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	Privacy Policy This privacy policy is effective as of Jan 1, 2009.
	Your Privacy tipsburg.com is brought to you by Ventram Technologies, Inc. ("Ventram"). We believe that trust is an important component of the service we provide to our users. To ensure that we earn and keep that trust, we make every effort to protect your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is provided to inform you about Ventram's collection, use and disclosure of information you choose to share with us through the tipsburg.com site. This Privacy Policy is considered to be a part of Ventram's Terms of Use. By using the tipsburg.com site you agree to the Terms of Use, including this Privacy Policy. By using the tipsburg.com site, you are also consenting to Ventram's privacy practices, including the use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information that you have shared with us, as described in this Privacy Policy. The tipsburg.com site is not targeted towards, or intended for use by anyone under the age of 18. By using tipsburg.com you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older. We reserve the right to terminate your account in the event that we become aware you are under 18. Persons under 18 may not submit any personally identifiable information to us, and if we discover that we have inadvertently gathered such information, we will take the appropriate steps to delete it. What Information We Collect The use of certain features and services on the tipsburg.com site requires that you register and supply personally identifiable information such as your email address which is stored by Ventram. When you register as a member of tipsburg.com, we may also collect additional information from you including, but not limited to, your IP address. The tipsburg.com site uses "cookies" to automatically recognize returning users and to track movement within the site. Cookies used by tipsburg.com may contain personal information. A cookie is a small file on your hard drive that allows us to store and read information whenever you visit tipsburg.com. "Clear gifs" are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and may be used to track the online movements of Web users. Your access provider assigns an internet protocol (IP) address to your computer when you use the Internet. We collect each IP address that accesses the tipsburg.com site; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; your behavior on the tipsburg.com site and related services, including the categories and tips you view or searched for, as well as the URL you come from and go to next; cookie number. We use this data, as well as other data in our databases, to analyze site and user behavior, troubleshoot technical problems, resolve disputes, address complaints, prepare aggregated reports and customize your experience at tipsburg.com. You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser, but doing will prevent us from delivering certain services to you. Your browser must be set to accept cookies in order to access tipsburg.com as a registered user. Information you provide to us through the tipsburg.com site is used by Ventram to operate the site, provide you with information and services you request, and to communicate with you. Your information may also be used to contact you when necessary (such as to assist you in your use of the tipsburg.com site). Sharing and Disclosure of Information We do not share your personal information with any third-parties. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit tipsburg.com. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to tipsburg.com and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. We may share information with our affiliates, consultants, vendors and service providers, who assist us in maintaining the tipsburg.com site. In addition, we may share data with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and other companies under a common control or acquirers. As our business evolves, Ventram may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy. In such an event, personal and anonymous information may be one of the assets transferred. We may disclose information when required by law or under the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to conform to applicable law, comply with legal process served on Ventram, or to protect the property or interests of Ventram, its agents and employees, personal safety, or the public. Under such circumstances, Ventram may be prohibited by law, court order or other legal process from providing notice of the disclosure, and Ventram reserves the right not to provide such notice in its sole discretion. Other Use and Disclosure of Information Your entered content may be displayed publicly. Your user name is automatically displayed with content you publish, and if other members choose to, they may receive email notifications of your publications or publish their own comments to your content. We, and our licensees, can republish your content as described in our Terms of Use. We may use your content and ratings and other entered content to personalize site views and identify/feature popular members. We may ask for your feedback through a survey, and we may use the results for our internal development and marketing research. We may also share the results with our affiliates, consultants, vendors and service providers. The Sites contain links to other third-party sites. Ventram is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If you have concerns about how other web sites collect and use information about you, make sure to read that site's own privacy policy. Ventram uses physical, electronic and administrative safeguards, including advanced firewall and password protection for our databases, designed to protect the security of data. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees that need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. This Privacy Policy may be revised over time as our business grows and evolves. We will post any new privacy policy, along with the date of its last revision, prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check regularly for information about revisions to our privacy policy. Ventram is 100% opposed to unsolicited commercial email or spam. We do not send emails to anyone without permission and we do not sell or provide email addresses to any unauthorized third party. If you receive any unsolicited emails from spammers, please be assured that Ventram did not provide your email addresses to such parties. This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet. If you believe that you have received an unsolicited email from us, please contact us and we will investigate