Privacy Policy

BlackTradeLines.com owns and provides various websites, services, and software that facilitate online booking of appointments (collectively, the “Services”).  BlackTradeLines.com respects your privacy and values your trust.  In this Privacy Policy, we may refer to BlackTradeLines.com as “BlackTradeLines.com,” “us,” or “we.” “Business User” shall refer to any business using the Services for online booking and appointment management purposes.    “Consumer” shall refer to an end consumer using the Services to make or modify an appointment, provide feedback, or utilize any other aspect of the Services.  “You” shall refer to both Consumers and Business Users.  The following Privacy Policy outlines how BlackTradeLines.com will treat information as you use the Services. BY USING the SERVICEs, YOU ACCEPT THE terms set forth IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND in OUR TERMS of Use.  
BlackTradeLines.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, update, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without notice to you. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes.  For Business Users, this Privacy Policy will be available in the “My Account” section of the BlackTradeLines.com website.  Your continued use of the Services after the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy will signify your acceptance of those changes.     

Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”)  
PII is any piece of information which can be traced back to a specific individual user and thus potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate that specific individual.  Examples of PII include names, telephone numbers, social security numbers, and other unique identifiers.  In no event will BlackTradeLines.com (i) use PII to market its services or those of a third party, or (ii) sell or transfer PII to third parties, or otherwise provide third parties with access thereto, except as specifically provided in this Privacy Policy and/or in our applicable Terms of Use. 

Consumers. 
If a Consumer chooses to use the Service, the Consumer may elect to provide information including, but not limited to, that Consumer’s name, telephone number, and email address (collectively “Consumer Information”), that may be Personally Identifiable Information.  We will also collect user submitted information including but not limited to ratings & reviews of businesses and service providers with whom the submitting Consumer has interacted through the Services, and any responses or other postings by a Business User.  

Business Users.
When a Business User registers to use the Services, we may ask that Business User to provide business information including the business name, type of business, email address, telephone number, and street address (“Business Information”).  We also ask Business Users to provide a valid credit card number and billing address so that we can process any payments for use of the Services by such Business User, pursuant to the Business User Terms of Use.  Business Users, as registered users of the Services, may modify their account information at any time by accessing the “My Account” section of the site when such Business User is logged into the Services.  
You should be aware that if you upload, post, and/or distribute to the Services material, including but not limited to, Personally Identifiable Information, questions, feedback, reviews, data, comments, ratings, suggestions, information, text, data, software, sounds, photographs, podcasts, audio, audiovisual, video, images, graphics, messages and other content or materials of any nature (“User Submitted Materials”), those materials and the substantive information contained in them may be accessible by third parties.  The activities of third parties are beyond the control of BlackTradeLines.com.  Please do not post any information that you expect to keep private on the BlackTradeLines.com website or in other areas of the Services.  
In the event that BlackTradeLines.com discovers that personal information has been or is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information. 
We do not intentionally provide PII to third parties except where you provide PII as part of making an appointment through the Services, to create a business profile to receive appointment requests, or to indicate interest in advertisers or in services provided by one of the businesses bookable through the Services.  In any of the above situations, we may provide that information to the appropriate business, Consumer, or advertiser so that they may attempt to schedule an appointment or provide you with information regarding the advertised products or services about which you inquired.  
If a Consumer provides any Consumer Information or User Submitted Materials to the Services that are relevant to a business with whom that Consumer makes an appointment or otherwise transacts through the Services, BlackTradeLines.com reserves the right to provide such businesses with the relevant Consumer Information and/or User Submitted Materials for purposes of managing the appointment and/or transaction with such Consumer, whether or not such information is Personally Identifiable Information.    
BlackTradeLines.com reserves the right, pursuant to the Business User Terms of Use, to provide relevant Business Information to third parties in order to maximize the exposure of BlackTradeLines.com businesses online and the number of appointments made through the Services.
We may use PII and any other information provided by a business or a Consumer through the Services for internal purposes, such as sales, human resources, marketing, and administration.  We may share this information with third parties who provide us with administrative services.  If we share any of the information collected from you with such a third party, their use of that information will be governed by their privacy policy. 
If you or any other user of the Services sends an email to BlackTradeLines.com for any reason, we reserve the right to retain that email address to use to send future notifications in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable BlackTradeLines.com Terms of Use.  
Information and User Submitted Materials provided by a business on its profile or elsewhere on the Services will be accessible by Consumers.  Information and User Submitted Materials provided by a Consumer, including any personally identifiable information provided when such Consumer makes an appointment through the Services, may be made available to the business from which the Consumer is requesting an appointment.    

