We Respect Your Privacy
We want to
maintain your confidence in our handling of any data and information that is
collected during your visit to our web site. We have developed and provided
this Privacy Policy to inform you of our practices and policies regarding
the collection, use, maintenance, and disclosure of your personal data and
information. We are committed to providing you with adequate information so
you can make an informed decision whether to visit our web site and whether
you wish to voluntarily provide any personal data or information, e.g., your
name, e-mail address, telephone number, etc. Our Privacy Policy is described
in the following sections.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small data
files that are written to and stored on your hard drive when you visit a web
site. They do not read files on your hard drive. Like most web sites, we use
cookies to personalize a user's experience of our web site and to make it
easier for users to complete forms. Our cookies do not track user movement
once you leave our web site, except for noting your destination address.
Most web browsers allow the user to be notified upon the proposed
installation of a cookie and the user can then decline the cookie. Even if
you decline the cookie, you may continue to use our entire web site.
We use data and information received from our cookies for marketing purposes
and to improve our on-line offering of services and products. We may also do
so to evaluate our site's technical capacity and to review the navigational
structure of our site, e.g., to revise or restructure our web site for
easier and more intuitive movement throughout.
Currently, the data and information we collect with cookies is
only reviewed in an aggregated form, which is not personally identifiable.
In the future, however, we may correlate the data and information received
from cookies with personally identifiable information, to identify specific
users and track their web site usage. This personally identifiable
information will be limited to contact information, such as the user's name,
address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. Our use of this
combined information will continue to be solely for the purposes stated
above with respect to information collected through cookies.
Whether or not the data and information received from cookies is
correlated to any specific user, we do not, and will not, disclose, sell,
rent or share any data or information derived from cookies with any third
parties other than to our site's affiliated companies ("Affiliates"), except
for personally identifiable information saved in cookies when you register
for or enroll in a program or service as we disclose in accordance with our
policy for Voluntarily Provided Information set forth below, or as otherwise
stated in this Privacy Policy.
Log Files
We also review data and information contained in log files located on our
web server, which record the date and time of each visit to our web site,
the user's IP (internet protocol) address, the referring IP address or
domain (the prior web site visited), and the files viewed on our web site
(including HTML pages, graphics, etc.). We use log file information to
analyze data in the aggregate to determine the trends and usage of our site.
We can not correlate the log data to identify specific users.
We do not, and will not, disclose, sell, rent or share any
information derived from log files with any third parties other than to
Affiliates, or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.
Voluntarily Provided Information
If you register for or enroll in a program or service through our web site,
make purchases from our on-line offerings, respond to a request for
information or make any other on-line request of us, you will be voluntarily
providing personally identifiable information. If you do not agree with this
Privacy Policy, we ask that you please do not provide the requested
information. You may nevertheless continue to use most of our web site,
subject, however, to the collection of information through cookies and log
files as discussed above. If you have previously provided personally
identifiable information by registration through our web site, you may
request to be removed from our active database of mailing lists (see the
discussion below).
Voluntarily provided information is used to send you announcements
of new products, updates, and promotional information, as well as to provide
the services or goods that you request and give you better customer service.
We share personally identifiable information with our Affiliates, as well as
with our third-party business partners, sales representatives and
distributors (collectively, "Partners") who may provide the requested goods
or services to you directly or otherwise contact you directly. Moreover, we
rely on various third-party service companies ("Service Companies") to
provide certain services (e.g., shipping, credit card billing) for which it
is necessary to provide users' personally identifiable information.
We do not, and will not, disclose, sell, rent or share any
personally identifiable information received as a result of enrollment,
registrations or e-commerce transactions on our web site with any third
parties, other than our Affiliates, Partners, Service Companies, or as
otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that although we may seek to require that Affiliates,
Partners, and Service Companies use information regarding our users only in
the ways permitted by this Privacy Policy, we do not control and are not
responsible for their privacy practices, or those of any other party.
Collection of Data & Information by Our ISP
Our Internet Service Provider (ISP) also collects certain
information about your visit. It is the same information contained in a log
file that we collect and analyze, i.e., the date and time of the visit, the
user's IP (internet protocol) address, the referring IP address or domain,
and the files viewed on our web site (including HTML pages, graphics, etc.).
In addition, our ISP has access to back-up files containing the personally
identifiable information that you voluntarily provide (even if your input
fails). The ISP does not disclose, share, release, publish, disseminate,
rent, or sell any personally identifiable information to any third parties,
but does use the log files to analyze data in an aggregate form, which is
not personally identifiable information.
Links to Third-Party Web Sites
Through our web pages,
you may connect to third parties' web sites via hyperlinks, and the
connections may or may not be obvious. We are not responsible for the
collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information
by such third parties. We encourage our users to be aware of the varied
privacy policies of web sites that they visit.
Correspondence
We maintain and review e-mail correspondence that you send to us. We will
use (and maintain in a file specific to you) the personally identifiable
information disclosed in the e-mail. Because such correspondence contains
information that is not transmitted through the operation of our web site,
it is not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Required Disclosures of Data 7 Information
In addition to disclosures to our Affiliates, Partners, and
Service Companies, and regardless of anything in this Privacy Policy to the
contrary, we may disclose personally identifiable information, with or
without prior notice to you, when we believe that the law requires it, in
response to subpoenas or at the demand of governmental agencies, to protect
our systems or business, to protect other visitors to the web site, or to
respond to an emergency. If you partake, or we reasonably suspect you of
partaking in any illegal activity we may also disclose your personally
identifiable information, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order.
We may also make disclosures of your personally identifiable information
with your affirmative consent.
Maintenance & Transmission Of Data & Information
Although we use reasonable efforts to maintain the privacy of your
personally identifiable data and information, due to technological
limitations, and the risk of unlawful interceptions and accessing of
transmissions and/or data, we cannot completely assure you, and you should
not expect, that your personally identifiable data and information, and any
other electronically communicated information, will be absolutely
confidential.
For all e-commerce transactions, we use industry-standard
commercial encryption technology to protect the data and information that
you transmit to us via our web site. Although this technology is not
flawless, we believe that it provides reasonable protection for your data
and information. We will endeavor to update our protective devices as
encryption technology develops further.
Once received, personally identifiable information is protected from outside
our site by "firewalls," and access within our site is generally limited to
the sales, marketing, and information technology departments. We also seek
to require our Affiliates, Partners and Service Companies to exercise
reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Your Right to Review & Modify Data & Information
You have the right, at any time, to review and/or modify any of
your personally identifiable information that you provide during
registration, or any other voluntarily provided information. You may also
remove yourself from our active databases of e-mail lists. To do so, you
should send an e-mail to our email address requesting that (a) we provide a
copy of your profile of personally identifiable information, (b) we update
or modify certain personally identifiable information, or (c) you be removed
from our databases of active e-mail lists. We will endeavor to comply with
your request as soon as reasonably possible. To protect your
confidentiality, we can only send a requested profile to the e-mail address
listed in the profile. In any event, our back-up files will maintain copies
of your personally identifiable information. We reserve the right to contact
former customers or users of the web site from time to time.
Assignment
We reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect
from our visitors to a third party in the event that we sell or transfer
substantially all of our assets related to the web site to such third party.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Due to changing technological and marketing demands, we must reserve the
right to change our policies regarding the privacy of your personally
identifiable information in the future. If that happens, we will endeavor to
promptly update this Privacy Policy. We may also attempt to provide a
message to our customers whose e-mail addresses we have, in conformity with
this Privacy Policy, advising of any such change(s). Your continued use of
the web site following changes to this policy will indicate that you accept
the changes.








