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.
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:
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Name
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Mailing address
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Email address
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Credit card number
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Home and business phone number
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Other 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 info@vegabyte.com
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information
to us on our Web site, a secure server software which we have licensed
encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The
information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web
site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure
unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your
transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send
confidential information such as Social Security or account numbers to us
through an unsecured email.
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.
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 info@vegabyte.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.
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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