Privacy Policy

becoming.net has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for these websites: becoming.net, heartthrobs.info, excellently.com, kellers.biz, sensibly.net, and noload.info.

This site contains links to other sites and services. becoming.net is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites and services.

We may use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. Ads may contain cookies, and appear to be coming from our site, but in reality they are coming from our partners who are serving ads on our site. Our site does not use cookies, except in the forums (where they are optional, but add very useful functionality). We do not have access to any information about you from cookies you might receive while visiting our site.

Products and Services

Name, address, and phone number may be collected as part of purchasing products and services on this site. Such information will only be used in relation to those products and services. However, it may be retained indefinitely as part of our business records.

Special note on domain names. When you register a domain name, you are providing personal information to the registrar, who will be making it available to the public.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, and/or message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Such measures are not guaranteed to be effective.

Use of Email Addresses

Our site doesn't maintain lists of email addresses provided to us, except those associated with membership in forums. We don't sell, rent, or otherwise provide email address lists. We don't disclose the email addresses given to us to third parties without the addressee's permission, except as may be required by the authorities.

Contacting the Web Site

Click here to email us any questions, concerns, or comments.

Special Exclusion

Privacy protections do not apply to any SPAM, UCE, Chain Letters, Viruses, Trojans, or Worms that are sent to us, any attempts to hack our site or services, or any illegal activity.

Updates and Effective Date

This revised version of our privacy policy is effective July 21, 2004. Updates to this policy will be posted on this page, which can be accessed directly at: http://www.becoming.net/privacy.html