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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 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.
About the WebSafe Shield Daily Scanning Service
Automatic daily vulnerability testing service for e-commerce websites
leading to certification with the WebSafe Shield. Under the terms of the
service, a client's web-server is thoroughly audited every 24 hours with
over 14,000 individual vulnerability checks. Upon passing the pre-defined
test criteria, the client website is certified as vulnerability free and is
thus authorized to display the WebSafe Shield on their corporate website.
For more information please visit HTTP://WWW.WEBSAFESHIELD.COM/
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
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.
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:
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.
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