DiversityBusiness.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to
privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for
Diversity 2000 and the DiversityBusiness.com website.
In order to have full access to the all of the features, of this site, DiversityBusiness.com may
require you to be or become a DiversityBusiness.com member. When and
if you register to become a member, you agree to the following: (a) WHEN REGISTERING AS A SUPPLIER OR SMALL BUSINESS,
(someone whose business is to supply products/commodities
and/or services to another company); ACKNOWLEDGE AND STATE THAT YOU ARE a "small business" AS SET FORTH BY THE STANDARDS, RULES, REGULATIONS AND APPLICABLE LAWS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
(b) provide accurate, current,
and complete information about yourself as prompted by our registration form
(including your email address) and (c) to maintain and update your information
(including your email address) to keep it accurate, current, and complete. You
acknowledge that, if any information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not
current, or incomplete, we reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and
your use of the Site.
As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a Member ID
and password. We may refuse to grant you a Member ID that impersonates someone
else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other
proprietary rights law(s), is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause
confusion, as determined by us in our sole discretion. You will be responsible
for the confidentiality and use of your Member ID and password and agree not to
transfer or resell your use of or access to the Site to any third party. If you
have reason to believe that your account with us is no longer secure, you must
promptly change your password by updating your account information and
immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us. You are entirely
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your DiversityBusiness Member ID and Password
and entirely responsible for any and all activities (including purchases as applicable)
that are conducted through your account.
DiversityBusiness.com reserves the
right to contact a registered user regarding account status, changes to this
agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the
information collected.
DiversityBusiness.com reserves the
right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in
order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site, and to
inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have
been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners. DiversityBusiness will provide only aggregated data
from these analyses to third parties. DiversityBusiness is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third
parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party when
providing personally identifiable information. Registrants should be aware that certain users may be given exclusive
rights to use of your info for their purposes; this may include but is not limited to: Contacting you regarding goods
and services; contacting you regarding their goods and services. You may also receive periodic information from DiversityBusiness.com. This
information may be in the following forms, but is not limited to: monthly newsletters; press releases regarding DiversityBusiness.com,
their sponsor Computer Consulting Associates International Inc., or other relevant press releases dealing with major multicultural
issues; mass mailings to notify registrants of new features and uses available at DiversityBusiness.com, or for any use DiversityBusiness.com sees fit.
Your information may be used for targeted marketing purposes to help promote business with diversity suppliers and buyers. The personal
data you enter belongs solely to DiversityBusiness.com, and DiversityBusiness.com reserves all rights to this voluntarily given information. Please note
that this data is made publicly available, and is used for promoting business with your company, and DiversityBusiness.com assumes no
responsibility for loss or misuse of information by a third party.
Registrants under no circumstances may use DiversityBusiness.com Data for their own mass mailing/marketing purposes. If a registered
user of DiversityBusiness.com is deemed by the DiversityBusiness.com staff to have performed spam, or other such activities NOT condoned by DiversityBusiness.com,
the users priveleges will be revoked, entry in the DiversityBusiness database removed and future priveleges revoked regardless of Premium
Membership status or payment. All payments made to DiversityBusiness.com are final, no refunds will be issued to any person or organization
that has abused the priveleges of the data available.
Additionally, users should
be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personally identifiable
information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards or in the
chat areas of the DiversityBusiness sites, that information, along with any substantive
information disclosed in the user's communication, can be collected and
correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages
from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of DiversityBusiness.
The DiversityBusiness.com website also logs IP addresses for
systems administration purposes, and to help identify you. IP addresses and/or domain names, as well as
information about your computer, such as the browser, operating system, and the
home server from which you access the Internet are logged to track a user's
session. This gives DiversityBusiness an idea of
which parts of our site users are visiting. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to
administer our Web site. This Site
Gathers/Tracks aggregate information site-wide, including anonymous site
stats. On certain pages such as the
DiversityBusiness.com Registration Form, we give users the option of providing us with
names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, demographic,
preference and other personal information, and various other kinds of
details. We do not gather this more
personal information without users’ knowing and active permission and
participation.
