Privacy PolicyEffective date: August 1st, 2006 Contents:
SPMC Group commits itself to protect your privacy. In addition to what kind of information we collect we believe it is important for you to know how we treat that information. In general, you will be able to navigate our site without giving us any personal information about yourself. However, to provide you with additional information or services we might need information about you. Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on every page of our site, particularly at every point where you may opt to provide us your personally identifiable information. Types of information we collect
We store the information you provide about yourself in a secure database in order to provide you with the information, products, and/or services you request. The information is stored for the lifetime of the database unless you request that it be removed. The information you provide us about yourself will be shared with SPMC Group employees to the extent necessary to accommodate your request. You must consent for us to share your identifiable information with third parties, who would be bound by a confidentiality agreement. We use non-identifying and aggregate information about the use of our Web site to improve the navigation, content, and design of our site. This information may include, for example, the most and least requested pages, the number of users and their country of origin, among other things. Finally, unless otherwise excepted below, we would not use your personally identifiable information provided to us online for purposes other than those you requested without also providing you an opportunity to agree or otherwise limit such unrelated purposes. Except as described above, we will not otherwise use or disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except to the extent reasonably necessary: (i) to correct technical problems and malfunctions and to technically process your information; (ii) to protect the security and integrity of our Web site; (iii) to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others; (iv) to take precautions against liability; (v) to the extent required by law or to respond to judicial process; or (vii) to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety, as applicable. Keeping your information secure SPMC Group is committed to protecting the information you provide us. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of the information, SPMC Group has in place appropriate physical and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. Cookies are files written to a user's hard disk and read by our server program. The purpose of cookies is to enhance your future visits to our website. You can set your browser to notify you if cookies are to be transferred or to reject cookies but this may prevent your use of some of our webpages. We receive IP addresses in the normal course of the operation of our Web site. An IP address is a number assigned to you by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet. Although we do receive IP addresses, we do not use them to identify you personally or disclose them to others. Our commitment to children's privacy Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we do not collect or maintain information at our Web site from those we know are under 13 years of age, and no part of our Web site is structured to attract anyone under 13. How you can access or correct your information You may update or remove the information you provided to us by contacting us - see "How to Contact Us" below. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before updating or removing your information. The information you provide us may be archived or stored periodically by us according to backup processes conducted in the ordinary course of business. Information stored as part of this backup process will be deleted in due course on a regular schedule. Our Web site may contain links to other Web sites. You should carefully review the privacy policies and practices of other Web sites, as we cannot control or be responsible for their privacy practices. Changes to this privacy policy From time to time, we may update this privacy policy to reflect any changes to our privacy practices in accordance with changes to legislation, best practice or website enhancements. When we do, we will post those changes and update the 'Effective date', as stated at the top of this policy. Changes to this privacy policy are effective as of the stated 'Effective date', and your continued use of this site on or after the 'Effective date' will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes. Should you have questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us This privacy policy was last updated on August 1, 2006. |
