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 that
is collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web
site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information
You
will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and
your practices when you register for certain services, or register for
email, newsletters, and alerts.
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
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.
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
visiting 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, 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. You may notify us at any time
if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at sales@twitterbeads.com.
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.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As
you shop on our web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate
you from other shoppers so that your shopping cart is only available to
you. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing
unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is
necessary for security. 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 in order to constantly improve our web
site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather
any personal information about you and we do not store any personal
information that you 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.
Referrers
A
Referrer is the information passed along by a web browser that
references the web URL you linked from, and is automatically collected
by our web server as “traffic data”. We use traffic data to credit your
referral to a partner or affiliate who referred you to our web site.
This information will also be used by Twitter Beads to identify broad
demographic trends that may be used to provide information tailored to
your interests. You will not be personally identified from this
information.
How Do We Protect Your Information and Secure Information Transmissions?
Email
is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason,
we request that you do not send private information to us by email.
Some of the information you may enter on our web site may be
transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption
services.
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, and practices are committed to the
appropriate protection of customer and visitor information. 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 sales@twitterbeads.com
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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