Breo Design Privacy Policy

COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by Breo Design, L.L.C. ("Breo Design"). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Breo Design , we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users and clients we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Definition of the Information Breo Design gathers and keeps track of

Breo Design. gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to receive client-requested service quotes, and from participation in polls and surveys:
• Information Breo Design. gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our affiliates, advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Breo Design derives part of its revenue  from affiliates, sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping some of our service free to users and clients. Under no circumstances does Breo Design. divulge any personal or private information about an individual user to a third party.

Breo Design, L.L.C. Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Information.

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Electronic Newsletters (Dispatches).

   We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Breo Design. gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.

2. Message Boards/Forums/Project Management Systems.

   Users of the site's Message Boards, Forums and Project management Systems must register separately for these services (free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.

3. "Email this to a friend" Service.

   Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "email this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

4. Polling.

   We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Breo Design. may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

5. Surveys.

   Breo Design. may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party. [/important]

CHILDREN

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

USAGE TRACKING

Breo Design. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Breo Design. does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Breo Design. sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

COOKIES

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Breo Design. uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to log in to your account, participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

USE OF INFORMATION

Breo Design. uses any information voluntarily given by our clients to enhance their experience with our services, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our clients. Breo Design also uses the voluntary information in order to contact potential, current and past clients on services that they request. Including project notifications, quote requests, software updates, online marketing trends and/or other service related information.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to contact our clients, send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Breo Design. never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors, partners or affiliates.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we do not track which terms a particular user enters.

Breo Design. creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for  advertisers, sponsors, partners and affiliates. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we do not track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

Breo Design. uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our affiliates and advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our services tailored to our clients. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

Breo Design. operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

1. Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
2. Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Breo Design. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

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