Our Commitment to Privacy
MyBusinessFSBO.com respects each individual's right to personal privacy, and we are committed to protecting your privacy. Therefore, we provide this Privacy Policy notice to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this Privacy Policy notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected or submitted on the MyBusinessFSBO.com website.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
Because of our commitment to privacy and our understanding of the necessity for confidentiality in buying and selling businesses, MyBusinessFSBO.com strives to collect as little personally identifiable information as possible from its users. However, for some of our services, such as placing ads, making replies, and purchasing materials, we may need to collect some personally identifiable information from you in order to deliver these services to you and enable others to reply to your postings. The types of personal information collected at these pages are described in the sections below.
We do not collect any personally identifiable information from you while you use services such as our business-for-sale search and the reading of postings to the Buyer's Posting Board. Any information entered in these search forms is not retained by MyBusinessFSBO.com.
The information we collect will not be used to create customer profiles based on browsing or purchasing history. We do not supplement information collected at our website with data from other sources, such as credit history to authorize purchases or marketing data from third parties.
Note: A primary purpose of MyBusinessFSBO.com is to provide publicly searchable databases of classified ads and other postings. Therefore, much of the information submitted by you to these services is done so with the intent that we make the information public knowledge. Therefore, we define "personally identifiable information" as your email address and credit card information. We strive to keep this information confidential, as described in this Privacy Policy. However, users are welcome to disclose their email address in the text of their postings if they desire. The posting forms also note other items that may typically be considered personally identifiable information, which we allow users the option to disclose (such as name and phone number) or provide other means to make the publicly disclosed information more confidential (such as by selecting a region of the country instead of a state).
Business-For-Sale Ad Order Form
We request information from you when you fill out our seller listing form. You must provide a valid email address (providing your name and phone number is optional) so that you can receive inquiries to your ad, as well as email correspondence from MyBusinessFSBO.com regarding the status of your ad. You must also provide your credit card number and expiration date to enable us to charge the card for the listing fee.
We also collect information regarding the details of your business for sale. All of the information posted in the listing form will be publicly disclosed. The personal contact information submitted will be kept private, with the exception of your name and phone number, if you choose to make available.
The public information regarding your business-for-sale is made available through our searchable databases on MyBusinessFSBO.com and on the sites of our partners, as well as through our Buyer Email notification service. The financial data you provide about your business-for-sale (such as the asking price, gross income and cash flow) may be included in our aggregate statistical data.
Your email address and credit card information remain confidential and will not be distributed to any outside parties, except as necessary to process the charge for the listing and verify the sale.
Email Address & Password
We require your name, a valid email address and credit card number and expiration date so that we may process your order. For added security, we also request that you submit a password to be used in conjunction with your email address to sign in to your account. If you ever wish to change your email address or password, please visit the “My Account” section of the site and select “Email/Password” under “User Settings”.
Your email address and credit card information remain confidential and will not be distributed to any outside parties, except as necessary to process the charge for the order and verify the sale.
Buyer's Posting Board
To place an ad to the Buyer's Posting Board, we require a valid email address so that you can receive inquiries to your posting (through our blind email system in which your email address is not revealed). Your email address is also used as your sign-on ID to enable you to later sign on to your posting to edit or delete it.
In using to the Buyer's Posting Board, all of the information regarding the type of business that you are seeking will be made available to the general public. You may delete your posting at any time by returning to the “My Account” section and selecting the "View/Edit My Postings" option, and after confirming your desire to delete the posting it will immediately be removed from our database and no longer made available to the public.
Email Notification Service
If you wish to subscribe to our Email Notification service, we ask for the email address to which you want the new listings delivered and for brief information regarding the types of listings you are interested in receiving. Your email address always remains private and is not sold or supplied to any third parties.
MyBusinessFSBO.com does permit our Seller members to review our database of the types of listings that are currently sought, and if your Email Notification request matches their criteria, the Seller member is able to contact you through our blind email system (in which your identity or email address is not revealed).
To unsubscribe from our Email Notification service, simply return to the “My Account” section of MyBusinessFSBO.com and click on the "View/Edit Alert Criteria" link. When you unsubscribe, your email address and listing-type preferences are immediately removed from our database. (Note that MyBusinessFSBO.com may also delete your subscription if your email address no longer functions.)
