THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS WITH SOHOMAVEN A DIVISION OF MY HOME OFFICE, INCORPORATED. At SOHOMaven, we recognize the importance of privacy to visitors of our Web site. This privacy policy explains what type of information is collected from you when you visit our Web site and how that information may be used.
GATHERING OF INFORMATION
When you visit SOHOMaven, you provide us with personal information you knowingly choose to disclose and Web Site use information collected by SOHOMaven as you interact with our Web Site.
Personal Information:
When you register with SOHOMaven, you provide certain personal and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) identifying information—such as your name, your business profile, e-mail address, address, telephone number, and preference information—from the SOHOMaven Web site only if you choose to provide that information to us. Any information that you post when participating in the SOHOMaven Discussions, Blogs, or Forums becomes public.
When you use SOHOMaven, you can set up your SOHO profile, form business relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized SOHO features.
The User is responsible for keeping both the User Identification and Password safe. The User is responsible for use of the account by anybody. Unless the User notifies My Home Office, Inc.—in writing, we assume that actions taken through the User and User’s account has not been compromised.
You post User Content on the Web Site at your own risk. Although you can set options to limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Web Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other persons have copied or stored your User Content.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time invitation, and if accepted, track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at
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to request that we remove this information from our database.
SOHOMaven also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Web site, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of SOHOMaven users, the public or SOHOMaven and its employees.
Web Server Logs:
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
• Your Internet protocol address.
• The kind of browser or computer you use.
• Number of links you click within the site.
• State or country from which you accessed the site.
• Date and time of your visit.
• Name of your Internet service provider.
• Web page you linked to our site from.
• Pages you viewed on the site.
Cookies:
SOHOMaven may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small 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. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality.
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 reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILES
SOHOMaven.com Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. SOHOMaven may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. SOHOMaven prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
INFORMATION USE
SOHOMaven is an online service dedicated to helping the Small Office/Home Office community effectively connect with one another. When you register with SOHOMaven, the personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself—and your SOHO—to other users. The information you provide at registration, or in your Profile, is also used to customize your experience on the Web Site.
Other information that does not personally identify you as an individual, or specific SOHO, is collected by My Home Office, Inc. from the site (such as patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by My Home Office, Inc. SOHOMaven can utilize this information in such a manner, as SOHOMaven, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
SOHOMaven will communicate with you through email and notices posted to the Web Site. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from SOHOMaven related to the proper functioning of your account. SOHOMaven may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information.
INFORMATION SHARING
SOHOMaven is about sharing SOHO information with others. We also take the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personal contact information to third parties for marketing purposes. We only share your information in limited circumstances with your permission. However, SOHOMaven may share without your permission in the following circumstances—with corporate affiliates, co-branded partners, for purposes of merger and acquisition, and where legally required.
SOHOMaven offers a “public profile” feature which allows users to publish portions of their SOHOMaven profile, including your “name”, but not your “email address” to the public Internet. Users may opt out of this feature; however, SOHOMaven does not warrant how third-party search engines update their cache.
We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by SOHO type (home-based business, telecommuter, and working on the road), industry, function, or geographic location. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users’ activities on the site, please email customer service.
Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services:
SOHOMaven partners with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be communicated from SOHOMaven to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.
Communications Between Users:
Many emails you initiate through SOHOMaven will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Emails you initiate may also provide aggregate information about your SOHO. Other communications that you initiate through the SOHOMaven website—like a blog post, article, product or service—will list your name and business contact information, but not your personal contact information. Your personal contact information will only be shared with another user if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.
SECURITY
SOHOMaven takes appropriate precautions to protect our user’s information. SOHOMaven has in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. When you enter sensitive information—such as credit card information provided to upgrade your membership—it is protected against unauthorized use by 128-bit encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features, which scramble your personal information so that only your web browser and our Web site's server can decipher it.
CORRECTIONS TO PERSONAL DATA; OPTING OUT
You can review the personal information you provided to us and request changes to the information, or to the settings for your SOHOMaven account, at any time by logging in to your account on the SOHOMaven website and editing the information on your Profile page. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the SOHOMaven Privacy Policy that you have previously agreed to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the SOHOMaven service, please send your request to
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. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with SOHOMaven under your name.
ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY TERMS
SOHOMaven reserves the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of the SOHOMaven Web site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect. Please make sure that you read SOHOMaven's Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions, which apply to the use of our Web site.
If you have any questions or comments concerning our privacy policy, please contact us via e-mail at
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or send a letter to:
My Home Office, Inc.
Attention: Privacy Policy Representative
500 Broad Street
Riverton, NJ 08077
MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY
The SOHOMaven service is not available to minors under the age of 18 or to any users suspended or removed from the system by SOHOMaven for any reason. If we find out a User is under 13 years of age we will immediately close the account and delete all Information. Membership is also void where prohibited.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
It is important to note that the SOHOMaven Web site contains links to other sites that may not follow the same privacy policies as the SOHOMaven Web site. For instance, clicking on a sponsorship notice on SOHOMaven.com will take you to an entirely different site. These sites may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that SOHOMaven would not. SOHOMaven is not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.
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