PRIVACY POLICY
Date of Last Revision: December 5, 2009.
SoBizNetwork.com was built to help make it easier for you to connect and share information with your friends and personal networks. It also helps to keep you informed about local businesses and promotional events that pertain to your personal interests. You are given the control over your information and the type of communication that you prefer to receive. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we disclose to you. The privacy policy detailed below is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share and help you make informed decisions when using this website. By using this website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. By continuing to use the service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on the website, you are consenting to the changes.
- Personal information collected: The purpose of SoBizNetwork.com is to permit Users to voluntarily provide information about themselves for the purposes of developing, maintaining and enhancing a network of personal friends and professional contacts. You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow you to benefit from the website. If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on SoBizNetwork.com or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the other posted Agreements, you should not become a member of the community.
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Payment Terms
Date of Last Revision: December 5, 2009.
When you make payments through SoBizNetwork.com, you agree to these Payments Terms.
- 1. Making Purchases
- a. When you confirm a transaction on SoBizNetwork.com, you agree to be bound by and pay for that transaction.
- b. Pay attention to the details of the transaction, because your total price may include taxes, fees, and shipping costs, which you are responsible for paying.
- c. Don't commit to a transaction unless you are ready to pay, because all sales are final.
- d. If you order something that becomes unavailable before it can be provided to you, your only remedy is to receive a refund of your purchase price.
- e. You may be presented with additional terms related to a specific purchase before you confirm the transaction (such as shipping terms for tangible goods). Those additional terms will also govern that transaction.
- f. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD ON OR THROUGH SoBizNetwork.com.
- 2. Payment Sources: We want to make payments convenient, so we allow you to make payments using a number of different payment sources, like credit cards, paypal, and debit cards.
- a. When you provide a payment source to us, you confirm that you are permitted to use that payment source. You also authorize us to collect and store it, along with other related transaction information.
- b. When you make a payment, you authorize us (and our designated payment processor) to charge the full amount to the payment source you designate for the transaction.
- c. When you authorize us to collect reoccurring monthly payments for various subscriptions or other purposes, you authorize us to collect and store the payments on a monthly basis until you cancel the payments via a written correspondence thru e-mail, fax, or mail to the following information below. Your account will be canceled within 30 days of receiving said written request for reoccurring payment termination.
E-Mail: Fax: Mail: SoBiz Network, LLC ATTN: Payment Agent 3111 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Suite 100 Tampa, FL 33607 USA
- d. If you pay by credit or debit card we may obtain a pre-approval from the issuer of the card for an amount up to the amount of the purchase. We will bill your card at the time of purchase or shortly thereafter. If you cancel a transaction before completion, that pre-approval may result in your funds not otherwise being immediately available.
- e. If you pay by debit card and your payment results in an overdraft or other fee from your bank, you alone are responsible for that fee.
- 3. Actions We May Take: As part of our effort to keep SoBizNetwork.com safe, we may take certain actions to reduce liability for users and us.
- a. We may make any inquiries that we consider necessary, either directly or through third parties, concerning your identity and creditworthiness.
- b. We may cancel any transaction if we believe the transaction violates these Payments Terms or the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, or we believe doing so may prevent financial loss.
- c. We may place a delay on a payment for a period of time, limit payment sources for a transaction, limit your ability to make a payment or deactivate your account if we believe doing so may prevent financial loss.
- d. We may contact your payment source issuer, law enforcement, or impacted third parties (including other users) and share details of any payments you are associated with if we believe doing so may prevent financial loss or a violation of law.
- e. We may cancel any credits transferred, assigned, or sold in violation of these Payments Terms or the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
- f. If you purchase advertising, and your payment method fails or your account is past due, we may take steps to collect past due amounts using other collection mechanisms. You agree to pay all expenses associated with such collection, including reasonable attorneys' fees. Interest will accrue on any past due amounts at the rate of the lesser of 1% per month or the lawful maximum.
- 4. Disputes and Reversals
- a. If you believe that an unauthorized or otherwise problematic transaction has taken place under your account, you agree to notify us immediately, so that we may take action to prevent financial loss.
- b. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive all claims against us related to payments unless you submit the claim to us within 30 days after the charge.
