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Privacy Policy

This document sets forth the Privacy Policy for RateMyContractors.com

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This document sets forth the privacy policy of RateMyContractors.com, and governs the manner in which RateMyContractors.com collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users.  By using RateMyContractors.com you agree to this privacy policy.  If you don’t agree to this privacy policy DO NOT USE the site.

RateMyContractors.com collects:

During your interactions with the RateMyContractors.com, such as when you register with the site, we may wish to collect information that personally identifies who you are, such as your name, email address, State and County. RateMyContractors.com may collect personally identifiable information in order to, among other things, provide you with the information and/or services that you have requested through the site. We collect only as much as is needed and retain it only as long as necessary

RateMyContractors.com may also collect non-personally-identifiable information during your visits. Some examples of non-personally-identifiable information may include your Internet Access Provider (IAP), your internet protocol (IP) address, information regarding your user profile, your browser and operating system, the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit, the address of any site you linked from, and aggregate, statistical data such as usage, traffic patterns and user demographics based on your use of the site.  We collect this non-personally-identifiable information in order to provide you with or assist with the provision of information through the site, to maintain the performance of the site, and to make the site more useful. We may also share this non-personally-identifiable information in aggregated form with third parties so that these third parties may provide you with more relevant services and advertisements.

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

We take privacy very seriously. We will not sell or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable information to any third parties other than: (i) as required by law; (ii) in the event of a sale, merger, public offering, bankruptcy or other change in control of RateMyContractors.com and/or the site; or (iii) with your affirmative consent at the time you provide such information.

RateMyContractors.com may at times through the course of business share the information you provided, including personally identifiable information, with outside contractors, auditors, consultants, are hired by us to assist in providing financial or operational activities.  RateMyContractors.com informs these parties about safeguarding personally identifiable information, and requires them to use such personally identifiable information only for an authorized purpose on behalf of us consistent with this Privacy Policy.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Electronically Produced Data

We like most standard website servers, may use cookies and other tools to collect information about how you use RateMyContractors.com. A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer hard drive when you visit a site. We may use temporary or session cookies which terminate when a you close your browser, and/or persistent cookies which remain on the user's computer until manually deleted. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. You can control whether or not we can deploy cookies in your browser.  Understand that by doing this, rejecting cookies, you run the risk of affecting your ability to use the site.

Again, like most standard website servers, we may employ a software technology called action tags which collect information and help to manage cookies, in order to gather information about site usage. Action tags help us identify and track the performance of web pages on the site.  We may also use action tags in emails. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications by showing, for example, how many emails have been opened.

An IP address is a unique number that is assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. Like most standard website servers, we collects IP addresses and other technical information about your machine through your web browser such as your operating system, browser type and referring URL for the purposes of, among other things, system administration and to ensure the validity of user requests.

RateMyContractors.com gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files, which contain information such as, among other things, IP addresses, browser type, operating system, ISP, date/time stamps and referring pages. Among other things, this information allows us to track statistics and trends on an aggregate basis.

Maintenance of Information and Security

We maintain safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of any personally identifiable information that you disclose to us.  However, due to the nature of the Internet, computer networks, systems and other factors, no transmission of data over the Internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under the control of us to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully, of our best efforts.  Therefore we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, including without limitation personally identifiable information.

Other Information

By submitting any personally identifiable information to the site you are agreeing that we may deliver all privacy and opt out notices to you electronically, including via email to the most recent email address you have provided to us, or via posting on the site.

RateMyContractors.com may contain links to third party sites at which your personally identifiable information is collected and used. Your visit to any third party website is governed by the privacy and other policies applicable to that site. We cannot control nor are we responsible for any such third party collection or use of your personally identifiable information or the content or policies of such sites, and we expressly disclaim any liability related to such sites.  Any information you transmit online may be made public and we cannot control nor are we responsible for the use any third party may make of such information.

RateMyContractors.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time at its sole discretion. Privacy Policy changes will be posted on the site and are effective immediately upon posting. Please visit often to review this Privacy Policy. 

You both understand and agree that any dispute over privacy is subject to the term and conditions of this privacy policy and our terms of use.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, or wish to review or revise any personally identifiable information, please email us at privacy@RateMyContractors.com

Privacy Policy published on May 31^st, 2009