Effective Date: 04/2/2007”  BuySellCompany.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program.  TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices.  This privacy statement covers the Web site BuySellcompany.com.  Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Toni Lockwood at Toni@BuySellCompany.com.  If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/
watchdog_complaint.php TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.  

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Toni Lockwood at Toni@BuySellCompany.com or 800-980-3354 or by mail at 218A E. Eau Gallie  Blvd.138, Indian Harbour Beach, Fl. 32937. 

Information Collection & Use
 

Business for Sale Listings

If you wish to place an ad on our website, we will need the following information: your name, company name, e-mail address, phone number, business address (including city, state and zip code),  we will also need some financial and general information about your business.  This information is publicly available.  We only use this information to list your business ad on our website.  You may update, change or delete this information at any time.  We do not share this information with any third parties.

 

Newsletters

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe by following the “unsubscribe” link on our site.  Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section. 

We use Constant Contact to provide newsletter e-mails from our site.  When you sign up for newsletter e-mails, we will share your e-mail address and optionally your first and last name as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
 

Service Providers

We use Paypal to facilitate our payment processing.  When you make a payment  you will be automatically transferred to Paypal’s site.  Please be aware that their privacy policy governs the use and collection of the information.  Paypal does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes.

We use cookies on this site.  We do link the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site to track who submits what information.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies.   We use session cookies to make it track advertising effectiveness. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

 We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once.  Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. 

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.  Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site.  We have no access to or control over these cookies.  This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by BuySellCompany.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Testimonials

If you post a testimonial on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of this site, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages.  We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit on this site.

Service-related Announcements

We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.  For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.  It is not possible to opt-out of these messages. If you do not wish to receive them you have the option to deactivate your account. See  “Access to Personally Identifiable Information”.

Customer Service

Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your email account.  We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email in accordance with your wishes.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Personally identifiable information:

We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information in ways other than disclosed in this privacy statement.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

Choice/Opt-out

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication sent to you or by emailing us at Toni@BuySellCompany.com.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update or delete your listing by clicking the link in any e-mail newsletter or by contacting us at Toni@BuySellCompany.com.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. 

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.  IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to authenticate transmissions submitted on forms.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.  No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.  Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: 800-980-3354 Toni@BuySellCompany.com or by mail at 218A E. Eau Gallie Blvd. 138, Indian Harbour Beach, Florida 32937.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by BuySellCompany.com.  Please be aware that we, www.BuySellCompany.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. 

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. 

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

*BuySellCompany.com is a BuySellCompany.com, Inc. business in good standing in the state of Florida, USA.