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 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.
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, 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.
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 .
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information
to us on our Web site, a secure server software which we have licensed
encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information
is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other 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.
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.
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 .
Do We Have A Legally Compelled Disclosure of
Information Policy?
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.