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At Buyers Lab, Inc., we are strongly committed to protecting your privacy. You can navigate the majority of our site without giving us any personal information about yourself. However, sometimes we need additional information about you in order to provide the information or services you are requesting.
Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on every page of our site, particularly at every point where you may opt to provide us your personally identifiable information.
Use of this site indicates agreement with this privacy policy, which was last updated March 2009.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Buyers Lab Advisor website, http://www.buyerslabadvisor.com. We collect information through the following ways:
1. Forms on our website which allow the user to contact Buyers Lab Advisor: Contact Us form, Request a quote, Alliance Consulting.
2. To allow access to secured sections of the website.
The Way We Use Information
We store the information you provide about yourself in a secure database in order to provide you with the information, products, and/or services you request. The information is stored for the lifetime of the database unless you request that it be removed. The information you provide us about yourself will be shared with Buyers Lab employees to the extent necessary to accommodate your request. You must consent for us to share your identifiable information with third parties, who would be bound by a confidentiality agreement.
For example, if you are a prospective buyer who provides your contact information and purchasing requirements, this information will be shared with appropriate Buyers Lab personnel and partners to fulfill your request. We may also ask you for feedback about our service, which is collected and stored to allow us to continually improve our audiences. As a supplier using our offerings, you must provide information that allows us to deliver our service to you.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information about the use of our Web site to improve the navigation, content, and design of our site. This information may include, for example, the most and least requested pages and the number of users from the U.S. and other countries, among other things.
Finally, unless otherwise excepted below, we would not use your personally identifiable information provided to us online for purposes other than those you requested without also providing you an opportunity to agree or otherwise limit such unrelated purposes.
How We Share Your Information With Others
Customer information is an important part of our business. As a result, we only disclose this information as described in this section. The way we share information with outside parties is described below.
Prospective Buyers
To facilitate our ability to match buyers and suppliers, prospective buyers using our services will be provided information about suppliers relevant to the buyer’s request or inquiry using such services. This includes supplier contact information, company background information and, where appropriate, ratings or reviews.
Suppliers
In that same regard, suppliers whose products or services are relevant to a prospective buyer’s request may be provided with that prospective buyer’s information. We contractually limit use of the buyer's information (including all forms of contact information submitted) by the seller to communicating with the buyer, or permitting its marketers, resellers or other service providers to communicate with the buyer, about their desired purchase.
In addition, suppliers may receive information about buyers in a manner that does not disclose personally identifiable information. Examples include data that are aggregated across a group of buyers or feedback that is provided without attribution to a specific person or company.
Exceptions
Except as described above, we will not otherwise use or disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except to the extent reasonably necessary: (i) to correct technical problems and malfunctions and to technically process your information; (ii) to protect the security and integrity of our Web site; (iii) to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others; (iv) to take precautions against liability; (v) to the extent required by law or to respond to judicial process; or (vii) to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety, as applicable.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the hard drive of your computer. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Buyers Lab uses cookies on our Web site in order (a) to allow site visitors to personalize their experience by accessing information, products, and services relevant to their areas of interest, and (b) to track a user session within a subscribed product.
We receive IP addresses in the normal course of the operation of our Web site. An IP address is a number assigned to you by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet. Although we do receive IP addresses, we do not use them to identify you personally or disclose them to others. However, certain content on the Buyers Lab Advisor site is available only to valid consumers and is not intended for manufacturers or sellers of office equipment. In this case, Buyers Lab may use IP addresses for the purposes of identifying sellers and restrict access accordingly.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You may update or remove the information you provided to us by contacting us. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before updating or removing your information. The information you provide us may be archived or stored periodically by us according to backup processes conducted in the ordinary course of business. Information stored as part of this backup process will be deleted in due course on a regular schedule.
Links To Other Websites
Our Web site may contain links to other Web sites. You should carefully review the privacy policies and practices of other Web sites, as we cannot control or be responsible for their privacy practices.
Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use Buyers Lab Advisor services.
Third Party Offers
We also may use your information to send you e-mail and other communications on behalf of third parties. Each of these communications will include instructions for opting out of receiving future third party offers. You may also opt out of receiving third party offers from this Site at any time by filling out our contact form and letting us know that you want to opt out of third party mailings in the Comments area.
Notification Preferences
You have the ability to "opt out" or unsubscribe from certain e-mail communications that are not related to a requested service and/or the status of your account. To update your communication preferences, please fill out our contact form and be sure to specify the type of email communication(s) from which you would like to opt out. Information about how to unsubscribe is also included in every communication we send.
Notification Of Changes
As we provide more services on our Web site and as privacy laws and regulations evolve, it may be necessary to revise or update our Privacy Policy without notice, but we will post those changes on our Web site's home page so our users are aware of what information we collect, use and disclose. However, we will continue to protect your identifiable information.