Black Man's Think Tank

Black Man's Think Tank Privacy Policy

We recognize and respect your right to privacy and browsing within a secure online environment. To that end this policy is established. This policy applies to this site only. In this document, the terms "we", "us", or "our" are used to refer to the Black Man's Think Tank, Inc. solely.

Information Collection and Use

Registration

In order for you to use this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a confidential password. Your email address will serve as your log-in name. During registration you are required to give contact information such as name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. We use this information to contact you about the services and membership rights on our site in which you have expressed interest.

We are the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We collect personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information such as name, mailing address, phone number, and email address and financial information such as credit card type, credit card number, verification code, expiration date, and name on card.

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Surveys or Contests

From time to time, we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information such name, mailing address, and phone number and/or demographic information such as zip code, age, marital status, education level, etc.

We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to improve site functionality, to enhance our site offerings, or to target our marketing efforts.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit or site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us here to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information

We do not sale, barter, or give away personal information collected on this site. However, we do reserve the right to use such information for the following purposes:

Special Offers and Updates

We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and promotions. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

Customer Service

Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your email address and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the products or services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We do not share aggregated demographic information collected from this web site about our user base with others, and we do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Choice/Opt-out

If you do not wish to receive information about BMTT products, events, and services, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by emailing us here or writing us at 825 Sunset Dr., Englewood, OH 45322.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We and our third-party services use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site so that we both may track our advertising efforts. Your personally identifiable information is anonymous to us and them.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, please update your account information by using the designated links at the sign-in pages or writing us at 825 Sunset Dr., Englewood, OH 45322.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use digital secure server identification to provide you with the best protection technology on the Internet. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send an email to us here.

Business Transitions

In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us by e-mail here or writing us at 825 Sunset Dr., Englewood, OH 45322.