PRIVACY POLICY

WELCOME
Thank you for visiting this web site ("Site") and reviewing this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy"). This Site is controlled and maintained by The Boutique Search Firm. This Privacy Policy describes the information collected from visitors/users/customers of this Site and how this information is used. This Privacy Policy may change at any time, without prior notice to any visitor/user/customer, and is provided for informational purposes only and is not meant to be either an express or an implied contract. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. This Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to The Boutique Search Firm online while visiting the Site, and does not apply to any information about you that The Boutique Search Firm has received, obtained or may obtain offline or through other traditional means.

YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS SITE AND/OR SERVICES OF THE BOUTIQUE SEARCH FIRM CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, INCLUDING THIS AND ANY AMENDMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS THERETO.

The Boutique Search Firm values its visitors/users/customers and is committed to protecting your privacy. The Boutique Search Firm shares your information only as described in this Privacy Policy. The Boutique Search Firm has provided this Privacy Policy to help you understand the information that we collect from or about you, how we use this information and the ways we maintain it, including the security of such information.
When we use the terms "us" or "we," the term refers to The Boutique Search Firm.
GENERAL INFORMATION
In order to enhance the content contained on this Site, The Boutique Search Firm may gather, store and use certain General Information about your visit. "General Information" is information about you or your activities through which you cannot be identified and may include some or all of the following items:
1. The Internet Protocol ("IP") address of your Internet Service Provider ("ISP") and/or your computer, if it has its own static IP address.
2. The domain name associated with you or your computer or ISP.
3. The date, time and length of your visit to the Site and the specific web pages, images, documents or forms you accessed during your visit to this Site.
4. Whether you are viewing the Site for the first time or are a return visitor/user/customer.
5. The Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the web site that referred you to the Site and/or the search engine that referred you to the Site (including any search strings or phrases you entered into a search engine used to find this Site).
6. Demographic information about your country of origin and language(s) used.
7. The type and version of your Internet browser, your computer's operating system and information regarding "client errors" encountered by you during your visit to the Site.
The Boutique Search Firm collects the General Information and may use it to generate aggregate statistics about visitors/users/customers of the Site. In situations where it is possible to do so, General Information may be linked to, combined with and/or used in conjunction with Personal Information (as defined below).
PERSONAL INFORMATION
"Personal Information" is information through which you can be identified. Providing your Personal Information to The Boutique Search Firm is your choice. Personal Information that The Boutique Search Firm may collect from you includes, but is not limited to, your name, postal address(es), telephone number(s), facsimile number(s), e-mail address(es), date of birth and any other information that you voluntarily provide. Personal Information is collected on the Site through e-mail and/or through applications completed or used by you on the Site, including requesting newsletters or contacting our customer service department. The Personal Information that The Boutique Search Firm collects from you depends on the nature of your activities on the Site.
Your Personal Information is collected from our Site, through e-mail and/or through online applications you complete, our "Contact Us" page, and through your activities with The Boutique Search Firm. Personal Information that The Boutique Search Firm collects depends on the nature of your activities, including, but not limited to, whether you contact us through e-mail or our "Contact Us" page and/or purchase of the newsletter. For example, Personal Information submitted by you on the "Contact Us" web page is used by The Boutique Search Firm to enhance this Site or to reply to questions/comments made by you.
Personal Information may be used by The Boutique Search Firm for a variety of internal purposes, including verifying and completing requested transactions, ensuring the appropriate legal use of The Boutique Search Firm's content and/or services, and helping provide customer and technical support. The Boutique Search Firm may also use your Personal Information to send you certain materials and information by e-mail and/or other methods, including marketing materials, information about our business, including our services and those of our business partners, and newsletters or other information or materials, unless you notify The Boutique Search Firm that you do not wish to receive such materials. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail or postal notifications about this Site, please let us know by sending us an e-mail to admin@boutiquesearchfirm.com or by sending us a letter via U.S. Postal Mail at our address listed below (Attn: Unsubscribe to Mailings) and specifying in the text of your e-mail or letter which notifications you no longer wish to receive. In addition, within the text of your e-mail or letter, you should provide your exact name and address, so that we can do our best to ensure that you stop receiving the notifications that you no longer wish to receive. After such a request is received and processed, The Boutique Search Firm will use reasonable efforts to refrain from sending you any such notifications.
The Boutique Search Firm may also disclose your Personal Information if: (1) it is subject to disclosure in response to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders served on The Boutique Search Firm, or (2) it must be disclosed to protect The Boutique Search Firm's rights or property, to enforce the provisions of this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms of Use posted on this Site and/or to prevent harm to yourself or any other person or entity; or (3) its business is sold or offered for sale to another entity or individual(s), and/or (4) a petition for relief is filed under U.S. bankruptcy laws for or against The Boutique Search Firm or if The Boutique Search Firm becomes subject to an order of appointment of a trustee or receiver.
