Choice Corporation is the sole owner of the information collected on the Choice Corporation web site.  We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.  Choice Corporation collects information from our users at several different points on our website and also receives requests for subscription to our free email newsletters.  As a long-standing policy we only ask you for information that is necessary for us to provide services to you.

Choice Corporation has operations that need some personal information from you as follows:

Mailing Lists

For most people our free email newsletters is our only point of contact with them.  Therefore we restrict the information we request from you to a bare minimum.

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletters, we only ask for your email address and phone number (for verification). No one will contact you unless you specifically request that we so do.  We may also store your name if you subscribe via email and your name is included in your email message header.  

Your email address is only used by us to send the email newsletters you have requested.

Your email address is not otherwise retrievable by us in the normal course of business.

We send all new subscribers a welcoming email to verify their email address.   That message prominently includes information on how to stop receiving that email newsletter.

Specific Information for Various Businesses

Many people request further information on specific businesses for sale. Because we may need to protect the confidentiality of the business and the specific information available about it, we reserve the right to limit providing information to contracted Buyer clients or to individuals who have provided us with further information about their needs.

Correction/Updating Personal Information

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (ie email address), or if a user no longer desires our service, then the user has full control over the information we store.

Removing or unsubscribing from an email newsletter can be done via email.  Current instructions for this are provided at the bottom of each email newsletter that we send.

It is vital that any request for unsubscribing is done at exactly the same email address as originally subscribed.

A confirmation email of your unsubscription from an email newsletter will be sent to your email address.  If you do not receive that confirmation then the request to unsubscribe has been unsuccessful, please check carefully the email address used.

Choice/Opt-out

Choice Corporation does not use personal information for purposes not directly related to our site or sending of our email newsletters.

Users who no longer wish to receive one or more of our newsletters may opt-out of receiving these communications by using the web site or email methods shown at the bottom of each issue of our email newsletters.  An email acknowledgement of the removal the list of subscribers will be sent to the email address.

Registration

Registration is not required to use any part of the Choice Corporation web site.

If you wish to receive one or more of our free email newsletters you are required to supply to your email address and phone nyumber only.  

Orders

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. 

The Choice Corporation web site and email newsletters do NOT use cookies.  The web site does have a system level 'session' cookie on the web server over which we have no control.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links

Our web sites and our email newsletters may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Choice Corporation is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site and email newsletters.

Security

Our websites take every precaution to protect our users’ information.  If users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

All of our users’ information is held by restricted access in our offices.  Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.  For the vast majority of customers we hold little, if any, information about them, apart from the subscriber’s email address and possibly their name  

Site and Service Updates

We may in the future send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or the web site only.

Collection by outside parties

To date we have not permitted our services to be used for collection of information by outside parties and it is not anticipated that we will do so.  Users of our site would always be notified if their information was being collected by any outside parties.  We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our privacy related web pages so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.  Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Effective Date

While this policy formalizes the practices of Choice Corporation Web Site since it's inception in 1996, for the purposes of any dispute resolution this privacy policy is effective on June 28^th 2003.

Regards,

Roger Noble, President

Choice Corporation