- c. You are responsible for and agree to reimburse us for all reversals, charge-backs, claims, fees, fines, penalties and other liability incurred by us (including costs and related expenses) that were caused by or arising out of payments that you authorized or accepted
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- d. If you enter into a transaction with a third party and have a dispute over the goods or services you purchased we have no liability for such goods or services. Our only involvement with regard to such transaction is as a payment agent.
- e. We may intervene in disputes between users concerning payments but have no obligation to do so.
- f. Your only remedy for a technical failure or interruption of service is to request that your transaction be completed at a later time.
- 5. Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers
- a. When you purchase advertising on or through SoBizNetwork.com, you agree to pay all amounts specified in the order, along with any applicable taxes.
- b. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your advertising account, and you understand that you will be charged for any orders placed on or through your advertising account.
- c. You can cancel an advertising order at any time through our online portal, but your ads may run for several days after you notify us, and you are still responsible for paying for those ads.
- d. Without limiting section 4.1, your order constitutes your written authorization for us to obtain your personal and/or business credit report from a credit bureau. We may obtain your credit report when you place an order, or at any time thereafter.
- e. It is your responsibility to remit any taxes that apply to your transactions. You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any claim arising out of your failure to do so.
- 6. Notices and Amendments to These Payments Terms
- a. We may provide notices to you by posting them on our website, or by sending them to an email address or street address that you previously provided to us. Website and email notices shall be considered received by you within 24 hours of the time posted or sent; notices by mail shall be considered received within three business days of the time sent.
- b. Except as otherwise stated, you must send notices to us relating to payments and these Payment Terms to:
Mail:
SoBiz Network, LLC
ATTN: Payment Agent
3111 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Suite 100
Tampa, FL 33607 USA
- c. The Payment Terms in place at the time you confirm a transaction will govern that transaction.
- d. We may change these Payment Terms, in whole or in part, even though the changes may affect accumulated credits.
- 7. Other
- a. In the event of any conflict between these Payments Terms and the other agreement within this website, the Payments Terms shall prevail.
- b. If you are under the age of 18, you may make payments only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. You should review these Payments Terms with a parent or guardian to make sure that you both understand them.
- c. Some countries may restrict or prohibit your ability to make payments through SoBizNetwork.com. Nothing in these Payments Terms should be read to override or circumvent any such foreign laws.
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Copyright Guidelines
Date of Last Revision: December 5, 2009.
Copyright Philosophy
SoBiz Network, LLC supports the reporting of copyright infringement abuses and will make every attempt to respect the rights and laws governing copyright infringement .
By becoming SoBizNetwork.com members at time of registration, each User of this website grants SoBiz Network, LLC a license to use the content supplied by each such User for the purposes of disclosure on the website. This license includes, the right for SoBiz Network, LLC to reproduce, represent, adapt, translate, digitize, and use for advertising purposes, (whether commercial or non-commercial). SoBiz Network, LLC can also sublicense or to transfer the content concerning each User (including information, pictures, descriptions, search criteria, etc.) over all or part of the services and/or in any mailings of SoBiz Network, LLC and in general through any electronic communication media (email, SMS, MMS, WAP, Internet, CD Rom or DVD).
Each User expressly authorizes SoBiz Network, LLC to modify any provided content in order to conform to the display requirements of the services or of other communications media as set forth above, and/or to render them compatible with its technical performance or media format in question. These rights are granted throughout the world and for the entire term of this Agreement. The User is prohibited from copying, reproducing or otherwise using the content relating to other Users of SoBizNetwork.com for any purpose other than for those purposes strictly related to use of the website services for personal purposes.
Based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 512 guidelines, SoBiz Network, LLC has designated an agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement. If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide SoBiz Network, LLC’s Copyright Agent the following information:
- Electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- Description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
- Description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
- Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- Statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- Statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
Any notice of claims of copyright infringement can be submitted as follows: by e-mail at
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or by mail at:
SoBiz Network, LLC
ATTN: Copyright Agent
3111 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Suite 100
Tampa, FL 33607 USA
Once we at SoBiz Network, LLC receive the written notice detailed above we will, at our sole digression, conduct the following steps:
- Administrators may remove or disable access to the material that is alleged to be infringing;
- Administrators may forward the written notification to such alleged infringer; and
- Administrators may take reasonable steps to promptly notify the alleged infringer that it has removed or disabled access to the material.
