Bhlasen.com is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining technology that gives you a safe online experience on our Web site. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Bhlasen.com Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Bhlasen.com Web site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Bhlasen.com collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address and name. Bhlasen.com also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, country of origin and college attended.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Bhlasen.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Bhlasen.com for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Bhlasen.com Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Bhlasen.com public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
Bhlasen.com encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Bhlasen.com so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Bhlasen.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of Bhlasen.com and the Bhlasen family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Bhlasen.com collects and uses your personal information to operate the Bhlasen.com Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Bhlasen.com may also contact you via personal emails to invite you to contribute to the articles and online content of the Bhlasen.com Web site. With your consent we might also send you surveys to conduct research about current affairs as well as your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. However are not obligated to respond to any communication from Bhlasen.com should you prefer not to.
Bhlasen.com will never sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Bhlasen.com keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the Bhlasen.com Web site in order to determine which Bhlasen.com services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within Bhlasen.com to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Bhlasen.com Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Bhlasen.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Bhlasen.com; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Bhlasen.com, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Bhlasen.com Web site uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small amount of data in a text file, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Web site's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their Web site in order to track online traffic flows. Cookies record information about your online preferences.
Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalized services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of bhlasen.com features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse bhlasen.com anonymously until such time as you wish to register for bhlasen.com services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Security of your Personal Information
Bhlasen.com secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Bhlasen.com secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Bhlasen holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge US$10 for information requests.) Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, 428 Cabot House Mail Center, 60 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Changes to this Statement
Bhlasen.com will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect changes in BHLASEN’s internal policies and customer feedback. Bhlasen.com encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Bhlasen.com is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Bhlasen.com welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Bhlasen.com has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Bhlasen.com through the “contact us” link found on all our web pages. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
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