01 Inclined for your Privacy and Security
Bright Directories respects the privacy of its users and takes utmost care in maintaining it. We have developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe you, as an individual who is a user of Bright Directories or our services, or who provided us with information/data through various means, the information/data we collect, how that information/data may be used or with whom it may be shared and your choices and rights about such uses and disclosures of the same.
We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or services or while transacting any business with us. By using our website, you are accepting the terms and clauses described in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please redirect yourselves to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how you can contact us.
02 A little Information:
Service
Service means the https://brightdirectories.com/ website.
Personal Data
Personal Data is information about the user (information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data
Data is collected automatically either generated by the use of service or from the service infrastructure itself.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your devices (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller
Data Controller refers to the legal personnel who (either alone or jointly) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is/are to be processed.
Data Processors (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) refers to the legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We might use services from various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User)
Data Subject is any user of our service and is the subject of Personal Data.
03 Collection of information
We may collect your personal information which can be used for identification such as your name, email address and other information that does not identify you as well. The provided personal information through our website may be sent to servers located in the United States and other countries around the world.
Information you provide:
We may collect and store any piece of personal information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other manner. This may include identifying information such as your name, address, e-mail address, and contact number and in addition for professionals purpose your credit card number and other personally identifiable information. We may also request information about your interests and preferred activities, your gender, age and other demographic information
Information outsourcing:
We may also periodically outsource both your personal and non-personal information from our business partners, other contractors and third parties application/services. Information that we may receive include (but are not limited to): updated delivery address information, product purchase history, and additional demographic information.
Non-related Information:
We may collect and store personal information about other people that you might provide to us. If you have used our website to send information that may interest them through our system, we may store your personal information, and the personal information of each such recipient.
04 Cookies and other technologies for information collection:
We use various technologies to collect information from your computer and about your activities on our site.
Information collected automatically. We automatically collect information from your browser when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see "Cookies" below), and the referring website address.
Cookies. When you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or more cookies to facilitate access to our site and to personalize your online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our site. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our website.
Other Technologies. We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our site. We also may include web beacons in promotional [or other] e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our website visitors to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.
05 How do we use the information we collect?
In general we may use information that we collect about you to:
- We deliver the products and services that you have requested;
- We manage your account and provide you with customer support;
- The perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
- Communicate with you by email, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices or send newsletters about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us or other third parties;
- Communicate with you with regard to partially completed service requests;
- Develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our site and other sites;
- Verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;
- Perform background screening, which may include the use of third parties, on Service Professionals
- Enforce our terms and conditions;manage our business and perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
06 Financial information:
For our users, we may use financial information or payment method to process payment for any purchases made on our website, enroll you in the discount, rebate, and other programs in which you elect to participate, to pre-qualify you for credit card and other offers that you might find of interest, to pre-qualify users to participate in our directory service, to protect against or identify possible fraudulent transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our business.
07 Job applicants:
If your personal information is submitted through our website when applying for a position with our company, the information will be used solely in connection with considering and acting upon your application. We may retain your personal information for a period of time, but only for the purpose of considering your application for current or future available positions. This information may be shared with our other companies for the purpose of evaluating your qualifications for the particular position or other available positions, as well as with third-party service providers retained by us to collect, maintain and analyze candidate submissions for job postings.
08 How can you access your information?
If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review and update your personal information online by logging into your account. You can also review and update your personal information by contacting us. More information about how to contact us is provided below.
You can also choose to have your account disabled by contacting support@brightdirectories.com After you deactivate your account, you will not be able to sign in to our website or access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new account at any time. If you deactivate your account, we may still retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our web site or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties' policies.
09 Your choices about collection and use of your information
You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our service because such information may be required in order for you to register as a member of our directory service; to use our services; purchase products or services; participate in a contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or initiate other transactions on our website.
At any time a consumer user can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional emails or newsletters from us by accessing your user account and opting out. You also will be given the opportunity, in any commercial e-mail that we send to you, to opt out of receiving such messages in the future. It may take up to 10 days for us to process an opt-out request. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship email communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
If you prefer not to have us share your postal mailing information with these selected providers of goods and services that may be of interest to you, you can notify us at any time by emailing us at support@brightdirectories.com
10 How we protect your personal information
We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. We use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your personal information.
We want you to feel confident using our website to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's website at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.
11 Changes in our Privacy Policy
We might keep updating our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will surely notify you of any changes by posting the same on this page. We will positively apprise you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change being effective and update the "effective date" at the top of our Privacy Policy. You are advised to keep reviewing our Privacy Policy periodically for any changes if may. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective prior to their posting on this page.
12 How to contact us
Any and every query about this Privacy Policy or any of our information-handling practices, or if you intend to request information about our disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please feel free to contact us by emailing us at support@brightdirectories.com
