Privacy

Your privacy is important to thesearcherguide.com This statement discloses the information practices for http://www.thesearcherguide.com, including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared. We have implemented these practices for www.thesearcherguide.com. We have instructed our webmaster to include information on these privacy practices wherever personal information is collected on the website.

Business Relationships

In general, you can visit www.thesearcherguide.com without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. There are times, however, when our partners or we may need information from you. And we are committed to using your information to help us provide you with better services and help you better join www.thesearcherguide.com community. You may choose to give us personal information, such as your name and address or e-mail address, identity number, full date of birth, sex, contact information, education, job title, major, interests, the nature of your enterprise and what it focuses on that may be needed. In order to provide you with specific customers’ services, we intend to implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the quality and integrity of the personally identifiable information of the customers who have special needs. We are committed to using your information to help us optimize www.thesearcherguide.com's products, services, market strategies or management. Besides, we will use this information as a basis for further contact with you. If you tell us that you do not want us to give this information to advertisers or other third parties, we will respect your wishes.

Personal Information

In general, you can register on www.thesearcherguide.com without telling us the real business relationship between you and www.thesearcherguide.com. Our intent to set several possible business relationships is to analyze visitors and perfect the contents and functions of www.thesearcherguide.com. Your application of your accurate information can help us to provide you with better services and we will not give you additional responsibilities and set the relationship between you and www.thesearcherguide.com. According to what you have registered, we may let our partners know the types of business relationships on www.thesearcherguide.com and their ratios respectively. But it doesn't mean we may disclose your personal information to them.

Controlling Your Personal Data

To the extent you include personal information in your submissions (such as a photo of yourself), third parties may be able to identify you, and associate you with your user account, and contact you. Third parties can also associate you with your user account using the member lookup feature on the www.thesearcherguide.com Sites, but only if the third party already knows your full name and you include information in your submission that allows the third party to distinguish you from other users who might share the same full name. Please do not include information in your submissions that you expect to keep private. In addition, you can reduce the risk of being personally identified by choosing a fictitious account name, though doing so could detract from the credibility of your submissions.

Please also note that the personal messages you send or receive using the www.thesearcherguide.com Sites' personal messaging feature are only private to the extent that you and the sender/recipient keep them private. For example, we do not have any control over whether a recipient of one of your personal messages publicly posts the contents of such a message.

As a registered www.thesearcherguide.com user, you can modify some of your personal information and your privacy preferences by accessing the "Account" section of this website. For example, you may choose not to receive e-mail solicitations from www.thesearcherguide.com by accessing the "Account" tab on the www.thesearcherguide.com Sites and updating your notification settings. Upon your request, www.thesearcherguide.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to close your account, and cease displaying your submissions on the www.thesearcherguide.com Sites; nevertheless, we may still retain your personal information in our systems.

Others' Information

You may choose to provide us with another person's e-mail address so that person may be invited to create an account on this website and become your friend. We use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that person about the invitation. By providing us with another person's e-mail address, you represent to us that you have obtained the consent of the person concerned as regards such disclosure to us of their personal information. All invitees are provided with the option not to receive further invitations. We may disclose such information if required to do so in order to comply with legal process, as described above.

Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will post any new versions on this page. If we make any material changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by sending an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our website. Any such changes will be effective upon the earlier of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on our website. These changes will be effective immediately for new users of the www.thesearcherguide.com Sites. Please note that at all times you are responsible for updating your personal information to provide us with your most current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice. In any event, changes to this Privacy Policy may affect our use of personal information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your personal information, you must notify us prior to the effective date of the changes that you wish to deactivate your account with us. Continued use of the www.thesearcherguide.com Sites following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

Questions Regarding

If you have any question or comments about www.thesearcherguide.com's privacy practices, you can contact us at http://www.thesearcherguide.com/contact/index.html