At Onvia, the privacy and protection of your personal and financial information is very important to us. That's why we've created this privacy statement that fully describes our information gathering and dissemination practices. It's the best way we can demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. Onvia uses your personal information for the following purposes:
Building your Onvia account
- Personalizing delivery of the content contained within our Website
- Facilitating restricted promotions and marketing efforts
- Personalizing content and information sent when you subscribe to our email service
When you register with our site, we ask for your name, company name, and email address. We use this to contact you when necessary. Onvia may send you occasional promotional email. Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of Onvia customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your information. You do not have to receive such mailings and may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in all Onvia email.
We may compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, and providing marketing assistance. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
We may also use information from your account based on your site visits to generate statistics and aggregate reports for internal use. While these statistics and aggregate reports may be shown to affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees, successors, and partners, they will not contain any personally identifiable information and your identity will be kept anonymous. Certain confidential information--such as passwords and credit card numbers--is not disclosed in any of these reports.
If you sign up for a service from Onvia, the information you give--such as your credit card number, purchase information, and contact information--is provided to the banking merchant. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except to the extent necessary to provide you with a requested service, under circumstances required by law, or--in limited cases--to our business partners as outlined in this policy.
You will not be contacted directly by any third party as a result of your relationship with Onvia unless you have given us permission to do so. Any business partners with whom we share your information will be subject to confidentiality restrictions preventing them from sharing your personal information with others.
Privacy Policy for Agencies
At Onvia, the privacy and protection of your agency’s contact information is very important to us. That's why we've created this privacy statement that fully describes our information gathering and dissemination practices. It's the best way we can demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy.
When you register with our site or sign on with us, we ask for the agency name, contact person, and email address. We use this to contact you when necessary. Onvia may send you occasional promotional email. Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of Onvia suppliers about your membership. We also acquire lists of agencies’ contact information from third parties. If your agency’s contact information appears on such lists, we may provide such contact information to our suppliers.
We may compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, and providing marketing assistance. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Security Precautions
Our site has stringent security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control.
When you transmit credit card information to complete a purchase or verify data, we always transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use the industry standard 128-bit SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
In addition to our encryption standards, your Onvia account information is password-protected so that you are the only person with access to this personal information. Please do not disclose your password to anyone. Always remember to sign out of your Onvia account and close your browser window when your transactions are complete. This helps keep your account safe.
While we strive to protect your personal information, no data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, Onvia cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information during transmission to or from our site, and you submit information to us at your own risk. However, we do our best to ensure the highest level of security on our systems.
Cookies
We are committed to providing personalized products and services to you. In order to do so, Onvia uses cookies to store a unique identifier. A cookie is defined as a small amount of text (only up to 4Kb in size) that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are common place and used by most websites you visit. Many websites use cookies to log their users in automatically. By storing a few pieces of user information they can automatically authenticate the user's details and use them to save the user time when they log in. Cookies pose no real danger to users or to users’ computers. Your browser will only allow Onvia to read cookies that came from our Web servers. This means that other websites will not be able to use any information that Onvia stores on your computer as a cookie. Onvia only uses cookies to verify that you are a proper licensed user of our Onvia Business Builder product. You have the ability to delete the cookie at any time.
This site contains links to other sites. Onvia is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other Websites.
Trademarks and Copyrights
Onvia, Onvia Dominion, DemandStar, Quotewire, Bidwire, Bidline, and e-Journal of Commerce are registered trademarks of Onvia, Inc. All materials on this Website are copyrighted 1997-2009, unless otherwise specified. All rights are reserved. All other product names and company logos are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Privacy Policy Changes
If we make changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Website for you to review.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will you guarantee that my credit card information is safe?
Yes. We're so sure about the security of our site that we back every transaction with a Security Guarantee. Here are the details of our Security Guarantee:
- If using your credit card at Onvia results in subsequent unauthorized use of your card, we'll cover your liability up to $100
- The unauthorized use must have resulted from you submitting your credit card information directly to Onvia
- Our guarantee applies only if your credit card information was given to us over the Onvia secure server
- If you discover unauthorized use of your credit card, you must notify Onvia of the problem in writing (by email or letter) within 24 hours of discovery. You must also notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures.
- We limit our Security Guarantee to $100 because your credit-card provider likely will either cover the unauthorized charges altogether, or limit your liability to $50 or less. Your card-user agreement will have the details
How private is my personal information?
We may share member information in order to provide you with a more integrated and customized member experience. Your information will only be shared with trusted banking merchants, distributors, and/or vendor partners in order to facilitate our services to you.
We use any information you provide us only to enhance your Web experience and enable us to better serve you.