With respect to this Web site, DIRECTORY-BASE will not collect, store, or use personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address ("Your Information"), when it is voluntarily submitted to us. We will use Your Information to respond to requests you may make of us, and from time to time, we may refer to Your Information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our Web sites, products and services. Any and all uses would comply with all applicable laws. We may also use Your Information to contact you. However, the provision of Your Information will only be necessary if you choose to use or receive certain tools or services. The majority of this Web site does not require the provision of Your Information. Any other information transferred by you in connection with your visit to this site ("Other Information" – i.e., information that cannot be used to identify you) may be included in databases owned and maintained by DIRECTORY-BASE or its agents. DIRECTORY-BASE retains all rights to these databases and the information contained in them.

Our Web sites, like nearly all sites on the Internet, will use Other Information and pool it with information that tracks the total number of visitors to our site, the number of visitors to each page of our site, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. However, it is important to note that no personally identifiable information is available or used in this process.

In addition, some of our Web sites use a technology called "cookies". A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our site gives to your computer (actually to your browser) when you access a Web site. Our cookies provide additional functionality to the site and help us analyze site usage more accurately. For instance, our site may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from needing to remember and enter a password more than once during a visit to the site. In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect personally identifiable information without your permission.

As a convenience to our visitors, this Web site may contain links to a number of sites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection, and distribution policies.

We may update this Web site Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do update it, for your convenience, we will make the updated policy available on this page.