bright.net Privacy Policy

bright.net takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how bright.net treats personal information that bright.net collects and receives, including information related to your past use of the bright.net Services and/or the bright.net Forum. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that bright.net does not own or control, or to people that bright.net does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

bright.net does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or companies except to provide services you have requested, when bright.net has your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• bright.net responds to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• bright.net believes it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the bright.net Customer Agreement or bright.net User Forum Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.

bright.net will transfer information about if you bright.net is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, bright.net will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Confidentiality and Security

bright.net limits access to personal information about you to employees who it reasonably believes need to come into contact with that information to provide services to you or in order to do their jobs.

bright.net has physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you. These measures are intended to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. While bright.net will make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining this information.

We will never sell your personal information to a third party.

Public Forums

Any information that you disclose in public areas of any bright.net Web site, the bright.net Forum or the Internet may become public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these areas.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

bright.net may update or change this policy. If you are a bright.net subscriber, bright.net will notify you about significant changes in the way it treats personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address provided for your bright.net account or by placing a prominent notice on the bright.net home page (www.bright.net). If you are not a bright.net subscriber, bright.net will notify you about significant changes in the way its treats personal information by sending a notice to the e-mail address provided by you when you registered for access to the bright.net Forum or by placing a prominent notice on the bright.net home page.