VBOtp Privacy Statement
Effective Date: September 21, 2004
We recognize and respect your need for privacy and security as you visit and
interact with this site. When you visit the VBO public access areas to view any
pages, multi-media videos/tutorials, or use interactive forms or tools, you do
so without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal
information. While we do not
collect identifying information about visitors to our site, we do use standard
software to collect information for the strict purpose of tracking activity on
our site. This allows us to better understand how many people use our site and
which pages and features are most popular.
Member's Only Access Areas:
The VBO member's only access areas, however, do use a tracking technology called
cookies.
What's a cookie?
A cookie is a small file that's sent to your computer by a site's server. A
cookie can be a record of your visit to a site, including information such as
your User Name, time of last visit, pages viewed, etc. Contrary to what you
might read elsewhere, cookies cannot get information from your hard drive
against your will, destroy files, send you viruses, etc. An important point:
Cookies can only contain as much information as you disclose to the site that
sent it to you! In our case, that means any information included in your
subscription form or that you input during the setup of your Member's Only
Access account.. We can also track aggregate -- not individual -- page views,
which helps us develop new features and services that our users are interested
in.
We employ the use of cookie technology throughout the members only pages, to
allow you to move more quickly and securely through our pages. Along with a
registration process that uses data encryption, we offer consistently secure,
efficient online sessions that allow you to validate your subscription, access
and manage your account. And this is all made possible by cookie
technology.
Why do you use cookies?
We use cookies for basic reasons: To allow you to move more quickly and securely
through the Member's Only Access area. We accomplish this in many ways, using
cookie technology. When you first enter the member's only access area, for
example, we use cookie to confirm your browser's ability to retain cookies,
check our database to verify your subscription and log the Internet protocol
(IP) that your session originates from. A cookie is then temporarily "set"
within your browser to allow you to proceed -- without having to ask you for
your User Name and Password with each subsequent page you request. Without
cookie technology, we wouldn't be able to offer you convenient features such as
the ability to store your User Name and Password.
Click here to read
the full version of our Cookie Disclosure Policy.
Public Forums:
VBOtp makes some public chat rooms, forums, and message boards available to its
users. VBO does not ordinarily log public chat sessions, however, any
information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you
should therefore exercise caution when deciding to disclose your confidential
information in such places.
Scheduled moderated training chat sessions and discussion forums, such as those
in the VBO message board forums and chat rooms, may be logged and made available
to members for download, print or viewing online and stored in the VBO search
archives.
Security of Confidential Account Information:
VBO does its best to ensure that the personal information we have about you is
secured. Users with a VBO member's only access account can check and update or
change personal information such as their email address and password 24/7. We
encourage members to change their account password often for added account
security.
Sharing of Information:
Personal information is NEVER shared or sold to external third parties. VBO does
share statistical data with military / base installation Family Employment
Program Managers in an effort to determine the success of the Virtual Business
Owners program at a particular base/installation.
VBO Community Mailing List:
Periodically, VBO sends community news and updates to it's members using a
standard mailing list. If a member wishes not to be a part of the community
email list, they have the option to unsubscribe. An "Unsubscribe" link is
included at the end of each mailing. If a member experiences difficulty
unsubscribing they should contact the VBO Help Desk immediately at:
http://www.vsscyberoffice.com/cgi-bin/vbottx/ttx.cgi for assistance.
SPAM:
VBO does not and will not tolerate members spamming other members. If a member
is found to be spamming other members, they will immediately be removed from the
community without further access.
We hope you find the website and community useful and informative. We are always
willing to answer questions and receive suggestions. If you have either, please
e-mail the webmaster at
(mailto:vbo_project@vsscyberoffice.com). Thank you.
* We reserve the right to change our privacy policy. A revised policy statement
will only apply to data collected subsequent to its effective date. Any
revisions will be posted at least 30 days prior to its effective date.