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Businesses - You will have the ability to define and promote various aspects of your business via the velvetbell.com membership plan that you have registered for. While your membership is paid in full and current, you will have access to the authoring capabilities specified in your subscription plan. In addition, while your membership is paid in full and current, visitors of velvetbell.com will be able to access the information associated with your plan. Expired memberships will prevent your business from being accessed from visitors of velvetbell.com. Expired memberships can be brought back to current one velvetbell.com receives payment.

The business subscription plan features are defined below:

• Basic Plan - Business Listing
• Premium Plan - Basic features, and ... Business Blogs, Business Photos, Direct Link, Employee Profiles, Event Promotion, Job Postings, Last-Minute Appointments, Promotions & Deals, Services/Price List, SMS Alerts, Specialties & Signature Services

Consumers - While your membership is paid in full and current, you will be eligible to receive alerts to the communication device of your choice. If you have defined the maximum number of alerts allowed by your plan, no additional alerts can be created until you delete one or more of the alerts. You may have only one velvetbell.com membership plan per email address at any one time. However, you may upgrade or downgrade among membership plans, as described below. Expired memberships will prevent alerts from being sent. Expired memberships can be brought back to current one velvetbell.com receives payment.

The business subscription plan features are defined below:

• Basic - includes 5 email/sms text alerts
• Premium - includes 10 email/sms text alerts

Upon completion of the free trial period, your subscription to velvetbell.com will NOT renew automatically. Rather, the subscription will expire at its predetermined expiration date. It is your obligation to renew your membership as a paid subscription.

During the free trial period, you will receive the benefits, features, and capabilities of the plan offered via velvetbell.com for no charge. Membership may be cancelled or modified at any time prior to the end of your free trial through the "My Account" or "My Business" links at velvetbell.com.

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velvetbell.com, and its affiliates on occasion may disclose to their business partners certain data, such as names and addresses and the type of services requested by Users or Members, so that the business partner may send their own direct marketing communications to Users and Members. velvetbell.com will not provide User or Member e-mail addresses to business partners, unless the User or Member has provided express permission to velvetbell.com. If you would prefer that velvetbell.com not use disclose your personal information to its business partners for direct marketing purposes, subject to legal, or contractual restrictions and legal notice you may opt out of such uses and/or disclosures by (a) checking the appropriate "Opt Out" box in any applicable e-mail communication or e-newsletter, (b) sending an e-mail to support@velvetbell.com or (c) writing to us at P.O. Box 5331, ATTN: Online Customer Loyalty, Arlington, VA 22205.

Cleaned Data. We periodically remove from personal information data that can be used to identify individuals for example by summarizing, aggregating or removing certain data elements. The resulting cleaned data is no longer considered personal information and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. The cleaned data may be published by velvetbell.com and provided to various third parties.

Disclosures Attendant to a Merger or Acquisition. If velvetbell.com or its assets are acquired by another company, your personal information may be disclosed to the acquiring company to allow it to fulfil your order or provide the products, services or information that velvetbell.com would otherwise provide to you and generally to carry on the velvetbell.com business. We may also use and disclose your personal information to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, insuring, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purposes of determining whether to proceed or continue with such transaction or business relationship or fulfilling any records or other reporting requirements to such parties. We will require such parties to treat your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy and to use and disclose it only for the purposes for which it was collected.

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