 Applicability.
We value our relationship with you and respect your right to privacy. Our
Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") covers Balanced Corporate
Solutions™, LLC 's treatment of
information that we collect and maintain about you in connection with your
use of the Website and your use of our products and services. This
policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Balanced
Corporate Solutions™, LLC does not
own or control or to individuals whom Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC does not employ or manage,
including operators of sites you may link to or from the Website or from
which you link to the Website. By using the Services and/or
accessing our Website, you are acknowledging that you have read and
understood this Privacy Policy and consent to the practices described
herein.
In addition, if you register as a user of any of the features of our Website (a
“Subscriber”), during the registration process (and from time to time as
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may require) you may be prompted to click an “I Accept,” “Submit” or similar
button, which further confirms your consent to the practices described in this
Privacy Policy.
2.0 Scope of Policy
This Privacy Policy applies only to information you provide to us online or that
we obtain in connection with your use of the Website (or any service offered
through the Website) or through any website that we operate or acquire. It does
not apply to information obtained offline or through other non-electronic means.
3.0 What Information We Collect
and Use
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC reserves the right to use and control the information collected on the
Website. We will not share this information with any third party, other than as
disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may collect information from users at
different points on our Website and through our software, as follows:
3.1. Registration: In order to subscribe to Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC products and services, we require that you complete an online or other registration form or are setup by BCS™as the result of a contract or other arrangement. This form may ask for contact information, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, company name, fax number and other basic contact information (“Registration Information”). After submitting your Registration Information, you can view and modify this information within the self-maintenance area of the Website.
3.2. Orders and Requests: When you subscribe to an Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC product or service, we request the appropriate billing information on our order form. This information includes your credit card number, expiration date and billing address (“Order Information”). Order Information is kept with your Registration Information in a database and will be retained for future purchases. You may also provide personal information to us when you voluntarily communicate with us, such as for requesting information or submitting an application for employment. We may retain such information for use and disclosure consistent with this Privacy Policy.
3.3. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Software: While accessing and operating a Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC product or service, the Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC software may record general statistical and tracking information, such as the date and time a client accesses his or her product and the time spent using it. The Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC software transfers this information to servers, and such information is used exclusively for internal resource management purposes.
3.4. Other: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from your browser, including your IP address (the Internet address of your PC), your computer’s name, the type and version of your web browser, referrer addresses and other generally-accepted log information. We may also record page views (hit counts) and other general statistical and tracking information, which will be aggregated with that of other users in order to understand how our Website is being used.
3.5. Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes unique, but anonymous, code, which is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be used to provide you with a tailored user experience and to make it easier for you to use the Website upon a future visit. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC will also use cookies to recognize you when you return to our Website. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, though you can manually disable the cookies feature of your browser. You should review the online documentation of your browser or consult with the provider of your browser for instructions on how to disable cookies. Please note that if you disable cookies on your computer, some parts of this Website may not function properly.
3.6. Referrers: A “referrer” is the information passed along by a web browser that references the web URL you linked from and is automatically collected by our web server. This information is collected and used by Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC to understand the websites referring traffic to our Website and to present appropriate content to our potential customers. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may tabulate referrer information on an aggregate basis to identify trends and traffic patterns.
3.7. Partners: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may enter into agreements with other companies that market software or services that either function similarly to Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC software or that enhance or extend functionality. Some of these may be third party products that may utilize components of Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC software. Under the terms of these agreements, we may be required to collect information about your sessions and your use of these third party products and share this information with these third parties.
3.8. Providers: A provider is an entity that agrees to pay for the Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC services being provided to you. We have entered into contractual agreements with these providers governing the provider arrangement. Under the terms of these agreements, we may be required to collect information about your sessions and your use of your Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC product and share this information, along with your personally identifiable information, with the provider paying for your Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC service. This information is kept strictly confidential, and is not shared with other third parties, except as provided for in this Privacy Policy.
3.9. Computer Configuration: In order to determine whether your computer is supported by our system, we may collect certain anonymous information. This information includes, but may not be limited to, your operating system and browser, as well as the presence of the Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC software or other third party software on your computer. This information is kept strictly confidential and is not shared with third parties, except as provided in this Privacy Policy.
4.0 What We Do with Information
We Collect and Use
In general, except as provided in this policy, we will not disclose your
personally identifiable information to unaffiliated third parties without your
express consent or allowing you to decline to permit the disclosure. There are,
however, some limited circumstances in which we may need to disclose personally
identifiable information about a user without express consent, including, but
not limited to, the circumstances set forth below:
4.1. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Website Vendors: We may employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf, such as fulfilling orders, providing customer service, sending print and electronic mail, processing credit card payments, or other functions necessary to our business or that of our clients. In order to allow these companies to perform their obligations, we may need to share your personally identifiable information with them. However, we will provide these companies with only that information necessary to perform their functions on our behalf, and we will not allow them to use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
4.2. Resellers: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may from time to time enter into agreements with companies that resell our products or services, either on our behalf, or on their own behalf on a private labeled basis and/or on a co-branded basis. Under the terms of these agreements, we may be required, and therefore we reserve the right, to share your personally identifiable information with such resellers. Once your personally identifiable information is provided to such resellers, it will no longer be covered by this privacy policy. In those instances, your personally identifiable information will be governed by the privacy policy of the resellers to whom it is provided. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC will not share your Order Information with any reseller that is not billing you directly for the re-marketed, private labeled and/or co-branded Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC services to which you subscribe.
