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PRIVACY POLICY
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.
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/or 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.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers
from outside companies advertised on our
Web site. We take measures to select product
or service providers that are responsible
and afford privacy protections to their
customers. However, we cannot make any representations
about the practices and policies of these
companies.
Sharing Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances
or partnerships with third parties who may
be given access to personal information
including your name, address, telephone
number and email for the purpose of providing
you information regarding products and services
that we think will be of interest to you.
In connection with strategic marketing alliances
or partnerships, we will retain all ownership
rights to the information, and we will not
share information regarding your social
security number or other personal financial
data.
However, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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