RATINGSANDREFERRALS.COM (RatingsAndReferrals.com)
PROVIDES THIS WEB SITE (THE "SITE") TO YOU SUBJECT TO THESE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF USE (THESE "SITE TERMS"). PLEASE READ THESE SITE TERMS
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POLICIES AND GUIDELINES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE HEREIN. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE
TO ALL PROVISIONS OF THESE SITE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS WEB SITE.
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conditions of any other agreement you may have with RatingsAndReferrals.com or
its affiliates for products, services or otherwise. RatingsAndReferrals.com
reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions
contained in these Site Terms, or any policy or guideline of the Site, at any
time and in its sole discretion. Unless otherwise specified, any changes or
modifications will be effective immediately upon posting of the revisions on
the Site, and your continued use of the Site will constitute your acceptance of
such changes or modifications. You should review the Site Terms and its
incorporated policies and documents from time to time to understand the terms
and conditions that apply to your use of the Site. If you do not agree to any
amended terms, you must stop using the Site.
Pricing
Terms and Conditions
RatingsAndReferrals.com does not charge service fees to
users of the Site. Please refer to RatingsAndReferrals.com's Pricing Terms and
Conditions, accessible via the home page of the Site, for terms, conditions and
policies regarding pricing information that may be shown on the Site. The
Pricing Terms and Conditions are, by this reference, incorporated into these
Site Terms.
Ownership
and Copyright
Except as otherwise indicated, the Site, and all text,
images, marks, logos and other content contained herein, including, without
limitation, the RatingsAndReferrals.com logo and all designs, text, graphics,
pictures, information, data, software, sound files, other files, Content (as
defined below) and the selection and arrangement thereof (collectively, the
"Site Content") are the proprietary property of RatingsAndReferrals.com
or its licensors or users and are protected by U.S. and international copyright
laws. The Site and all Site Content is (C) 2006-07 RatingsAndReferrals.com All
Rights Reserved.
Trademarks
RATINGSANDREFERRALS.COM, the “Winky” logo, and all
other product or service names or slogans displayed on the Site are registered
and/or common law trademarks of RatingsAndReferrals.com and/or its suppliers or
licensors, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part,
without the prior written permission of RatingsAndReferrals.com or the
applicable trademark holder. In addition, the look and feel of the Site,
including all page headers, custom graphics, button icons and scripts, is the
service mark, trademark and/or trade dress of RatingsAndReferrals.com and may
not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written
permission of RatingsAndReferrals.com. All other trademarks, registered
trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned in the Site are
the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services,
processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer,
supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or
recommendation thereof by RatingsAndReferrals.com.
Limited
License
RatingsAndReferrals.com grants you a limited, non-sublicensable
license to access and use the Site and to view, copy and print portions of the
Site Content. Such license is subject to these Site Terms, and specifically
conditioned upon the following: (i) you may only view, copy and print portions
of the Site Content for your own informational, personal and non-commercial
use; (ii) you may not modify or otherwise make derivative uses of the Site or
the Site Content, or any portion thereof; (iii) any displays or printouts of
Site Content must be marked "(c) 2006-07, RatingsAndReferrals.com All
rights reserved."; (iv) you may not remove or modify any copyright,
trademark, or other proprietary notices that have been placed in the Site
Content; (v) you may not use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering
or extraction methods; (vi) you may not use the Site or the Site Content other
than for its intended purpose; and (vii) you may not reproduce, prepare
derivative works from, distribute or display the Site or any Site Content
(except for page caching), except as provided herein. Except as expressly
permitted above, any use of any portion of the Site or Site Content without the
prior written permission of RatingsAndReferrals.com is strictly prohibited and
will terminate the license granted herein.
Any such unauthorized use may also violate applicable
laws, including without limitation copyright and trademark laws and applicable
communications regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein,
nothing in these Site Terms may be construed as conferring any license to intellectual
property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is
revocable at any time.
You represent and warrant that your use of the Site and
the Site Content will be consistent with this license and will not infringe or
violate the rights of any other party or breach any contract or legal duty to
any other parties, or violate any applicable law. You expressly agree to
indemnify RatingsAndReferrals.com against any liability to any person arising
out of your use of Site Content not in accordance with these Site Terms.
