Benchmark Connections
Privacy Policy
As part of Benchmark
Connections services, Benchmark Connections we do presume that you are granting
us permission to share information you provide with members and affiliates in
our community. In order for us to provide some services, we may on occasion,
provide information you supply us to external parties. Benchmark Connections
may need to purge information from its system from time to time, and does not
promise to keep any information beyond what is required by applicable law or
regulation.
INFORMATION
DESIGNATED AS PUBLIC
As part of our service
you may decide to provide information specifically to be shared with third
parties. Even when you give us permission to make certain information public,
we will still protect the information designated private (such as your name,
email address, zip/postal code, IP address, etc.) from being disclosed outside
our community.
INFORMATION
COLLECTION
Benchmark Systems,
LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on this site and through any
Benchmark Connections generated address. As visitors browse our web site, or
messages are sent to our addresses, we may track them in order to provide a
better service or to develop other demographic or statistically meaningful
information.
CORRECTIONS TO
PERSONAL INFORMATION
This web site makes
it easy to correct any mistakes in your personal information at any time.
Whenever possible, we will give you an opportunity to review and change any
information you provide to us. If you notice a mistake in the information you
provide us, you can always revise it. This can be done either online or by contacting
us directly.
COOKIES
Our site uses
"cookies" in order to provide a better service to our users. Cookies
are placed by your browser on your computer's hard drive to assign a unique
identification for your computer. Benchmark Connections never stores
information we consider personal or private in a cookie. This eliminates the
chance of other sites reading our cookies and learning your personal or private
information. Instead, we use cookies to help direct you to the appropriate part
of our web site. For example, a cookie may indicate that you are a repeat
visitor to our site. We will then use that information to present you with more
informative pages customized to your preferences. Our goal is to use cookies in
order to provide a personally customized and easy-to-use service.
If you do not want Benchmark
Connections, Benchmark Connections or other websites to use cookies, you can
disable them within your browser. Some portions of the Benchmark Connections
website are still functional without cookies. If you specifically delete all
cookies Benchmark Connections has placed on your browser, be aware that this
will reset your session, disable auto-login, and may adversely affect other
functions on the Benchmark Connections website.
Benchmark Connections
may aggregate data we acquire about the anti-spam industry. For example, we may
assemble data to determine what addresses receive the most messages, or what
statistics are of the most interest to our users. Please note, public data you
provide us may be included in the aggregate data, reports and statistics.
PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS
From time to time, Benchmark
Connections may notify you about an offer from one of our promotional partners
via our website. While we may target particular types of users for these
offers, we will do all of the targeting within our system. People who may be
interested in a particular product or service may search or affirmatively
respond to a promotional offer and provide identifying information about you to
any of these partners.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The Benchmark
Connections website and the other websites owned by Benchmark Systems, LLC or
our afiliates contain links to the sites of third parties. Please be aware that
we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. We
encourage users to be aware when they leave our website, and to read the
privacy statements of other websites. We cannot guarantee that these third
parties abide by the privacy principles outlined here.
COURT ORDERS
It is possible that Benchmark
Connections may be required by court order to provide information contained on
our website. Benchmark Connections may also be required to provide information
pursuant to law, applicable regulation, subpoena or other legal process. If we
are ever required to provide information under these circumstances, we will,
whenever possible, inform all users whose information we are compelled to
reveal.
NOTIFICATION OF
CHANGES
We maintain a
community based on responsible sharing of information. If we need to change any
aspect of this policy, we will post changes on the website.
January 21, 2011