PRIVACY POLICY Introduction All references to 'our', 'us', 'we' or 'company' within this Policy Statement and within the opt-in notice are deemed to refer to CCBD and its subsidiaries, affiliates, parent companies and any of their related businesses. We endeavor to protect your personal privacy. We provide this Privacy Policy Statement to help you to understand what we may do with any information that we obtain from you. By providing your personal details to us, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy Statement. If you do not agree to this Statement, please do not your personal details to us. This Privacy Policy Statement is incorporated into, and part of, the Terms which govern your use of the web site in general. We will use your information for the purposes set out below. You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe whenever we communicate with you. We may need to update this privacy statement from time to time. We recommend that you regularly check this page to ensure that you have read the most recent version. Age YOU MUST NOT PROVIDE US WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION IF YOU ARE A MINOR Collecting Personal Information You can decide what personal information you provide to us. We will only collect personal information that you choose to provide. Where possible, we will enable you to select how we will use this information. You may choose to provide us with personal information if, for example, you: contact us with an inquiry; register on the site, fill out a survey or other form with your personal information included; request us to provide you with information; enter a competition; post information to public areas of the site or take advantage of a promotion. You have the opportunity to choose not to opt-in to receive communications from us at any point where we request information about you. By providing any personal information to us, you fully understand and clearly consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such information in, other countries or territories. Any such transfer and processing by us will be in accordance with this privacy statement. Third parties (including but not limited to software providers, advertisers and ad placement agencies) may also use tracking technologies by or through the site. We have no responsibility or liability for any tracking, data collection or other activities of such third parties. Use of Cookies We do not connect the information collected through cookies with other information that is personally identifiable, unless required or permitted to do so by law or to enforce the Terms and Conditions. In common with many web sites, we use "cookies" to help us gather the following information from visitors to our web site. Example: – the IP address from which you access the web site – the type of browser and operating system used to access the web site – the date and time of your access to the web site – the pages you visit – the Internet address of the web site from which you accessed the web site A cookie is a small data file that our server sends to your browser when you visit the web site. The use of cookies helps us to assist your use of certain aspects of the web site. You can delete cookies at any time or you can set your browser to reject or disable cookies. If you do disable cookies some functions on the web site may not work correctly. We use information from cookies, for example, to learn about the number of visitors to our web site and the type of technology that our visitors use. Cookies help us to monitor what sort of content is popular and to assess visitorsÕ browsing habits. When a user revisits the web site, we may recognize the user by the cookie and customize the user's experience accordingly. We can use this information to continually improve the content and usability of the web site. We may compile and report to third parties (such as advertisers) aggregate statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic patterns and related web site information. Use of Information We will use information collected from you in the following ways: Marketing purposes: We may use information for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst our consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to our web sites. We may also use your personal information in order to communicate with you about our products and services and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates, and parent companies and any of their related businesses. Disclosure to Service Providers. We may contract with other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting web sites, sending out information, processing transactions, and analyzing our web sites. We provide these companies with only those elements of your personal information they need to deliver those services. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using that personal information for any other purpose. Disclosure to Distributors In responding to a request made by you, we may share your personal information with companies that distribute our products. In those cases, we provide these companies with only those elements of your personal information they need to respond to your request, and these companies and their employees are prohibited from using that personal information for any other purpose. In some cases, we may seek your permission to share your information with distributors for marketing purposes other than responding to a request from you. However, we will not share your information for such marketing purposes unless we have obtained your express consent to do so. Public (or Interactive) Areas of the Site Information that you post on or through the public areas of the web site (e.g., chat rooms, bulletin boards and discussion groups) is generally accessible to, and may be collected and used by, others and may result in unsolicited messages or other contact from others. Users of the web site are encouraged to exercise caution when providing personal information about themselves in public (or interactive) areas of this web site. Sale and Transfer In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us. We may transfer your personal information to third parties under confidentiality obligations when the performance of any service in relation to the activities above is sub-contracted (e.g. the administration of a marketing campaign). Legal Purposes We may disclose your personal information if permitted by law or required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to protect or defend our interests or the interests of our customers or users of our web site. Access to Your Information You can check what information we hold about you, update your information, remove your information or correct any inaccuracies in such personal data. We will use reasonable efforts to deal with your request within a reasonable time. If for any reason you decide to cancel your account, please send an email to: webmaster@creatingblackdesigners.org requesting same. Security We take security seriously and we take precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us, or information stored on our servers, will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Consent to International Transfers of Personal Information The personal information we collect on our web site may be sent to the United States or to any other country in which we or our affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. We may also store and process the information there. Although the laws that protect personal information in those countries may differ from the laws where you live, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our web site and giving your information to us, you consent to the transfer of the data outside of your country. Children's Information We do not knowingly collect information from children and the CCBD does not target its web site to collect information from children. Links This web site may contain links or references to other web sites outside of our control. Please be aware that we have no control over these web sites and our Privacy Policy Statement does not apply to these web sites. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy Statements and Terms and Conditions of linked or referenced web sites that you may enter. © Center For Creating Black Designers, Inc., 2007. All rights reserved.