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Our Commitment to
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was
developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the
highest-quality products and services with the highest level of
integrity in dealing with our clients and partners. The Policy is
designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and
safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist
you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products
and services. This statement will be continuously assessed against
new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.
What
Information Do We Collect?
When
you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose
that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web
site.
1. Personal Information
You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase
products or services from us or our partners, you may need to give
personal information and authorization to obtain information from
various credit services. For example, you may need to provide the
following information:
Name
Mailing address
Email address
Credit card number
Home and business
phone number
Other personal
information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Email Information
In addition to providing
the foregoing information to our partners, if you choose to
correspond further with us through email, we may retain the content
of your email messages together with your email address and our
responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use
Information
Similar to other
commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology
called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”)
and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is
used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may
include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at
our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after
our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis.
None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the
Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use
personal information for purposes of administering our business
activities, providing customer service and making available other
products and services to our customers and prospective customers.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you
product and service offers are developed and managed under our
traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security
and privacy of our customers’ personal information. As a customer,
you will be given the opportunity, at least once annually, to notify
us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are
Cookies? Cookies are a feature of Web browser software
that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a
Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a
user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember
what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify
subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use
the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related
Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to
Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet.
Cookies should make your online experience easier and more
personalized.
How Do We Use
Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser
software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather
information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order
to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers.
This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in
the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site
to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect
important business and technical statistics. The information in the
cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as
they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count
how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site’s
visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your
individual email address or any personally identifying information
about you although they do permit us to send focused online banner
advertisements or other such responses to you.
Notice of New Services
and Changes
Occasionally, we may also
use the information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you
will find valuable. As our client, you will be given the opportunity
to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking
on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an
email request .
How Do We
Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential
personal credit card information to us on our Web site, a secure
server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you
input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route
and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other email that you may
send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security
measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information.
For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information
such as Social Security or account numbers to us through an unsecured
email.
How Do We Protect Your
Information?
Information Security.
We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the
confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized
access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of
Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations
and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate
policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and
quality of our information.
Employee Access,
Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical
standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of
customer information. In general, our business practices limit
employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and
disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and
transactions.
How Can
You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to
all your personally identifiable information that we collect online
and maintain in our database by emailing.
Do We
Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate
information about our customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and
related Web site information to our affiliates or reputable third
parties, but this information will not include personally identifying
data, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.
What About Legally
Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose
information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we,
in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection
of our legal rights.
What About Other Web
Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for
the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site
nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to
other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when
you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our
Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction
on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our
Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and policies.
Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your
Consent
By using our Web site you
consent to our collection and use of your personal information as
described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies
and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep
you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under
what circumstances we may disclose it
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