Privacy Policy
Your trust is extremely important to us and we take your privacy very seriously.
In using this website, you can be sure that:
• We won't send you unwanted email. We hate spam as much as you do.
• We won't share your personally identifiable information (like your email address) with anyone unless you say it's ok.
That's the basic gist of this document. For more detailed information, scroll down and keep reading.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
• This policy covers how Suburban Guides, Inc. (SGI) treats personal information that SGI collects and receives, including information related to your past use of SGI 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 SGI does not own or control, or to people that SGI does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Used
General
• SGI collects personal information when you register with SGI-owned websites, when you use products or services provided by those websites, when you visit pages of SGI-owned websites or the pages of certain SGI partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. SGI 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, and birth date. When you register with SGI and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• SGI collects information about your transactions with us, including information about your use of services that we offer.
• SGI automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, SGI cookie information, and the page you request.
• SGI 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
• Children under age 13 are strictly prohibited from registering with SGI. Because we have no control over the authenticity of registration information submitted by users, we encourage parents to monitor their children's online activities and memberships.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
• SGI 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 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 SGI's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if SGI is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, SGI will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• SGI 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.
- SGI 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.
- SGI advertisers 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).
• SGI works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
Cookies
• SGI may set and access SGI cookies on your computer.
• SGI 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 SGI's cookies.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
• You can edit your SGI Account Information at any time.
• New categories of marketing communications might be added to your account from time to time. Users will be able to opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the SGI service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your SGI account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
• You can delete your SGI account by contacting us via our Contact form.
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Children
• Parents may request the deletion of their under-18 child's account by using our Contact form. For security reasons, we may request that the parent verify their relationship with the account holder by replying to an email sent directly to the user's email account.
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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
• SGI 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 SGI account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
• If you have questions or suggestions, please complete our Contact form.
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Effective Date: July 9, 2007
