At Transit Bay Area Classifieds we believe that, as our online visitor, you have
a right to know our practices regarding the information we collect when you
visit our websites, and what type of information is collected. The guidelines
contained herein only apply to your visits to www.Transit Bay Area Classifieds,
the website operated by Transit Bay Area Classifieds. In addition, this policy
also applies to (i) your visit to those web pages on www.Transit Bay Area
Classifieds.com that contain www.TransitBayAreaClassifieds.com in their URL
(except for those pages that contain www.Transit Bay Area Classifieds.com in
their URL but that "redirect" users to other Transit Bay Area Classifieds'
websites that do not contain www.Transit Bay Area Classifieds.com in their URL)
and (ii) itemized search result pages on www.Transit Bay Area Classifieds.com
(note that some search results are keyword direct links to other Transit Bay
Area Classifieds.com affiliates which have their own privacy policies).
Other websites which are linked to/from these websites (including other Transit
Bay Area Classifieds.com affiliates, other TBAC websites, and via banner ads)
may have different policies; therefore, please review the privacy policy notices
on those websites for details.
While TBAC does not generally require that you provide us with personally
identifiable information in order to visit and use the TBAC websites, please
note that in order to participate in some activities, it will be necessary for
you to provide this information. If you choose not to provide it for those
activities, you may not be able to participate in them.
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Collection of Information: Cookies; Personal |
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For each visitor to a TBAC website,
TBAC's web server automatically recognizes and stores information, such as the
visitor's IP address/domain name combination and any referring websites. We use
this information to understand visitor traffic patterns through our websites for
purposes such as enhancing their usability. Your computer provides this
information automatically each time you log on, unless you've activated blocking
technology available in some browsers.
When you visit TBAC's websites or advertisements appearing thereon, or use one
or more of the TBAC website services, we may use an industry-wide technology
called "cookies" which stores certain information on your computer and which
will allow us to customize your experience to better match your interests and
preferences, or to simply facilitate your signing in to use the services. Most
browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block
acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However,
if you block or erase cookies, we may not be able to restore any preferences or
customization settings you previously specified, and our ability to personalize
your online experience would be limited. Please refer to your browser
instructions or "help" screen to learn more about these functions.
Also, we (or agents on our behalf) may collect anonymous information from visits
to our sites through the use of "Web Beacons." Web Beacons are simply web page
elements that enable us to record anonymous data about visits to our web site.
This anonymous information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." We may use
this data to analyze trends and statistics to improve your online experience, or
customer service. No personal data is collected through the use of Web Beacons
on our sites.
Additionally, TBAC may ask you to provide "personal information," meaning
individually identifiable information that you provide on our websites such as
your e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, social security
number, credit card number, or persistent identifier (such as a customer number
held in a cookie) which is associated with individually identifiable
information, to enable you to participate in contests, chat rooms, on bulletin
boards, to fill out a registration, or to order products and services using
these websites. TBAC may combine the information you provide on our websites
with other information we may collect from you or from third parties so that we
can more effectively tailor our website, services, and offerings to you. If you
provide TBAC with personal information, you shall have the right, on reasonable
prior notice, to inspect, change, amend, or delete such information.
Instructions on how to update personal information will be given at the point of
data collection.
Unless you instruct us otherwise, Transit Bay Area Classifieds
("TBAC") may contact you to provide information about products, services,
promotions, contests, or other activities or offerings that may be of interest
to you. You can instruct us whether or not you wish to be contacted by checking
or removing the check from the box indicating your preference as applicable at
the place where your information is collected, or by other means (such as an
e-mail request). In addition, with each communication you receive from TBAC, you
will be given the opportunity to indicate if you do not wish to receive future
communications.
Unless it is for the purposes you have requested or originally agreed, TBAC will
not share the personal information you provide on the TBAC websites with any
other parties, except (a) with your consent; (b) as may be required by law or
court order; (c) to persons or companies with whom TBAC contracts to carry out
the internal operations of the website or our business; or (d) under exigent
circumstances to protect the personal safety or property of our users, the
public, or ourselves.
Additionally and with your consent, Transit Bay Area Classifieds
("TBAC") may share your personal information with other TBAC affiliates -- i.e.,
(i) Transit Bay Area Classifieds, (ii) any company of which more than 50% of its
outstanding shares are owned by Transit Bay Area Classifieds, directly or
indirectly, or (iii) any company with the name "Transit Bay Area Classifieds" as
a part of its trade name -- who may want to contact you about products,
services, or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Further, only
with your consent, TBAC may share your personal information with
specific third parties outside of the TBAC group who may want to contact you
about products, services, or other offerings that may be of interest to you.
Please consult the respective privacy policies of each of these companies for
further clarification as to their own privacy policy. Transit Bay Area
Classifieds will seek to obtain your consent at the place where the information
is collected either by an "opt-out" or "opt-in" method, or by other means (such
as an e-mail request). If you consent to receiving communications from any of
these affiliated TBAC groups, or third parties, you will need to communicate
with them directly if you later decide that you no longer wish to receive their
communications. Until we advise you, except as indicated above for the initial
decision made with your consent to share your personal information with TBAC's
affiliates and/or specific third parties outside of Transit Bay Area
Classifieds, changes or amendments to your personal information must be given
both to TBAC and to each such TBAC's affiliate or other company directly, as
these changes, amendments, and/or deletions will not be exchanged among TBAC and
other TBAC's affiliates or third parties.
