Privacy Statement for ExpertPages.com
ExpertPages.com, recognized as the leading Online directory of expert witnesses
and consultants, respects the privacy of visitors to our site. ExpertPages.com
is a unit of Advice Company (Advice & Counsel Incorporated), a leading provider
of information and advice and E-commerce solutions on the Internet.
Please read this Privacy Policy so that you can understand how we seek to enforce
our firm commitment to privacy. Questions regarding this statement should be
directed to the Officer named below by emailing admin@adviceco.com
We invite you to explore ExpertPages.com and its affiliated legal Websites,
including the leading consumer law website www.FreeAdvice.com, our national lawyer
directory www.AttorneyPages.com
and also our affiliated home improvement site www.DoItYourself.com.
Information this Site Gathers / Tracks
The information gathered by Advice Company falls into two categories: (1) information
voluntarily supplied by visitors to our websites when they register or initiate
transactions, and (2) tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through
our sites. Third party providers featured on or linked to from our websites,
such as vendors of products and services offered through our sites, may be gathering
the same kinds of information.
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, help you
navigate between sections, tailor content to your needs and to measure traffic
within our sites, our web servers automatically collect limited information
about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address,
when you visit our sites. They also invoke a standard feature of browser software,
called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random number,
a sort of user ID, which resides on your computer. The cookie helps give us
an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting and doesn't actually identify
the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site.
Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example),
we won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The
only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. Our
cookies can't read unrelated data from your computer. Our advertisers and the
third parties that provide products or services through our sites may also assign
their own cookies to your browser, but we don't control their cookies or their
processes, and they do not regularly share information they gather with us.
To make use of certain features on certain of our websites (such as free email,
personal web pages, bulletin boards and other interactive forums) visitors need
to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration process.
We may also ask for information from those who buy products or services or conduct
other transactions on our websites. We may ask, for example, for your name,
email address, street address, sex, age, city or town, zip code (and for those
who seek to purchase a product or service, credit card number), and we sometimes
request information on your interest in other topics.
The information you supply may help us to offer you more personalized features,
to tailor our sites to your interests and make them more useful to you, and
to process e-commerce transactions. Of course, even if you want to remain completely
anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available
on our sites without registration. The vast majority of our site does NOT require
visitors to complete a registration form or give us contact information (such
as a name and email address) to visit.
The more we know about our visitors the more
value we can potentially offer them. Supplying such information is entirely
voluntary. But if you don't supply the information we require, we may be unable
to provide you with services we make available to other visitors to our sites.
For example, while we allow anyone to read postings in the FreeAdvice.com Bulletin
Board / Forums without registration, asking a question or furnishing an answer
requires registration, which enables visitors to modify their own posts. FreeAdvice.com’s
one-on-one live chat feature, FreeAdvice Live! also
requires a separate registration. And
we can't send you targeted email alerting you to a relevant new service we're
offering, or articles on topics of interest to you, if you don't tell us what
you're interested in and give us your email address. Similarly, we can't notify
you that you've been lucky enough to win a prize in a promotional contest if
we don't know how to contact you. Such personal information is gathered by us only with
our users` knowing and active permission and participation.
Our online surveys and contests ask visitors
for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information
(like their zip code, age, or income level). Demographic and profile data collected
at our site may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.
We collect financial information (like an account
or credit card numbers) only from visitors making a credit card or other purchase.
We use the financial information solely to bill the user for products and services
and necessary information from the order form to send orders.
We also use customer contact information from
the various registration forms, opt in features and service features to send
the user information about our site, our company and our affiliates. Users may
opt-out of receiving routine future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section
below
As this privacy policy reaffirms, we strive
to protect confidentiality for our visitors. We do reserve the right to use
customer contact and other information when we deem it necessary or appropriate
to comply with applicable laws, rules, or lawful orders of courts and governmental
agencies, to enforce compliance with the terms and conditions for use of our
sites, or to protect third parties from what regard as threats of serious harm.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to thousands of other
sites. The establishment of a link does not mean that our site has approved
of a site, is endorsing a site, has reviewed its content, or is in any manner
recommending a visit. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of linked Web sites.
Third Party Features
Certain features of and portions on our sites
are also the result of special relationships, such as "Powered By"
or Co-Branding or affiliate programs. For example, we provide (on FreeAdvice.com)
a Free Email feature in cooperation with EveryOne.net, the latest SEC information
in cooperation with Edgar Online, a bookstore in affiliation with Amazon, and
Legal Forms in conjunction with US Legal Forms. These firms share varying amounts
of information with us. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies of
such providers before providing information to them.
Advertising and Cookies
Our sites display advertising and we also work
with several unaffiliated companies that serve ads when you visit portions of
our sites. Among the outside ad companies are Latitude 90, DoubleClick’s
Sonar Network, and Engage Media’s Flycast to display ads on our sites. These
ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with such banner or other ads are
collected by our advertisers and/or ad companies, and we do not have access
to such information. These companies may use that information (NOT including
your name, address, email address, telephone number, or credit card number)
about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements
on this site and about other sites and goods and services that they think may
be of interest to you.
To find out more about their practices, how
these sites have told us they manage the privacy of information in conjunction
with serving ads on our site, and to know your choices about not having this
information used by such companies, please go to:
http://www.sonar.com/content/privacy.htm
and http://www.flycast.com/about_us/about-privacy.html
and http://www.l90.com/external_site/privacy_policy.html
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message
boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any
information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and
you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
We do reserve the right to delete any postings at any time.
Security
We have numerous security measures in place
to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
The measures include passwords, linkages to secure servers, encryption, backup
tapes, conventional locks and alarm systems and use of Internet Service Providers
and facilities we believe are secure and trustworthy. However we cannot guarantee
that the measures in place have been, are now, or will remain adequate.
Children's Guidelines
This Web site is directed at adults, not children,
and we do not seek to collect from children online contact information, or
distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information from children,
or entice children by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity,
to divulge information to us. We won't
knowingly allow anyone under 13 to register with any of our sites or to provide
any other personally identifying information without written approval of a parent
or guardian.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to
opt-out of receiving communications from us and sites associated with us at
the point where we request information about the visitor. This site gives users
various options for removing postings and other information, and to discontinue
receive future communications from us. For example, the Forums have provisions
for visitors to edit or remove postings they have made, and our Newsletters
have linkages or return addresses for recipients to direct that they unsubscribe.
For specifics concerning a matter impacting you, you can send email to admin@adviceco.com
or by mail to the following postal address: PO Box 1739, Sausalito, CA
94966
Revisions / Corrections / Updates
We reserve the right to change our privacy
policy from time to time. If we do change our privacy policy in the future,
we'll post the changes when they take effect. 
This site gives users options for changing
and modifying information previously provided, often at the feature on which
you registered. For specifics concerning a matter impacting you, you can send
email to admin@adviceco.com or by mail
to the following postal address: PO Box 1739, Sausalito, CA 94966
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, which is effective March 21, 2001, the practices of this site, or
your dealings with this Web site, you can contact
Mary Martin, Vice-President
ExpertPages.com / Advice Company
PO Box 1739
Sausalito, CA 94966
admin@adviceco.com
