The Manhattan Professional Group’s Privacy Principles

The Manhattan Professional Group is an online media company that brings you insightful, highly-customized entrepreneurial strategies in our emails and on our website.

We want to give you information that you care about and that is relevant to you. So, we enter into a voluntary relationship with you where we listen to who you are, and what you want. Then we go out and find it and bring it back to you in the most personalized services possible. It's that simple— our emails and services are all about you and the data you disclose to us makes it possible to deliver what you truly want.

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to The Manhattan Professional Group's Privacy Director at the Manhattan Professional Group Inc., 350 5th Ave. Suite 6015 , New York , NY , 10118 , privacy@thesuccessleague.com. To understand the Manhattan Professional Group's information practices when you visit our site at http://www.thesuccessleague.com, please read our privacy policy below. It may be updated from time to time so please check back periodically.

Effective: 11/9/2007

Manhattan Professional Group is a licensee of the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.thesuccessleague.com . Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us at info@thesuccessleague.com . If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

What types of information does The Manhattan Professional Group collect?

Many of the ways in which you interact with our site allow us to learn more about you. We collect both personal and public information when you participate with the Manhattan Professional Group.

Personal information includes your email address , name and phone number . This information is considered personally identifiable and will not be displayed on our site. We collect this information from you in order to contact you with the services you request from our site.

Public information is information that helps us to personalize your experience. Public information may include, but is not limited to, member-submitted information such as your username, gender, age, relevant information about your entrepreneurial goals and practices, and geographic location. Some of this information is optional, and meant to support the function of the site as a valuable tool for entrepreneurs.

We collect and store certain technical and other information about the online activities of our users — whether or not they are registered — on an aggregated (or collective) basis. This includes your IP address, browser type, and operating system. The Manhattan Professional Group does not use this information to identify you but does match it with your testing activities once you choose to participate. We do track the number of people who view each page, and other site usage data, in order to learn which features are the most popular and thereby improve our service. We also record statistical information collected on our site to better understand our audience. This information is recorded as anonymous group statistical information and is not connected to any personal information unless you participate in any of our tests.

When you become a participant of The Manhattan Professional Group, your name and email address will be linked to your testing information. If you prefer to remove your information from our database, you can choose to do so by following the unsubscribe link from any email we send to you. As a participant, you will also receive a newsletter customized to your needs and desires. You may unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time time by following the Unsubscribe link at the top and bottom of the email . The Manhattan Professional Group may use URL tracking in the emails sent to you. When you open such email messages, our system may record the following data: the time you viewed the email and the URLs that you clicked on from that email. The Manhattan Professional Group will also record if your email program is capable of receiving HTML-encoded email. URL tracking may use cookies.

The Manhattan Professional Group uses this information to assess or modify our content in these emails. The Manhattan Professional Group may use this information in an aggregated, statistical form to describe our audience and services on our site to third parties (i.e., anyone or any entity who is not an employee, agent, or subsidiary of the Manhattan Professional Group). If you send an email or submit any information to our customer support staff, we will retain your email or other information for the time necessary to respond to you. The Manhattan Professional Group also uses cookies as described in more detail below.

From time-to-time we will request information from members via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information such as name and demographic information (such as zip code and age).

How does the Manhattan Professional Group use or disclose my information?

The Manhattan Professional Group never discloses your personal information to any third party unless you have given us your express permission. The Manhattan Professional Group uses the public information you voluntarily give us to better understand who you are and provide you with customized services.

The Manhattan Professional Group may use aggregated, statistical information to describe our audience, services, and to develop partnerships with third parties (i.e., anyone or any entity who is not an employee, agent, or subsidiary of the Manhattan Professional Group). For example, if 30% of our members were interested in small business tax services, we would share that statistic with a small business tax service provider in order to offer that service to our members. We would not disclose our members' individual data. Rest assured, we do not disclose your personal information without your explicit permission.

The Manhattan Professional Group uses public information such as your first name, last name, gender, age, height, preference/lifestyle information and geographic location for searching and matching purposes.