Replying to a Listing
When you reply to any of the listings on MyBusinessFSBO.com through our custom reply forms, your reply is sent through our servers to the intended party. We do not sell or distribute to any outside party, any of the information submitted in the reply form.
Email Correspondence
If you send an email to MyBusinessFSBO.com, we use your return email address to answer your inquiry or comment. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
On rare occasions, if ever, MyBusinessFSBO.com may send registered users an email announcement regarding a change in our service that affects their use of it.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website can place on a user's computer hard drive to be a unique identifier for that user. MyBusinessFSBO.com does not use cookies, including in any of our banner advertising.
However, MyBusinessFSBO.com does contain links to third-party websites. Clicking the links to view information from third parties directs you to pages on their websites, which may or may not be co-branded with the MyBusinessFSBO.com logo. Additionally, the MyBusinessFSBO.com database and related services also may appear on third-party sites under the identification of "powered by MyBusinessFSBO.com." These third-party sites may employ cookies. MyBusinessFSBO.com has no access to or control over these cookies. Please refer to the third party's privacy policy for details on their use of cookies.
Visitor Traffic Logs
MyBusinessFSBO.com automatically collects IP addresses and traffic information from visitors to our site. None of this is linked to personally identifiable information. This information is aggregated into statistics to help us evaluate how visitors prefer to use and navigate our website, including the number and frequency of visits to our web pages and the length of visits.
Information Sharing
We may use aggregate traffic information to tell a partner or advertiser that X number of individuals visited their ad or a certain area on our website, but we do not disclose anything that could be used to identify any individual visitor.
Sales data regarding ads placed through our co-branded partner sites may be provided to the co-branded partner. The MyBusinessFSBO.com ad numbers and email addresses of the ads placed through the co-branded partners may be provided to the co-brand, but no other personally identifiable information regarding those sales is provided.
Credit card transactions are handled by a third-party financial institution, which receives the credit card number and other personally identifying information only to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions.
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law or court order, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property, or safety of MyBusinessFSBO.com, our users, or others.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
When our listing form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the most accepted web encryption protocol in the industry - SSL. Your credit card and other information cannot be read as it travels to our ordering system.
Older web browsers (e.g. Netscape version 2.0) may have difficulty in displaying the SSL encrypted ad forms. If you use such a browser, we offer a non-encrypted ad form (usually identified by the link, "If clicking the button produces an error, click here"). Be aware that when using this alternative ad form your information is not encrypted in transmission to our servers.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information in-house. Access to our users' information is restricted to only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative). Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Links to Other Websites
MyBusinessFSBO.com contains links to third-party websites. In order to use these third-party services you will be directed to pages on their websites, which may or may not be co-branded with the MyBusinessFSBO.com logo. Remember that any information that you provide on any third-party page is being provided directly to the third-party service provider and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each third-party website to determine how that site protects your privacy. The MyBusinessFSBO.com Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on MyBusinessFSBO.com.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
MyBusinessFSBO.com believes that protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. No part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13, and MyBusinessFSBO.com never collects or maintains information at our website from those we know are under 13.
How to Access or Correct Your Information
You can access any information in your listing by going to the “My Account” section of the site and follow the instructions to view, change or delete the information. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps through means such as passwords to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
If you select the option to delete your listing, it is immediately deleted upon clicking the button to confirm that you do indeed wish to delete it. If you select the option to edit your listing, the changes you request are updated immediately, but reviewed by our processing center for “appropriate” content. Deleted or modified information may continue to be stored by MyBusinessFSBO.com for archival record-keeping purposes only.
Credit card information submitted to MyBusinessFSBO.com is typically used for a one-time charge to your account, and subsequent orders for renewals require users to resubmit the credit information. Therefore, for added security, any credit card information submitted to MyBusinessFSBO.com is not accessible for review or modification by signing on to your account. If you have questions regarding the credit card information used in ordering your listing or other online purchase, please contact us at 210.568.9336 or Support@MyBusinessFSBO.com.
Site and Service Updates
We send MyBusinessFSBO.com advertisers a welcoming email to verify the email address used in the listing, and to notify the user that their ad is now available online and their credit card has been charged. On very rare occasions, we may also send site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Notification of Changes to the Privacy Policy
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by MyBusinessFSBO.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the new Privacy Policy on this page so that our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether we use their information in this different manner.
How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please send an email to Support@MyBusinessFSBO.com.
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