Privacy Policy

WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS

The federal government and technology industry have developed practical tips to help you guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer and protect your personal information. This policy covers how Belleville.net treats personal information that Belleville.net collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Belleville.net products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Belleville.net does not own or control, or to people that Belleville.net does not employ or manage.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

Belleville.net collects personal information when you use Belleville.net products or services, when you visit Belleville.net pages or the pages of certain Belleville.net partners, and when you enter promotions. Belleville.net may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we might also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. When you register with Belleville.net and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

Belleville.net collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

Belleville.net automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, Belleville.net cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.

Belleville.net uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Belleville.net does not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.

Belleville.net does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

Belleville.net does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Belleville.net under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Belleville.net communicate with you about offers from Belleville.net and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing Belleville.net to collect and use their child's information without consenting to Belleville.net sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Belleville.net's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

Belleville.net displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

• Belleville.net does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• Belleville.net advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

Belleville.net works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

COOKIES

Belleville.net may set and access Belleville.net cookies on your computer.

Belleville.net lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Belleville.net's cookies.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

Belleville.net may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Belleville.net account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

If you have questions or suggestions, please complete the contact form linked above or you can contact us at:

Belleville.net Privacy Policy Agent
c/o The City of Belleville
101 South Illinois Street
Belleville, IL 62220