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.
1. What Information Do We Collect?
When
you visit our website, you may provide us with two types of information:
(a) personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is
collected on an individual basis; and (b) website use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
a. 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
-
E-mail address
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Credit card number
-
Home and business phone number
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Other personal information (i.e., mother's maiden name)
-
E-mail information
In
addition to providing the foregoing information to our partners, if
you choose to correspond further with us through e-mail, we may retain
the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail 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.
b. Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes
a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation
below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect
information about how our website 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 website, and the websites visited
just before and just after our website. This information is collected
on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with
you as an individual.
2.
How Do We Use the Information 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 website, 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.
3.
What are Cookies?
Cookies
are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize
the computer used to access website. They 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 website 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.
4.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We
use website browser software tools such as cookies and Web server
logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities
in order to constantly improve our website and better server our customers.
This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in
the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website
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 website as they move from one page to another. Web server
logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate
our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to
capture your individual e-mail 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.
5.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally,
we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our website, 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 sending
us an
request.
6.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When
you send confidential personal credit card information to us via our
website, a secure server software (PayPal) encrypts all information
you input before it is sent. The information is scrambled en route
and decoded once it reaches the PayPal payment processing site.
Other e-mail 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 e-mail.
7. 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.
8.
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
.
9.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We
may provide aggregate information about out customers, sales, website
traffic patterns and related website 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.
10.
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.
11.
What About Other Websites Linked to Our Website?
We
are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked
to or from our website nor the information or content contained therein.
Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information
on topics that may be useful to the users of our website.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to
another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing
and interaction on any other website, including websites which have
a link to our website, is subject to that website's own rules and
policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
YOUR
CONSENT
By
using our website, 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
website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.