Privacy Policy
Updated September 2008

Your privacy is of paramount importance to us. We adhere to the following principles to protect you as well as your trust in us.

We will only ask members for personal information, if we need it to provide the service they request or if the information will help us better serve their overall needs.
We will never provide members personal identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
We will never share a member’s contact information with another, member, without their express consent.
We will always give members the option to edit the information that they provided to us or to have their personal removed from our records.

This privacy Policy describes how we collect and use date. If you have any questions or comments regarding Backyardlabrish privacy policy or enforcement, please contact us at: privacy@backyardlabrish.com.

Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which personally identifiable date may be used or stored will be provided as described below under “Changes to this Privacy Policy” and will be posted in updates to our “Privacy Policy”. Plese read the complete policy, which applies to the website located at www.backyardlabrish.com, to learn more about:

What personal identifiable information is collected by Backyardlabrish.
How the information is used.
With whom the information may be shared.
How you can access and change your accunt information.
What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by Backyardlabrish.

Information Collection
In order to become a Backyardlabrish member, you must first create an account on the Backyardlabrish web site. To create an account you are requested to provide the following contact information: user name and email address, country, ZIP/postal code and choose a password. Please keep in mind that your user name will be publicly available on the site.

 Profile Information
Once a member, you may provide additional information in the Profile section. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better find relevant content from Backyardlabrish and our other members. Examples include hobbies, favorite books and music reviews. Profile information is publicly available on the site.

Cookies and Log Files
Like most web sites, Backyardlabrish uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows Backyardlabrish to recognize you as a member when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site. One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set once you've logged in to your Backyardlabrish account. The next time you visit the Backyardlabrish web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing member so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to access or change any of your private information, however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the Backyardlabrish site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a "session" cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the Backyardlabrish site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Web pages may contain an electronic file called a web beacon that allows a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. We may use web beacons in a similar manner to cookies to customize your experience and to track aggregate user activity. Web beacons, like cookies, don't tell us anything about you personally.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Backyardlabrish web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Backyardlabrish. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the Backyardlabrish Service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Some companies that present advertising on our site place a cookie on your computer when you view their advertisements on our site. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Unless you visit the web site of these companies and provide them with personally identifiable information about yourself, these tracking technologies tell those advertisers nothing about who you are. Our advertisers' use of tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.

Information from other sources:
Backyardlabrish does not supplement the information we collect about you from other sources.

Information for Contest and Sweepstakes
If Backyardlabrish offers a contest or sweepstake on the Backyardlabrish Site, we may ask for additional information such as name, address, and phone number in order to provide the winner with their prize, We will not use that information for any other purpose unless we receive consent at the time you provide the information.

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about Backyardlabrish, send them an article or offer other item from the site, or invite them to join a group. We will ask you for friends name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We may include your name or email address in the email we send to your friend. We store the information for the sole purpose of sending the one time email and tracking this success of our referral program. We will not release the person’s email address to any third party for any reason.

Friend Finder:
Our site included a “Friend Finder” feature. When you provide us with your web email address and password we will search your email account to see if there is a match between any of the emails in your account and our registered users, If there is a match, you will be offered the opportunity to send a message inviting your friend to be linked to you on Bacckyardlabrish. If your friend accepts, they will be provided your user name and you will linked on the site.

We will also use the email address you provide to us a s part of your user account to match you with your friends and registered Backyardlabrish users. If you deny your friends’ invitation you will not be linked as friends on the site. If you do not want your email address to be searchable by friends who are looking for you on Backyardlabrish, you may opt out of this feature in your profile.

We also offer the “Invite a Friend” feature. This gives you an opportunity to send an invitation to join Backyardlabrish to friends listed in your email account who do not appear to be registered Backyardlabrish users. If you accept we will send those friends an email inviting them to join Backyardlabrish. The invitation email will include your email address.

We will not use any of the information you provide to us in the process, including your email account log-in information and the emails in your account, for any other purpose.

