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Privacy Policy

heartbeat (published by Connections Unlimited) takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we collect when you visit our website and/or register for heart connections. Please read this notice carefully.

Personal Information

In order to supply you with your heartbeat email, we need your email address. So that we may provide you with additional services, we may also request your name, geographical coordinates and telephone number. heartbeat does not collect any personal information that you do not expressly provide. heartbeat will never sell, rent or share your personal information, including your email address, with any third parties for marketing purposes. heartbeat may share your personal information for the purpose of delivering our email to you or as required by law.

Non-Personal Information

We may also request non-personally identifiable information, such as [annual income, buying preferences, or age], also known as demographic and profile data, though this information is optional. We may use this data to improve our site and/or tailor your experience at our site, showing you content that we think you might be interested in, and displaying content according to your preferences. We may also share this information with others, such as advertisers interested in advertising in the heartbeat or our site, in aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you or any other person.

Usage Information

In addition to collecting personal and non-personal information, heartbeat may also collect non-personal, aggregated information about subscribers' use of heartbeat connections and our site. This information is not personally identifiable and will only be used to find out how subscribers use our service and site. For example, this information will tell us how much time users spend on our site, from which other sites subscribers came, and to what other sites subscribers go. The collection of this information allows us to, among other things, prepare for traffic load demands and to efficiently deliver your heart connections.

Review and Access

Upon your request, we will provide you with a summary of the information we collect about you. You will have an opportunity to correct, update or modify this information.

Choice/Opt-Out

If we ever send you information by e-mail concerning new products or services that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an e-mail address by which you may request no future notices.

Links to Other Sites

As part of the service, heartbeat may create links allowing you to access third party sites. heartbeat is not responsible for the content that appears on those sites and does not endorse these sites. Please consult those sites' individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information.

Security

All information described above is stored on restricted database servers.

Modification to this Policy

heartbeat may change this policy, but we'll post any changes here.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or our site in general, please contact us any time.

Last Updated: 11 April 2007

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