Counter-Notification:
If the alleged infringer believes that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against it and it would like to submit a counter-notification, it may file a Counter-Notification in Response to Claim of Copyright Infringement in the same locations above.
To be effective, a Counter-Notification must be a written communication provided to the designated location for Notice that includes the following information:
- Physical or electronic signature of the alleged infringer;
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
- Statement under penalty of perjury that the alleged infringer has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
- The alleged infringer’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the alleged infringer consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the alleged infringer’s address is outside of the United States, and that the alleged infringer will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of such person.
When we at SoBiz Network, LLC receive a Counter-Notification containing the information as outlined in 1 through 4 above:
- Administrators may promptly provide you with a copy of the Counter-Notification;
- Administrators may inform you that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it within ten (10) business days; and
- Administrators may replace the removed material or cease disabling access to the material within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days following receipt of the Counter-Notification, provided for Notice has not received notice from you that an action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain Subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on SoBizNetwork.com network or system.
You may want to seek the advice of independent legal counsel before filing a notification or counter-notification.
Notice and Procedure for Making Complaints Regarding Content
When to see website content that infringes your rights or the rules listed in the agreements of this website or is otherwise unlawful (“Specified Content”), you must send a notice to the Corporation Content Complaint Manager by mail, e-mail, or fax, and provide the following information:
- Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- Description of the Specified Content that your claim either infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, specifying which parts of it you believe infringe your rights, or are unlawful, and which parts you believe should be removed;
- Description of the exact location of the Specified Content on the Web Site;
- (In the event you believe that the Specified Content infringes your rights): A statement specifying in detail the rights you assert, and why the Specified Content infringes them;
- (In the event you believe that the Specified Content is otherwise unlawful): A statement specifying in detail which laws you believe are being breached, and why the Specified Content does so;
- Statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are damaged by the Specified Content or authorized to act on such person’s behalf; and
- Your electronic or physical signature (as appropriate).
When we at SoBiz Network, LLC receive a notice that complies with the above requirements, we will evaluate the information you provided (including, if appropriate, forwarding the notice to, or otherwise contacting the source of the Specified Content), and if appropriate in our judgment, remove or disable access to the Specified Content. In such case, we may notify the source of the Specified Content of your complaint and our action taken. In some cases, if the source of the Specified Content provides us with information indicating that the Specified Content has been removed wrongly, we may reinstate the Specified Content. Our take-down and re-instatement procedures are and remain at our sole discretion.
You may want to seek the advice of independent legal counsel before filing a notice or responding to a notice filed by someone else.
Corporation Content Complaint Manager can be contacted at:
E-Mail:
Fax:
Mail:
SoBiz Network, LLC
ATTN: Content Abuse Agent
3111 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Suite 100
Tampa, FL 33607 USA
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Advertising Guidelines
Date of Last Revision: December 5, 2009.
Advertising Philosophy
The SoBizNetwork.com experience, including advertising practices should contribute to the overall enjoyment and benefits of this site. We are committed to keeping the site clean, consistent, and free from intrusive advertising practices. We believe the user should be able interact and guide their own exposure based on their individual preferences and wishes. The following guidelines should be followed by all ads appearing within the social community, business directory, and other promotion areas of the site. In addition to these guidelines, all advertising must comply with the Privacy Policy and other Agreements located on this site. The website administration reserves the right to reject or remove advertising that we deem contrary to our ad philosophy. These guidelines are subject to change at any time and the web administration may waive any of these guidelines at its discretion.
Advertising Guidelines
- Community Accounts
- a. Advertisers can create or manage multiple accounts for advertising purposes if such accounts are for separate business purposes.
- b. Advertisers cannot programmatically automate the creation of accounts or ads unless given permission by administration to do so.
- Business Directory Accounts
- a. Advertisers can create or manage multiple accounts for advertising purposes if such accounts are for separate business purposes.
