Privacy Policy

BizGroupLink adheres to the following privacy policy regarding the information BizGroupLink collects on its website as supplied by its users.

This privacy policy appears in the footer of the home page of www.BizGroupLink.com.

Types of Information We Collect

When you register on or visit BizGroupLink, we collect information about you and we can categorize this information in the following two groups:

Personal Registration Information -

When you register on the website you provide us with your name, your company name, pertinent phone numbers and email addresses, your company's physical address, and other information that tells us who you are and what your affiliation with a franchise is.

Technical Information

This refers to information about your visit that is not linked to your identity. When you visit our site, we collect information such as the website you visited before BizGroupLink.com, the pages you visit on BizGroupLink.com, the website you visit after leaving BizGroupLink.com, the browser you use to access BizGroupLink.com, your computer's IP address, and any search terms entered on our website. We use cookies (see section "Use of Cookies") and other technology to collect this data. In general, we do not connect this traffic data with the personal information you provide us with.

How We Use Information

We use all the information we collect to provide our website visitors superior service and a smooth, efficient, personalized online experience. In particular, we use information for the following types of activities:

Personal information is used to confirm your affiliation with a franchise or organization, and let you visit the parts of the website which are not open to the public viewing. We also use your identity to send you registration confirmation and send you information about discussions for your affiliated company. We keep your identity anonymous on discussion boards and on the BizGroupLink grading section of our website. We encourage all registered users to maintain anonymity by creating a BizGroupLink username that is unique and unidentifiable to others, as BizGroupLink usernames are displayed on publicly viewable discussion boards.

We use traffic data, on an aggregated basis, to understand customer behavior and demographics, to help run our site more efficiently, to monitor the level of activity on our site, and to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising.

If you contact us, we may save your correspondence, as this information helps us provide better service in the event that you contact us again.

We may also use the information we collect from you to tailor advertisements about our services on the sites to your needs, to protect the security and integrity of www.BizGroupLink.com and our business, and for other purposes indicated in our Terms of Use. If you do not wish to receive future advertisements from us via email, you can unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving future email advertisements, and we will process your request within ten (10) business days.

Security

We take the protection of your data very seriously. All data collected through our site is protected by a secure server. Additionally, we use SSL to secure the transmission of data from the internet to our systems.

All data is maintained and backed-up regularly to provide adequate redundancy and ensure that the integrity of your information is never jeopardized.

All of our employees are subject to strict guidelines regarding confidentiality, and internal access to your data is limited to those employees with a business reason for using such data.

All of our employees sign non-disclosure agreements to protect your data. We also take appropriate disciplinary measures whenever necessary to enforce these rules.

Information Sharing

In general, we disclose user information to other companies for only the following reasons:

to assist a government investigation, verification or similar purposes, if required by law, subpoena or court order, or otherwise necessary for fraud prevention or to maintain the security and integrity of the Sites and our business, or as needed to enforce our Terms of Use, or to a company that purchases our business or assets.

Third-Party Providers

We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties.

We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of carefully selected third-party providers about a particular offer that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable

Use of Cookies

A "cookie" is a small text file transferred by a website or mobile applications to your computer's hard drive. We send cookies when you browse our Sites, respond to online surveys or polls, or request information. Accepting the cookies used on our site does not give us access to your personal information, but we can use the cookies to identify your computer.

The aggregate information collected permits us to analyze traffic patterns on our sites. This can enable us over time to provide you with a better experience on our sites by improving the content and making it easier to use. For example, cookies can keep track of what you have selected to purchase as you continue to shop and allow you to enter your password only once on pages where a login is required.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually refuse cookies or selectively accept certain cookies, by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies, there may be some features of our sites that will not be available to you, and some web pages may not display properly.

Links to other Websites

Our sites may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that BizGroupLink is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave BizGroupLink and to read the privacy policies of each and every website they visit that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected by the BizGroupLink website and applies to no other sites.

Children's Privacy

Our Site is not targeted at children of any age, and we do not collect information from anyone under 18 years old.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

If there are changes to the terms of this privacy policy, we will post those changes here. Please be sure to check this page occasionally. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, such as changes in the way we use or disclose personal information, we will provide you with notice of the change and a chance to choose not to have your information used or disclosed under the revised privacy policy. By using this site, you have accepted any changes to this privacy policy.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about BizGroupLink's use of your information or about this Privacy Policy, please send an email to admin@BizGroupLink.com.