Website and e-Network Forum
Privacy Statements

This Web site is owned and operated by the CBBS. Visitors to this site may be concerned about the information provided, and treatment of that information. This policy addresses privacy concerns. CBBS respects the privacy and security of its users. Our goal is to provide you with an Internet experience that delivers the information and resources that are most relevant and helpful to you. Our policies are described below.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact:

CBBS Central Office
915 L Street, PMB-C416
Sacramento, CA 95814-370

Email: cbbs@att.net

Web site Security

The CBBS uses reasonable efforts to respect and protect the privacy of its online visitors. CBBS does not collect personal information from individuals unless they provide it voluntarily and knowingly. The CBBS does not require a registration or any information in order to view the public area of this site. Areas requiring a registration to access are clearly designated as such with a user ID and password.

When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as personal information, we redirect visitors to a secure server.

Although CBBS tries to protect your personal information, we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us. However, once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable effort to ensure its security on our systems. We strive to maintain appropriate security measures on our server and in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that are under our control. You are also solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information.

CBBS Payment processing is currently handled by PayPal. PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information using an SSL protocol with an encryption key length of 128 bits (the highest level commercially available. Once user information is entered into PayPal's processing, it resides on their server that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically. PayPal servers sit behind an electronic firewall that are not directly connected to the internet, so private information is available only to authorized computers.

PayPal is responsible for maintaining all credit card and financial institution information you submit online. This information is NOT transmitted to or maintained by CBBS.

For general information on online shopping safety, please see the PayPal e-commerce Safety Guide (https://www.paypal.com/en_US/pdf/PayPal_Safety.pdf). PayPal also offers a comprehensive section on Privacy, Prevention, and Identify Theft Protection at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/IdentityProtection-outside.

From time to time, CBBS may introduce new services to its users. To the extent these new services affect this policy, this policy will be updated and you will be informed of these updates and any privacy conditions related to these services.

E-Network Forum Discussions

In questions or responses for general distribution, the individual submitting each item will not be identified, unless he/she so wishes. Emails from the persons granting permission to use their attribution may be maintained on the moderators' computers. As a condition to utilizing the website and e-Network Forum, users agree to waive any claims related to such inadvertent loss of attribution permission information.

It is understood that if a request is received by CBBS to directly contact an author of a question or comment, the moderator(s) may contact the author and it is the decision of him/her to contact the requestor. However, there may be some situations where we simply cannot keep this promise - if required by a valid subpoena, CBBS may be required to turn over personal information about users and authors.

"Cookies"

Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data is currently collected by the CBBS web site through the use of "cookies." Cookies are small text files a website uses to recognize repeat visitors. We use cookies to record session information, such as items that users add to their shopping cart, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends, and to enable access to specific areas on the web site. If a visitor does not want information collected by other web sites through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. It should be noted however, that cookies must be accepted to achieve full functionality of certain website features.

Gathering and Use of Anonymous Information

Each time a visitor accesses the CBBS Web site, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience. At the CBBS Web site, we collect the visitor's domain name (e.g. whether the user is logged on from compaq.com or whitehouse.gov), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to our site), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).

Links to Other Sites

Our Web site contains links to other Web sites, sites that may be maintained by organizations that are not affiliates of CBBS. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites, and we encourage you to use caution when visiting these sites and that you view the privacy policy posted on each site to confirm that the site's policies are acceptable to you.

The e-Network Forum email list is hosted and managed by MailerMailer.com. To report any abuse or violations of this Email List Privacy Policy, please send email to abuse@mailermailer.com and attach an unedited copy of the email message that you feel was sent to you in error or without your permission. Include all header information so that CBBS can trace origin of the message. Also include any notes or other information that you feel are pertinent.

E-mail List Information Collection

For each visitor that signs up for our email list, we collect only the information that is supplied in the request to subscribe. Our web servers may collect the domain name or IP address of visitors to our web page(s). Unless otherwise stated on our web site, we collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email and information volunteered by you such as but not limited to list signup information, survey information, and/or membership registrations. We also may collect clickstream information.

Use of Web Site Information Collected

The information we collect may be used to create an aggregate demographic profile of our user base so that we can improve content and services and provide aggregate information to potential sponsors (no individual information is provided to any third-party without your consent), to customize the content and/or layout of our email messages or pages for each individual visitor, to notify you about updates to our web site and services, to send you our opt-in e-mail newsletter(s), to provide you with the products and/or services for which you signed-up or registered, which may include sending service disruption notices or other service- or product-related information via email, and is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes without your consent. Upon request, we will provide you with the information (e.g., email address, name, etc.) that we maintain about you.

E-mail and Direct Response Contact

If you subscribed to our e-mail newsletter(s) but do not want to receive it in the future, please follow the "unsubscribe" instructions contained in the newsletter(s).

Security

We strive to maintain appropriate security measures in our respective physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you for being part of our email list. Although we take reasonable measures to secure our data, we cannot guarantee that the measures taken are or will remain adequate. Since we may include links from messages sent to the email list to other organizations' web sites, please refer to the privacy policies of those sites for information on how they handle security for information they collect.

An important note about email security:

1. NEVER respond to any request, or click on ANY links or attachments in emails that "appear" to be from PayPal or any other financial institution stating that you urgently need to "update your account to avoid termination" or that "your account is in jeopardy" or similar. These typically have a generic greeting, such as "Dear Valued 'Financial Institution Name' Member", suggest a sense of urgency that you must "respond ASAP", and contain fake links that even may contain the words of the financial institution in them. These are called "spoofs" or "phishing scams" which actually link to fraudulent sites.
2. PayPal and/or CBBS will NEVER send emails asking you for credit or debit card numbers, bank account numbers, driver's license numbers, email addresses, passwords or your full name.
3. ALWAYS log in to PayPal by opening a new web browser and typing in the following: "https://www.paypal.com/". One should never log into PayPal or any other financial institution website from a link in an email.

Changes to E-mail List Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Email List Privacy Policy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to this Email List Privacy Policy page to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of our list. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at this Email List Privacy Policy page periodically.