- b. Advertisers can be listed in up to 5 headers within the business directory unless approved for more by administration.
- c. All ads in the directory must have a printable coupon included in the page that can be utilized and honored by members of the site.
- d. Advertisers in the directory can not deviate from the pre-formatted page layout in the directory without prior administration permission.
- Landing pages / Destination URLs
- a. Ads that contain a URL or domain in the body must link to that same URL or domain.
- b. Ads must send users to the same landing page when the ad is clicked.
- c. Landing pages cannot generate a pop-up (including "pop-overs" and "pop-unders") when a user enters or leaves the page.
- d. Landing pages cannot use "fake" close behavior (ie. when a user clicks the 'close' icon on the page, the page should close down and no other behavior should result).
- e. Landing pages cannot utilize "mouse trapping" whereby the advertiser does not allow users to use their browser "back button" and traps them on their site and/or present any other unexpected behavior (for example: navigation to another ad or page).
- f. Ads cannot require viewers to click on the ad to submit Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, date of birth, phone numbers, social security number, physical addresses, or email addresses) on the landing page or in the ad, except to enable an ecommerce transaction and where the ad and landing page clearly indicate that a product is being sold.
- References
- a. Ads cannot imply any endorsement of the product, service, or ad destination by the website.
- Ad Copy and Image Content
- a. Ads must directly relate to the content on the landing page.
- b. Ads must clearly represent the company, product, or brand that is being advertised.
- c. Ads cannot insult, harass, or threaten a user.
- d. Ads cannot contain audio that plays automatically, without a user's interaction.
- Prohibited Content
- a. Ads must not be false, misleading, fraudulent, or deceptive.
- b. Ads cannot contain, facilitate, promote, or reference the following:
- i. Offensive, profane, vulgar, obscene or inappropriate language;
- ii. Obscene, defamatory, libelous, slanderous and/or unlawful content;
- iii. Ammunition, firearms, paintball guns, bb guns, or weapons of any kind;
- iv. Gambling, including without limitation, any online casino, sports books, bingo, or poker without authorization from administrator;
- v. Scams, illegal activity, pyramid schemes, or chain letters;
- vi. Contests and sweepstakes
- vii. Get rich quick and other money making opportunities that offer compensation for little or no investment, including money making schemes positioned as alternatives to part-time or full-time employment;
- viii. Adult content, including nudity, sexual terms and/or images of people in positions or activities that are excessively suggestive or sexual, or provocative images in violation of community standards;
- ix. Adult friend finders or dating sites with a sexual emphasis;
- x. Adult toys, videos, or other adult products;
- xi. Inflammatory religious content;
- xii. Politically religious agendas and/or any known associations with hate, criminal and/or terrorist activities;
- xiii. Content that exploits political agendas or uses "hot button" issues for commercial use regardless of whether the advertiser has a political agenda;
- xiv. Hate speech, whether directed at an individual or a group, and whether based upon the race, sex, creed, national origin, religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or language of such individual or group;
- xv. Content that advocates against any organization, person, or group of people, with the exception of candidates running for public office;
- xvi. Content that depicts a health condition in a derogatory or inflammatory way or misrepresents a health condition in any way.
- Data and Privacy
- a. You may not give data you receive from us to any third party, including ad networks.
- b. Unless authorized by us, your ads may not display user data -- such as users' names or profile photos -- whether that data was obtained from this website or otherwise.
- c. You may not use user data you receive from us or collect through running an ad, including information you derive from your targeting criteria, for any purpose off of this website, without user consent.
- Targeting
- a. Any targeting of ads based on a user attribute, such as age, gender, location, or interest, must be directly relevant to the offer, and cannot be done by a method inconsistent with privacy and data policies.
- b. Ads with adult themes, including contraception, sex education, and health conditions must be targeted to individuals at least 18 years old. Platform ads should do this via Demographic Restrictions, not by obtaining user data.
- c. Ads for dating sites, services, or related content must follow these targeting criteria:
- i. the Relationship Status targeting parameter must be utilized and set to Single;
- ii. the Sex targeting parameter must be utilized and a single value of Male or Female must be selected;
- iii. the Age targeting parameter must be utilized and the age range selected must start at least at 18 years old;
- iv. the Interested In targeting parameter must be utilized and a single value of either Men or Women must be selected.
