| FocalPoint Marketing, LLC d/b/a FocalPoint ("FocalPoint",
"we", or "us")
is committed to protecting users' privacy. Keeping the information
you share with us secure, and making sure that you understand how
we collect, use, and maintain information about you, is important
to us. This notice (this "Privacy Policy")
describes: (i) what information we collect about you, how we collect
it, how we use it, with whom we may share it, and what choices you
have regarding it; (ii) how you can access, update, or delete information
we have collected about you; and (iii) what steps we take to protect
personally identifiable information about you. To make it easier
for you to review, we have made this Privacy Policy into a separate
document, however, it is still part of our agreement with you, and
incorporated by reference into the Terms
& Conditions of Use, regarding our Web site (www.FocalPointEMarketing.com)together
with any replacement, substitute or backup Web sites controlled,
owned or operated by us or on our behalf, the "Website").
We encourage you to become familiar with the terms and conditions
of both this Privacy Policy and the Terms
& Conditions of Use. By accessing
and using the Website, you agree that you have read and understand
this Privacy Policy and you accept and consent to the privacy practices
(and any uses and disclosures of information about you) that are
described in this Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, we may change our privacy
practices, and this Privacy Policy, because of changes in relevant
and applicable legal or regulatory requirements, our business practices,
or in our attempts to better serve your needs and those of our other
customers. Notice of such changes to our privacy practices will
be given in the manner described in our Terms
& Conditions of Use, and in the
event of any such change, a revised Privacy Policy will be posted
on the Website. We remind you to check back here often, to be sure
you are up-to-date with our privacy practices.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
You may visit our Website and, among other things,
learn about our company and its products and services. We make general
information available on our Website, and you may access it and
find out how to contact us, all without your giving us any personally
identifiable information. When we use the term "personally
identifiable information," we mean information such as your
name, street address, town or city, state, zip code, telephone number,
instant-messenger nickname, date of birth, e-mail address, and any
other information that would allow someone to identify you or contact
you. Personally identifiable information might also include information
about your transactions or relationship with us.
For example, if you wish to order any of our products
or services or otherwise do business or communicate with us, you
will be required to provide us with certain personally identifiable
information. In addition to your name and contact information, we
will collect and maintain your billing address, shipping address,
product selections, and credit card number and other payment information.
We collect this information to fill your order and receive payment
for it, to communicate with you about your order and your registration,
and to send you promotional materials.
If you choose to register as a "Subscriber"
on our Web site, if you choose to take advantage of other features
and opportunities that we make available on our Website, you will
also be asked to provide, and we will collect, personally identifiable
information about you. For example, during registration on our Website,
you will be asked to be provide us with certain information about
you and then to select a user name and password. Among other things,
your user name and password and help us identify you as a registered
or authorized user of the features and functions that you register
for or subscribe to. Keep in mind that whenever you enter or input
information on the Website, whether you are registering as a Subscriber,
signing up for promotions, ordering or purchasing products or services,
or otherwise exchanging information or performing transactions or
other activities, you choose to provide us with certain information,
which we then collect and save. You should be mindful of the information
that you choose to submit to us and make sure that this information
is complete and accurate.
While not personally identifiable, we may collect
information about your computer's Internet protocol (or "IP")
address and any Web site that may have referred or directed you
to our Website. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems
with our server and to administer our Website. Your IP address is
also used in analyzing demographic information, none of which is
personally identifiable, such as the states or countries that our
Website's visitors come from.
We may also track the numbers of visitors to our Website and similar
or related information, but no personally identifiable information
is collected or obtained in this process. We use this tracking information
in the aggregate to help us operate and improve the Website, to
improve our products and services, and to select and display advertising
and marketing information.
We may also use "cookies" (small text files stored on
your computer) to help track and customize your access and use of
the Website. Cookies store and retain information that helps us
recognize you when you return to the Website following a previous
visit. Most popular Internet browser packages allow you to configure
the browser so as not to accept cookies. However, setting your browser
to reject cookies may, in certain instances, prevent you from taking
full advantage of our Website and the materials, products, and services
that we make available on the site. We do not currently use cookies
to collect any personally identifiable information, although we
may use cookies at some point in the future to correlate information
that you previously supplied with other information about you, for
personalization and tracking purposes.
