Privacy
Information Collection & Use
Registration
In order to post comments and suggestions to VOXOMETER.COM the Universal Suggestion Box, you must first complete the registration
form and create a user name and password. In addition, we require the zip code of your primary residence.
During registration you are required to provide a valid email address. We use this information to contact you about
the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender) to us; we encourage you to
submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
We will periodically notify you of issues that we believe may be of interest to you as well as providing periodic
updates about your postings. Further, we will notify you of on-going developments at VOXOMETER and the VOXOMETER Community.
VOXMETER LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on VOXOMETER.COM VOXOMETER LLC collects personally identifiable
information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site to send participants an email newsletter.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address.
We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. VOXOMETER, LLC stores this information
for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at info@VOXOMETER.COM to request that we remove this information from our database.
Uses of Information
VOXOMETER.COM and VOXOMETER, LLC uses the information you provide to analyze trends and issues our community finds important. From time to time, a comment or suggestion posted at VOXOMETER.COM may be specific to a particular neighborhood thus the need for a zip code. Further, by comparing your zip code to US census data, VOXOMETER.COM can extrapolate trends through demographic data. In addition, this information allows us to tailor the advertising that appears on the site during your visit to help pay for VOXOMETER.COM.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you notification of services and postings that may be interesting to you. Included in these notifications
will be advertisements.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out."
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance,
if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance,
if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a "profile" of
your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored
promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain notifications of postings that may be of interest to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We use marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not
identify individual users.
Personally identifiable information:
We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-out
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at info@VOXOMETER.COM.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes
internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time
stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users'
movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not
link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session
ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can
remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s "help" file.
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us
to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will
be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See
"Third Party Advertisers."
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by VOXOMETER.COM only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ software technology called clear gifs that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content
is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track
the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are
embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We tie [do not tie] the information
gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge
the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of
these emails, please send an email to info@VOXOMETER.COM indicating so.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled VOXOMETER, LLC. Please be aware that we, VOXOMETER, LLC,
are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects
personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
When you provide your suggestions, comments and postings to VOXOMETER.COM, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at info@VOXOMETER.COM.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission
and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.
Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute
security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at info@VOXOMETER.COM.
Business Transitions
In the event VOXOMETER, LLC goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we
deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to
this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: info@VOXOMETER.COM
