May 15, 2008
Privacy Statement

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore does not read any of your private online communications.

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore and Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore collects and uses your personal information to operate the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore and its affiliates. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore, in order to determine what Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore pages, or register with Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore site or services, a cookie helps Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Building Congress and Exchange - Baltimore at dnnsupport@os-cubed.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

 

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