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Privacy Policy
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 continuouslyassessed
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 aggregatebasis 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. mothers 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 providethe 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 personalinformation. 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 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 sites 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.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We NEVER provide aggregate information about our customers, sales,
Web site traffic patterns and related Web site information to our
affiliates or reputable third parties.
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 sites 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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