WATCH CITY VENTURES PRIVACY POLICY
Watch City Ventures created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information-gathering and dissemination practices for our Site. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you cannot use the Site.
IP Address
We use your Internet protocol (“IP”) address to help diagnose problems with our server, as well as to administer our Site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. We may use your IP address to help protect ourselves, and our partners from adverse acts. For system administration purposes, we also log IP server addresses and catalog traffic patterns through our Site and our members’ affiliates’ and/or subsidiaries’ Web sites. However, we do not link this information to Users’ personal information.
Personal Information Collection and Use
To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, we and our third party service providers (“Contractors”) may collect certain identifying data and information from or about you in connection with your use of or submissions to our Site, including, but not limited to, your name, title, street address, company, telephone and fax numbers, and email addresses (together, “Collected Information”). In addition, we and our Contractors may retain the content of, and metadata regarding, any correspondence you may have with us or our representatives, regardless of the mode of communication by which such correspondence was made. This information helps us to improve the Site and the online content, materials, and services that we make available on the site, and to more effectively and efficiently respond to both current and future inquiries. As with many other websites, the web servers used to operate the Site may collect certain data pertaining to you and the equipment and communications method that you use to access the Internet and our Site. For security reasons and to confirm the integrity of the website, we and our Contractors may combine components of these data with Collected Information. We will use such identifying information solely for our business purposes. In addition, when you visit our Site, we may record your IP address and use cookies to gather general information about our visitors and their interests, as further described below. The data may also be used to compile usage statistics and other data regarding the use of the Services. We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties, outside of the limited circumstances referenced in the paragraph immediately below. We may, however, share with partners aggregated statistical data that includes Users’ demographic information but does not identify them. We reserve the right to provide any and all such aggregated and non-individually identifiable data to third parties.
How We Share and Protect Collected Information
We may share Collected Information with our Contractors and affiliates in order to provide services to you, and for other lawful business reasons. If all or part of Watch City Ventures is sold, merged, or otherwise transferred to another entity, we may transfer Collected Information to such entity as part of that transaction. We may decide from time to time to utilize a number of business and marketing partners in delivering the content, materials, and services available on or through the website to you. We will not sell, rent, swap, or otherwise disclose to any third party any information you provide to it, except as provided in this Privacy Policy.
We may share Collected Information with these business and marketing partners for lawful purposes, including to enhance the website, communicate with you or to fulfill your requests for our services. We and our Contractors may also produce reports on website traffic or usage patterns and share these reports with our business and marketing partners and others. We may disclose Collected Information to the proper authorities if we become subject to a subpoena or court order or if we are otherwise legally required to disclose such information. We may also use and disclose information about you to establish or exercise our legal rights, to enforce the Terms and Conditions set forth below, or if we believe such disclosure is necessary, to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding actual or suspected illegal, harmful, or fraudulent activities.
Whenever Watch City Ventures handles information that you enter on our site, regardless of where this occurs, we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be one hundred percent (100%) secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Watch City Ventures cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You transmit such information at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts to maintain its security on our systems.
Online Transaction Portal
For authorized users, this site links to an online transaction portal. After completing an encrypted login, the site will capture personal information as well as a log of email and other communications that will be retained by and used by Watch City Ventures.
Business Transfers
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Watch City Ventures or substantially all of its assets, or a subsidiary Watch City Ventures controls, are sold, assigned or acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Protection of Watch City Ventures LLC and Others
We also release account and other personal information when we believe release is necessary to comply with law, enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Watch City Ventures, our Users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are ‘clicking’ to another Web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Cookies
Watch City Ventures may use cookies to identify your computer as a unique visitor to our Site. We may use cookies to analyze traffic to our Site and to improve visiting sessions for our Site’s visitors. Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you may choose to refuse cookies or selectively accept cookies by changing the preferences in your browser. Cookies may be used to maintain session information for users logging into the our Site’s in order to access secured applications or features.
Security
Our provider that hosts our Site maintains its systems in accordance with industry standards to reasonably secure the information of its customers against unauthorized access, accidental or intentional manipulation, and loss. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and you use the Site at your own risk.
Amendments
Watch City Ventures may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on this page. Any such changes or amendments shall be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Site after such changes or amendments are posted shall be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such changes.
Opt-Out
In order to opt-out of future e-mails on a given topic, Users should reply to the e-mail with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. This will halt future communications for that specific function. To re-subscribe, the User must simply go to the site and resubmit the request form.
Contacting the Web site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of any of our Web sites or the information you have submitted to our Web sites, you can contact us at lschneider@princetonproperties.com.
