We use contact information, including email addresses, to
communicate with you if you are a customer of our services. This
helps us to carry out the services you request from us and to
notify you about updates to our web pages, products and
policies, and marketing releases. We use this contact
information, as well as payment information, for billing
purposes and to carry out your requested services.
Online identifiers, login information and data trackers are used
to secure the limited access portions of our web pages and
services. Data trackers help our web pages work. They also help
us to improve our content and to customize the content and/or
layout of our page for each individual visitor. In addition,
online identifiers and data trackers to prevent and reduce
fraudulent practices. For more information about our use of
cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies, please
read “ More Information On Data Trackers” below.
More Information On Data Trackers:
Cookies are small text files that are stored by your web browser
when you use websites. When you visit our web pages, our web
server sends a cookie to your computer. You can control how
websites use cookies by configuring your browser’s privacy
settings (please refer to your browser’s help function to learn
more about cookie controls). Note that if you disable cookies
entirely, our web pages may not function properly. We use
cookies in several ways, such as:
· To show whether you have
visited a web page previously;
· To store your preferences;
· To show how you navigate
around a web page and the most commonly clicked links on a
specific web page;
· To gather certain technical
information, such as your browser version and operating system;
· To estimate and report how
many different users are on our web sites.
This allows us to make your experience on our web site simple
and meaningful, to customize web page content, to alert you to
new areas that we think might interest you, to provide better
services, and to ensure that you are not repeatedly sent the
same banner ads, when you return to our web pages. It also helps
us to conduct research to improve the content and services of
our web sites.
Web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels”, “transparent
GIFs”, “clear GIFs”, “pixel gifs”, or “pixel tags”) are
tiny, invisible images that are embedded on web pages and emails
and are stored on a your hard drive. They help us to count users
who visit our web sites or open our emails. Tracking pixels help
us figure out if certain features, notifications, and products
or services are effective and if they can be improved. You can
modify your browser settings to control web beacons.
Third-Party Cookies
We may also from time to time engage third parties to track and
analyze data and statistics that do not identify you. This
practice helps us administer our websites and improve their
quality. These third parties may use cookies and web beacons to
help track visitor behavior. Their cookies and web beacons may
track how you interact with a web site through the use of
cookies and the data collected may include how you navigate
around a web page and the most commonly clicked links on a
specific web page. They may also collect technical information,
such as your browser version and operating system. If collected,
this information will be used by us to evaluate and, if
necessary, modify our website to improve the functions and make
it easier for customers to use. Your name and contact
information is not collected or used for this purpose.
As a part of our efforts to carry out and improve our services
to you and to monitor and improve the functions of our websites,
we may also undertake profiling or automated individual
decision-making. Automated individual decision-making refers to
a decision made solely on the basis of automated processing of
your personal data, without human involvement. For instance, we
may process personal information using an algorithm or a
software code. Profiling is automated processing of personal
data to evaluate certain information collected about an
individual. We conduct profiling and automated decision-making
to better understand your interests and preferences and to adapt
our communications to your user profile. You can address any
questions or concerns about this practice by contacting
us.
We sometimes partner with other companies that help us run our
business. From time to time, we need to share some of your
personal information with these companies so that they can
perform requested services. They can only access your personal
information to carry out the tasks we have asked them to do.
They are required to hold this information in confidence. And
they must meet both legal and industry standards to ensure
that your data is protected. We may share your personal
information with service providers, affiliates, business
partners, or other third parties .
Service Providers
We may share information about our visitors and/or customers
with our contracted service providers so that these service
providers can provide services on our behalf.
· We work with companies who
help us: host our services and data, manage how our services
function, host our customer relationship management, improve
and automate our marketing techniques, incorporate customer
service and other software platforms, process payments,
collect delinquent accounts, fulfill, process and deliver
orders, and market and promote our products and services,
including by email.
· These service providers are
authorized to use your personal information only as necessary
to provide the requested services to us. Without
limiting the foregoing, we may also share information about
visitors, members, and/or customers with our service providers
to ensure the quality of information provided. Without your
permission, we do not share, sell, rent, or trade any
information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Affiliates
We may share information with affiliate companies in order to
work with them. For example, we may need to share
personal information with other companies within our corporate
family for customer support, marketing, technical operations
and account management purposes.
You can control this collection through your web browser.
· We also work with partners
to create programs that help you to get the most out of our
services and provide you the opportunity to purchase
complementary products and services that may be used in tandem
with our services.
· We may disclose your
information to one or more trusted partners so they can help
you or offer you complementary or value-added products and
services. In each case, the trusted partner will confirm they
will (1) hold your information in confidence, and (2) not use
it for any purpose except for the purposes described above.
But will provide your personal information only with your
prior consent.
· We partner with third party
ad networks to display advertising on our web pages or to
manage our advertising on other websites. Our ad network
partners may use cookies and web beacons to collect
information about your activities on our websites and other
websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your
interests. To opt out of this type of cookies, visit the
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website by visiting
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ . Even if you opt
out through the NAI website, you can still receive
communications you have signed up to receive from us unless
you opt out of these communications as well.
We may also share your personal information to provide reviews
or testimonials, in case of a company sale or transfer , and
if we are compelled by law:
To Provide Reviews or Testimonials
We may select and post customer testimonials about our
services, which may contain personal information such as your
name and/or the city, state, or country in which you live. We
will obtain your consent before we post any testimonial with
your name. When you submit a review, you give us permission to
post that review. If you post this content, it will be
available to other users. Your posting may also become public
and we cannot prevent that information from being used in a
manner that may violate our privacy policy or the law. If you
would like us to remove or delete your name, testimonial, or
review from our web pages, please contact us. Note that copies
of information that you have updated, modified, or deleted may
remain viewable in cached and archived pages of our web pages
for a period of time.
Company Sale or Transfer
Should we sell all or part of our business, the customer
information that we have collected may be transferred along
with the sale but the information will be treated in the same
manner described here. In the event of any significant changes
to the manner in which your information is handled, we will
notify you.
Compelled Disclosure
Sometimes, we are required to use or disclose information
provided if required by law or if we reasonably believe that
use or disclosure is necessary to protect the company’s rights
and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or
legal process.
