Privacy

BestSitePick’s mission is to help people discover the best sources of online information and to share their finds with others.

BestSitePicks knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the BestSitePicks website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy covers BestSitePick's treatment of personal information that BestSitePicks gathers when you are on the BestSitePick’s website and when you use BestSitePick’s services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that BestSitePicks does not own or control, or to individuals that BestSitePicks does not employ or manage.

Information Collected by BestSitePicks

We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website, which is to enable users to discover and share information with one another. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our BestSitePick’s users:

1. Information You Provide to Us:
   We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.
   • Link Recommendations: If you recommend a link to add to the site, we collect and store your submission information.
   • Start a Top 10 List: If you contact us to contribute a Top 10 list, we store your correspondence and personal information for follow-up by our editors.
   • Share a Pick: We do no collect any information when you share a BestSitePicks page or link with others.
     
     
2. Automatic Information:
• We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. BestSitePicks and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, BestSitePicks cookie information, and the page you requested. BestSitePicks uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
• BestSitePicks may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed.
• Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While BestSitePicks will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
  
  
3. Third Party Information:
   Sometimes we will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from third parties not affiliated with BestSitePicks. If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide, with your consent, your information to the third party. However, you should note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties not affiliated with BestSitePicks. Any information users give to another party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy Policy. BestSitePicks is not responsible for information given to other parties. Please review their privacy policies prior to providing any information to third parties.

E-mail Communications

BestSitePicks is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below.

Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. BestSitePick’s cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are.

The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies.

Some of the banner or text ads displayed in our Web sites are provided by outside companies. These ads contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web sites, cookies received with banner and text ads are collected by our advertisers and we do not have access to this information. We use a reputable third party to serve some or all of the advertisements that are placed within our sites and they may use information (not including personally identifiable information) about your visits to our sites and other sites to assist in serving advertisements to you. If you would like to know more about the information gathering practices and 'opt-out' procedures of our third party ad server, please see http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy and http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Sharing Your Information

BestSitePicks enables people to discover and share information with one another. Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information, or the information of those that you share with, to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.

1. We allow users of our Web site to send pages of links or individual links by email to other parties who may be interested in them. We do not retain the email addresses (unless you are a visitor who already has voluntarily provided your email address) of either the sender or recipient of such articles or links after they are sent.
2. We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.
3. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information online (whether through BestSitePick's services or any other service available online), personal or otherwise, that information can be collected and used by others. For example, if you use chat, forums, bulletin boards, your e-mail or if you post personal information online, you may receive unsolicited messages from others. BestSitePick’s has no control over this use of your personal information.
4. BestSitePick’s personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of BestSitePick’s business.
5. In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if BestSitePicks, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
6. Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.

Security of Your Personal Information

Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative, or a BestSitePicks editor) are granted access to your personal information. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.

Children Under 13 Years of Age

BestSitePicks includes many topical areas that all users may access. We do not require registration to use the website, and therefore do not collect personally identifiable information from children under 13.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

BestSitePicks may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the BestSitePicks website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.

Conditions of Use

If you decide to visit BestSitePicks website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.

Effective Date of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 1, 2008 and last updated October 30, 2008.