To request permission for uses of Site Content not
included in the foregoing license, you may contact RtingsAndReferrals.com as
follows:
Director of Business Development
RatingsAndReferrals.com
13615 S. Dixie Hwy #318
Miami, FL 33176, USA
E-mail: Jen@RatingsAndReferrals.com
Hyperlinks
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive right to
create a text hyperlink to the Site for noncommercial purposes, provided such
link does not portray RatingsAndReferrals.com or any of its products or
services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise defamatory manner and
provided further that the linking site does not contain any adult or illegal
material or any material that is offensive, harassing or otherwise
objectionable. This limited right may be revoked at any time. You may not use a
RatingsAndReferrals.com logo or other proprietary graphic of RatingsAndReferrals.com
to link to the Site without the express written permission of RatingsAndReferrals.com.
Further, you may not use, frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any RatingsAndReferrals.com
trademark, logo or other proprietary information, including the images found at
the Site, the content of any text or the layout/design of any page or form
contained on a page on the Site without RatingsAndReferrals.com's express
written consent. Except as noted above, you are not conveyed any right or
license by implication, estoppel or otherwise in or under any patent, trademark,
copyright or proprietary right of RatingsAndReferrals.com or any third party.
Nothing contained on the Site may be construed as granting, by implication,
estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any patent, trademark,
copyright or other proprietary right of RatingsAndReferrals.com or any third
party without the prior written permission of RatingsAndReferrals.com or such
other party that may own such patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary
right(s).
The Site may contain links to third-party Web sites
("Third-Party Sites") and third-party content ("Third-Party
Content") as a service to those interested in this information. You use
links to Third-Party Sites, and any Third-Party Content therein, at your own
risk. RatingsAndReferrals.com does not monitor or have any control over, and
makes no claim or representation regarding, Third-Party Content or Third-Party
Sites. RatingsAndReferrals.com provides these links only as a convenience, and
a link to a Third-Party Site or Third-Party Content does not imply RatingsAndReferrals.com's
endorsement, adoption or sponsorship of, or affiliation with, such Third-Party
Site or Third-Party Content. RatingsAndReferrals.com accepts no responsibility
for reviewing changes or updates to, or the quality, content, policies, nature
or reliability of, Third-Party Content, Third-Party Sites, or Web sites linking
to the Site. When you leave the Site, our terms and policies no longer govern.
You should review applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data
gathering practices, of any Third-Party Site, and should make whatever
investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any
transaction with any third party.
Use of
Chat Rooms, Bulletin Boards and Other Interactive Areas
The Site may contain discussion forums, bulletin
boards, review services or other forums in which you or third parties may post
reviews of service professionals or other content, messages, materials or other
items on the Site ("Interactive Areas"). If RatingsAndReferrals.com
provides such Interactive Areas, you are solely responsible for your use of
such Interactive Areas and use them at your own risk. By using any Interactive
Areas, you expressly agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store,
create or otherwise publish through the Site any of the following:
a.
Any message, data, information, text,
music, sound, photos, graphics, code or other material ("Content")
that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd,
suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights,
abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable;
b.
Content that would constitute, encourage or
provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party,
or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national
or international law.
c.
Content that may infringe any patent,
trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right
of any party;
d.
Content that impersonates any person or
entity or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
e.
Unsolicited promotions, political
campaigning, advertising or solicitations;
f.
Private information of any third party,
including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses,
Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;
g.
Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful,
disruptive or destructive files;
h.
Content that is unrelated to the topic of
the Interactive Area(s) in which such Content is posted; or
i.
Content that, in the sole judgment of RatingsAndReferrals.com,
is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or
enjoying the Interactive Areas or the Site, or which may expose RatingsAndReferrals.com
or its affiliates or its users to any harm or liability of any type.
RatingsAndReferrals.com
takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Content posted, stored
or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor
is RatingsAndReferrals.com liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel,
omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter.
As a provider of interactive services, RatingsAndReferrals.com is not liable
for any statements, representations or Content provided by its users in any
public forum, personal home page or other Interactive Area. Although RatingsAndReferrals.com
has no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any of the Content posted to or
distributed through any Interactive Area, RatingsAndReferrals.com reserves the
right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit without notice
any Content posted or stored on the Site at any time and for any reason, and
you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any
Content you post or store on the Site at your sole cost and expense.
