Swap My Office Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: December 1, 2014

Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Swap My Office, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. When you register as a user, you are asked to enter your name and email address plus additional information. As such, we are collecting all the information that you yourself input. We may also collect information when we ask you marketing questions, or when you ask to receive any of our newsletters or to participate in our forums.

While you are using our websites, we may also collect certain non-personally-identifiable information about you, such as the URL you just came from, the next URL you go to, what browser you are using (e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer), the domain name of your Internet Service Provider (e.g. AOL, Earthlink), and your IP address. We also use “cookies,” which are pieces of information that websites transfer to your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes and to track and customize advertising served to you.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use the information you provide to fulfill your requests for products, programs, information and/or services, to respond to inquiries, and to offer you third-party products, programs or services that may be of interest to you.

We also use the information collected from you to better understand the demographics, interests and behavior of our collective audience.

Swap My Office tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Swap My Office does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Swap My Office sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

COOKIES

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Swap My Office uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

USE OF INFORMATION

Swap My Office uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

We use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and member benefit notifications and to enable users to participate in forums. We send out newsletters and member benefit notifications to subscribers on a regular schedule, and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Swap My Office does NOT share newsletter mailing lists with third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like, based on traffic to those areas, we do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

Swap My Office uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

Swap My Office operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

LICENSING/DISCLOSURE TO SATISFY THE LAW

Swap My Office reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, at our sole discretion. In order to service to you as a member of Swap My Office, we may require you to provide certain information to us. Common items may include, but are not limited to, your name, address, phone number and credit card number. By providing this information to Swap My Office, you are agreeing to allow us to utilize this information to complete all transactions you request through this website and to disclose that information and details of all such transactions to Swap My Office and any necessary payment processors. Because of the nature of the Internet, such data may pass through any country. We use standard commercial practices for keeping such data confidential, but there is no guarantee that such practices will prevent the disclosure or further distribution of such data beyond Swap My Office.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Swap My Office. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Please do note that Swap My Office could merge with or be acquired by another business entity at any time. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that Swap My Office would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide its services.