BetterIf.com Privacy Policy

Understandable English Privacy Policy

We are EPage, Inc. and we run BetterIf.com. We respect your privacy. If information is being gathered about you, we believe you have a right to know. Your Email address and any other data you provide us will never be sold or released to a third party. We do not Spam, and will not start sending you unsolicted commercial email either.

We do use "cookies" on this site. We use "cookies" to retain some information about you that lets you stay logged in and tracks who you are so you don't have to log in every time you enter a new idea or vote. We do not collect information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses – unless you specifically give us that information. Any data which we collect will only be used by ourselves. We reserve the right to transfer any data collected in the event we sell this site.

We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. If you want to read the full policy in all its wordy glory, read below.

Full Privacy Policy

EPage, Inc. has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: BetterIf.com. EPage cares about the privacy of each user of its Web site ("user" or "you"). In order to protect the privacy of its users, we have adopted the following policy:

General Information

When you use the Web site some basic general information is collected. This information is used to improve the Web site and make your use of the Web site as enjoyable and efficient as possible. Cookies are also used to help us determine the various services you use and the support you may need, and to help us detect and solve any problems you may have when using the Web site.

This general information is used internally in connection with EPage's business, including our personal, marketing and advertising efforts.

Collecting Information From Children Younger than 13

The Web site is not intended for use by those under the age of 13 years old. We do not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information from children younger than 13 years of age without obtaining verifiable parental consent.

Information We Collect From You

Our site's registration process may require users to give us contact information (like name and email address) and simple demographics (such as age, sex, and location). The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. We use it to complete and support your purchases from and use of the Web site, to comply with any requirements of law, and to respond to any questions you might have. Unique identifiers (such as email addresses) are collected for use as account numbers in our record system.

As you browse our web site, we may gather navigational and clickstream data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to support your use of the Web site and to comply with any requirements of law. This data may be disclosed to third parties in aggregate only with no personally identifiable information ever being disclosed to affiliates.

Your Email Address and Communication With You

We may choose to send a regular email to all users. This email may contain updates, news, and special offers, as well as information about your account. This email may contain advertising or offers from third parties and this will be indicated as such. If you do not want to receive this monthly email, you will be able to opt-out from a link in the email as well as from your account page.

We may send email with the status and performance of your ideas. If you do not want to receive this email, you will be able opt-out from the summary area of your Profile page.

We will send email to you for other legitimate purposes as part of the site operation. You will get email confirmation when you register, place an idea, create a topic, and for other operational reasons.

Your IP Address

Our Use of Cookies

Cookies are required to use some of our services. If you register and log in to BetterIf.com we use cookies to perform "session tracking". The contents of the cookie is simply a "key" to information that is stored on our site. The actual information is not contained in the cookie nor transmitted over the Internet.

To login to your account to manage and create Zones or Campaigns, your browser will need to be configured to accept cookies. Here's how to do it: In Firefox, click the Tools menu and select the Options from the drop down menu. Click the Privacy icon and then Cookies in the right side and choose the options you feel comfortable with that enables cookies. In Netscape Navigator, click the Edit menu and select Preferences from the browser's drop-down menu. In the tree structure, click Advanced (Netscape 4) or Privacy & Security (Netscape 7). Under Cookies, you can slect the option you feel most comfortable with that enables cookies. In Internet Explorer, click the View (older versions of Explorer) or Tools (current version) menu and select Internet Options from the drop-down menu. Click the Advanced tab, scroll to the Security heading, and select the option you feel most comfortable with that enables cookies.

Exceptional Disclosures

We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights, if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct, or EPage has good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the requirements of law or comply with governmental orders, court orders, or legal process served on EPage; or (2) to protect and defend the property or rights of EPage, the users of its website or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk protection. If EPage should ever file for bankruptcy or merge with another company, we may sell the information you provide to us on the BetterIf.com website to a third party or share your personal information with the company we merge with.

Third Party Notice

This site contains links to other sites, and this service enables links to third party sites specified by Advertisers in advertisements if we choose to display them. EPage wants you to be aware that when you click on links (including advertising banners), which take you to third-party Web sites, you will be subject to such third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, we expressly disclaim any and all liability for the actions of third parties, including without limitation actions relating to the use and/or disclosure of Personal Information by third parties.

BetterIf.com may serve and receive ads from third party sites (our Advertisers and Publishers). Information not displayed in the ad (and thus not available to the general public via the Web) is not made available to these third party participants.

Future Use

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Site Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds of user information and we store certain kinds of data in encrypted form. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our web site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site.

Release of Personal Information to Law Enforcement

We fully cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities, and may in our sole discretion disclose Personal Information or other information to satisfy any law, regulation, subpoena, or government request. We reserve the right to release Personal Information or other information about users who we believe are engaged in illegal activities or are otherwise in violation of our Terms of Use, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order, if we believe in our sole discretion that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate the Web site, or to protect the rights or property of EPage, its affiliates, or any of their officers, directors, or employees, agents, third-party content providers, suppliers, sponsors, or licensors. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities we reasonably believe in our sole discretion to be unlawful.

Your Consent To This Policy

Legal Disclaimer

This Site operates AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE, without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events beyond our direct control. This Privacy and Security Policy is governed by California law, excluding conflicts of law principles. Any legal actions against us must be commenced in California within one year after the claim arose, or be barred.

Correct/Update

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• You can visit the following URL:
  http://betterif.com/profile
• You can send mail to the following postal address:
  1815 Via el Prado, Suite 203, Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Contacting the Web Site

EPage, Inc.
1815 Via el Prado
Suite 203
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Last updated 2/9/2005