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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
customers. 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. 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 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: 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.
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.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
We do not share any of your
information to 3rd parties or
affiliates! |
