Privacy Policy:

CT Business Guide respects your right to privacy.

This privacy policy applies only to the privacy of users of the CTBusinessGuide.com web site. It does not apply to the offline activities of CT Business Guide or any of its affiliates.

Privacy Policy Effective Date / Updates
This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 1, 2005. Our business changes constantly. This Privacy Policy will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of material changes to our Privacy Policy, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our web site frequently to see recent changes. Notice of any changes to this Privacy Policy shall be given by posting the version of the Privacy Policy containing such changes on this web site.

What information does the Web site gather?
When you visit this site you may provide information on two different levels about your visit:

Anonymous statistics collected as you browse the site

Personal information you knowingly give us

Please be assured that we do not collect personal information about you from the website unless you provide it to us. This means that you can visit our Web sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself (such as your e-mail address).

As you browse the site, our web servers collect information about your visit, not about you personally. Via web server logs, we monitor statistics such as:

How many people visit our site

Which pages people visit on our site

From which domains our visitors come (e.g., aol.com)

Which browsers people use to visit our site

None of this information is associated with you as an individual (see information about cookies below). We use these statistics to improve our Web site, to monitor its performance, and to make the Web site easier for you and other visitors to use.

What about pages that ask for personal information?
When visitors supply information about themselves for a specific purpose, we use the information for that purpose (such as to provide the service or information the visitor has requested). For example, you may be asked to give us individual information to purchase a product or service, receive information, or manage online account registration. The information may range from your zip code, to your phone number, account number, a credit card number, age, gender, mother's maiden name, social security number, e-mail address, organization URL, or mailing address.

When visitors use our Web site to order services, we may use this personally identifiable information as we would use the same information obtained in a traditional non-electronic manner. For example, to publish your name, address, and phone number in our directories (unless you have requested a non-published number), or to evaluate your service needs and contact you regarding additional services you may find useful. If you do not want us to contact you, you can remove your name from our telephone or mail solicitation lists by clicking on Contact Us . Please note that this removes your name from the CT Business Guide.

CT Business Guide does not knowingly collect information from children through this web site. This web site, and any web site to which users may link from this web site, may contain content provided by advertisers or other third parties that may not be suitable for children. CT Business Guide asks parents or legal guardians to assist CT Business Guide by supervising the activities of children at this web site.

What happens to information when I fill out registration forms?
The registration forms request accurate contact information (like name and e-mail address) and preferences that help us better serve you. Your name and e-mail address are used to send you information about our company, product updates, special offers, and newsletters. You may change your email, user ID or password online; or you can choose to remove your name from our user list by going to Contact Us and emailing us a request to remove your name.

To improve the services we can offer you, we may decide to expand the site's capabilities for obtaining information about users in the future. We will update this privacy statement as policies change to ensure that you are aware of developments in this area.

Do you sell or give my information to companies outside of the "CT Business Guide Family?"
We do not sell or disclose personally identifiable information obtained online about our visitors, to anyone outside of the "CT Business Guide Family" unless you specifically authorize it, to complete a transaction that you initiated, it is required by law, or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of customers, employees or property. If you provide personally identifiable information to us in the context of an event CT Business Guide sponsors with another company, such as a contest, or if you register on a co-sponsored site or feature, you may also be providing the personally identifiable information to the co-sponsor. This will be made clear to you before you submit the information and you can decide whether or not to participate.

CT Business Guide may share non-personally identifiable information with non-"CT Business Guide Family" companies in order to assess the results of a promotion, event or third party relationship, to provide information to current or prospective customers, to complete a search or to otherwise enhance your online experience.

This does not contain any information that would personally identify you.
addition, CT Business Guide may support features and content that appear on other companies' web sites that you may visit. These companies may collect information about you, but CT Business Guide does not have control over the collection practices of these companies. If you are visiting a web site that indicates that it is "powered by ctbusinessguide.com," you are advised to read the privacy policy of that web site for its policies regarding information collection and usage.

Does this site send e-mail to site visitors?
At times, online surveys are conducted in which you can choose to participate. In addition, we may use e-mail to communicate with our customers, to respond to visitors' e-mail, to confirm orders placed online, and to send information that a visitor has requested. Occasionally, we may use opt-in e-mail lists from third parties to promote our latest specials. If you receive an unwanted e-mail from us, you can click Contact Us and simply ask us to remove you from our list.

What is CT Business Guide's position regarding online advertising and third party ad servers?
CT Business Guide accepts advertisements from third parties that serve advertising into the CTBusinessGuide.com site. CT Business Guide may use "clear gifs" provided by such third parties in the pages containing the ad(s) that CT Business Guide sends to your browser. These "clear gifs" provide usage pattern information about the ads to third parties. The data does not contain personally identifiable information.

As part of the online advertising process, we may use information supplied from third party ad serving companies as well as other third party companies.

What security measures are in place to restrict access to personal data?
There are a variety of security measures in place that limits internal access to data stored by the CT Business Guide site. Access is restricted to authorized personnel only and requires an employee to have a secure ID and password to access the information. In addition, logs are reviewed regularly to spot any inconsistencies. The site is continually updated with the latest known security patches that are periodically published by the system vendor. Any information that you give is password protected. For your protection, the system automatically locks out a user after 3 incorrect tries and after 20 minutes of idle time per secure session. If you forget your password, you will be prompted to supply your customer ID number and your password will be e-mailed to you.

What information is stored by the site or in cookies?
Registration information, bill and online shopping, data and contact e-mail addresses are stored in CT Business Guide databases which are physically secure environments that are not accessible via the Internet. This information is only available to you through the use of a secure ID and password, and the information is transferred from our databases for your viewing.

A cookie is a small, encrypted data string our server writes to your hard drive that contains your unique User ID for our web site. Cookies help us to identify returning visitor's to our web sites, which allow us to give you a more personalized, useful experience on our web site. We use cookies for purposes such as delivering web content specific to your interests, and to keep track of your order as you order services. A cookie cannot be used to access or otherwise compromise the data on your hard drive. You can choose to change your browser settings to disable cookies if you do not want us to establish and maintain a unique CT Business Guide.com User ID. Please be aware that cookies may be required to complete certain functions on this web site.