Pocketlister Privacy Statement

This privacy statement covers the website http://www.pocketlister.com. By accessing, using or registering with Pocket Lister web site, you accept and agree to Pocket Lister Privacy Policy. Pocket Lister values your privacy, feedback and candor very highly. Any user information we collect is considered private and we do not use it or share it except as permitted herein, without the user's permission. We use this personal information at Pocket Lister to provide the best quality service possible. The following privacy statement summarizes Pocket Lister's protection and use of any personal information provided by visitors to the Pocket Lister site.

This policy does not apply to any public area of Pocket Lister's web site or services. In the event you submit personally identifiable information to contact another member, contact a lister about a listing, create a listing, add a contact on a listing, such information becomes publicly available and Pocket Lister is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit to these services, forums, listings, or persons.

Information Collected by Pocket Lister:

Pocket Lister collects user information from several areas of the Pocket Lister site including the 'Sign Up Now" area (where Pocket Lister collects each user's name, telephone number and email address; Pocket Lister collects individual user search activity for statistical, archival, and business purposes. Pocket Lister collects financial information (such as billing address, credit card number, expiration date) for billing payment and credit card authorization purposes. Pocket Lister may track the IP address of a user's computer or place a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's computer. This is required by Pocket Lister services to provide automated features.

Use of Information Collected:

Collected information helps Pocket Lister better understand its users' needs in order to improve its product and service offerings. Email addresses are used to communicate with members regarding site changes/updates, promotions, statistics or other news. Personal information may be used to contact users for the purpose of research, product development, marketing, or customer service. User search activity is collected and analyzed and may be utilized by Pocket Lister in the aggregate or in the abstract for a variety of business purposes. Financial information is handled by Chargify (an independent third party) for subscription services purchased. IP address and cookie log data is analyzed to better understand traffic flows and user preferences.

Shared information:

Pocket Lister also uses third party providers to perform email and postal mailings on behalf of Pocket Lister, but this information (such as name, address and email) is confidential and is not used by the provider for any other purpose.

Pocket Lister does not rent or lease user information to any third party, except as disclosed here. From time to time, Pocket Lister may obtain information (such as electronic mail addresses) from third party providers. It is our goal to only contact individuals who we believe may have a legitimate business interest in Pocket Lister based on their membership or participation in other organizations or web sites, and who have indicated a willingness to be contacted for this purpose. While Pocket Lister endeavors to work with other sites and companies with a similar respect for user privacy, Pocket Lister cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.

Please be aware that in the event Pocket Lister merges with a third party, or in the event all or substantially all of Pocket Lister's assets are acquired by a third party, customer information, including personally identifiable information, will be shared and/or transferred to such third party. The information may only be used or shared by such third parties for the primary purpose for which the information was originally collected. If such third parties, or if Pocket Lister for its own business needs, desire to use the personally identifiable information for another purpose, you will be notified prior to the information being used for a new purpose, and you will have the opportunity to opt out of such new use of your personally identifiable information.

Security of personal information:

Pocket Lister's clients and their personal information are considered to be Pocket Lister's greatest asset and thus their privacy is treated with the utmost regard and respect. Pocket Lister takes every reasonable precaution to secure personal information within both its computers and its physical premises.

The security of your personal information is important to Pocket Lister. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). [To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://www.verisign.com].

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at info@pocketlister.com.

Cookies:

Cookies are used on this site. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to use our site and to enable certain specialized functionality that requires maintaining information about your session. A session cookie is not stored on your hard disk and expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard disk for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following the directions in your Internet browser's "help" files.

If you select the "Remember Me" function on the web site, we will store a persistent cookie on your hard drive which allows you to bypass the login requirement each time you access the site. Additionally, we use a persistent cookie to enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

We do not store in persistent cookies any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

Due to the functionality provided by our site, the use of cookies is required. If you reject cookies, our site will not perform properly.

Third-Party Advertising Companies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. The third-party advertising technology that we use on this Web site uses information derived from your visits to this site to target advertising within this site. In addition, our advertisers may use other third-party advertising technology to target advertising on this site and other sites. In the course of advertisements being served to you, a unique third-party cookie or cookies may be placed your browser. In addition, we may use Web beacons, provided by third-party advertising companies, to help manage and optimize our online advertising. Web beacons enable us to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits this site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to our Web site.

Testimonials:

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent to post their name along with their testimonial prior to any posting of such testimonial.

Changes to this Privacy Statement:

If Pocket Lister decides to change its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement on the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Pocket Lister reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If Pocket Lister makes material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.