Last updated: August 15, 2012

BILLBOARDS.COM
PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to billboards.com (the “Site”). The terms set forth herein may change from time to time. The date of the most recent version of this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) is set forth above.

We provide this Policy explaining our online information practices. To make this easy to find, we make it available through a link on all of our pages.

How Our Quote Request Works

When you fill out our quote request form, we match you with media companies in our affiliated network located in your area. We then transfer your name, company name, phone number, email address and any other additional information you provide to our affiliated media seller network or third party service provider that can help you with your quote request. In either case, a representative should contact you by phone or email to discuss your request. After the initial contact or during any other subsequent contact, you may inform the representative that you no longer wish to be contacted by him or her. It is solely the representative’s responsibility to comply with your request.

Use and Sharing of Information

We may use and/or disclose personally identifiable information that you submit through the Site in the following ways:

  1. Requests: We may use and/or disclose personally identifiable information (including any information you provided to request a quote) necessary to carry out your requests.
  2. Reporting: We may use and disclose personally identifiable information to provide various types of reporting to the affiliated media sellers and/or third-party providers that we submit your quote requests.
  3. Third Party Sales Representatives: We use third party sales representatives to sign up affiliated media sellers in certain areas. In the course of working with these media sellers, sales representatives may have access to the personally identifiable information that you provide.
  4. Communications: We may use personally identifiable information to communicate with you regarding our services and other services that may be of interest to you. For example, when you submit a request for a quote, you may receive the following email notifications from us: (a) If your media request was processed successfully, we may give you information about the affiliated media seller(s) to whom we sent your request; (b) if we cannot find an affiliated media seller that is able to fulfill your request, we may give you information about the third-party provider to whom we sent your request; and (c) if your media request could not be fulfilled by either an affiliated media seller or third-party provider, we may refer you to one of our online partners. We, and in some instances, our sales representatives, also may contact you to learn more about your experiences in using the Site and our services. You will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from any commercial email marketing you received from us at any time.
  5. Service Providers: We may disclose personally identifiable information to third-party agents, consultants and contractors that perform services on our behalf, but only for such purposes.
  6. Legal Reasons: We may disclose personally identifiable information to third parties: (a) when required by law or legal process; (b) to investigate illegal activity or unauthorized use of the Site; or (c) in connection with the sale of all or part of the business.

With respect to any information collected passively through technical means, we use this information for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to: Site administration; troubleshooting; performing statistical analyses of user behavior; or for developmental purposes. Additionally, we reserve the right to use and share with any third party anonymized information (in aggregate or other form) collected through your use of the Site for any reason.

Although we take necessary precautions to prevent the misuse of your personal information, after any information is provider to third parties, we do not and cannot control their subsequent use or disclosure of such information and we are not responsible for their use.

Collection of Information

The Site currently collects personally identifiable information in the following ways: (1) through your voluntary submission of a quote request form; or (2) through your voluntary submission of a “contact us”, “get additional info” or other similar form available on the Site. When you request a quote, the types of information that we collect in conjunction with your quote request may include your name, company name, phone number, email information, and information regarding the type of media you are interested in. You must provide all required fields of information in order for your request to be processed. The types of information we collect on the “contact us”, “get additional info” or other similar forms may include your name, company name, address, phone number and email address.

The Site also passively collects information about you through the use of a variety of technical means. Specifically, our web servers automatically collect information about your computer and its Internet Protocol (“IP”) address.

Third Party Information Collection

Third parties may collect information about you through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies that collect information to provide more targeted advertising to you. These third parties may also use some of this information for determining or predicting the characteristics and preferences of their respective network audiences, for measuring the effectiveness of their advertising, and for other purposes.

Accessing or Changing Information

If you wish to access, verify the accuracy of, correct or change the personally identifiable information you have submitted via the Site, simply email us at quotes@billboards.com. To protect your privacy, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Security

We have implemented mechanisms to keep your personally identifiable information secure in our databases. For example, we limit internal access to such information only to those of our authorized personnel who need such access to perform operations associated with the performance or maintenance of this Site. Despite these precautions, however, we cannot and do not guarantee absolute security of the information that we store or the information you transmit through the Site. Please note that information transmitted through email and web site forms on this Site is not secure from access by third parties.

Links

This Site contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites that are linked to or from this Site. Use of any personally identifiable information on the linked sites will be governed by the linked sites’ privacy statements.

Children’s Guidelines

This Site is not directed to, or intended for use by, individuals under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect or use any personal information from children under the age of 18.