Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs our knowing gathering, disclosure and use of Information by BeanPool through your use of the Site and is limited only to the protection and use of personal information collected by BeanPool on this Site. BeanPool is committed to honoring the privacy of our on-line customers. This policy only applies to this Site and not to the websites of our advertisers or of other companies or organizations to which this Site links. Capitalized terms shall have the same meaning as defined in the Terms and Conditions unless specifically defined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last revised on July 1, 2005.

Objective
BeanPool is a website where you can search, view, and sort information on local businesses such as contact information, ratings, reviews, and recommendations made by your friends, neighbors and community members (i.e., people you know, trust or share common interests). In addition, you gain the ability to speak out, identify, create and publish your own ratings, reviews, and/or recommendations of local businesses. Once you have enrolled you will be able to quickly find businesses such as auto mechanics, carpet cleaners, contractors, dentists, doctors, lawyers, restaurants, or any other local business, and best of all create list for friends and personal groups of individuals with a common interest. With BeanPool, you will have the ability to view businesses recommended by your friends, friends of friends, groups of people such as your homeowner’s association, or those within your elementary school district, zip code, city, metropolitan area, or state. We believe BeanPool is the first relevant to you and local to you source of rated, reviewed, and recommended businesses in your neighborhood. Why is it relevant? Because the feedback is provided by people you trust. Further, you will be able to create a "My Favorites" list of your favorite businesses to print out or export to your address book or PDA.

Information Collected
You can visit our Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself; however, in order to take advantage of certain features on the Site or create an account and become a member (“Member”), you must register and voluntarily provide to BeanPool certain individually identifiable information: including name, address, zip code + extension, email address, and/or a key (such as elementary school); as well as, any comments, postings, ratings, reviews, recommendations, friend(s) information, group(s) information, business information, ideas, concepts, comments, services, know-how, techniques or other information a Member provides to us in connection with the use of the Site; and BeanPool collects and stores your site referral information, browsing patterns, technical information such as browser version, IP address, and operating system, and other Site use information (collectively “Information”).

Use of Information
BeanPool uses this Information to evaluate the use of the Site and to continuously improve the content and service being provided making the Site more useful and relevant to you, to provide you services specific to your location or preferences. This Information may be used to contact you, to inform you about the services offered over our Site or of important changes or additions to our Site, as well as for customer support purposes. BeanPool uses this Information to note traffic that visits various pages within our Site, your habits and preferences, to complete a transaction requested by you, to send you information on contests, sweepstakes or other promotions, coupon notices, newsletters, special offers or other information that you request or that we think may interest you. Information, or portions thereof, may appear next to your comments, postings, ratings, reviews, recommendations, friend(s) information, group(s) information, business information. In addition, this Information may be aggregated, and we may share aggregated general information about our Site with our business partners, advertisers or the general public. BeanPool may provide Information to companies and vendors that perform marketing, third party advertising or other services on our behalf or with whom we have joint marketing agreements so that we may provide a full range of products and services to you. Certain federal, state and local laws or government regulations may require us to disclose non-public personal information about you. In these circumstances, we will use reasonable efforts to disclose only the information required by law, subpoena or court order to be disclosed.

My Profile
My profile is a section within the Site where you can amend or update your contact information, key such as elementary school or zip code plus 4, email and password as well as whether or not you wish to opt-in or opt-out of receiving a newsletter from BeanPool. By accessing, amending or updating your My Profile section of this Site, you expressly agree to be bound by and comply with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and Agreement.

Collection Methods
Our Site may make use of cookies (or a similar technology) to better manage our Site and to assist us in providing you with tailored information and services. A cookie is a tiny element of data that a website can send to your browser to assign each visitor a unique, random number that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our Site. You may set your browser to notify you or decline the receipt of a cookie, but if you do, certain features of our Site may not function properly or you may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors, if your browser is configured to disable cookies. We use cookies to help us tailor our Site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. Our web pages may contain electronic images (called "single-pixel GIFs" or "web beacons") that allow us and our vendors to count users who have visited particular pages. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration when you visit our Site, including the operating system you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you, your IP address and type of browser software you use.

Children
BeanPool recognizes the importance of children's safety and privacy on the Internet. For this reason and to comply with certain laws, we do not intentionally collect personal, individually identifiable information from children under the age of 13, nor do we offer content targeted to children under 13. Children should always ask their parents or guardians for permission before disclosing any information online. Several software companies can provide children's safety software, and we recommend the use of such software.