| Our Commitment to Privacy
The Privacy 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:
1) Personal information you knowingly choose to
disclose that is collected on an individual basis.
2) 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
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,
through our website, 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 users Web browser on the
users 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 users 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 at
webmaster
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
webmaster
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.
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