Privacy Policy
We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and
our 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. This policy will be continuously assessed against new
technologies, business practices and our customers’ needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit this web site you may provide us with the
following information:
Email Information
If you choose to correspond 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.
Web Site Use Information
Similar to other Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are
Cookies?”) and web server log files 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.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to
Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of
administering our business activities, monitoring the use of
our website, our marketing and promotional efforts and improve
our content and service offerings, and customize our site’s
content, layout, services and for other lawful purposes. These
uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your
needs.
Furthermore, such information may be shared with others on
an aggregate basis. Personally identifiable information or
business information will not be shared with parties except as
required by law.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an
anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that
site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this
file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for
cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser
if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your
privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the
cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you
by other sites. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies.
However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may
alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If
you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible
that some areas of our site will not function as effectively
when viewed by the users.A cookie cannot retrieve any other
data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from
Cookies?
As you visit and browse our Web site, the site uses cookies to
differentiate you from other users. Cookies, in conjunction
with our Web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the
aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which
parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather
feedback to constantly improve our Web site and better serve
our clients. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal
information about you and we do not intentionally store any
personal information that your browser provided to us in your
cookies.
IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are
connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is
used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP
addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part
of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that
data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to
you.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of
Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in
other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law
requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. We may
also disclose account information when we have reason to
believe that disclosing this information is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may
be violating our Terms of Service or to protect the safety of
our users and the Public.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web
Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites
linked to or from our Web site or the information or content
contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided
solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful
to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our
Website to another web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in
effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site,
including web sites, which have a link on our Website, is
subject to that Web site’s own rules and policies. Please read
over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Third Party Advertisements
We also use third party advertisements to support this site.
These companies may use information (not including your name,
address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits
to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services of interest to you.
For example: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies
to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie
enables it to serve ads to our users based on your visit to our
site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the
use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content
network privacy policy.
If you would like more information about this practice and
to know your choices about not having this information used by
these companies, click here.
You can also chose to disable or selectively turn off our
cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by
managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet
Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact
with our site as well as other websites.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of
your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time
with or without notice.
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