Your privacy is of the utmost importance to ezboard. While
using our service, we attempt to minimize the personal information that
we need
from you. We always want you to be fully informed of how this
information is
gathered and used. If you have any questions that are not answered by
this
policy, or would like to talk to us about anything in this policy,
please
contact through the legal issues and requests form.
What Information Does ezboard Gather?
When you register on ezboard, you may register as either a
local or global user. As a local user, you are registered for the
ezboard you
signed up with, but no others. As a global user, your registration is
valid
across all the ezboards you visit. In addition, in order for you to
create your
own ezboard you must register as a global user. When you register as
either a
local or global user, we ask you to provide us with a user name,
password,
e-mail address information, name, address, birth year, and gender.
We'll also
ask you how you heard about us and whether or not you'd like to
participate in
our business partners' programs.
In addition to the information you choose to provide to us,
ezboard also collects other technical information such as IP addresses
and the
date and time of your visit. Administrators of each ezboard do have the
ability
to view your IP address if you post messages on their ezboard.
And, of course, ezboard collects the information that you
choose to provide when you make a post on one of our users' ezboards so
that we
can archive and display your posts. Please use caution when posting
material on
any ezboard as your posts become immediately available to the public
and may be
recorded and stored by anyone.
How We Use the Information
We understand that your personally identifiable information
is private and confidential. That's why we want you to know what we
need to
offer our services to you and how we use that information. Generally,
we use
your personally identifiable information to provide you with our
services. For
example, in order to verify your registration, we use your e-mail
address to
send you a message after you register so that you can validate your
account.
We also use registration information to ensure compliance
with our Terms of Use and the law, and to better understand our user
base. We
use that information to improve our services to you, and may provide
aggregated
information to our advertisers or investors. None of this aggregated
information is personally identifiable. For example, ezboard may report
to
advertisers that "45% of members are female and the average age is
28". Also, ezboard also reserves the
right to use or disclose any user information if we have reason to
believe that
user may be violating the law, our rights, or the rights of other
ezboard
users.
Finally, ezboard may send you messages on a regular basis
through your ezInbox to keep you apprised of your membership status,
site
developments, and to inform you of new offers.
You have the ability as well to send messages to and receive messages
from other users through ezInbox. You
also have the ability to manage the receipt and distribution of ezInbox
messages through your Control Center.
All messages transmitted through ezInbox remain within the ezboard
system, and
your personal information is not released to any other
party.
To Whom We Disclose Information
Be assured that your personally identifiable information,
such as your name, address, and email address is not sold to others. In
the
interest of bringing the highest quality services to you "under one
roof," however, ezboard has formed partnerships with other Web-based
services. Some of these arrangements include the sharing of some of
your
personal information with our partners in order to extend these
services to you.
You have the opportunity to opt out of joining any of our partner
services at
the time of registration.
ezboard, as well as its partner sites, may send you e-mail
messages on a regular basis to keep you apprised of your membership
status,
site developments, and to inform you of new offers. Examples of this on
ezboard
include the ezboard newsletter and special offers from our business
partners.
Included in each of these messages are simple instructions on how to
remove
yourself from these mailings if you do not wish to receive them in the
future.
Additionally, we may use third parties to help us perform
services, like processing credit card information, transmitting emails
in
response to your requests, or other service-related functions. If these
third
parties require access to your personally identifiable information in
order to
provide their services, they will be obligated to abide by this privacy
policy
when handling your information.
There are some situations where we may need to disclose
information to organizations or entities not described in our policy
here.
First, we may be legally required to disclose your information if
required by a
subpoena or court order. Second, we may transfer the information in our
possession in connection with a sale of assets of the company, a sale
of the
company or a merger.
Special Note on Personal Profiles
After you register with ezboard, you are able to create a
personal profile with information that you can make accessible to other
ezboard
users. Your profile can include a variety of information, including a
name,
e-mail address, physical location, occupation, or other information
such as a
photo, listing of recent posts you have made, a personal biography, or
other
personal information. Please be aware that ezboard does not generally
monitor
or review the information in your profile and the information that you
choose
to provide will be publicly accessible. Please use caution when
deciding on
what information to include in your personal profile. ezboard will
maintain
your personal profile on our servers until such time that you delete or
modify
that personal profile.
Changing and Deleting Your Information
After you register with us at ezboard, you
will have an
opportunity to change your e-mail address so that you continue to
receive
future messages from ezboard. At this time, we do not have the ability
to give
you access to edit your other registration information, but we are
working on
providing this feature in the future. Keep in mind that the information
you
provide on your personal profile page is readily accessible to you and
may be
modified and deleted at any time.
Special Note on Creating an ezboard Community
Not only do you have the opportunity to post messages on any
of our public ezboard communities, but you also have the opportunity to
create
your own community and tailor it to your own special interests. In
order to
create a community, you need to be registered as a global
user. Once you've
registered, you can follow our instructions on how to set up a
community and
customize it to match your preferences. This means you get to decide
how to
structure your forum, what design you'll use, and more. If you no
longer wish
to operate your ezboard community, you can delete your forums and other
content
and turn off the "allow replies" feature on the security link.
How We Protect Your Information
We understand that you are providing personal information to
us here at ezboard. While we have gone to great lengths to describe
what it is
that we collect and how we use it, we would also like you to know how
we
protect your information. It is our intention to treat your account
information
with the highest level of care. Along those lines, we have implemented
industry
standard firewall protection and password protected all of the
databases that
contain your information. Employees who need access to your information
to
perform their jobs are the only ones who receive the passwords to our
members'
information. Regardless of their access rights, all of our employees
are
required as part of their employment with us to respect and protect
your
private information. Grounds for not doing so as an ezboard employee
may
constitute termination. You are also one of the most important aspects
of our
security. Please do not share your password with anyone and be aware
that
anything you post in any ezboard forum can be viewed by others and by
ezboard.
In order to best protect yourself, please think twice before providing
personally identifiable information on any ezboard.
Cookies
ezboard uses cookies on its website to help provide a more
personalized browsing experience. While you are free to disable cookies
on your
browser to use our site, some of our features may not work if cookies
are
disabled and you will have to log on at the beginning of each session.
We also
provide our advertisers with the opportunity to place cookies when you
visit
our website. For further information about what cookies are or how they
are
used, please visit http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci211838,00.html.
Children's On-line Privacy Protection Act
We at ezboard believe it essential that parents are involved
in their children's online experiences. That is why, in compliance with
federal
law, we do not knowingly collect information of any kind from anyone
under the
age of 13. If we become aware of a user under the age of 13 providing
information on our site, we will terminate that account and purge our
databases
of all information provided by that user.
Modifications of This Policy
In the future, ezboard may update and revise its privacy
policy. We will provide conspicuous notice on our website if we decide
to
change our privacy policy. At that time, you will have the opportunity
to
decide whether or not you would like ezboard to apply the new privacy
policy to
your personal information or to opt out of the new policy. If you
continue to
use ezboard, you will be accepting the new policies. If you decide to
opt out
of the new policy, you will no longer be able to participate as a user.
Questions?
If you have any questions about this privacy policy still
unanswered after reviewing this policy, please do not hesitate to
contact us.
You can contact us through the legal
issues and requests form
