| Privacy issues are a
high priority for us at and we follow standard industry practices to maintain
your personal information. Please read the following to learn more about
our privacy policy.
Policy Coverage
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information
that we collect when you are on our site, and when you use our services.
This policy also covers our treatment of any personally identifiable information
that our business partners share with us. This policy does not apply to
the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to people
that we do not employ or manage.
Personal Information Collected by us
ONLINE REGISTRATION: In order to become our member, you must first create
a member account with us by providing information about yourself including
but not limited to name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, birth
date, a brief summary of yourself and a password. We check for the validity
of the email addresses.
OPTIONAL PROFILE INFORMATION: Once you provide the basic information to
create an account, you will have the opportunity to provide additional
information in the Profile section describing your skills, interests,
professional and academic background and favorites. Provision of this
additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely
optional; it allows you to better identify yourself and create superior
networking opportunities with other through shared contexts. but enables
you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities with us. Your
Profile information can only be viewed by other hb visitors or registered
members or members of your personal network only depending on the option
you choose.
FORMING YOUR OWN PERSONAL NETWORK: You can invite others to connect with
you directly in our site by entering their names and email addresses.
This information will be used by us to send your invitation along with
a message that you write. The names and email addresses of people that
you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders. You
will also have the option to upload your contact information either manually
or via a computer upload directly from your Hotmail, Yahoo or Outlook
section into your own private address book with us. All information entered
there will only be viewable by you and will not be searchable by others
in our network without your permission. All information that you enter
or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this
privacy policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.
RECOGNIZING YOU AS OUR MEMBER: For Health-Beauty-Fashion.com to recognize
you as a registered member, you must login with your login email and password.
At the time of login, you will have the option to instruct the site to
remember you so when you come back the next time to our site, you would
not have to login with your email and password. As is common in the industry,
we use the technology of cookies and site log files to monitor user registration,
to recognize registered members when they revisit the site and to track
site usage. Our ability to identify you as a registered member allows
us to customize and to protect your personal information based on your
account settings.
INTERNET COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL INFORMATION: The communication standards
of the Internet industry transmit the URL of the site from which you visit
our site, the IP address of your computer, the IP address of your ISP,
various attributes of your computer such as operating system, resolution
and browser software, and the date and time of your various requests for
pages on our site. Our file logging system automatically logs all of this
information in its log files for its analysis.
NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS: Visitors to our site may also sign up with their
name and email address for a variety of newsletters that we produce with
varying frequency (e.g., News headlines) without having to register. We
confirm the subscription by sending an email to the email address specified
before sending the newsletter.
Use of Information
Health-Beauty-Fashion.com is an online website that offers a variety of
services designed to connect people from around the world. The information,
whether personal information of any form of self-expression is used to
help you describe yourself to other users Health-Beauty-Fashion.com also
collects additional information in order to operate and improve our service.
Smart Information Worldwide is the sole owner of the information collected
on our site.
PROFILE SHARING CUSTOMIZATION: Whether you register with us, what parts
of your profile you fill, who you add to your network and what visibility
levels you want to set for your profile are entirely up to you in the
form of settings you can make on your profile. You also have the ability
to change these at any point in time. Health-Beauty-Fashion.com will show
the information to enable personal networking only based on your preference.
VISIBILITY OF NETWORK LINKAGES: Where applicable, the path of members
that connect you with another member of your network will be displayed
to that member. This network path will not be shown to those who are not
members of your personal network.
VISIBILITY OF PUBLIC CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS: In addition to being a social
and professional networking site, we also provides a variety of forums
for its members to express themselves in the form of articles, columns,
opinions, comments, reviews, art and photographs. Since this expression
is linked to the member's identity and the expression is in the public
domain, the compilation of a member's creative contributions to us will
be visible to all visitors whether or not they are registered members.
VISIBILITY OF PRIVATE MESSAGES WITHIN NETWORK: You will be able to create
and share messages within your personal network. The visibility of these
private notes will be restricted to your network unless you or one of
the members in your network choose to forward it to others within or outside.
SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES: We take your privacy very seriously.
We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable
information to any third parties unless it is to carry out your instructions
and to provide specific services. As an example, we send your information
to a credit card processing company to process a payment you have made
for the use of our service. These third parties are bound by strict confidentiality
agreements which limit their use of such information. In addition, we
may share your information to send direct mailers or complimentary coupons/offers
to a mailing agency to process postal mailing. Again, such an agency would
be bound by strict confidentiality agreements that limit their use of
such information.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS: Health-Beauty-Fashion.com generally communicates
with you as a registered member of Health-Beauty-Fashion.com through the
primary email that you have specified at the time of registration. This
is also used as the login text string in conjunction with the password
to authenticate you on the Health-Beauty-Fashion.com site. Your email
and password are never shared with anybody within or outside. Health-Beauty-Fashion.com
uses this email address to send you three types of communications:
* Sending you emails related to the proper functioning of your account
* Sending you newsletters that you have subscribed to
* Sending you occasional announcements about changes in our policies or
promotions introduction of new services
* Please note that these email communications may contain commercial messages
of advertisers; however, Health-Beauty-Fashion.com does not provide your
personal information or emails to any of the advertisers; we just include
the advertising banners they provide us in the emails that we send. As
always you can opt out of the newsletters or promotional announcements.
PARTNERING WITH OTHERS: Health-Beauty-Fashion.com may partner with other
online services to offer a combined service. Whenever we offer such combined
services, Health-Beauty-Fashion.com will make it clear who the partner
is and it will be entirely up to you to use or not to use the service.
Where any personal information is passed along to the partner you will
be informed prior to that sharing.
PROVISION OF AGGREGATE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES: Health-Beauty-Fashion.com
reserves the right to provide aggregate demographic information of its
member base to advertisers and others so as to attract pertinent advertisers
to advertise on Health-Beauty-Fashion.com. We do not shared personal information
of individual users with advertisers.
COMMUNICATIONS TO OTHERS FROM YOU Health-Beauty-Fashion.com: You will
be able to send emails to others -- members and non-members -- through
the our system. For example, you may send a comment on an article written
by another member. Or you may send an email invitation to a non-member
to join your personal network. In these instances, these emails will list
your name and email address in the header of the message. The recipients
of these emails initiated by you will get to know your name and email
address. Health-Beauty-Fashion.com is not responsible for how these recipients
use this information. Your contact information will only be shared with
another member only if both of you indicated you would like to establish
contact with each other.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHERS TO YOU THROUGH Health-Beauty-Fashion.com: Only
registered members of H & B are allowed to communicate with you through
Health-Beauty-Fashion.com through a form on Health-Beauty-Fashion.com.
Unless and until you respond to this email, they will not get to know
your email address. You may, however, choose an account setting that prevents
any other member from contacting you or inviting you to join their personal
network.
DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY LAW: It is possible that we may need to disclose
personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information
wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with
a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served
on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal
claims.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired
changes to the information, or to the settings for your Health-Beauty-Fashion.com
account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Health-Beauty-Fashion.com
website and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also
close your account through the Health-Beauty-Fashion.com website by sending
your request to member relations with your login email address. You request
will be processed within 7 business days. |
