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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.
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What Information Do We Collect?
Web Site Use Information
How We Use the Information that you Provide to Us?
What are Cookies?
How do we Use the Information we Collect from
Cookies?
Sharing Information with Affiliates
Notice of New Services and Changes
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
How Do We Protect Your Information?
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
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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 (i.e. mother's 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 provide the same protections for these electronic communications
that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and
telephone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers from outside companies advertised
on our Web site. We take measures to select product or service providers
that are responsible and afford privacy protections to their customers.
However, we cannot make any representations about the practices and policies
of these companies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
We gives users several options for modifying or removing their information
from our database please visit your account page
or contact us.
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Do We Disclose Information to Outside
Parties?
Except where you are expressly informed otherwise or
as described immediately below, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or
give away any of your personal information except to the financial institution
that processes your credit card or check transaction unless required by
law or for the protection of your membership.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Your Consent
By using our Web site you agree that you are at least 18 years of age
and 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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