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Our privacy and security policies exceed industry standards. The nature of our services dictates that we restrict our use of information to only what is needed to deliver the best services in our industry, and no more. We encourage you to read our Privacy Statement as part of your evaluation process and to read it again when we notify you of changes from time to time.
What is Covered in This Statement
Effective as of Jan 1, 2005, this privacy statement covers the site www.This Web-Site.com. This site has its headquarters located at:
This Web-Site abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the United States. Upon reading this privacy statement, you will know:
1. What personally identifiable information This Web-Site collects.
2. What organization collects the information.
3. How This Web-Site uses the information.
4. With whom the information may be shared.
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
6. What types of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under This Web-Sites control.
7. How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection and Use
Information Collection
This Web-Site never collects personally identifying information from users of our site unless the user explicitly and intentionally enters it, or attempts to violate our security measures. This Web-Site is the sole owner of the information collected on the web sites listed in the What is Covered Section above. This Web-Site offers users the ability to enter personally identifying information at several different points on our web site.
Create an Account (Sign-up)
To order This Web-Sites products, a user must first complete the create an account form. During sign-up a user is required to give contact information such as name, company name, address, email address, and phone number. We use this information to process the order, prepare product for shipping and to contact the user about products on our site for which he has expressed interest. In order to buy the This Web-Site products, users must provide a username and password.
In addition to personally identifying information, a user must provide payment information (such as credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for a one-time payment, and to fulfill customers orders. If we have trouble processing an order, personal information is used to contact the user.
User Payment Information
When users order a product for delivery, they must provide payment information. Payment information or complete credit card numbers are never stored by This Web-Site. Payment information submitted via the order form is split with the middle numbers being encrypted by MD5 technology. Payment information is used only once to send to our credit card processor, for the purposes of collecting payment for products delivered or to be delivered. We never make this information visible to anyone other than our credit card processor and never communicate it over a non-encrypted connection. The full credit card number is never seen by anyone inside our outside our company, once entered and submitted, except by the credit card processing companies for the purposes of authorizing, clearing and reversing charges to your credit card.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Session_Ids, IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information in our database, except as entered by the user during account creation. IP addresses entered during account creation time by the user are tied to personally identifiable information to enable our Web-based security scanning services.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the users computer tied to information about the user. We use only session cookies and do not use persistent cookies. A session cookie simply terminates once users close the browser.
Session cookies are used to track information about the session that helps us build a consistent user experience as the user moves from page to page in the web site. We store information in the cookie such as session ID, user personally identifying information, such as the internal account id, account settings, and information needed to generate a new page requested by the user. Session cookies containing personally identifiable information are created when a registered user logs in or completes the account creation process. The session cookie obtains the personally identifying information from the users account stored on our computers during the account creation process. Information that would allow others to obtain access to the user account is not stored in session cookies. Session cookies are terminated upon closure of the last browser window associated with the user session.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
A clear GIF is an invisible image which can be used to capture session or user behavior information without the users knowledge or consent. We do not employ the use of Clear Gifs on our site.
Third Party Intermediaries
This Web-Site contracts with a third party to assist us in managing certain functions on our Web site, such as we use an outside shipping company to ship orders for any shippable products we may offer now or in the future, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Choices Regarding the Use of Your Information
When Contacting Us
We use email links located on the "contact us" page and other areas of the site to allow you to contact us directly with any questions you may have. We read every message sent in and try to reply promptly to every one. This information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments. We may also file your comments to improve the site and program, or review and discard the information.
Individuals may also choose to opt-in to receive updates regarding new This Web-Site products or This Web-Sites monthly newsletter. If you opted-in to receive product updates or the newsletter, This Web-Site will use your e
mail address to send the requested emails. To unsubscribe from these emails, see the Unsubscribe section below.
How to Unsubscribe from This Web-Site Email Publications
Newsroom
To unsubscribe from receiving the This Web-Site Newsletter, log in to your account and click on the publication you wish to unsubscribe from.
How to Access and Update User Information
Reasonable access to personally identifiable information will be provided within 30 days at no cost to the user. If access cannot be provided within that timeframe, This Web-Site will provide the user a date when the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, This Web-Site will provide an explanation as why access has been denied.
If you need to update your email address, please contact This Web-Site using the contact form.
Security
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users. information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both on and off-line. We have taken careful measures to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of your information. All of our web sites are audited daily by www.scanalert.com to insure a HACKER SAFE status. Every precaution is made to protect our servers from hackers and crackers, including firewalls and regular checks for viruses, trojans, backdoors, and open ports. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are in a locked facility with access limited to technical operations personnel. All This Web-Site employees are aware of our privacy and security policies. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Notification of Changes
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection through this Web site, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already collected through our site, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change.
Privacy Policy Compliance
If you feel that This Web-Site has not complied with the policies outlined in this privacy statement please submit a report at the contact us page. |
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