Metroinfo.com Privacy Policy
Metroinfo.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. To view our spam policy click here.
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What This Privacy Policy Covers
• This policy covers how Metroinfo.com treats personal information that Metroinfo.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Metroinfo.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Metroinfo.com does not own or control, or to people that Metroinfo.com does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
General
• Metroinfo.com collects personal information when you register with Metroinfo.com, when you use Metroinfo.com products or services, when you visit Metroinfo.com pages or the pages of certain Metroinfo.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Metroinfo.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we might also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. When you register with Metroinfo.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• Metroinfo.com’s business partners and vendors listed on our site may collect information about your transactions with them, including information about your use of financial products and services that they offer.
• Metroinfo.com automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address and MAC address, Metroinfo.com cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.
• Metroinfo.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
• If you are a parent and you have children under age 13 who use our site, you are deemed to have given them permission to do so, but we do not screen for their age, so your computer may receive special offers or promotions from pages on our site they have visited or from third-party sites.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
• Metroinfo.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Metroinfo.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Metroinfo.com communicate with you about offers from Metroinfo.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• If you are a parent and you have children under age 13 who use our site, you are deemed to have given us permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Metroinfo.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if Metroinfo.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Metroinfo.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Metroinfo.com displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
• Metroinfo.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• Metroinfo.com advertisers may include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
• Metroinfo.com works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please visit their web sites.
Cookies
• Metroinfo.com may set and access Metroinfo.com cookies on your computer.
• Metroinfo.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Metroinfo.com's cookies.
• Metroinfo.com uses web beacons to access Metroinfo.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Metroinfo.com products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Metroinfo.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Metroinfo.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your Metroinfo.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Confidentiality and Security
• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
• Metroinfo.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Metroinfo.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
• If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at:
Metroinfo.com
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
425 South Stark Highway
Weare, NH 03281 603.529.8175
Effective Date: February 1, 2008.
Use Restrictions Policy
This Policy sets forth the anti-spam and use restrictions applicable to use of the Metroinfo.com website by our Company, our customers, and visitors to our website.
These restrictions prohibit the activities and other conduct described in Section 4 below (the “Prohibited Activities”).
1. Metroinfo.com and its employees shall not engage in any Prohibited Activities.
2. By displaying an ad or other business information on our site, our customers agree, on their own behalf and on behalf of their employees, not to engage in any Prohibited Activities.
3. By visiting our site or accessing, searching, reviewing, copying or using content, information or other data on our site, individuals, companies and other site visitors agree not to engage in any Prohibited Activities.
4. Any and all of the following activities and other conduct set forth below is and are deemed to be Prohibited Activities:
• Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Such activity includes, but is not limited to
– sending email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law
– imitating or impersonating another person or his, her or its email address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam
– data mining any web property (including Metroinfo.com) to find email addresses
– sending unauthorized mail via open, third-party servers
– sending emails to users who have requested to be removed from a mailing list
– selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued consent to such disclosure
– sending unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email addresses belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no preexisting relationship
• Send, upload, distribute or disseminate or offer to do the same with respect to any unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, obscene, or otherwise objectionable content
• Intentionally distribute viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or deceptive nature
• Conduct or forward pyramid schemes and the like
• Transmit content that may be harmful to minors
• Impersonate another person (via the use of an email address or otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent yourself or the source of any email
• Illegally transmit another's intellectual property or other proprietary information without such owner's or licensor's permission
• Use the Metroinfo.com site, our servers, or any of the content on our site to violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others
• Promote or encourage illegal activity
• Interfere with other Metroinfo.com users' enjoyment of the Service
• Create multiple user accounts in connection with any violation of the Agreement or create user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses
• Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Metroinfo.com account
• Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the Metroinfo.com website
• Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Metroinfo.com website
• Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the Metroinfo.com website
• Use the Metroinfo.com website in connection with illegal peer-to-peer file sharing
• Display any content on the Metroinfo.com service (including but not limited to the customizable login page) that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent content or contain any other material, products or services that violate or encourage conduct that would violate any criminal laws, any other applicable laws, or any third party rights
• Modify the Metroinfo.com logo or any other Metroinfo.com brand features
5. You agree to notify us if you become aware of any actual or potential Prohibited Activity originating from or involving the Metroinfo.com website or using our content, information or other data.
6. Unauthorized use of the Metroinfo.com services in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this Use Restrictions Policy, may result in civil, criminal, or administrative penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender
7. Metroinfo.com will terminate your account in accordance with Section 15 of the Terms of Use if you engage in any Prohibited Activity.
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