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 addressCredit card numberHome
and business phone numberOther 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
offer@MeetingTechOnline.com with subject “remove”.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Authorize.Net’s preferred payment gateway connection, Advanced Integration Method
(AIM), provides the highest level of customization and security for submitting transactions
online. AIM employs industry standard secure data encryption technology to connect
to the payment gateway using a merchant-initiated 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
certificate. (Learn more about
AIM.)
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.