Copyrights, Trademarks, Liability

Applicable Web Site(s). This copyright, terms of use and privacy statement covers this site (Bay Area Backgrounds) owned and operated by Bay Area Backgrounds, Herein referred to as BAB.

Attention. Please read the copyright, terms of use and privacy information presented below carefully before using (including downloading from or uploading to) this Web site. Use of this Web site indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Web site.

Information and Accuracy. While BAB attempts to convey accurate and current information on this site, the information provided on this site may contain typographical or technical errors. You are advised to confirm the accuracy of any information presented at this site before relying on it in any way.

INFORMATION ON THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Products and Services. Information on this Website and BAB products and/or services may be changed or updated without notice. Some products and services may only be available in the United States and its territories.

No Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL BAB BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, EVEN IF BAB IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Trademarks. The BAB and Bay Area Backgrounds logos, and other names, logos, icons and other marks identifying BAB and Bay Area Backgrounds, its products and services referenced herein are trademarks of BAB and may not be used without the prior written permission of BAB. Certain service agreements permit merchants and others to use certain of the trademarks for limited purposes. All other product or company names referred to herein are trademarks of the respective owners.

Copyright Notice. This web site is subject to the protection of the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. You may not reproduce any part of BAB's web site without the prior written permission of BAB Products and companies referred to herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or mark holders. Some images copyright www.clipart.com and are used under a license agreement.

Use of BAB Services and Software. BAB SOFTWARE AND SERVICES MAY ONLY BE USED FOR LAWFUL PURPOSES. If any BAB software or service is used in violation of any law or regulation or in a manner that may cause BAB to be subject to investigation, prosecution or legal action, BAB may exercise its rights under the appropriate service agreement and/or software licenses to terminate service. Users of BAB services and/or software accept the risk that their service may be interrupted if legal challenges arise as to their use of the service.

Sales Policy

Sales Prices. All Prices and Sales are in US Dollars.

Financial Information. We will not willfully disclose individually identifiable information about our visitors or customers to any third party without first receiving permission from that visitor or customer. We DO NOT Store or Retain any Credit Card related Information (Credit Card Numbers, Expiration Date, Card Security Code) on the BAB Site . All Credit Card related Information is sent in a secure manner over the internet via SSL to our Credit Card Processing Service (PayPal).

Privacy Policy

Data Collection. We make every effort to honor the preferences of our Web site users concerning the collection and use of personally identifiable information. In general, when you visit any BAB Web site and access information, you will remain anonymous. We limit the information we collect from you to only what we need to conduct business and to offer products and services that you might be interested in. If you elect to engage in transaction opportunities on our Web sites, you will be asked to provide information necessary to facilitate transactions such as your address, payment instructions and other information that we are required to collect by law. When you make an offer to participate in a transaction opportunity, we will use your personally identifiable information to facilitate the transaction. We may also maintain transaction history information about our Web site users. In addition to information you provide, we may collect information about your use of our Web sites that will help us improve our online services, such as information regarding what pages you access on our sites, what URL you just came from and the URL you next go to, what browser you are using and your IP address. This type of information collection is an industry standard and the information collected will be used to analyze trends and statistics and monitor link usage.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

BAB is committed to maintaining and protecting your privacy and is committed to protecting Personally Identifiable Information that you provide in connection your use of the BAB site or BAB site. In order to use certain features on the BAB Secure Backgrounds Site, including, without limitation, user preferences, account settings, etc you may need to register and create a user account through our (“Get Started”) Link located at worldwidebackgrounds.com. You will also be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information and other information about yourself, or your employee (if you are an employer) such as applicant full name, DOB, SSN, address and other relevant contact information.

BAB is responsible for the security of the information that our clients have entrusted to us including PII, which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity such as a name or social security number (SSN). BAB is therefore responsible for mitigating the risks associated with the inadvertent loss or unapproved disclosure of PII. This policy does not supersede any other applicable law in effect as of the effective date of this policy. BAB management shall apply this policy to clients, employees, contractor personnel, interns, volunteers and any other individuals or entities deemed. All organizations collecting or maintaining information or using or operating information systems on behalf of the BAB are also subject to the stipulations of this policy.

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on a BAB web site and when you use services provided by BAB or BAB. This policy also covers our treatment of any personally identifiable information that may be provided to us from other sources. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own and/or control or to people that we do not employ or manage.

Data Security. We use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. Unfortunately, it is impossible to absolutely guarantee the security of data transmission over the Internet or any network. Therefore, although we take reasonable measures to protect your information, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us or from online services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will use industry standard efforts to ensure its security on our systems. All credit card transactions on our Web sites are via a secure connection which encrypts all data between your browser and our server during the credit card transaction process.

Cookies. We use cookies on some portions of our Web sites. A cookie is an identifier that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. Cookies enable us to provide you with a better experience by allowing us to understand what areas of the Web site are of interest to our visitors. We may also use cookies when you register to use one of our web-based services. In this situation, a cookie will store useful information that enables our Web site to remember you when you return to visit us. We can only read cookies from our own Web sites. We do not link the information collected through cookies to any personally identifiable information provided by users. Cookies do not contain any information that is, in itself, personally identifying. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still access most of our Web sites and services.

Opt-Out and Changes to Data. This site gives users the following option for indicating to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service. You must send an email requesting to OPT-Out via the Customer Service page. This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying any information previously provided by sending an email via the Customer Service page.

Comments. Any comments or materials sent to BAB may be used by us without liability and for any purpose without compensation or attribution to the sender. BAB may reproduce, use, disclose, exhibit, display, transform, create derivative works and distribute such content or materials to others without limitation or compensation.

Quality. Because you deserve the highest quality products and services we can offer, we use secure server technology to keep information about our business relationship with you private, complete, accurate, and up-to-date.

Our Responsibility. We provide protection against unauthorized disclosure of the information you share with us. We limit access to our "customer" files only to those with a need to know. We also educate our staff about their responsibility to protect your privacy.

Links to other Sites. Information that BAB publishes on the World Wide Web may contain links to other sites. BAB makes no representations whatsoever about any other web site that you may access through this site. Unless expressly stated in writing, BAB does not endorse the products or services offered by any company or person linked to this site nor is BAB responsible for any software or the content of any information published on the site of any other party. You should take precautions when downloading files from sites to protect your computer software and data from viruses and other destructive programs. Through our web pages, you may connect to third parties' web sites via hyperlinks, and the connections may or may not be obvious. We are not responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information by such third parties. We encourage our users to be aware of the varied privacy policies of web sites that they visit.

Users Under 13. This Web site is not directed at children under the age of 13. If you are younger than 13, please do not provide any personally identifiable information in connection with your use of this Web site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy. Due to changing technological and marketing demands, we must reserve the right to change our policies regarding the privacy of your personally identifiable information in the future. If that happens, we will endeavor to promptly update this Privacy Policy. We may also attempt to provide a message to our customers whose e-mail addresses we have, in conformity with this Privacy Policy, advising of any such change. Your continued use of the web site following changes to this policy will indicate that you accept the changes.

We do not sell or rent our customers' information
to any outside company or organization.

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