Highbranch respects the privacy of its customers and other users of its website (www.highbranch.com) (the "Website"). To that effect, Highbranch has instituted the following Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy 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 the Website. By using or accessing the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. All changes to this Privacy Policy are effective upon posting to the Website without notice.

Collection and Use of Information

When you visit the Website, you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us ("Personal Information") and Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Website. When you register with Highbranch, you provide us with certain Personal Information, which may include your name, email address, telephone number, address, and gender, and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us. When you enter the Website, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Website visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use cookies to help us understand how users choose the Website, and to know when users have accessed the Website from a paid advertiser, an affiliate website, or a strategic partner website. We also use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the Website. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature. Solely for the purposes of confirming valid traffic from certain pay-per-click search engines, we may monitor IP addresses for such visitors and compare them to the records of that search engine. When you use the Website, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information. If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our Website, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the Website, and may send reminders to them. We store this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us through the Contact page to request that we remove this information from our database. We may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the Website. Generally, you may opt out of such emails from the Contact page page, although we reserve the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications. Highbranch may sell or share Personal Information of any user with our affiliates and with other carefully selected companies that we believe offer services and products that would potentially be of interest to that user. In no event will Highbranch share any credit card information of any user. Users that do not want such information shared may notify us of such preference at support@highbranch.com. In the event Highbranch goes through a business transition, such as a merger or an acquisition of its equity interests or assets, the Personal Information of our users will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Security

We take appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. In addition, when you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), that information is encrypted with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to protect it from unauthorized access. We also have appropriate security measures in place within our database and physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that has been collected on the Website. These measures include limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most Personal Information on the Website is readily available through the profile editing tools. You may modify or delete any of your profile information at any time by logging into your account. Individuals who wish to deactivate their account may do so on the Contact page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to other users.

Third Party Websites and Advertising

Highbranch may maintain links to other websites on the Website. If you choose to visit other websites from the Website, we will not be responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites. It is the user's responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that they are acceptable prior to use. Advertisements that appear on the Website are sometimes delivered directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Highbranch does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on the Website unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Highbranch and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any third parties.

Legal Compliance

Although we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose or provide access to Personal Information if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with the law, such as in connection with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process.

Contact Information

If customers or users have any questions or suggestions regarding Highbranch's privacy policy, they should contact us by email at info@highbranch.com.