Your email address and full name are used when a member invites another person via email to participate in the Manhattan Professional Group's strategy services.

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Manhattan Professional Group stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at info@thesuccessleague.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Except when inviting or adding people, a member's email address is not shared or displayed to other visitors or participants.

The Manhattan Professional Group will use your email address to automatically save the full test results of any test you take. In such instances, when your personal information is directly connected to your statistical information, we do not disclose this information to third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy or with your permission.

We may also use your email address to send you news regarding your particular entrepreneurial interests, and you may unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all of our emails.

Your mail address may also be used in private correspondence with you for customer service issues or for special promotions. All other private information submitted by you is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to protect members of the Manhattan Professional Group. All private information can be updated or deleted by you at any time.

Our business is about building a long-term relationship with you. To build that trust, we know that as you spend time on our site and with our email newsletters, your personal information must remain within your control. Therefore, unless you give us your express permission, except if we believe in good faith that the law requires it, that disclosure is necessary to respond to a subpoena, warrant, or court order, or to protect the rights of the Manhattan Professional Group or others, we will not share your personal information with unauthorized third parties. We consider your personal information to be exactly that-yours. And we will do our best to protect it!

How do I control or change my information?

Once you become a participant of the Manhattan Professional Group, your personal information is stored our database and may be changed at any time by following the appropriate link in any email we send to you. You may also change or delete your information by sending us an email at info@thesuccessleague.com [see section 9b].

As part of your participation, the Manhattan Professional Group will send you product and service offerings we think you'll be interested in via email. If you do not want to participate in the programs we offer to you, you may do so by following the link at the bottom of our emails.

From time to time Manhattan Professional Group will post testimonials on the web site. These are placed on the web site to convey to our users how our services can help them. Before we place these testimonials on the web site, we receive expressed consent from the person who supplied us with the comment.

How does The Manhattan Professional Group keep my information secure?

Every one of our employees understands that the privacy of our members is a top priority. Access to members' personal information is strictly limited to a small number of engineers and customer relationship employees. A customer relationship employee will handle your personal information only to respond to your communication or to better understand our audience to help with our editorial direction. The engineers handle personal information when they maintain our site and email newsletters. Rest assured that the members of our Security Team are subject to stringent confidentiality requirements. (this should be addressed) Any member information disseminated outside of these engineers and customer relationship employees is anonymous and aggregated.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, The Manhattan Professional Group cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort, including the use of firewalls, to ensure the security of your information on our systems.

What are cookies and how does the Manhattan Professional Group use them?

Like many sites on the Web, The Manhattan Professional Group uses cookies to store and track information about you when you're on our site so that we can better provide personalized services that better match your needs and interests. We also use cookies to assess which features on the site are popular among our users.

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive, then sent back to the server by your browser each time you access certain sections of the site. Cookies allow you to store your email address without having to re-enter it.

Note that any advertising networks serving ads on our website may also user their own cookies. The Manhattan Professional Group does not control these cookies or the data collection practices of these companies. For more information about their separate privacy policies, you should contact the third-party advertising network directly. For more information on the privacy policies of our advertisers, see below.

What privacy policies cover the ads on your site?

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our site. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

Changes to the Manhattan Professional Group Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

What happens to my information if The Manhattan Professional Group is sold to or merges with another company?

While the Manhattan Professional Group will endeavor to require the successor company to maintain this privacy policy, we cannot guarantee that our policy will remain unchanged if the Manhattan Professional Group is sold or merges with another company. We will use our best efforts to notify you by email if such a merger or acquisition occurs. As always, in the event of a merger or acquisition, you will be able to edit or delete your profile at The Manhattan Professional Group.

What if I'm a resident outside of the U.S.?

Like almost every Web site, the Manhattan Professional Group may be accessed by an international audience. By visiting our Web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be processed for the purposes identified in this policy. In addition, such data may be stored on servers located outside your resident jurisdiction, which may have less stringent privacy practices than your own. By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.

What else should I know about my privacy?

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. The few Manhattan Professional Group employees who have access to personal data are trained to comply with the above privacy policy and made aware of any updates or modifications.