If you would like to know more about the technical aspects of the
information that we collect and how we collect it, please click
here to go to our Frequently
Asked Questions section for more detailed information.
HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT WE
COLLECT?
In addition to the uses mentioned above or otherwise
described in our Terms
& Conditions of Use, we may use
the information that we collect about you, including, in some cases,
personally identifiable information, to tailor your experience on
our Website, to display content we think may be of interest you,
or to let us otherwise customize what you see when you visit the
Website, according to your preferences. Personally identifiable
information that you provide during registration or in purchasing
any of our products or services, as well as other information created
through our interactions with you, may be saved by us and, in addition
to being used to fulfill your orders for our products and services,
it may be used to provide you with better service and to better
understand your needs and preferences. For example, we use your
information to assist us in filling your orders, producing reports,
and maintaining quality control, in managing the Website and our
business, to contact you concerning your orders, transactions, and
other activities, and for other legitimate and lawful business purposes.
We may use personally identifiable information about you to contact
you and advise you of products or services that are available from
us or our suppliers and advertisers, and if you contact us for support
or assistance in connection with using the Website, we may use information
about you or your system for purposes such as verifying whether
your system meets the minimum requirements needed to use the Website
and our various services. By using the Website, you acknowledge
and consent to our tracking of your use of our Website and related
activities, as described above.
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION
THAT WE COLLECT?
FocalPoint uses good faith efforts not to disclose
or provide third parties with access to personally identifiable
information about you other than as expressly described in this
Privacy Policy. We will, however, make personally identifiable information
about you available to others when we have your consent (that is,
you "opt-in" to receiving communications) and when we
retain others to work with us to provide products or services that
you request from us. When you use co-branded services that we make
available (that is, services for which not only FocalPoint's name,
but that of another company or entity is used or displayed), you
are giving us permission to pass personally identifiable information
that you submit or that we collect about you on to our co-branding
partner in connection with our marketing relationship with them,
and their use of such information then becomes subject to their
privacy policies, not ours.
We may exchange information about you with others
as necessary to carry out credit approvals or credit checks in connection
with your purchases of products or services from us and to prevent
fraud and other activities that we are required to monitor and report
under applicable laws. We may disclose information about you when
responding to subpoenas or court orders, in defending our interests,
or when otherwise required by applicable law. Additionally, we may
(and you authorize us to) disclose your personally identifiable
information to such private entities and law enforcement agencies
and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe
necessary or appropriate to investigate or resolve possible problems,
to protect our business and assets, or to comply with our legal
and regulatory obligations, or if we believe your actions have violated
applicable law, this Privacy Policy, or our Terms & Conditions
of Use, or if you threaten the rights, property, or safety of FocalPoint
or its suppliers, advertisers, other customers or users, or anyone
else.
We do not sell personally identifiable information
that we obtain or collect about you to unaffiliated third parties.
We may send you e-mail, and any e-mail that you send to us will
be handled as required by any applicable laws. While some of the
information that we collect may be aggregated so that it is not
personally identifiable and then shared with advertising companies
to improve our Website, we do not share personally identifiable
information in that process. Except as otherwise provided in this
Privacy Policy, we use reasonable efforts to:
- collect and use personally identifiable information
only to deliver high quality service, administer our business,
and inform you of our products or services;
- protect personally identifiable information
and limit access to such information to employees who are trained
and advised in the proper handling of such information (and employees
who violate our security and confidentiality standards are subject
to discipline);
- prevent disclosure of personally identifiable
information to external organizations other than as described
in this Privacy Policy, unless we have obtained your consent;
- advise you, in easy to understand language,
how you may remove your name from marketing lists;
- require any other organization that we retain
or engage to provide services for us to conform to our Privacy
Policy and allow us to audit them for compliance; and
- keep personally identifiable information complete,
up-to-date, and accurate, to the extent of our ability, based
on information you provide, and our Website provides a convenient
and easy means for you to access and update personally identifiable
information that you give us and to notify us about inaccuracies
(which we will use reasonable efforts to promptly correct).
