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Privacy Policy
At Affiliated Systems, we know how important
personal privacy is to you. Because of our interest in protecting your privacy,
we have adopted the following privacy principles, continuing our commitment to
you, our valued client:
- Recognition of Your Expectation of
Privacy. We recognize that you expect privacy and security
for your personal information. We understand the need to safeguard our
information about you that you have entrusted to us. We maintain standards
and procedures designed to prevent misuse of this information.
- Our Collection, Retention, and Use of
Information about You. We collect, retain, and use information
about you only where we reasonably believe that it will help
administer our business or provide products, services, and other
opportunities to you. We collect and retain information about you only
for specific business purposes – and we will always tell you why we
are collecting and retaining it upon your request.
Like all other Web servers, for each visitor to our Web page, our Web server
automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail
address (where possible). We collect only the domain name, but not the
e-mail address of visitors to our web page, the e-mail addresses of those
who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages
browsers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages browsers
access or visit and information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey
information and/or site registrations. We use information to protect and
administer your records; to comply with certain laws and regulations; and to
help us design or improve our services and products.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web page,
used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual
visitor, and used to notify clients about updates to our Web site.
- Limiting Employee Access to Information.
We have procedures that limit employee access to personally identifiable
information to those employees with a business reason to know such
information about you. We educate our employees about the importance of
confidentiality and client privacy through standard operating procedures,
special training programs, and our policies on ethics. We take appropriate
disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.
- Security Procedures to Protect
Information. We maintain security standards and procedures
to help prevent unauthorized access to confidential information about you.
We update and test our technology to improve the protection of our
information about you and to assure the integrity of our information.
- Restrictions on Disclosing Information to
Parties Outside Our Company. We do not reveal specific information
about your accounts or other personally identifiable data to parties outside
our company for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize
it; (2) the information is provided to help complete a transaction initiated
by you; (3) the information is provided to a reputable credit bureau or
similar information reporting agency; or (4) the disclosure otherwise is
lawfully permitted or required. We do not provide account or personal
information to non-Affiliated Systems companies for the purpose of
independent telemarketing or direct mail marketing of any products or
services of those companies.
- Maintaining Your Privacy in Business
Relationships with Parties Outside Our Company. Sometimes it is
necessary to provide personally identifiable information about you to a
party outside our company, such as to a vendor or service company that we
hire to provide support or services for one or more of our services or
products. These vendors and service companies agree to safeguard our
confidential information about you and your products and services with us
and must abide by applicable law.
- Disclosing Our Privacy Commitment to You.
We want you to understand our commitment to personal privacy and our use of
information. For this reason, we have prepared these Privacy Principles.
These materials will answer most of the important questions that you may
have about how we gather, protect, and use information.
These Privacy Principles apply to individuals,
and we reserve the right to change them, along with related provisions, at any
time.
Affiliated
Systems will not disclose your personal information to any outside organization
for its use in marketing without your express consent.
Information regarding you (such
as name, address and phone number) or your order and the services or products
you purchase will not be given or sold to any outside organization for its use
in marketing or solicitation without your express consent. Your information may
be shared with agents or contractors of Affiliated Systems only for the purpose
of performing services for Affiliated Systems.
What else should I know
about my privacy?
Third party Internet sites and
services accessible through AffiliatedSystems.com have separate privacy and data
collection practices, independent of us. Affiliated Systems has no
responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions. You are
solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords or any account
information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. If you
post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may
receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we strive to
protect your personal information, Affiliated Systems cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own
risk.
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