At BookmeFirst we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies
to all of the products, services and websites offered by BookmeFirst Inc. or
its subsidiaries or affiliated companies; collectively, BookmeFirst's "services".
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact
us through our website or write to us at
BookmeFirst
27 West 60th Street
PO box 20159
New York, NY 10023
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account
or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range
of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide - When you sign up for a BookmeFirst Account or
other BookmeFirst service or promotion that requires registration, we ask
you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account
password). For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we also
request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain
in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit
under your account with information from other BookmeFirst services or third
parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the
quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity
to opt out of combining such information.
- Cookies - When you visit BookmeFirst, we send one or more cookies - a small
file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies
your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing
user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. BookmeFirst
also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers
serve and manage ads across the web. We may set a cookie in your browser when
you visit a website and view or click on an ad supported by BookmeFirst's
advertising services.
- Log information - When you access BookmeFirst services, our servers automatically
record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These
server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol
address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request
and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications - When you send email or other communications to BookmeFirst,
we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond
to your requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connection with other
web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent
to BookmeFirst in order to deliver the service. We process such information
in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites may have different
privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
- Links - BookmeFirst may present links in a format that enables us to keep
track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to
improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
- Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to BookmeFirst services only. We do
not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from
within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or
other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from
you.
BookmeFirst only processes personal information for the purposes described in
this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services.
In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content
and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve
our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
BookmeFirst processes personal information on our servers in the United States
of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information
on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to
provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information
on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our
advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask
you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner
different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for
your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those
described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices,
we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information
for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for
purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary
service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
some BookmeFirst features and services may not function properly if your cookies
are disabled.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which
case BookmeFirst may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
BookmeFirst only shares personal information with other companies or individuals
outside of BookmeFirst in the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive
personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or
other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal
information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process
such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy
Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of
such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable
Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c)
detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
(d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of BookmeFirst,
its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If BookmeFirst becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale
of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information
is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information,
such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example,
or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does
not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the
management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access
to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include
internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized
access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to BookmeFirst employees, contractors
and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations
and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution,
if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
BookmeFirst processes personal information only for the purposes for which it
was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific
privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices
to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed
to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that
the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but
we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever
necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use BookmeFirst services, we make good faith efforts to provide you
with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if
it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise
required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual
users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected
or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests
that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical
effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical
(for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or
for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information
access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing
so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different
procedures to access, correct or delete users' personal information. We provide
the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for
these services.
Enforcement
BookmeFirst regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please
feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy
or BookmeFirst's treatment of personal information by contacting us through
this web site or by writing to us at
BookmeFirst
27 West 60th Street
PO box 20159
New York, NY 10023
We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local
data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer
of personal data that cannot be resolved between BookmeFirst and an individual.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time and we expect
most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a
more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of
Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified
at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions
of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy,
please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at
Privacy Matters
BookmeFirst
27 West 60th Street
PO box 20159
New York, NY 10023