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About Your 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.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
1. 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.
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.
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
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