Non-Personally Identifiable Information  
Non-personally identifiable information is information that, by itself, cannot be tracked to a specific individual.  Examples of non-personally identifiable information include, but are not limited to, the type of internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, your IP address, the time and date of your use of the Services, and whether or not you clicked on hypertext links within the Services.  We may collect non-personally identifiable information while you use the Services.  

Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information  
We may use the non-personally identifiable information to generate user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners. If we provide any such information to others, we will provide such information in the aggregate only and will not include any personally identifiable information about any individual users.  We may also use the non-personally identifiable information to generate statistics that we may provide to you and to other businesses using the Services, including, for example, the number of appointments in a certain time period.  We also may provide non-personally identifiable information to contractors so that they can perform services for us.

Cookies 
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive to identify your computer to our servers.  If your browser is configured to accept cookies, we will use cookies to recognize your computer when you visit the Services so that we can provide you with a more personalized and streamlined experience and improve the quality of the Services.  If you wish, you can configure your browser to block cookies.  In order to accept and manage appointments, reservations, or bookings made by Consumers through the Services, however, you must have cookies enabled.
Advertisements of third-party advertisers may be displayed on the Services.  If you choose to click on a third-party advertisement or link, we may provide non-personally identifiable information to the owning advertiser and/or web publisher.  Also, any such advertiser or web publisher may use cookies or other technologies to collect information when you are visiting their web sites.  The information advertisers or other third parties collect is governed by their individual privacy policies.  BlackTradeLines.com does not take responsibility nor can guarantee the content of such third-party privacy policies.  

Notifications
We may use such information to send you email messages and other notifications relating to the Services and your use of the Services.  We reserve the right to notify you through e-mail, facsimiles, text or voice messages, or notices posted on the BlackTradeLines.com websites, as determined by BlackTradeLines.com in our discretion.  By using the Services, you consent to receiving such notifications.        
Business Users may opt-out of receiving notifications regarding appointments through the Services by logging into their BlackTradeLines.com account and changing the notification settings; opting-out of such notifications, however, will limit the effectiveness of the Services.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither Business Users nor Consumers may opt-out of receiving notifications relating to support of the Services or other notices as required by law.  If we have provided any third party with your personal information, you will have to contact the third-party directly with any opt-out request. 

Schedule and Appointment Information
BlackTradeLines.com will not share a business’ schedule with anyone, except to the extent necessary to allow Consumers to choose and make appointments.  We will not share a Consumer’s personal schedule information with anyone except the businesses with whom such Consumer makes an appointment.  Each business will be able to access and view only the schedule for that business, and only information relating to appointments for that business.

Other Sharing of Information
We may release information when necessary to comply with the law or a court order or an investigation.  We also may release information to law enforcement to protect our rights, property, or other interests, including those of our customers or users or to prevent illegal activities or violations of our Terms of Use (at http://www.BlackTradeLines.com/terms.cfm).   
In the event that we, in whole or in part, establish a partnership with another company, or are acquired by or merged with another company, information we collect may be transferred to the partner or the acquiring or merging company at time such merger, acquisition, or partnership is closed and to the extent necessary to fulfill our obligations under such merger, acquisition, or partnership.   

Child Protection
We do not offer services to, or target, persons under the age of 13.  In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we will purge any information we receive from people we believe to be children under 13 from our database and cancel the corresponding accounts. 

Security 
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure, but we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.  We cannot ensure the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet, and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure of such information.  You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.

MOBILE APP POLICY

Privacy Policy

BlackTradeLines built the Trade Circle app as a free app. This SERVICE is provided by BlackTradeLines at no cost and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform website and mobile visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at BlackTradeLines, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to users name, address,location and pictures. The information that we request is will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy.

The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you example Google services - Check for Google's privacy policy.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your devices’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, configuration of the app when utilising our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your devices’s internal memory.

This Services does not uses these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collection information and to improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate our Service;
• To provide the verification services on our behalf;
• To provide the Service on our behalf;
• To perform Service-related services; or
• To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. I have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

This Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.