Privacy Policy

Citinannies.net is committed to safeguarding your privacy online.    We only use the information that you provide to process your service requests and interface with you in a professional business manner.

Please read the following to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our web site. The information contained herein may change from time to time, so we advise you to periodically review this policy.  No notifications will be sent your email in regards to the updates to our Privacy Policy.

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you?
2. What cookies are and how they are used.
3. How your information is used.
4. Who is collecting your information?
5. With whom your information may be shared.
6. How you can access, update or delete your information.
7. How Citinannies.net treats your personal and financial related information.
8. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information.
9. What else you should know about your online privacy.

What personally identifiable information does Citinannies.net collect from me?
Citinannies.net collects information in several ways from the different parts of our web site.
Some personal information is gathered when you register online for our services.    During the registration process, Citinannies.net asks for your full name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address, among other personal information related to you posting an employment opportunity or searching for an employment opportunity.      The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better you will be able to utilize our services.    Once you register, you are no longer anonymous to Citinannies.net --you are may be given a Citinannies.net Member Number or User Name, you able to take full advantage of the Citinannies.net website.

In addition to registration, we may ask you for personal information at other times; for example when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by Citinannies.net; when you make a purchase from the Citinannies.net store;   when you post a Citinannies.net classified ad.; when you submit a listing for a web site; and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services.     If you contact Citinannies.net, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever Citinannies.net collects personal information, an effort is made to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

What are cookies and how does Citinannies.net use them?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Through the use of cookies Citinannies.net can track and store information about your use of our web site; thus allowing us to customize and tailor certain services to you.    Any Citinannies.net site that requires you to log-in or a site that is customizable requires that your computer accepts cookies.
Generally, Citinannies.net uses cookies to: (1) Remind us of who you are and to access your Citinannies.net account information (stored on our computers).     Upon "Sign In", the cookie is set and is modified upon "Sign Out". Citinannies.net also uses cookies to store your zip code for other services, such in Search Functions and Job Postings. (2) Estimate our audience size.    Each browser accessing Citinannies.net is given a unique cookie, which is used to determine the extent of repeat usage by a registered user and to track advertising based on user interests and behavior. (3) Assist Citinannies.net Shopping Cart to track visits and to process any items in your shopping basket.    The information collected by cookies may also provide information to us regarding which pages you have been viewing in our store. (4) Track entries and submissions to promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a Citinannies.net -hosted promotion or contest uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates a contestant's status through the event. (5) Measure traffic patterns regarding Citinannies.net network of web sites--i.e. where you have visited and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand our users' habits so that we may improve the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites. (6) Advertising networks that serve ads on Citinannies.net may also use their own cookies to track trends in a similar matter.
 
How does Citinannies.net use my information?
Citinannies.net’s primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our website.     This experience may include such services as interactive communications and online shopping to name a few (most of these services are completely free to you).     By knowing a little about you, Citinannies.net can deliver more relevant advertisements and content and better serve you.

Who is collecting information?
When you are on a Citinannies.net and are asked to enter personal information, you are sharing that information with Citinannies.net and other registered users.      If you wish for your data to remain private, you can choose not to allow data transfer by not using that particular service.

With whom does Citinannies.net share my information?
As a general rule, Citinannies.net will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information without your consent.     Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared.    The following describes some special circumstances where your information may be disclosed.

Business Partners & Sponsors:  Citinannies.net may disclose some or all of your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but notification of disclosure will be provided to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data.    Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms of Service or Use Agreements and sweepstakes and promotions rules. Some or all data collected during a Citinannies.net promotion may be shared with the sponsor of that particular promotion. Again, notification of disclosure will be provided to you prior to any transfer of data.

Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors.    By requesting more information, you give Citinannies.net permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request.    In many instances, only your e-mail address will be shared.   If more information is to be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.

Citinannies.net Stores & Shopping: If you make a purchase from a store hosted by Citinannies.net Stores or Shopping area,  the information obtained during your visit to those stores and the information you give, such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the our merchant credit card processor.  This is to enable your purchase transactions to take place.

Merchants listed in Citinannies.net Shopping or in Citinannies.net Stores have separate privacy and data collection practices.    Citinannies.net accepts no responsibility or liability for the independent policies of these merchants. For more information regarding a particular merchant, store, and/or its privacy policy, return to that particular merchant's home page and click on the Information link.

Other:   Citinannies.net  may also disclose user information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Citinannies.net rights or property, other Citinannies.net users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.    Citinannies.net may disclose user information when we believe, in good faith, that the law requires it.     Additionally, Citinannies.net may disclose user information for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain and improve our products and services.

 What is Citinannies.net’s policy on allowing me to update, correct or delete my personally identifiable information?
You may edit your Citinannies.net user account at any time by using your Citinannies.net User Name and Password.    If you have forgotten your password, please click here to request a new password.    For all other problems signing in to Citinannies.net, please send us an email to info@citinannies.net.

Your Citinannies.net account can be deleted or deactivated, but in doing so, you will be unable to access any Members-Only area of the Citinannies.net network, including your Citinannies.net  Mail account (if you have one).     If you saved the confirmation e-mail you received when you first created your Citinannies.net, you can use the URL provided in that message to delete your account at any time.    Please contact info@citinannies.net for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your Citinannies.net account.

If you are participating in a Citinannies.net promotion and wish to update your e-mail address on the promotion's mailing list or wish to terminate a promotion and cease receiving promotion-related e-mail, please contact info@citinannies.net. 
 
How does Citinannies.net protect my personal and financial-related information?
Keeping your personal and financial-related information private is vitally important to us. As with all information, Citinannies.net will never rent or sell your personal or financial-related information.

In any instance where you are asked to transmit credit card information, such as during a purchase transaction from a Citinannies.net  Store or for verification purposes, that information is transmitted in an encrypted format using industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption.

 What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of my information?
Your Citinannies.net Account Information is password-protected so that you are the only one having access to your personal information.    You may edit your Citinannies.net by using your Citinannies.net username and password.

For security purposes, we recommend that you not divulge your password to anyone.   Citinannies.net will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail.    We also suggest that you sign out of your Citinannies.net account and close your browser window when you are done with your visit.   This practice will ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence should you be using a computer in a shared environment.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While every measure is taken to protect your personal information, Citinannies.net cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services.     You transmit information at your own risk. As specified above, security protection is of utmost importance to Citinannies.net and we put our best efforts forward to maintain security on our systems.

What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, whether it be on a message board or through an e-mail, that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online, it is accessible to the public, and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Again, we suggest maintaining the secrecy of your password and exercising caution whenever you are online.