The following Privacy Policy applies to your use of this web site.  If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should first contact Communispace Corporation’s privacy office by sending an email to privacy at communispace.com.

Notification of Changes

We may change or revise this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this posting.  Community members will also find their community Privacy Policy and any updates posted within the community.  

Privacy

Communispace may collect and store information about your use of this web site on an anonymous, aggregate basis. We use this information solely to improve the web site.

Additionally, you may choose to share personally identifiable information, for example your name or email address, by completing a form on this web site.  When you provide personally identifiable information to us, we may ask if you want to receive future marketing information and communication from us, such as newsletters, email or other information. You can choose not to receive this communication, if you wish. If you have already chosen to receive such communication, you can ask us to stop by clicking the opt-out link on any email communication, or by emailing a request to privacy at communispace.com.

Your personally identifiable information may also be used to help us track the way you use our site and our products. We may also combine the information you provide with information that we collect separately, including information you have provided to other organisations (with consent that it can be shared) as well as public information.  All of this information will help us to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services. In order to do this, we may also share your information with companies who carry out work for us. These companies have agreed to only use your information in the way we tell them and to have procedures in place to protect that information.

If we share your information with a company, other than as set out above, we will contact you first and give you the opportunity to remove your information from our database unless you have already given your consent to this.

Some communities may collect sensitive personal information (e.g. ethnicity, income, education, etc.).  Communispace does so solely for the purpose of creating a balanced community reflective of Communispace Corporation’s consumer population or its segments.  Such information is not collected for any discriminatory purposes. You will always retain the right not to answer any question regarding personal information with which you do not feel comfortable.

If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like us to remove it from our records, please contact your community facilitator or privacy at communispace.com. If you want to correct any personally identifiable information that you already submitted, please contact please contact your community facilitator or privacy at communispace.com.

Personal information collected on this web site or in a community may be stored or processed in your country of residence or any other country in which Communispace Corporation or its affiliates, subcontractors or agents maintain facilities and by using the site, you consent to any transfer of information outside your country of residence.  Communispace Corporation will ensure that if information is transferred outside your country of residence it will be treated in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Further, any of your personally identifiable information may be directed to a third party site administered and hosted by a third party vendor retained by Communispace Corporation provided, that in such event, the third party vendor will have no right to use any such information other than uses necessary to fulfill its services to Communispace Corporation.

Communispace Corporation will retain your information for a reasonable period and not longer than allowed by the law.

In cases with EU community members, in accordance with the EU Data Directive, we will retain your personal information securely per the provisions above and will dispose of this data no later than 2 weeks after the term of the community has come to an end.

Links to Third Party Sites

This web site may contain links to other websites for informational purposes and are not intended to suggest any affiliation with Communispace Corporation unless expressly stated. The reliability, availability and performance of these other web sites is beyond Communispace Corporation’s control, and Communispace makes no representations or warranties with respect to such websites.  Communispace provides these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link to such websites does not imply endorsement by Communispace of those websites. Communispace reserves the right to terminate any link or linking program at any time.

Safe Harbor Compliance

We self-certify
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Communispace has certified its participation, and compliance with, the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor framework regarding the transfer of personal information from European Union member countries to the United States. The principles of Safe Harbor compliance are notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access and enforcement. Additional information about the Safe Harbor principles and certification process can be found at www.export.gov/safeharbor.

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