Privacy Policy
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.
Personal
Information You Choose to Provide
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.
Web Site Use
Information
Similar to other
commercial Web sites, our Web site may utilize 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 may 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 might be needed 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.
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
amaestle@profintools.com
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.
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
amaestle@profintools.com
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.
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.
