This Privacy Policy details the types of personal information that Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest collects, the uses we make of that information, and related information regarding your ability to access, correct, and request deletion of any personal identifying information you choose to give us.

Information Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Collects:
Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest gathers personal and general demographic information about visitors to our web site. Additionally, by registering to participate as a competitor in Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, you are asked to provide personal identifying information including your full name and e-mail address. This information may be linked to other information, including your user name. The information we collect allows us to make statistical analyses of the use of our site, to improve the content of our site and to customize our site to better suit your needs. By entering as a competitor in Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, you will also provide detailed information about your business plan, which may consist of your concepts ideas and/or trade secrets. Although Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest takes reasonable steps to do so, you remain responsible for the legal protection of your business concepts, ideas and trade secrets.

Use Of Your Information:
Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest may use and disclose your personal identifying information in a number of ways related to your use of our site. Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest and/or its sponsors, may use your personal identifying information in connection with sending you specific, targeted information that may be of interest to you. We may also use your contact information, such as your e-mail address, to confirm receipt of your registration on our web site, to confirm receipt of your competition entry or for other similar purposes.

Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest provides links to other sites which may be of interest to our web site visitors. The information practices of any other web site linked to Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest are not covered by this privacy policy and are not the responsibility of Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest . You should further be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in bulletin boards or chat rooms, third persons unrelated to Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest may collect that information and send you unsolicited messages.

Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest reserves the right to transfer its database including visitor and registered contact lists and the personal identifying information contained therein.

Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest may also disclose information as described below under the heading "Security".

Cookies:
Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest makes use of "cookies," which are small sets of information stored onto your computer in connection with your use of our web site. We use cookies to store temporary individual user information concerning your use of this site and your user identification. Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest may also use information gathered by cookies to measure certain traffic patterns on our web site or for similar purposes. A user does not need to have the cookie function of their browser turned on in order to use this web site. If you use a link from this site to another site, or if you arrived at our site through a link from another site, it is also possible that these other sites may place a cookie or other identifier on your computer. Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest does not control and are not responsible for the use of cookies or other identifiers by anyone except Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest.

Access, Correction and Deletion:
If you want to see the personal information we have collected about you from this site or if you believe any information we have is incorrect and you wish to correct it, please write to us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Policy. If we change or delete information in response to your request, we will not then continue to use it; however, some residual information may remain in backup records or records of deletions.

Security:
Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest uses efforts consistent with sound industry practice, such as firewalls and encryption, to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifying information. Given the nature of the Internet, however, we cannot ensure complete security and we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of any person or entity other than Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest. In addition, we cooperate with law enforcement inquiries, we obey court orders, and we honor subpoenas and other legal process. Your personal identifying information may be disclosed if we are compelled by law or legal process to disclose it. Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest may also disclose such information if we determine, in our sole discretion, that disclosure would be useful in connection with investigating possible non-compliance either with the law or with any Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest policy, including this Privacy Policy. Although we take precautions against security breaches, hackers pose a threat to any Internet user, and the legal and regulatory status of matters on the Internet are uncertain both in the United States and abroad. For these reasons, we cannot guarantee that all of your personal identifying information will never be disclosed in ways you do not expect or which are not described in this Privacy Policy. Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will make commercially reasonable efforts to see that your information is treated in compliance with this Privacy Policy.

Children:
Children under 13 should not send any information about themselves to us, including information like your name, address or e-mail address. Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest does not knowingly collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected such information from a child under 13 without parental consent, the information will be deleted from our database as soon as reasonably possible.

Changes in Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Policy and Web site Maintenance:
As our competition changes or evolves, and as technology and Internet use and practices change, Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest may periodically determine that changes in its policies, potentially including this Privacy Policy, are prudent. If any such changes are made, they will be posted on this web site. Therefore you should review Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest ’s Privacy Policy and other policies posted on this site for potential changes when you return to our site in the future.

This Site is owned and maintained by Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, 701 Tappan Street, 9th Floor, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1234. Please send your questions or comments to us at this address, Attention: Webmaster.

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