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While we make every effort to utilize, link with, and enter into partnerships with companies of the highest quality, this Privacy Statement applies only to BloomingtonSearch.com. Except as detailed below, we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any Website other than BloomingtonSearch.com.

Collection of Personal and Public Information
While in the process of using BloomingtonSearch.com, you may be asked to provide personal information (i.e. your name, email address or postal zip code) in order to qualify for certain programs, such as our Affiliate Program, promotional contests, or newsletters.

We also collect public information for several purposes every time you visit our Website. Public information is information that is not tied to you as an individual, but helps us tailor our business to best suit our users. Public information includes how you use our site, the IP addresses and/or the domain names of the browsers that visit our site, the time of day and length of time our site was visited, and other information that doesn't identify you as an individual.

Use of Personal and Public Information
Unless you have given us express permission, we will use best efforts to not disclose your personal information to anyone, with the following exceptions:

1. When we have reason to believe that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against anyone who may be interfering with the normal daily operations of BloomingtonSearch.com

2. When we have reason to believe that someone may be causing harm to you, another of our customers or clients, or anyone else who may be harmed by your use of BloomingtonSearch.com

3. When we believe that the law requires us to disclose that information

4. When we receive a demand for that information from law enforcement authorities in connection with a criminal investigation, or from civil authorities in connection with a pending civil case or administrative investigation.

We will also use best efforts to not disclose your public information to anyone that we have reason to believe also has personal information about you and intends to connect your public and private information.

Cookies, and How to Use or Avoid Them
A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a Website sends to a Web browser that is stored on the computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage or affect the computer on which they are stored in any way; cookies are simply "reminders" for the Website that placed them, so that your preferences (i.e. the language in which you chose to view the site) can be reused the next time you visit that site

We use cookies to determine such things as if we have repeat visitors, where our visitors are coming from, and where they end up going. Essentially, it allows us to quietly and non-invasively survey the surfing habits of our visitors, so that we can provide more interesting information to our visitors. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can change the settings of your Web browser to not accept them.

Use of IP Addresses
An IP address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to the Internet through your service provider. Your IP address is visible to any Web page that you visit. BloomingtonSearch.com may record your IP address for several different reasons, including, but not limited to, system administration, tracking advertising revenue, and the auditing of our site.