Your Sounding Board is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Your Sounding Board site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Your Sounding Board site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Your Sounding Board collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Your Sounding Board also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Your Sounding Board. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Your Sounding Board for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Your Sounding Board site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Your Sounding Board public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Your Sounding Board does not read any of your private online communications.

Your Sounding Board encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Your Sounding Board so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Your Sounding Board is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Your Sounding Board and Your Sounding Board family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Your Sounding Board collects and uses your personal information to operate the Your Sounding Board Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Your Sounding Board also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Your Sounding Board and its affiliates. Your Sounding Board may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Your Sounding Board does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Your Sounding Board may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Your Sounding Board may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Your Sounding Board, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Your Sounding Board does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Your Sounding Board keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Your Sounding Board, in order to determine what Your Sounding Board services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Your Sounding Board to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Your Sounding Board 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 Your Sounding Board or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Your Sounding Board; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Your Sounding Board, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Your Sounding Board Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

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. For example, if you personalize Your Sounding Board pages, or register with Your Sounding Board site or services, a cookie helps Your Sounding Board to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Your Sounding Board Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Your Sounding Board features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Your Sounding Board services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Your Sounding Board secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Your Sounding Board secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Your Sounding Board will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Your Sounding Board encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Your Sounding Board is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Your Sounding Board welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Your Sounding Board has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Your Sounding Board at jmarsh@gfmweb.co.nz. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.