4.3. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC Publishers and Merchants: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC reserves the right to provide to publishers and other merchants for whom Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC sells or distributes products or services any personally identifiable information as is necessary to fulfill any requests you may make for their products or services. In addition, merchants of the products you purchase or to which you subscribe through Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC may request additional personally identifiable information from you. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC will provide the merchants of such products the information you supply in response to those requests and, following such disclosure by Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC, your personally identifiable information will no longer be covered by this policy. In those instances, your personally identifiable information is governed by the privacy policy of the merchants whose products you have purchased or to which you have subscribed.
4.4. Protection of Rights: We may reveal your personally identifiable information to attorneys, private investigator organizations or law enforcement agencies if we believe that you have harmed or interfered with (or will imminently harm or interfere) other Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC users or anyone else or violating (either intentionally or unintentionally) our Website Terms and Conditions of Use or infringing any of Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC's legal rights, or harming the legal rights, property, or health or safety of any other person.
4.5. Required by Law: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC will reveal your personally identifiable information, to the extent we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law. If we receive legal process calling for the disclosure of any of your personally identifiable information we will attempt to notify you via the email address you supplied during registration within a reasonable amount of time before we respond to the request, unless such notification is not permitted.
4.6. Asset Transfers: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC shall be entitled to transfer to a third party information it maintains, including any personally identifiable information, in connection with a transaction or proceeding involving a transfer of some or all of the assets relating to the Website or a business in connection with which such information is maintained.
5.0 Changing or Removing
Personal Information; Opting Out
To ensure that you have appropriate control over your personally
identifiable information, you can access your account (after supplying your user
name and password) in the Self-Maintenance area of our Website to update and/or
correct the information you have previously submitted.
In addition, we provide you with the ability to decline -- or “opt-out of” --
certain mailings and other materials we may offer. For these materials, you will
be able to specify whether you wish to opt-out by following directions provided
in the Self-Maintenance area, as further detailed in Section 6.0 (Communications
to out Users) of our Privacy Policy, below.
Finally, if you request, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our active databases. Please understand, however, that it may be impossible to remove this information completely, due to backups and records of deletions. If you wish to remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our database, please create an email with the term “Unsubscribe” in the subject line, and send the email to the address listed in Section 12.0 of this Privacy Policy. As an alternative, you may write to us with your request, at the mailing address set forth in Section 12.0. You will be removed from our databases generally within ten business days of our receipt of your request. You may also request to review or amend any personal information that we maintain about you, by sending a written request to the same address, subject to our verification of your identity acceptance of any proposed revision.
6.0 Communications to our Users
6.1. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC: Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC sends emails and/or postal mailings to new subscribers and to provide to existing subscribers information regarding their specific Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC products. Periodically, Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC will send news and information to subscribers and other parties who have expressed interest in Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC and its products. You can opt out of receiving these promotional communications through the Self-Maintenance area of our Website. For so long as you use Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC products and services or otherwise maintain a business relationship with Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC, however, you may not opt out of receiving communications from Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC relating specifically to those products and services or business relationship.
6.2. Third Parties: Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share personally identifiable information with anyone, unless we have informed you of a change to our Privacy Policy and given you the opportunity to then choose to opt out. Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC can no longer update any of your personally identifiable information once it has been transferred to such third parties and cannot implement or impose your opt out requests upon such third parties. Instead, you must either contact that third party or refer to its privacy policy to update your personally identifiable information or to let the third party know that you no longer want to receive promotional and/or marketing information about its products, services or offerings.
7.0 Security of Personally
Identifiable Information
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC maintains controls to protect the information you provide us,
including credit card details, during the product purchase process. These
controls may include: (1) the use of SSL encryption to safeguard information when
transmitted from your web browser to Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC; (2) the logical authentication
security within the databases that store customers' numbers; and (3)
use of encryption.
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC employees are required to acknowledge that they understand and will
strictly abide by our corporate policies with respect to the confidentiality of
personally identifiable information. Moreover, Balanced Corporate Solutions™,
LLC only gives access to databases containing personally identifiable
information to employees on a need-to-know basis. Due to the nature of Internet communications and evolving
technologies, however, we cannot provide, and disclaim, assurance that the
information you provide us will remain free from loss, misuse, or alteration by
third parties who, despite our efforts, obtain unauthorized access.
8.0 Children
Persons under the age of eighteen (18) are not permitted to register for
the Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC service and Balanced Corporate
Solutions™, LLC does not knowingly collect, either online or
offline, personally identifiable information from persons under the age of
eighteen (18). If we learn that a child under the age of eighteen (18) has
provided us with personally identifiable information, we will attempt to
delete this information from our databases, subject to any technical
limitations on our ability to do so.
9.0 Notification of
Changes
Balanced Corporate Solutions™, LLC reserves the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy from
time to time, or to terminate this Privacy Policy. We will post notice of
the new policy from the Privacy Policy link on the homepage of our Website.
Your use of our Website following any such change constitutes your agreement
to follow and be bound by the Privacy Policy, as changed. If we make any
significant changes regarding disclosure of personally identifiable
information to third parties, we will attempt to notify you prior to the
date the modified policy takes effect.
10.0 Relationship to
Website Terms of Conditions
Our obligations with respect to your use of the Website are reflected in
this Privacy Policy and our Website Terms and Conditions and any
additional terms of services that may be applicable.
11.0 Your Consent
By using our Website, you consent to our collection and use of your
information, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with
some, or all of the terms of this Privacy Policy, you may not become a
Subscriber, or otherwise visit our Website.
12.0 Contact Us
You may contact us for any reason by email or traditional mail at the
following addresses, provided, however, if you wish to provide us with formal
notice under our Website Terms and Conditions or our Privacy Policy, you must
provide your notice in writing, and mail it to the address set forth below:
By mail:
Balanced Corporate Solutions,™ LLC
PO Box 15
Marblehead, MA 01945
Attention: Customer Service
By email:
Sales@Balanced-cs.com
Effective Date: February 20, 2006