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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. |
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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? |
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| 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. |
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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/ |
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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. |
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1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide |
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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. |
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Credit Card Information |
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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:
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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? |
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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? |
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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. |