Children
Children are not eligible to use Backyardlabrish and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Use of Information
The information you provide to this site is used to help you describe yourself to other members. We also use this to better understand our users and their preferences so that we can make our products and services more useful and relevant. Information that does not personally identify you as an individual is collected by Backyardlabrish form the site (such as pattern of utilization and is exclusively owned by Backyardlabrish. This information can be utilized by Backyardlabrish in such manner as Backyardlabrish, in it’ssole discretion, deems appropriate.

Backyardlabrish Communications
Backyardlabrish will communicate with you by alerts and email posted on the website. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from Backyardlabrish related to the proper functioning of your account and other administrative matters, such as changes to our service, updates t our privacy policy,
or terms of use, security messages and other similar messages.

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter (s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you way to unsubscribe by following the link in every newsletter.

Once registered with Backyardlabrish you may receive promotional information about our products and services, unless you have opted our of receiving this information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails about Backyardlabrish products and services, please send a request to memberservices@backyardlabrish.com

Customized Content
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site, For example, when you login to your account we may show you discussion about gardening if that is something you indicated interest in.

Information Sharing
Backyardlabrish takes the privacy of our members very seriously. We will never rent, sell or otherwise provide your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes.

Our Service Providers
We hire third parties to help us provide services to you. These may include technical services, customer support, email message deployment, data processing and other services. We also may hire third-parties to provide other specialized products or services that you have requested. It may be necessary for us to provide these parties with some of your personal information in order for them to fulfill their services. These third parties do not retain, share or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements prohibiting their use of such information.

Links to other Sites
This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Backyarlabrish, including links contained in the advertisements of our marketing partners. Please be aware that we Backyardlabrish are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statement of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by Backyardlabrish.

Aggregated or Anonymous Data

We may provide third parties aggregated or anonymous date about our users and their usage of our services that do not contain any individual’s personally identifiable information. We may provide or use this date for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate.

Discussions
If you enter into a discussion on Backyardlabrish, you should be aware that your post are public and any personal identifiable information you submit can be read, collected, or used by other members, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personal identifiable information you choose to submit in these discussions. We may remove the post and/or terminate the account of any visitor who submits inappropriate content to our discussions.

Communication between Members
If you wish to contact another member, you may send a message through Backyardlabrish. We will not disclose your email address to that member, or theirs to you.

Legal Proceedings
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when it is required by law. We will disclose that information where we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other governmental or legal process, subpoena or warrant served on our company, to exercise our legal rights claims, or when we believe your actions violate applicable laws, our Terms of Use, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users or others.

Business Transfer
If we sell all or portion of our business, we may transfer some or all of your information as part of the sale in order that the service being provided by you may continue or for other business purposes.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review personal information you provided and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for you Backyardlabrish account at any time by logging in to your account on the website and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also close your account through the Backyardlabrish website. If you close your Backyardlabrish account, we will remove your profile and other identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. Your post with your user name will remain. We may retain certain date contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable date, account recovery, or if required by law.  All retained date will continue to be subject to the terms of the Backyardlabrish Privacy Policy that you have previously agreed to request that we close your account and remove your name from the Backyardlabrish Service, please send your request memberservice@backyardlabrish.com. Please send your request using the email account that you registered with Backyardlabrish under. You will receive a response to your request within three business days of our receiving it.

 Security
In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on Backyardlabrish is password-protected. To protect any data you store on our services we also regularly audit our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data center. While we take security very seriously, no data transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed 100% secure. If you suspect that your Backyardlabrish account has been comprised, please email us at security@backyardlabrish.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
Backyardlabrish may update this privacy policy. In the event there is a material change in the way we treat your personal identifiable information, we will display a notice on our website and/or send affected users a email notice. The notice will include information on how you can opt-out of the change. All other changes will be posted on the Privacy Policy section of the website. Unless stated otherwise or unless you follow the opt-out procedures communicated at the time of the change, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If you continue to use Bckyardlabrish after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site as described above, you hereby provide consent to the changed policies.

Questions or Comments

If you have questions or comments about the privacy policy, please email us at privacy@backyardlabrish.com or contact us at:

Backyardlabrish
Attn: Privacy Policy Issues
9925 Haynes Bridge Road
Suite #200-125
Johns Creek, GA. 30022