Privacy Statement

Community Bank Ventures is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website and with our products. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices for both on-line and offline data. If you give us personal information, we will treat it according to this policy.

We encourage you to read this privacy policy to ensure you understand Community Bank Ventures privacy practices.

This policy covers the Community Bank Ventures website and is applicable worldwide.

Collection of your personal information

When Community Bank Ventures collects any personal information on our corporate website or through our on-line products, we will express our need for the personal data at the point of collection. Some of the reasons why we collect your personal information include:

• Analysis of assessment data
• collaboration efforts
• registration to membership programs or newsletter subscriptions
• provide registered users a more personalized and meaningful experience on the Community Bank Ventures website.

Uses of your personal information:

We will only use your personal information in the way we specified when it was collected. We will not subsequently change the way your personal information is used without your consent. Some of the ways we may use your personal information include:

• To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content.
• To provide the ability to contact you, and provide you with shipping and billing information.
• To provide customer feedback and support.
• To record your assessment results and be able to recall them for comparison purposes in any subsequent assessments you may request or participate in.
• To provide contests, sweepstakes or other marketing promotional activities on the CommunityBankVentures.com or affiliate websites.
• To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better products and services to our customers and end users. Your completion of any questionnaires is voluntary.
• To support recruitment inquiries.
• To understand more about you, so we can personalize newsletters and websites to your preferences. For example, allow you the opportunity to request specific information on products and services that may be of interest.
• To meet contract obligations.

Accessing and updating your personal information

We need your help in keeping the personal information you have shared with us accurate and up to date. Please notify us of any changes to your personal information. Most of our sites allow you to make these updates yourself on-line via a particular program's member pages or by sending us an email or calling us directly. 


Unsubscribing

Each email newsletter includes instructions on how you can unsubscribe from that particular mailing.

You may also unsubscribe from Ventures Bank Ventures' various newsletters by sending a letter, including your name, email address and the title of the marketing material you wish to unsubscribe from to:

Community Bank Ventures
30200 Rancho Viejo Road, Suite C
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

Non-personal information collection

In some instances, Community Bank Ventures may collect non-personal (aggregate or demographic) data through our assessment products. This information is used to the most suitable comparison and benchmark data for your assessment results. In addition, your results may be aggregated in our research database but only in a non-identifying manner.

Sharing your personal information

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third-parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission to do so.
We may share your personal information within Community Bank Ventures or any of our worldwide subsidiaries for purposes of data processing or storage.

We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction.

We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal information and other related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

We may collect and possibly share personal information and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Community Bank Ventures terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We will ask you for your opt-in consent to share your personal information with a third party for any other reason.

Personalization

We may customize websites or newsletters for certain users based on the information they previously provided or that was collected through CommunityBankVentures.com websites in order to enhance the overall web experience.

Security of your personal information

Community Bank Ventures is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

When we transfer sensitive personal data (for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit.

We recommend you to take every precaution in protecting your personal information when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser.

Cookies

Community Bank Ventures websites may utilize cookies, although you can still access most of them even if you choose to disable cookies in your browser. Some websites will not allow you to complete certain activities if cookies are disabled. For example, our e-commerce site uses session cookies and persistent cookies to process transactions. If you do not accept cookies, the associated shopping basket will not work and you will not be able to place an order.

We use multiple third parties to monitor web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-through', and other activities on Community Bank Ventures sites. Where authorized by Community Bank Ventures, such third parties may use cookies, Community Bank Ventures web log files, web beacons, and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous aggregate statistics on Community Bank Ventures' website visitors.
We also include web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail newsletters in order to count how many newsletters (or particular articles, links, etc.) are being accessed.

Current versions of web browsers offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third party cookies. Search for "cookies" under your web browser's Help menu for more information on cookie management features available to you.

Data retention

Community Bank Ventures will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

Linked websites

Our websites may provide links to other third-party websites which are outside our control and not covered by this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) sites.

Newsgroups/Forums

Community Bank Ventures newsgroups and forums are public. Please consider this before posting material to them.

Children's Privacy

Community Bank Ventures does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that data from our systems. Community Bank Ventures encourages parents and guardians on-line go online with their children. Here are a few tips to on-line make a child's online experience safer:

• Teach children never to give personal information (such as name, address, phone number, school, etc.) unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult.
• Know the sites your children are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
• Look for website privacy policies. Know how your child's information is treated.

Please visit the FTC's website(1) for more tips on protecting children's privacy online.

Transfer of Personal Information

We may transfer your personal information to to third parties acting on our behalf for the purposes of processing or storage.

Need help with an update, access, or unsubscribe request?

Please contact us by email or U.S mail To aid in processing your request, please include the following details:

• Your contact information
• Name of the program where you want the update applied
• Details of the request (e.g. change of e-mail address, unsubscribe from a newsletter, review of personal information, etc.)

Questions or Comments?

Please contact us directly with any additional privacy-related questions or comments related to this privacy policy.

Policy Updates

The Community Bank Ventures Privacy Policy has been recently updated. 
Last update: January 30, 2006. 

(1) These links take you away from CommunityBankVentures.com. Community Bank Ventures is not responsible for third party content.