Any use of the
Interactive Areas or other portions of the Site in violation of the foregoing
violates these Site Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or
suspension of your rights to use the Interactive Areas and/or the Site. In
order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court
orders, to protect RatingsAndReferrals.com's systems and customers, or to
ensure the integrity and operation of RatingsAndReferrals.com's business and
systems, RatingsAndReferrals.com may access and disclose any information it
considers necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile
information (i.e. name, email address, etc.), IP addressing and traffic
information, usage history, and posted Content. RatingsAndReferrals.com's right to disclose any such information shall
govern over any terms of RatingsAndReferrals.com's Privacy Policy.
Rights to User Content
By posting or
distributing Content to or through the Site, unless we indicate otherwise, you
(a) grant RatingsAndReferrals.com and its affiliates a nonexclusive,
royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable
right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create
derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Content throughout
the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised; (b) grant RatingsAndReferrals.com
and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit
in connection with such Content, if they choose; and (c) represent and warrant
that (i) you own and control all of the rights to the Content that you post or
otherwise distribute, or you otherwise have the lawful right to post and
distribute such Content to or through the Site; (ii) such Content is accurate
and not misleading; and (iii) use and posting or other transmission of such
Content does not violate these Site Terms and will not violate any rights of or
cause injury to any person or entity. You further grant RatingsAndReferrals.com
the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or RatingsAndReferrals.com's
rights in the Content by a breach of these Site Terms.
Content submitted by
users will be considered non-confidential and RatingsAndReferrals.com is under
no obligation to treat such Content as proprietary information. Without
limiting the foregoing, RatingsAndReferrals.com reserves the right to use the
Content as it deems appropriate, including, without limitation, deleting,
editing, modifying, rejecting, or refusing to post it. RatingsAndReferrals.com
is under no obligation to offer you any payment for Content that you submit or
the opportunity to edit, delete or otherwise modify Content once the it has
been submitted to RatingsAndReferrals.com. RatingsAndReferrals.com shall have
no duty to attribute authorship of Content to you, and shall not be obligated
to enforce any form of attribution by third parties.
If it is determined
that you retain moral rights (including rights of attribution or integrity) in
the Content, you hereby declare that (a) you do not require that any personally
identifying information be used in connection with the Content, or any
derivative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection
to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the Content
by RatingsAndReferrals.com or its licensees, successors and assigns; (c) you
forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all
moral rights of an author in any of the Content; and (d) you forever release RatingsAndReferrals.com,
and its licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could
otherwise assert against RatingsAndReferrals.com by virtue of any such moral
rights.
Advertisements and Promotions
RatingsAndReferrals.com
may run advertisements and promotions from third parties on the Site. Your
business dealings or correspondence with, or participation in promotions of,
advertisers other than RatingsAndReferrals.com, and any terms, conditions,
warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between
you and such third party. RatingsAndReferrals.com is not responsible or liable
for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings
or as the result of the presence of third-party advertisers on the Site.
Copyright Complaints
If you believe that
material posted on the Site infringes upon any copyright that you own or
control, or that any link on the Site directs users to another Web site that
contains materials that infringes upon any copyright that you hold or control,
you may file a notification of such infringement with our Designated Agent as
set forth below:
Name of Agent
Designated to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement: Dennis R. Haber,
Esq.
Full Address of
Designated Agent to Whom Notification Should be Sent: Dennis R. Haber, P.A., 8925 SW 148th Street, Suite 200,
Miami, Fl 33176, USA
Telephone Number of
Designated Agent: 305-256-3002
Facsimile Number of
Designated Agent: 305-256-3004
Email Address of
Designated Agent: Dennis@lawyermiami.com
We may give notice
of a claim of copyright infringement to our users by means of a general notice
on the Site, electronic mail to a user's email address in our records, or by
written communication sent by first-class mail to a user's address in our
records.
Repeat Infringer Policy
In accordance with
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable
law, RatingsAndReferrals.com has adopted a policy of terminating, in
appropriate circumstances and at RatingsAndReferrals.com's sole discretion,
subscribers or account holders who are deemed to be repeat infringers. RatingsAndReferrals.com
may also at its sole discretion limit access to the Site and/or terminate the
accounts of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others,
whether or not there is any repeat infringement.
Registration Data; Account Security
You agree to (a)
provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted
by any registration forms on the Site ("Registration Data"); (b)
maintain the security of your password; (c) maintain and promptly update the
Registration Data, and any other information you provide to RatingsAndReferrals.com,
and to keep it accurate, current and complete; and (d) accept all risks of
unauthorized access to the Registration Data and any other information you
provide to RatingsAndReferrals.com.
