Privacy policy - earnerz

Earnerz Privacy Policy

September 25, 2007

At Earnerz we recognize that privacy is important.This Policy applies to all of the products, services and web sites offered by Earnerz or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, Earnerz "services"). In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information which can be accessed from that particular service or through left hand navigation bar on Earnerz privacy page.

Definitions

Personal Information: Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
Cookies: A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a web site. When you visit the web site again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some web site features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Aggregated non-personal information: "Aggregate non-personal information" is information that is recorded about users and collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an individually identifiable user.

Information Collection and its Usage

We provide number of services that do not require you to register with us, such as our business search,data browsing and article reading to name the few.But some services require you to sign up for its advanced usage.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. So when you register with Earnerz and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
When you use Earnerz services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a web site. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Earnerz uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Earnerz does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Earnerz terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if Earnerz is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Earnerz will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. '
Earnerz displays targeted advertisements based on personal information but we never provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad.
Earnerz may or may not set cookies depending upon the services you use.

Confidentiality and Security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to Google employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or by sending us an email at info(at)earnerz.com