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Your privacy is important to us. Please note that this Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use posted on the CleverHive website (the "Website"). CleverHive reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify users of any material changes by updating the policy here and by including a "NEWLY UPDATED" label with the PRIVACY POLICY on the Website for 30 days after any material changes are made. This policy was last updated on August 31, 2009.

This Privacy Policy should answer your questions about the sources and kinds of information we collect, how we use it, when it may be shared with others, and how we safeguard its confidentiality and security. CleverHive is committed to complying fully with the Children's Online Protection Privacy Act of 1998 ("COPPA"). COPPA requires that we inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from children under 13 years of age, and that we obtain the consent of parents and guardians in order for children under 13 years of age to use certain features of CleverHive.

What Information Do We Collect?
You do not have to be registered to take advantage of certain features of CleverHive. When visitors come to our site, however, we may passively collect certain non-personally identifiable information, such as your web browser type, your IP address, the type of computer operating system you use, the name of your Internet service provider, and the frequency with which various pages are visited on the Website. CleverHive gets this information by using technologies, including cookies, to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of our Website and to better tailor CleverHive to our visitors' needs. None of this tracking information identifies you personally; we collect it for reporting onsite activity in the aggregate. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our Website or which pages or features get the most attention.
CleverHive limits its collection of information from all registered users to what is known as non-personally identifiable information (e.g., first name, home state, birthday, and username) in order to register with the site. As a registered user of CleverHive, you may submit content for posting on the Website, subject to all of the Terms of Use. CleverHive does not condition a user's participation in any of our online activities on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in that activity.

We may request an email address along with a user name when a user submits a form through the "Contact Us" portion of the CleverHive website so that we may respond to the inquiry. We collect the email address for the sole purpose of responding directly on a one-time basis to a specific inquiry. Once we have had a chance to provide an email response to the user's question, the user's email address is deleted from our system.

How Your Information Will Be Used
CleverHive uses your information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Website. We do not allow third-party companies to solicit or advertise to our users. We intend to keep CleverHive free from any sort of direct advertising. However, we may disclose information to government authorities to the extent we believe that we may be required by law to do so, or to third parties pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process. We may also use or disclose your information to protect or enforce the rights or property of CleverHive, the Website, or its users.

User Submissions
You have no privacy interest in anything that you upload or otherwise submit for posting on the Website. Please do not include any personally-identifiably information about you or others in User Submissions, including full name, address, telephone number, email address, IM screen name, or other such information or materials. For more information about User Submissions, see our Terms of Use.

Links to Other Sites
We may provide links to resources we think you'll find useful or interesting. These links will lead you to sites that may operate under different privacy practices. Our visitors are responsible for reviewing the privacy statements for such other websites, as we have no control over information that is submitted to these companies. We are not responsible for any violations by the operator of any site to which we link you of any privacy or other policy. In the event that other users provide links to external websites, we are not responsible for any material found at those websites or for any violations by the operator of any site to which a user links of any privacy or other policy.

Contacting Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices, email us at privacy@cleverhive.com.