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Security |
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While TBAC cannot guarantee that
unauthorized access will never occur, rest assured that TBAC takes great care in
maintaining the security of your personal information and in preventing
unauthorized access to it through the use of appropriate technology and internal
procedures.
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Notice To/Regarding Children Under the Age of 13 |
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If you are under 13 years
of age, you should not provide any personally identifiable information (for
example, your last name, home address or e-mail address) on these sites without
the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian. If TBAC learns that you
are under 13 years of age, TBAC will not maintain or use any personally
identifiable information about you without the verifiable consent of your parent
or guardian, except as allowed by law. This may mean that you will be unable to
participate in some activities on the sites without that verifiable consent.
Transit Bay Area Classifieds believes that children using the Internet require
special protection, and we urge parents or guardians to explain Internet safety
to their children. Parents are urged to spend time online with their children to
become familiar with the types of content available on TBAC's website(s) and the
Internet in general. Control tools are available from online services and
software manufacturers to help create a safer environment for children.
If a child under 13 years of age wishes to participate in any TBAC's website
activity, or wishes to take advantage of a product or service offering,
available to children, and to do so necessitates the furnishing of any of the
child's personal information, please note the following:
(i) Before any collection of a child's personal information takes place at a
website directed to children or where TBAC is knowingly collecting children's
personal information, the child will be asked to provide his/her parent's or
guardian's e-mail address. TBAC will then send an e-mail (the "Initial
Notification") to the parent/guardian indicating, among other things, the
information that the child is requested to provide; the intended use(s) of the
information; and information on how the parent/guardian can, at their election,
delete the child's information from TBAC's database or records. Upon receipt of
the Initial Notification, a parent or guardian may respond back to TBAC to grant
his/her consent or to deny consent, in which case TBAC will delete the parent or
guardian's e-mail address. Upon TBAC's receipt of the parent/guardian consent,
TBAC will send a confirming e-mail to the parent/guardian's e-mail address
(ii) The e-mail address of the operator collecting or maintaining personal
information from children through this website is: PIM@lawready.com
(iii) The types of personal information collected from children may include the
name, e-mail address, home address, telephone number, and/or any other
information reasonably necessary for the child to participate in a particular
activity. This information may be collected directly and/or passively (e.g.,
through a web server that automatically recognizes and stores information, such
as a visitor's IP address/domain name combination)
(iv) The information collected may be used for purposes such as fulfillment of a
requested transaction, record keeping, marketing back to the child, or making it
publicly available through a chat room or by other means
(v) Unless specific consent is obtained from the child's parent or guardian, the
child's personal information will not be disclosed to third parties who are not
contractors hired to carry out the internal operations of the websites, other
than as may be required by law. We have required, or will require, such
contractors to agree to use personal information of website visitors only for
the purposes of carrying out these operations and to keep such information
confidential. A parent or guardian has the option of consenting to the
collection and use of the child's personal information without consenting to the
disclosure of that information to third parties
(vi) TBAC is prohibited from conditioning a child's participation in an activity
on the child's disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary
to participate in such activity
(vii) A parent can review and have deleted the child's personal information, can
refuse to permit further collection or use of the child's information, and can
revoke or limit consents previously given. For instructions on how to do so,
please send an e-mail to: PIM@lawready.com.
(viii) If TBAC desires to use a child's information for purposes other than that
for which the parent/guardian consent was previously given, TBAC will not do so
without first getting the parent/guardian consent.
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Use and Disclosure of Anonymous Aggregated
Information |
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Transit Bay Area Classifieds may
also collect, aggregate, and maintain anonymous information about visitors to
our websites, such as the visitors' hobbies, interests, purchasing habits, music
preferences, and the like. This data can then be used to tailor TBAC's website
content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our visitors. In
addition, TBAC may also share such aggregate information about our visitors with
advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties; for example,
to inform them about the percentage of male/female visitors or percentage of
visitors within a particular age range.
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Consent to Processing |
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By providing any personal
information to TBAC's websites, all users, including without limitation; users
in the member territories of the United States, fully understand and
unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in
the United States of America including other countries.
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Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy |
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The terms of this policy
will govern the use and any information collected while it is in place. Transit
Bay Area Classifieds (TBAC) reserves the right to change this policy at any
time, so please re-visit this page as often as you wish. Changes to this privacy
policy are effective at the time they are posted to this Site.
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Letters, Abbreviations ,and Name Terms;
Synonymous |
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In the above privacy
policy statement, we have identified Transit Bay Area Classifieds as ("TBAC"),
"Transit Bay Area Classifieds", "www.TRANSITBAYAREACLASSIFIEDS.com", or
"www.TransitBayAreaClassifieds.org". These term shall be considered synonymous
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Questions |
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If you have any questions or comments about our
personal information practices or about this privacy statement, please feel free
to send us an e-mail at
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