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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 address * Credit card
number * Home and business phone number * Other personal information
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 users Web browser on
the users 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 users
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
sites 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
info@sounds-planet.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@sounds-planet.com
Do We Have A Legally Compelled Disclosure of
Information Policy? 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 sites 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. |