Lady Ben's Privacy Policy

Introduction

Lady Ben Classic Wooden Boats has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: Lady Ben Classic Wooden Boats.

We, at LadyBen.com, hold the highest regard for the privacy of any personal information you may enter into our database.  This includes; contact information that you enter during registration, listing information, the number of hits your particular vessel receives during the time it is listed with us, and any correspondence between yourself and any member of our staff. 

Under no circumstances will we sell or give away personal information that identifies you specifically to any third parties unless we have been given permission by you to do so. This may be required in the event that a buyer can not reach a seller. 

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address for the purposes of tracking the number of unique visits to our site. This allows us to view how our website is growing and provide the number of our 'hits' to potential advertisers on our site. We do not capture any personal identifying information when logging an IP address.

Cookies

Our site uses cookies to verify that you are logged in and thereby provide you with various 'personalized' functions such as the ability to; change your registration information, change your password, list a vessel, view your listed vessel(s) and the number of hits received on each, and edit your vessel(s).

Advertisers

We use third party advertising companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies to facilitate your 'logged-in' functionality (see above section on Cookies), cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Occassionally aggregate demographic data may be shared with advertisers or advertising companies for the purposes of tailoring ad campaings to the specific needs of our users. This data does not contain information on specific users and user identities are in no way revealed.

Registration Forms

Our site's registration form requires users to give us some contact information (such as; email and postal address). Contact information from the registration form is used to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Reasons for contacting the customer would include alerting them of a buyer for their vessel if they did not provide contact information when listing their boat, or to contact them about a new feature on the web site. Some customer contact information, namely province/state, and country, is also used for our own statistical purposes to gather demographic data. We use this data to determine the regional origins of our users so we may better serve them.

Aggregate Information

LadyBen.com collects personal and demographic information about our viewers on various occasions. (i.e. surveys, contests, and purchase information for products.) The data collected and entered is used in aggregate form to create information products that are useful to our viewers. Aggregate information is also used to give us demographic information of our audience in order to improve our services. We also share aggregate information -- not individual data -- with our advertisers/sponsors to help them better understand our services and to monitor the reach of their advertising on our web site. Demographic analysis is the basis for many other business functions: customer service, site analysis, and marketing. Understanding your customers and their habits is essential to making good business decisions and providing the necessary information products and services to the targeted audience.

Sharing: We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. LadyBen.com will NOT intentionally or knowingly release your personal information to a third party, except as may be, in its reasonable judgment, required by law. LadyBen.com reserves the right to contact its users regarding account status and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected.

Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. LadyBen.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. LadyBen.com does not store this information, we use it for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

External Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that LadyBen.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Data Quality/Access

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

Registered users are able to login to the 'Your Account' section of the website and from there are able to:

• Modify any personal information
• Change their password
• Edit any of their vessel listings.

Contacting LadyBen.com

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact: support@ladyben.com.