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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 policy@vandemataram.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.
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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