DiversityBusiness is produced and
funded by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (www.CCAii.com) of
Southport, CT. CCAii is one of the leading minority owned Information
Technology Professional Services firms in the country. Having received national
recognition by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and numerous other
organizations, CCAii is noted for its commitment to Supplier Diversity and
assisting other small and minority businesses with their growth and
development.
DiversityBusiness’s
use of “cookies”
Users also should be aware
that non-personal information and data might be automatically collected through
the standard operation of DiversityBusiness's Internet servers or through the use of
"cookies."
"Cookies" are small text files a web site can use to recognize
repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site, and
allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow
content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage
files. A cookie file can contain
information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've
visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information
you supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Generally, cookies work by assigning a
unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Users should be aware that DiversityBusiness cannot
control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third
parties hosting data for DiversityBusiness, and that we do not have access to this
information.
If a user does not want
information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure
in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature;
however, users should note that cookies might be necessary to provide the user
with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on
the DiversityBusiness site.
Cookies are part of the technology
implemented by your Web browser. But don't just take our word for it - read
what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!
For
Netscape, please visit: http://wp.netscape.com/security/basics/privacy.html
For
Microsoft, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/insider/guide/intro.asp
Public
Forums
DiversityBusiness makes chat rooms,
forums, message boards, and news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is
disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
This site has security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. Access to computer
data and files at DiversityBusiness.com are secured by password coding and router access
lists. Our network is also behind an
industry standard firewall designed to prevent unauthorized access. IP addresses and/or domain names, as well as
information about your computer, such as the browser, operating system, and the
home server from which you access the Internet are logged to track any user's
session. Our security and privacy
policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only
authorized individuals have access to the information provided by
DiversityBusiness.com
Members. You, as a DiversityBusiness.com Member, are
ultimately responsible for the security of your DiversityBusiness.com username and
password. Please take care to store
your DiversityBusiness.com username separately from your account password, or better yet,
choose a password that you don’t need to write down at all.
Membership Payment & Cancellation
Payment Terms
All payments for registration are due at the time of registration. Payment is via Credit Card only unless you are a sponsor or supporter.
Your registration is NOT complete until payment is received.
Setup
Every account has a one time non-refundable setup fee. Following are the details
of it.
National Membership Setup Fee : $200 (non-refundable)
State Membership Fee : $100 (non-refundable)
Cancellations
If you must cancel your membership for any reason, we must receive written notice of cancellation. There is a $50.00 processing fee for any refunds
which doesn't include the non-refundable setup fee.
Memberships that have been regularly accessed may be cancelled at any time, however no monies (registration fees) will be refunded.
Cancellation is subject to pro-rating depending on the length of time you have had your membership, and how often you accessed the system.
Pro-rating is based upon how often you accessed the system since your registration. If you contact DiversityBusiness.com within one (1) month from the time of your registration, and have not accessed the system
since your registration, the registration fee will be completely refunded minus the
setup fee and the processing fee. If your cancellation is past one month from the time of your registration and you have not accessed the system
since your registration, the amount of the original registration fee refunded will be pro-rated based on a one year time frame,
minus the processing fee and setup fee. One time setup fee will not be refunded
in any case.
Send cancellation requests to:
DiversityBusiness.com Accounts Dept.
Computer Consulting Associates
200 Pequot Ave
Southport, CT 06890
Or contact us here.
Correcting and Updating Information
Upon request, DiversityBusiness will
use reasonable efforts to allow users to update/correct personal information
previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent such
activities will not compromise privacy or security interests. DiversityBusiness.com also believes strongly in
providing you with the ability to access and edit the personal information that
you have provided to us. We give users the
following options for changing and modifying information previously provided
(such as user profiles).
visit:
http://www.DiversityBusiness.com
Contact us via the web.
Contacting DiversityBusiness
If you have any questions about this Privacy
statement, the practices of DiversityBusiness.com, or your dealings with DiversityBusiness.com, you
can contact:
Copyright Agent
DiversityBusiness.com
200 Pequot Ave.
Southport, CT 06890
The foregoing policies are
effective as of May 4, 2000. DiversityBusiness.com
reserves the right to change this policy at any time. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended
to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of
any party.
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