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Applicable Law and Venue
The Site (excluding
Third-Party Sites) is controlled by RatingsAndReferrals.com and operated by RatingsAndReferrals.com
from its offices in and around Miami,
Florida. While RatingsAndReferrals.com
has made no effort to publish the Site elsewhere, the Site is accessible in all
50 states of the United
States and in other countries. You and RatingsAndReferrals.com
both benefit from establishing a predictable legal environment in regard to the
Site. Therefore, you and RatingsAndReferrals.com explicitly agree that all
disputes, claims or other matters arising from or relating to your use of the
Site will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflicts of
law principles. You agree that all claims you may have against RatingsAndReferrals.com
arising from or relating to the Site will be heard and resolved in a court of
competent subject matter jurisdiction located in Miami, Florida.
You consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts over you, stipulate to
the fairness and convenience of proceeding in such courts, and covenant not to
assert any objection to proceeding in such courts. If you choose to access the
Site from locations other than Miami,
Florida, you will be responsible
for compliance with all local laws of such other jurisdiction.
Termination/Modification of License and Site
Offerings
Notwithstanding any
provision of these Site Terms, RatingsAndReferrals.com reserves the right,
without notice and in its sole discretion, without any notice or liability to
you, to (a) terminate your license to use the Site, or any portion thereof; (b)
block or prevent your future access to and use of all or any portion of the
Site, Site Content or Services; (c) change, suspend or discontinue any aspect
of the Site, Site Content or Services; and (d) impose limits on the Site, Site
Content or Services.
Severability
If any provision of
these Site Terms shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason
unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Site
Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining
provisions.
Questions and Comments
If you have any questions
regarding these Site Terms or your use of the Site, please submit them to us
via email.
Information we collect.
1.
Unregistered users
We encourage you to register with us in order to take
advantage of RatingsAndReferrals.com's many personalization features. However,
you may choose not to register and take advantage of any feature of our site
where registration is not required.
If you do not register, then the information we collect
from you is limited. We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems
with our server, administer our Web site and track usage statistics. Your IP
address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on
whether you access our site through an always-on type of Internet connection
(e.g., cable modem or DSL), or through a dial-up connection (e.g., AOL or
Earthlink). Either way, it would be extremely difficult for us to identify you
through your IP address, and we make no attempt to do so. If you reached our
site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, then we also log
that information. This helps us to maximize our Internet exposure, and to
understand the interests of our users. All of this information is collected and
used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we
can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not reports about
individual visitors.
We also place a small file known as a
"cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain
information that allows us to track your path through our Web site and to
determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with
us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to
identify you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and
cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites.
We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our site,
and to help us to improve our site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by
following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so,
you may find that your browser reacts strangely when visiting not only our Web
site, but other Web sites as well. Since cookies don't provide us with any
information from which we can identify you, we suggest you allow us to place
one on your computer.
If you visit our site by "clicking-through"
from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that
partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that
partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the
Web site from which you reached our site in order to determine what information
was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information.
Regardless of what information was transmitted to us, however, we don't keep it
unless you register with us.
2.
Registered users
If you choose to register with us, you'll be able to
add content to our site. For example, you may post your own service professional
reviews and participate in our discussion forums. You will also be able to
email RatingsAndReferrals.com content to yourself and others. In addition, you
will benefit from the ability to personalize your RatingsAndReferrals.com site
experience. The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to
know you better and introduce new features. We encourage you to register so
that you can experience everything that RatingsAndReferrals.com has to offer!
If you register with us, we will collect personal
information from you in addition to the non-personal information described
above. That personal information may include your name, email address, mailing
address, telephone number, travel preferences, user name and password. The
information we collect may vary, but we only collect the information that you
manually enter into our forms. We may store all or some of that information in
a cookie file on your hard drive, so that our system will recognize you each
time you visit our site. In that way, we can save your preferences from visit
to visit and present you with a customized Web site, without requiring you to
log into our site every time you visit. To improve services and enhance
personalization, we may periodically obtain information about you from other
independent third-party sources and add it to your registration information.
Additionally, authorized RatingsAndReferrals.com personnel may update your
registration information to accurately reflect any new information included in
communications received from you.
If you visit our site by "clicking-through"
from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that
partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that
partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the
Web site from which you reached our site in order to determine what information
was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information.
