"MySmallBiz believes that privacy is crucial
for the ongoing success of Internet commerce."


This document explains MySmallBizWebHosting’s (“MySmallBiz”) policies for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information.

This policy forms part of, and should be read in conjunction with, our Terms of Use.

MySmallBiz believes that privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of Internet commerce. Our status as an Small Business Web Hosting And Educational Resources requires us to have a stringent policy regarding all of the information that we collect.

Your use of this site or MySmallBiz’s services constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these policies, please cease using this site immediately.

These terms were last revised on March 21, 2007. MySmallBiz reserves the right to amend these policies from time to time. If such amendments affect how MySmallBiz uses or discloses personal information already held by MySmallBiz in a material and adverse way over and above previous express or implied consent, MySmallBiz will contact you to obtain consent. Notwithstanding the terms of this policy, the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information may be made outside of the terms herein to the extent provided for in the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and other relevant Canadian and Ontario legislation in effect from time to time. These exemptions include, without limitation, publicly available information, or information disclosed for criminal or civil investigations or compliance with law or court orders.

MySmallBiz takes reasonable precautions to ensure your privacy on the terms contained in this policy. MySmallBiz uses reasonable efforts to, but cannot totally prevent, unintended disclosures by such means as hackers and other unauthorized individuals, and inadvertent or illicit employee actions.

Cardholder provided Information:
Our electronic purchase service requires that cardholders provide contact information (including without limitation: name, address, city, state or province, postal code, country, telephone and email), and financial information (including without limitation: name on credit card, credit card number and expiry date), and ordering information. This information is collected and used to process the transaction and for internal accounting and other procedures. Following a transaction, we may contact cardholders by phone or email for security purposes.

Information Automatically Collected:
Our Web site keeps track of usage data, such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Web site (if any) and other parameters in the URL. The IP addresses we collect on our electronic purchase service are linked to personally identifiable information. This is collected in order to combat fraud during the purchase process. We also use this data to better understand Web site usage in the aggregate so that we know what areas of our Web site users prefer. Automatically collected information is also used for the same purposes as cardholder supplied and merchant supplied information.

Sharing of Information:
Certain information submitted through the electronic purchase service is shared with Internet Secure to complete credit card transactions, including, without limitation, companies related to MySmallBiz, credit card companies, credit card clearing houses and processors, and financial institutions.

The parties mentioned in the above paragraph, and not MySmallBiz, are responsible for their own privacy polices and for maintaining privacy and confidentiality for all information MySmallBiz provides them. If a user has any questions or concerns about the privacy policies of those parties, it must contact such parties.

Except for the above parties, and for use by MySmallBiz’s consultants and professional advisers on MySmallBiz’s behalf for the uses disclosed herein, MySmallBiz does not share personal information with any other third parties. 

Contact Us / Email Inquiries:
No information sent to MySmallBiz via email or the website inquiry form is used for any other reason than to respond to and maintain a record of the inquiry. This information is not sent to third parties or retained for mailing list purposes.

Security:
MySmallBiz takes measures to protect and keep information secure. Our electronic purchase service is secured with SSL encryption. Verisign has supplied us with digital certificates for our Web sites. All information collected by MySmallBiz is held offline, secured via SSL encryption, and protected by a firewall. Whenever sensitive information is transmitted to MySmallBiz through our Web site, such as a credit card number, our server provides 128-bit encryption of the information as it travels across the Internet. MySmallBiz restricts internal access to personal information to selected members of MySmallBiz’s staff.

Contacting MySmallBiz:
If you have questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this web site, you may contact:

MySmallBiz University
154 Burnetts Grove Circle
Ottawa ON
K2J 1S9
Phone: (877) 626-9249