This site is owned and operated by Global Web Exchange, Inc. Your privacy on the Internet is of utmost importance to us. We want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

The Information We Gather and Track

We are committed to your privacy and understand the need for confidentiality when buying and selling businesses. Home Venture Network strives to collect as little personally identifiable information as possible from its users.

We do not collect any personally identifiable information from you while you use services such as our business for sale searches. Home Venture Network does not retain any information entered in these search forms, unless you specify to save them in your Favorites file.

A primary purpose of Home Venture Network is to provide publicly searchable databases of ads and other postings. Therefore, much of information submitted by you to these services is done so with the intent that we make the information public knowledge. Therefore, we define "personally identifiable information" as your email address and credit card information. We strive to keep this information confidential, as described in this Privacy Policy. However, users are welcome to disclose their email address in the text of their postings if they desire. The posting forms also note other items that may typically be considered personally identifiable information, which we allow users the option to disclose (such as name and phone number) or provide other means to make the publicly disclosed information more confidential (such as by selecting a region of the country instead of a state).

Happilyhomebased.com gathers two types of information about users:

1. Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
2. Information happilyhomebased.com gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because happilyhomebased.com derives its revenue mainly from advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does Home Venture Network divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Information gathered through optional, voluntary submissions:

Business for Sale Ad Order Form We request information from you when you fill out our ad registration form. You must provide a valid email address (providing your name and phone number is optional) so that you can receive inquiries to your ad, as well as email correspondence from HappilyHomeBased regarding the status of your ad. You must also provide your credit card number and expiration date to enable us to charge the card for leads.

The public information regarding your business opportunity is made available through our searchable databases on happilyhomebased.com and on the sites of our co-branded partners.

Your email address and credit card information remain confidential and will not be distributed to any outside parties, except as necessary to process the charge for the listing and verify the sale.

Replying to an Ad When you reply to any of the postings on happilyhomebased.com through our custom reply forms, your reply is sent through our servers to the intended party. We do not sell or distribute to any outside party, any of the information submitted in the reply form.

Electronic Newsletter Policy
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. HappilyHomeBased gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.

"Email to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "email this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

Usage tracking
HappilyHomeBased tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. HappilyHomeBased does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

HappilyHomeBased sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. HappilyHomeBased uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, and surveys.

Other Uses of Information
HappilyHomeBased uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in surveys and blogs. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. HappilyHomeBased never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

HappilyHomeBased creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors, and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Links to Other Websites
Happilyhomebased.com contains links to third-party websites. In order to use these third-party services you will be directed to pages on their websites. Remember that any information that you provide on any third-party page is being provided directly to the third-party service provider and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each third-party website to determine how that site protects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on happilyhomebased.com.

Sharing of Information
HappilyHomeBased uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Our Commitment to Security
Home Venture Network operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Your credit card and other information cannot be read as it travels to our ordering system. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

Opt-Out Policy
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

1. Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

2. Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by HappilyHomeBased. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

How to Contact Us
Please contact us with any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy at service@happilyhomebased.com.