We may or may not retain that information; if we do, then we will only use it
in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner
site from which you came to us.
If you reach our site through one of our partners
(whether or not you have registered with our partner), and you choose to register
with us, we may be required to give our partner some or all of your
registration information. We will only do so in accordance with this policy,
but we cannot control how our partner uses the information. If you have
questions about our partner's privacy policy, you should review their policy
before providing information to us. Of course, you can ensure that the personal
information you provide to us is not shared with our partners (except in
accordance with this policy), by visiting us directly instead of
clicking-through from one of our partners.
How we use the personal
information we collect.
We use the personal information we collect to help both
of us! As we mentioned above, registering with us allows you to personalize our
Web site so that it is most useful to you. It also allows you to log into our
site automatically each time you visit, rather than manually typing your user
name and password every time. We may also use this information to periodically
contact you with news or important information from RatingsAndReferrals.com or
to request your feedback on our site. In addition to these periodic updates, we
may email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them.
These might include opt-in newsletters and other materials that you proactively
request from RatingsAndReferrals.com.
In addition to these communications, if you have
provided an email address, we may use your personal information to send you
notifications about special offers or to tell you about opportunities available
from our partners. You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from RatingsAndReferrals.com
in any commercial e-mail we send or at any time, as well as access and update
your personal information, by visiting http://www.RatingsAndReferrals.com.
We may also use certain information that you provide in
order to present you with advertising that you may find interesting. This
benefits both of us. It benefits us because advertising helps pay the bills,
and we can charge our advertisers more if they know that their ads will be seen
by somebody more likely to find it useful. It benefits you because you see
advertising that may actually be interesting to you, rather than annoying.
You can cancel your registration with us by e-mailing www.RatingAndReferrals.com and placing your email address in the
subject of the e-mail. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request.
After we receive confirmation, we will remove your information from our active
database, but some information may remain in our archives. We may not be able
to remove your information from our partners' databases, if we have transmitted
any information to them.
Disclosure of your personal
information.
RatingsAndReferrals.com does not sell or rent any
personal information to any third party, other than our partners, as discussed
in this policy. We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and
provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including
advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that
information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify
you personally.
We may share some of your personally identifiable
information with our parent company, our subsidiaries and sister companies
around the world that are committed to providing you with a comprehensive list
of service professionals and services to meet your specific needs. Sharing this
information allows us to better understand the ways in which our various
product and service offerings can assist our users. It also enables us to
provide you with information about opportunities in which you might be
interested. We do not place restrictions on the use of personal information by
our parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates but they will treat it at least
as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users.
They also will comply with applicable laws governing the transmission of
promotional communications, and give you an opportunity in any such email that
they send to choose not to receive such promotional e-mail messages in the
future.
We also may share your personal information with
third-parties specifically engaged by RatingsAndReferrals.com to provide
services to RatingsAndReferrals.com (such as market research firms, marketing
services providers and advertising agencies), in which case we will require
those parties to agree to use any such personally-identifiable data solely for
the purpose of providing the specified services to RatingsAndReferrals.com. As
you might expect, RatingsAndReferrals.com must cooperate with legal
authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally
identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement
authorities, or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. We don't
expect this to happen, but if it does, we will provide only the information
required. In other words, we will not simply turn over our database in response
to a specific legal requirement. We can also turn over information about you if
we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting
this policy, you consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also
consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal
proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that
doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing
our legal rights. We also may share your information in connection with a
corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset
sale, and in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
How you can review and update
your personal information.
You can review and update the personal information you
have provided through the registration process by visiting http://www.RatingsAndReferrals.com.com/MemberProfile
or select the SERVICE PRO LOG IN button on our homepage.
Steps we take to protect your
personal information.
RatingsAndReferrals.com has implemented security
procedures to help protect the personal information stored in our systems. For
example, we limit access to personal information about you to employees who we
believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information. We also
employ processes (such as password hashing, login auditing, and idle session
termination) to protect against unauthorized access to your personal
information. But please know that there is no way for us to guarantee the
security of your personal information.
Children's Privacy
This website is a general audience site, and we do not
knowingly collect information about children. Should a child whom we know to be
under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to
respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental
consent before receiving his or her personal information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change this policy should we
deem it advisable to do so. If we make material changes that will affect
personal information we have already collected from you, we will make
reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity
to amend or cancel your registration.