We may use third parties to display or provide advertising
and our Web-based publications, and in some cases, unless you tell
us otherwise, your personal information may be disclosed to these
third parties for such purposes. These companies may use technology
to measure advertising effectiveness, and you should understand
that if information about you is disclosed to these companies, it
then becomes subject to their privacy practices, not ours, even
if we have a business relationship with the company.
As part of its business, FocalPoint provides online
marketing services and products to its clients. These services include
database management and analysis, e-mail delivery, e-mail tracking,
and e-mail campaign reporting. FocalPoint is contractually bound
to its clients to keep data about their customers private, and FocalPoint
may not share any of this customer data with its other clients.
In providing these services to our clients through our Website,
FocalPoint sometimes use cookies to help its clients better analyze
the success of their e-mail and other online marketing campaigns.
Data from the cookies that we use are often correlated with individually
identifiable information, but this information is not shared with
anyone other than the particular client to which it pertains and
is not shared with other clients. Nevertheless, FocalPoint is not
responsible for its clients' privacy policies or practices and makes
no representations about them. If you have questions about our clients'
practices, we recommend that you check their privacy policies or
contact them directly.
As FocalPoint continues to grow and develop its business,
it is possible that its corporate structure might change or that
it might merge or otherwise combine with, or that it or portions
of its business might be acquired by, another company. In any such
transactions, customer information generally is, will most probably
be, and should be expected to be one of the transferred business
assets.
WHAT CHOICES DO YOU HAVE REGARDING INFORMATION
THAT WE COLLECT?
FocalPoint provides users of its Website with
the opportunity to opt-in and opt-out of receiving future promotional
or marketing communications (including e-mail communications) from
us that are unrelated to orders and transactions that you have submitted
or otherwise entered into with us or any other matters that pertain
to your status as a Subscriber. These opt-in and opt-out capabilities
are provided when you register or sign-up for our e-mail lists and
in e-mail messages that we send to you.
For any e-mail lists managed by FocalPoint, users
can use the link that is provided in the footer of most e-mail messages
to be removed from the list. Alternatively, to opt-out of receiving
further messages from us, users can reply to an e-mail message according
to the instructions provided at the bottom of the message.
Registered users of the Website who have requested FocalPoint e-mail
communications may update, amend, or delete personal information
that we store about them by following the "Profile Update"
links contained in every FocalPoint e-mail communication.
Notify us in writing any time you do not wish us to share personally
identifiable information with any third party. We will remove your
personally identifiable information from lists we provide to third
parties, generally within thirty days after we receive your notice.
HOW DO WE PROTECT INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU?
We maintain reasonable safeguards and use commercially
reasonable efforts to protect information that we collect and maintain
about you. For example, we use industry standard security technologies
and processes, such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL), encryption, and
a physically protected data center, to protect data that we collect
and store. However, no data transmission or communication over the
Internet is 100% secure, and no security measures are completely
impenetrable. Third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions
or access systems. We cannot and do not guarantee that any such
transmissions, or that any given information, will be totally secure.
You agree to immediately notify us of any breach of which you become
aware of our Website's security, this Privacy Policy, or the Terms
& Conditions of Use.
LINKED SITES
Our Website may contain advertisements and references
and links to other Web sites and other companies. We do not control
those Web sites or companies and are not responsible for their privacy
practices or the content of such Web sites. We strongly encourage
you to inquire directly of them in this regard, and we recommend
that you check the privacy policies of each Web site that you visit,
to be aware of how information obtained or collected about you may
be used.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION?
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy
you can click here to go directly to our Frequently
Asked Questions section, which we
hope will be helpful and is designed to answer many of your questions.
If you cannot find the answer to your questions, or if you don't
understand any of the information or don't understand how any particular
terms apply to you, you may send us an e-mail at privacy@FocalPointEmarketing.com.
Please do not use this e-mail address for any other purpose or any
other type of communication with us, as we receive a high volume
of e-mails and will not be able to respond if an e-mail sent to
this address does not relate to our Privacy Policy or our Terms
& Conditions of Use.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE
READ, UNDERSTAND, AND CONSENT TO THE PRIVACY PRACTICES, AND TO THE
USES AND DISCLOSURES OF INFORMATION WE OBTAIN ABOUT YOU, THAT ARE
DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE
TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE REFERENCED ABOVE.
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