Pride Families

Privacy Policy

Introduction
Pride Families, Inc. respects your privacy. We make use of any personal information that you provide to us for the purpose of serving you better. We have created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to demonstrate our firm commitment to online privacy. This “Notice of Privacy Policy” discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for Pride Families, Inc.’s web sites which include PrideFamilies.com, PrideFamilyFlag.com, and several other web sites that are currently under development. This Privacy Policy applies to all information that you provide to Pride Families, Inc. and that Pride Families, Inc. maintains electronically, whether you provide the information through PrideFamilies.com or PrideFamilyFlag.com or through other means. Additionally, this Privacy Policy applies to any personal information obtained from your use (and, if applicable, your family’s use) of Pride Families, Inc.’s web sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you may provide to third parties; for example, other sites linked to Pride Families, Inc.'s web sites. You should contact such third parties directly to determine their respective privacy policies. As used herein, the terms “Pride Families, Inc.,” “we,” “our” and “its” when referring to Pride Families, Inc., and its related companies are used only for convenience and are not intended to be an accurate description of ownership, operation or corporate/legal relationships.

What is this information used for?
We use your personal information in the course of your relationship with Pride Families, Inc. Among other things, we use this information to provide you with the services available on the site. For example, we allow you to create edit and update personal information online and allow you to input information in forms that have been partially pre-populated with your personal information. We also use your information for other things which may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Contacting You
Pride Families, Inc. uses your personally identifiable information to communicate with you in the course of your client relationship. We may also contact you to tell you about products and services provided by Pride Families, Inc.'s strategic alliances and other third-party organizations. While we must be able to contact you for matters relating to your client relationship, if you do not wish to receive e-mail communications from Pride Families, Inc. regarding strategic alliance offers or other third-party products and services, you may opt out of receiving such communications by following the procedure set forth in such e-mail. Pride Families, Inc. will continue to contact you for matters relating to your client relationship.

Use of IP Address
IP addresses are numbers that are automatically assigned to your computer, and, if associated with other individually identifiable information, could be considered personal information. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer and improve Pride Families, Inc.’s web sites. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information, some of which we aggregate and then share with our strategic alliances or potential strategic alliances companies. We also use your IP address to keep track of the information you have seen on our sites.

Use of Cookies
Cookies are a standard technology used by commercial web services to store small pieces of information on your hard drive by sending a small string of text to your browser. They make your use of Pride Families, Inc.'s web sites more pleasing and efficient by “personalizing” your user interface, for example, or identifying which parts of a site you have previously visited. They also enable us to pre-populate, or automatically fill out, forms. They enable us to tailor the information you receive and to assist third party organizations with whom we have strategic alliances by identifying you as a Pride Families, Inc. client, employee or Pride Families, Inc. website user. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, unless you have configured yours not to accept them. In order for us to provide you with requested services, your browser must accept cookies, as they are essential for site administration and security. Pride Families, Inc. does not use cookies either to collect individually identifiable information or to collect non-individually identifiable information using a cookie that is combined with a personal identifier.

Other General Information
If you send us your resume, we use that information to assist you with job placement. Pride Families, Inc. may also collect the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., aol.com); the date and time you access Pride Families, Inc.'s web sites; and the Internet address of any web site from which you link directly to Pride Families, Inc.'s web sites; as well as collecting and storing other information in a user’s log file. A user’s log file tells Pride Families, Inc. where a user comes from when entering a Pride Families, Inc. web site; which part of the Pride Families, Inc. web site the user visits as well as where the user goes when leaving the Pride Families, Inc. web site; and how much time the user spends in the Pride Families, Inc. web sites. In addition, Pride Families, Inc. may collect e-mail addresses and other personal information from persons who are not current employees or clients of Pride Families, Inc.

Rewarding use of Pride Families, Inc. websites
Pride Families, Inc. may use information it collects in order to distribute a reward, award or an incentives to a Pride Families, Inc. user as a result of a contest or promotion.

With whom is this information shared?
Pride Families, Inc. shares personal information only as described below:

Other Pride Families, Inc. Companies and Third-Party Contractors
We may share your information among related companies of Pride Families, Inc. In addition, we may from time to time transfer our database to third-party contractors who analyze information on behalf of Pride Families, Inc. for the purpose of, among other things, targeting e-mails to clients regarding strategic alliance offers, or who mail marketing materials to clients regarding strategic alliance offers. Such third-party contractors are contractually bound to hold all such information in confidence and do not share such information with any parties other than Pride Families, Inc.

Strategic Alliances
Pride Families, Inc. has entered into marketing agreements, strategic alliances and other relationships with third-party organizations that may offer or provide products and services to you, sometimes under discounted or preferential terms. We sometimes agree to give these third parties (including potential parties to strategic alliances) aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about our clients, employees or visitors. If you initiate an inquiry with respect to a third party’s product or service by clicking on the icon or link relating to such product or service on Pride Families, Inc.'s web sites, we may furnish such third party with certain personal information regarding you for the purpose of, among other things, pre-populating forms or facilitating the exchange of information between you and the third party. If you do not wish to have any of your personal information furnished to such third-parties, do not access any of the third-party products and services included on Pride Families, Inc.’s web sites.

Business Transfers
As Pride Families, Inc. continues to develop its businesses, it may sell various aspects of its business. If Pride Families, Inc. sells a portion of its business, it will transfer personal information associated with that business as part of such a sale. Also, in the unlikely event that Pride Families, Inc. or substantially all of its assets are acquired, personal information regarding employees and clients will be one of the transferred assets.

Security Measures
Pride Families, Inc. makes access to your personally identifiable information subject to certain security measures, including technological controls such as "firewalls", in accordance with industry standards. When the use of a Pride Families, Inc. web site involves the transmission of confidential information about you or Pride Families, Inc., we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to establish a secure connection between your PC and our server. SSL allows the transmission of encrypted information from your PC to our server and back again and is the industry standard for Internet platform security. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so while Pride Families, Inc. strives to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to Pride Families, Inc.

Disclaimer of responsibility for privacy policy and content at linked sites
Pride Families, Inc.’s web sites may provide you with links to other web sites. We are not responsible for those sites and cannot control the use of information that you submit once you reach those sites, nor can we control the content of what is offered on those sites or on links from those sites. You should contact such third-party web sites directly to determine their privacy policies.

This is a family website
Pride Families web sites are family friendly and free from adult material. Pride Families, Inc. does not knowingly solicit data from children, and we do not knowingly market to children.

Pride Families, Inc. employees and privacy
Pride Families, Inc. trains all Pride Families, Inc. employees about the importance of privacy. It is Pride Families, Inc.'s policy to give access to your information only to those employees who require it to carry out the responsibilities of their jobs.

Changes in these policies and practices
Pride Families, Inc. reserves the right to change its privacy policies and practices periodically, without providing individual notice, by updating this Privacy Policy notice. This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 18, 2007. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor such updates and that your continued use of the Pride Families web sites after such revisions have been made constitutes your full acceptance of such revised terms and conditions.

More information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please write to:

Pride Families, Inc.

webmaster@pridefamilies.com