FranLeads.com ("FranLeads" or "We") knows that you care about how your personal and franchise lead information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. FranLeads has created this privacy statement ("Statement") in order to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By accessing and/or using the FranLeads website at www.FranLeads.com , including all related pages ("Site"), you are accepting the practices outlined in this Statement.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Statement covers FranLeads's collection of personal and franchise lead information that FranLeads gathers when you are on the Site and when you use the Service.
Will FranLeads Share any of the Information it Receives?
Information about our customers is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your personal or lead information to anyone. We share your personal information only with entities that are controlled or controlled by or under common control of FranLeads and as described below:
What Personal Information About Customers Does FranLeads Collect?
Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We collect the following types of information from our customers:
Information You Provide to Us:
FranLeads collects identifying information when you use the Service, when you visit the Site (Including, without limitation, any FranLeads.com web pages or landing pages), and when you enter promotions or contests. For example, we require customers who register to use the Service to give us the following personal information: their name, Company name, address, phone number, and e-mail address, and financial qualification and billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number, and the identity of users within the organization that will be using the Service. When you initially express interest obtaining additional information about the Service, or when you register for the Service, we may also ask for additional types of personal information, such as title, department name, fax number, or additional company information, such as annual revenues or marketing expenditures. All financial and billing information that we collect from you is used for the purposes of billing you for the Service. Such billing information is not used by FranLeads for marketing or promotional purposes. This intermediary is solely a link in the distribution chain, and is not permitted to store, retain, or use the information provided, except for the sole purpose of credit card and billing processing.
Customers of the Service will be using the Service to host and submit data and information relevant to their advertising campaigns and other promotional activities ("Customer Data"). FranLeads will not review, share, distribute, print, or reference any such Customer Data except as provided for in the Service Agreement or as may be required by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Customer Data may at times be viewed or accessed by FranLeads for the purpose of resolving a problem, support issue, or for investigating a suspected violation of the Service Agreement, or as may be required by law.
Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us via our website, email or enewsletters. FranLeads automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs, including your IP address, FranLeads cookie information, the page you requested, and your communications and interactions with other site registrants. FranLeads uses this traffic data to help analyze trends and administer the Service.
We automatically collect usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Site and use of components of our Service. We may use this information to provide research, advice and information, Including, without limitation, for benchmarking purposes (e.g. we may publish an industry white paper that uses data collected through the use of our Service). This data is only used in the aggregate. This type of collective data also enables us to figure out how often customers use parts of the Service so we can make the Service appealing to as many customers as possible.
E-mail Communications:
We may receive a confirmation when you open an e-mail from FranLeads if your computer supports this type of program, in order to help us make e-mails more interesting and helpful. We may also send out emails with information regarding FranLeads or our partners Including promotions and events. Customers can opt out of being contacted by us by sending an email to info@FranLeads.com .
If a user elects to use our referral features for informing a friend about our Site or Service, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. FranLeads will automatically send the friend an email on behalf of the user who made the referral, inviting such friend to visit the Site and try the Service. FranLeads does not store this information.
What about Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. FranLeads employs cookies in order for its server to recognize a return visitor as a unique user. The cookies placed by the FranLeads server are readable only by FranLeads, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on a computer.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated
Affiliated Business:
We are affiliated with a number of franchise related websites such as, FranchisesForSale.com and MasterFranchising.com. In certain situations, these businesses operate within the Service or through the Site. In other situations, FranLeads provides other services, or sells products or services jointly with affiliated businesses.
Agents:
We may employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and may need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. Examples may include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. We may also provide your personal information to agents who will use it to verify aggregate usage data that we provide to our partners.
Protection of FranLeads and Others:
We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of FranLeads, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit the FranLeads Site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, Including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of Florida law.
Third Party Sites
The Service may permit you to link to other websites on the Internet, and other websites may contain links to the FranLeads site. These other websites are not under FranLeads control, and such links do not constitute an endorsement by FranLeads of those other websites or the services offered through them. The privacy and security practices of websites linked to or from the FranLeads site are not covered by this Privacy Statement, and FranLeads is not responsible for the privacy or security practices or the content of such websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
FranLeads may amend this Privacy Policy. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to our privacy policy, we will notify you by posting the revised notice on our Site or sending you an email so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy at FranLeadss.com site, please email info@MasterFranchising.com . Your privacy is important to us and we will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Privacy Policy Effective Date: 9/1/2008