The Boutique Search Firm may hire companies to help deliver products or services (e.g., a shipping company that delivers a hard copy of the newsletter). In these instances, there is a need to share some or all of your Personal Information with these companies. The Boutique Search Firm may also work with other companies who help either gather your Personal information or communicate with you. Even if you "unsubscribe" from us and/or third parties, this will not restrict The Boutique Search Firm from sharing your Personal Information with any of these companies. Nonetheless, except as separately permitted by other provisions of this Privacy Policy, these companies are allowed to gather, receive and/or use your Personal Information only for the purposes described herein or as required by law.
Unless legally required to do so and except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, The Boutique Search Firm will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose your Personal Information to any outside company or organization. This Privacy Policy excludes data that may be stored or transmitted to or from the Internet company hosting this Site.
COOKIES
The use of "cookies" is a standard practice among web sites. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer to uniquely distinguish your visit to a web site. Cookies are most often used to track specific information regarding your activity on a particular web site, including the date and time of your visit(s) and any registration information which you provide.
When you visit this Site, we place a cookie in a directory of your computer's hard drive. Cookies make it easier for you to use this Site. For example, cookies allow The Boutique Search Firm to recognize certain information about you and your computer, such as your browser type, so we know if you can view certain plug-ins and cookies also allow us to streamline your visit based on your previous visits to this Site.
Cookies may be either permanent or temporary. [The Boutique Search Firm uses permanent cookies.] This means that the cookie stays on your hard drive until you delete it. You can delete our cookie at any time by following the instructions contained in your browser's help file or by contacting the company providing your browser's technical support. The Boutique Search Firm does not use cookies to store information such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or any other Personal Information.
You may configure your browser to accept or deny cookies from this Site. However, disabling or denying cookies from this Site may render parts of it inaccessible or may cause certain web pages to not properly load. For more information on cookies or to further understand their use and benefits, please see the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) report at: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-034.shtml.
CHILDREN
The Boutique Search Firm does not knowingly solicit or collect information from children (defined as minors younger than thirteen (13) years of age). If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the age of eighteen (18) or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, and have authorized your child to use your computer, we urge you to instruct your child never to give out his or her real name, age, address, phone number, e-mail address or other personally identifying information while on this Site. There are no computer applications on this Site which allow for the determination of the age of a visitor/user/customer. All information volunteered to The Boutique Search Firm will be treated the same as information given by an adult. The Boutique Search Firm recommends that the Internet browsing behavior of any child should be carefully supervised by a responsible adult at all times.
SECURITY
The security and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access and improper use. The Boutique Search Firm makes access to your Personal Information subject to certain security measures, including technological controls such as "firewalls" in accordance with industry standards. When the use of a The Boutique Search Firm web page involves the transmission of Personal Information or confidential information of The Boutique Search Firm, The Boutique Search Firm uses Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") technology to establish a secure connection between your computer and The Boutique Search Firm. SSL allows the transmission of encrypted information from your computer to The Boutique Search Firm and back again, and is currently the industry standard for Internet platform security. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. However, please be aware that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so while The Boutique Search Firm strives to protect your Personal Information, The Boutique Search Firm cannot ensure or warrant the security of your Personal Information.
The Boutique Search Firm reserves the right to monitor all network traffic to this Site to identify and/or block unauthorized attempts or intrusions to upload or change information or cause damage to this Site in any manner. Anyone using this Site expressly consents to such monitoring.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
FOR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA ONLY. Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code requires select businesses to disclose policies relating to their sharing of certain categories of Personal Information with third parties. If you reside in California and have provided your Personal Information to The Boutique Search Firm, you may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of your Personal Information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us by using one (1) of the following methods:

     By E-mail: admin@boutiquesearchfirm.com
     By U.S. Postal Mail: The Boutique Search Firm
                1173 Rodeo Drive
                Beverly Hills, CA 90035

Within thirty (30) days of receiving such a request, we will provide you with a list of the categories of your Personal Information disclosed to third parties for third party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of those third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the addresses specified in this section.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us through any of the following means, however, please be sure to specify the reason for your communication. Please be aware that any "unsubscribe" requests or other requests for which a specific e-mail or other address is specified herein will not be processed if sent to us at the following addresses.

    E-mail: admin@boutiquesearchfirm.com
    By U.S. Postal Mail: The Boutique Search Firm
                1173 Rodeo Drive
                Beverly Hills, CA 90035

This Privacy Policy may be changed at any time with or without prior notice. Please checkthis Privacy Policy periodically for amendments and/or changes.


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Updated: August 23rd, 2007