Privacy Policy

Rent My Brain, Inc. Privacy Policy

(Last updated August 30, 2010)

This privacy policy is issued by Rent My Brain, Inc., a Georgia corporation, located at 1854 Independence Square, Dunwoody, DeKalb County, Georgia.  Please direct questions regarding this privacy policy to “Privacy Policy” at the above address.

Personal Information Collection

I. How we treat personally identifiable information.  This site only collects personally identifiable information from you if you provide it to us.  Personal identifiable information collected may include your name, photograph, email address, demographic information, telephone number(s), social and professional networks, employer, job title, your professional experience and credentials, your education, your hobbies and interests and information relating to any submissions you make on this Web Site, or any inquires you may make through our website.

II. Cookies

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. This site uses first-party and third-party cookies, however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are used to track user IDs and passwords, provide tailored content, and determine whether a visitor is unique or whether the visitor has viewed our site before.  While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific browser.

III. Non-personally identifiable information

This site also collects non-personally identifiable information. For example, as you browse this website we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally.  We may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, the pages visited, the originating domain, and which browsers people use to visit our site. We may use an outsourcing program such as Google Analytics to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor our website.

IV. Information Use

The information collected by this website is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the administration, review and the improvement the content of our web sites.  We may use information provided to us to customize your experiences on our website in various ways, such as suggesting news articles or member posts that may be of interest or displaying recent status updates from your connections when you log in.

The Editor and/or Publisher of this Web Site may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, or Blog post submission, or in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
We may also contact you to inform you of other products or services we think may be of interest to you, but we always offer you an opportunity to opt not to receive such communications.

Our website uses third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve ads and collect information when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, phone number or email address) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this and other websites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

V. Sharing of Information with Others

If you choose to make information available to other people through instant messages, status updates, group forum discussions, electronic mail messages, blog postings, your profile (if any), registering for an event, or by joining groups or using other networking functions that we may offer on our site, this information will be visible to these third parties. Please take care in deciding what information you choose to make available through these mechanisms, as we do not control the manner in which recipients or persons who may see the information may use or re-disclose the information that you choose to provide.

We also may disclose information you provide to us to third parties as otherwise permitted by your organization’s subscriber agreement(s) (if any). In other cases, it may be necessary to disclose information you provide about yourself or third parties in order to make a disclosure or complete a transaction that you requested.

We may outsource some tasks, including the operation of some website functions that require access to information you supply online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf to institute safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information.

We may disclose information you provide to outside firms so that they can contact you about products or services that may be of interest, but we will provide you with an opportunity to opt not to have your information disclosed for these purposes. For information and opt-out opportunities related to our use of third-party advertising companies and advertising networks, please see the Information Use section above.

If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will assume responsibility for the personal information collected by us through this website and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding the information collected through this website, as described in this privacy policy.

Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform with the law or to comply with a legal process.

VI. Security

We will make every reasonable effort to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through this website. In the event we request or transmit sensitive information, such as credit card information, or Social Security Numbers, we use industry standard, secure socket layer (“SSL”) encryption.  We limit access to personally-identifiable information to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.

VII. Other Websites

This online privacy policy only applies to the website  you are now visiting.  Our website, however, may include links to other websites which may be operated by Rent My Brain, Inc. Or by third parties.  If you have any questions about the use and dissemination of personally identifiable information collected by any web site, you should carefully review the privacy policy of that web site.

VIII. Policy Changes

We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the website.