- Prices, discounts, and free offers
- a. Ads cannot be deceptive or fraudulent about any offer made.
- b. If an ad includes a price, discount, or 'free' offer,
- i. the destination URL for the ad must link to a page that clearly and accurately offers the exact deal the ad has displayed;
- ii. the ad must clearly state what action or set of actions is required to qualify for the offer.
- Subscription Services
- a. The advertisement of Subscription Services must comply with the conditions noted below and as determined by this website in its sole discretion. "Subscription Services" may include sites that promote downloading ringtones, wallpaper, or text messages for predictions, love life advice, news, personality quizzes, or other entertainment services or any site that induces a user to sign up for recurring billing of a product or service.
- i. The promoted website must clearly and accurately display the price and billing interval (such as per week or once per month) on the landing page as well as any page that prompts a user for Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, date of birth, phone number, social security number, physical addresses, or email addresses) or billing information (including, but not limited to, mobile phone number or credit card number).
- ii. If users sign up for the service by transmitting a code by text message, the price and billing interval must be clearly and prominently displayed beside the code.
- iii. If the service is a subscription, the website must provide a prominent opt-in checkbox or other clear mechanism indicating that the user knowingly accepts the price and subscription service. This should be on the first page where the user enters personal data, and the user should not be able to proceed without opting in.
- iv. All of the foregoing items should be located in a prominent place on your webpage, as determined by administration in its sole discretion, and should be easy to find, read, and understand.
- Ads for Alcoholic Beverages
- a. Ads must be targeted to people 21 years old or older in the US, 19 years old or older in Canada, 18 years old or older in the UK, and 21 years old or older everywhere else. All website viewer restrictions must be set at 21+ regardless of the country they are in or targeted to. In the case where a user's age cannot be determined, the ad cannot be displayed to the user in question.
- b. Ads cannot include content that might appeal to (or mislead) minors by implying that the consumption of alcoholic beverages is fashionable or the accepted course of behavior for those who are underage.
- c. Ads cannot include or target any person under the legal drinking age in the region the ad appears, or be suggestive of the presence of those who are underaged.
- d. Ads cannot portray or promote intoxication.
- e. Ads cannot induce people to consume alcohol in excess, make references to the intoxicating effects of alcohol, depict activities that encourage excessive consumption or that encourage drinking at a rapid rate, or suggest the strength of the alcoholic beverage being advertised.
- f. Ads cannot promote any giveaways as a reward for purchasing the alcoholic product.
- g. It is recommended that the ad creative contain text that promotes drinking responsibly, eg. "Drink Responsibly" or "Drink Smart".
- Copyrights and trademarks
- a. Ads cannot include any content that infringes upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary right.
- b. The advertiser must have intellectual property rights to the creative and be permitted to display such creative as advertising on the website.
- Spam
- a. Ads cannot contain, facilitate or promote 'spam' or other advertising or marketing content that violates applicable laws, regulations or industry standards.
- Incentives
- a. Ads cannot offer incentives to viewers for clicking on the ad, for submitting Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, date of birth, phone number, social security number, physical addresses, or email addresses), or for performing any other tasks.
- Downloads
- a. Ads cannot contain or link, whether directly or indirectly, to a site that contains spyware/malware downloads, whether initiated automatically or manually by the user, or other auto-initiated downloads.
- b. Ads cannot contain or link to a site that facilitates or promotes:
- i. Collection of demographic and usage information from a user's computer without the user's express consent;
- ii. Collection or request of usernames or passwords from any user;
- iii. Proxying usernames or passwords for the purpose of automating logins to the website;
- iv. Any software that (i) "sneaks" onto a user's system and performs activities hidden to the user, (ii) may alter, harm, disable or replace any hardware or software installed on user's computer without express permission from the user, (iii) is bundled as a hidden component of other software whether free or for fee, (iv) automatically downloads without administrator’s express prior approval, (v) presents any download dialog boxes without a user's express action, or (vi) may violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, patent or any other proprietary right.
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