At bigsight media group, your privacy
as a user of our Company Sites is among our
top concerns. As we've developed this application over the past six
months, we have continually updated and upgraded our Privacy Policy
and how it interacts with various iterations of the product.
The final Privacy Policy below details the measures taken by the Company
to protect your privacy in connection with your use of http://www.bigsight.org and other sites owned and operated by the Company
(henceforth Company Sites). Our Company Sites are built and distributed
publicly on the web as public directories of people-specific information.
The information included in public profiles is either input by the individual
profiled (User Content), by an editor employed by the Company, or by
a third party. The Difference Between an Editor-Managed,
Public Directory and a User-Managed
Profile Network: Our Company Sites are comprised of editor-managed
directories and not user-managed networks like many currently found
on the public Internet. This difference is critical to how we approach
and deal with privacy and personally identifiable information. There
are four key differences between the two:
Content Levels and Information Structure
in Public Profiles: Our directory is comprised of public profiles
which include various information levels tied to the profiled individual.
These include but are not limited to name, age, location, biography,
and skills. The Company has sole discretion over which of the
over 50 content levels will be included in the public profile, and in
what order. Disclaimer about Accuracy of Information
in Profiles: As editors we strive to ensure that each profile
contains the most accurate and up to date information about the individual
profiled; however, given the various sources from which this information
is derived, we cannot ensure that it is completely accurate or up-to-date. Acceptable Use and a Note about Children:
Children (i.e. those persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to
use any of the Company Sites without supervision. We ask that children
do not submit any information to us. If you are under the age of 18
and want to use any of the Company Sites, you may only do so under the
supervision of your legal parents or guardians. Information Collection, Including
Personally Identifiable Information:
The Company collects various levels of information at a number of different stages: Profile Build: At the time
of building a public profile, the company asks for full name, e-mail
address, birthday, current geographic location, and various other information
levels. Once the user has submitted this information, a public profile is created,
and may be updated at any time. Editing:
A user may edit his/her profile at any time through a secure login portal. Editors review all new profiles and profile changes, and when appropriate, discuss changes with users. Editors may also, from time to time, make changes to user profiles to ensure consistency, quality, and accuracy; each time a non-superficial change is made to an entry, the user will be informed by an editor.
Subscription to Additional Services:
The Company may occasionally present an additional service or special
promotion that requires personal information. This includes but is not
limited to a job and project board. IP Address: An Internet Protocol
(IP) address is a unique string of numbers assigned to your computer
by your Internet Service Provider. Web servers automatically identify
your computer by its IP address. We will use your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site. Your IP
address may also be used to gather broad demographic and geographic
information for advertising and other purposes. Cookies: A "cookie is
a small data file that is often placed on your hard drive when you visit
websites. We use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information
for statistical purposes in order to improve the services we provide.
These cookies do not enable third parties to access any of your personally
identifiable information. In addition, be aware that if you visit other
websites linked from Company Sites, you may be required to accept cookies.
Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control
use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for information
collected through them. Information Available to Public Search
Engines: Each profile is created to be open and publicly available
on the Internet; as such, information submitted to us through the site
quickly becomes part of a much larger public database of web pages.
Because of this, profiles will likely appear in public search engines.
These search engines often take "pictures" of each page and
record past versions of them as "cached" copies of the site.
This means that it is possible that search engines might present out-dated
data for a profile; furthermore, should you elect to have your profile
deleted at any time, we cannot guarantee that it will be deleted from third
party databases. As such, we cannot be held liable for this cached information. Limited Editorial and Content Control
on Public Profiles: We operate our site as a public directory; as
such, we aim to ensure each profile adheres to standards of form and
design that we set and can adjust at any time. These profiles are thus
maintained by a team of Company-hired editors. While the editors aim
to give as much content control as possible to the users, they retain
the right to modify and adjust any profile at any time. Should
you disagree with a specific edit, please contact editor@bigsight.org
to discuss this matter; if your request is not resolved and you remain
displeased, you can have your profile deleted (delete@bigsight.org). How
Personally Identifiable Information
is Used by the Company: If you submit a profile to our site for
yourself or a third party, you are required to contribute your current
e-mail address. We may, from time to time, e-mail you with informative
messages about our site and services or third party products or services
we believe may be of interest to you. The newsletters may contain code
that enables our database to track your usage of the newsletters, including
whether the e-mail was opened and/or what links (if any) were followed.
We will combine that information to other information we have about
you and may use that information to improve your site experience and/or
provide customized e-mail communications to you. In addition, the company
may from time to time gather user information to provide you with a
customized experience on our sites. Your user information helps us to
tailor the content, services, goods and advertising to your current
and future needs. For this reason, we may at times ask you to register
or to provide personal information when you visit certain areas of the
Company Sites or subscribe to a newsletter. Limits of Information Available to
Web Surfers: Each profile is open and public to any site visitor
or web surfer; however, only limited information is available to them.
The company does not allow surfers to view or obtain the profiled individual's
birthday or e-mail address. Use of Information in Public Profiles:
As a user of the Company Sites you will have access to certain personal
information. You agree to use this information for informational
purposes only. If you are aware of someone mis-using the site
or replicating profile content without permission of the Company, please
report it to our editor (editor@bigsight.org). With Whom Does the Company Share Information:
Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. As such, we do not sell,
rent, or give access to your personal information to third parties for
any purposes. However, the company may disclose information you provide
if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure
is necessary to 1) comply with the law or with legal process served
on the company; 2) act in an emergency to protect someone's safety.
We may at times gather demographic information from you (for example,
your age, education level, etc.) from time to time. We will not share
that information in a manner that identifies you in any way, unless
we specifically ask for your permission at the time of data collection.
In the event that Company or part of the company is acquired by another
company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred
to the acquiring party. Security Measures: The Company
has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration
of the information under our control. These security measures include
a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance
of registration information in a secure database. Although we will exercise
reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between
your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security
of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept
no liability for any unintentional disclosure. Acceptance of Privacy Policy:
Your use of the Company Sites, including any dispute concerning privacy,
is subject to this Privacy Policy and Company's Terms of Use.
By using Company Sites, you are accepting the practices set out in this
Privacy Statement and those Terms of Use. We reserve the right
to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on
this page. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this
page to determine if the statement has been modified since you last
reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of the Company
Sites following posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute
your acceptance of the changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy:
bigsight media group may update this privacy policy. In the event that
there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable
information, we will display a notice on this site; however unless stated
otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that
we have about you and your profile. Questions or Comments: We're very
open in our communication with users. If you have questions or comments
about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@bigsight.org
or contact us at: bigsight media group Attn: Privacy Policy 1201A 7th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37208 Updates: The current statement
was published on April 29, 2007. Any updates to this policy will be
posted below.
User-Managed
Profile Network Editor-Managed, Public Directory of Profiles
Links to Other Sites: The Company Sites contain links to other
Web sites. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such Web sites. The Company Sites may also link to
websites that feature Company trademarks and names along with trademarks
and names of other companies. You should look at the privacy policy
on all such sites, as these sites may not be under Company's control.