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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 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:
- Name
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Credit card number
- Home and business
phone number
- Other personal
information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Sharing Information
with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances
or partnerships with third parties who may be
given access to personal information including
your name, address, telephone number and email
for the purpose of providing you information
regarding products and services that we think
will be of interest to you. In connection with
strategic marketing alliances or partnerships,
we will retain all ownership rights to the
information, and we will not share information
regarding your social security number or other
personal financial data.
Notice of New Services
and Changes
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. As our client, you
will be given the opportunity to notify us of
your desire not to receive these offers by
clicking on a response box when you receive such
an offer or by sending us an email request at
service@cleanmessage.com.
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.
How Do
We Protect Your Information?
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.
Evaluation of
Information Protection Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business
practices are reviewed for compliance with
corporate policies and procedures governing the
security, confidentiality and quality of our
information.
Employee Access,
Training and Expectations.
Our corporate values, ethical standards,
policies and practices are committed to the
protection of customer information. In general,
our business practices limit employee access to
confidential information, and limit the use and
disclosure of such information to authorized
persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and
Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally
identifiable information that we collect online
and maintain in our database by emailing
service@cleanmessage.com.
Do We Disclose
Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our
customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and
related Web site information to our affiliates
or reputable third parties, but this information
will not include personally identifying data,
except as otherwise provided in this Privacy
Policy.
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.
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 nor 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 Web site 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 Web
site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules
and policies. Please read over those rules and
policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our
collection and use of your personal information
as described in this Privacy Policy. If we
change our privacy policies and procedures, we
will post those changes on our Web site to keep
you aware of what information we collect, how we
use it and under what circumstances we may
disclose it.
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