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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 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.
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:
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.
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.
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 users Web browser on the users 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
users 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 sites 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
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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