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Privacy
Protecting privacy is always a Privacy Solutions™ priority. To underscore our
fundamental commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is
good business, we have adopted an online privacy policy for our
web site: www.nationalidtheftprotection.com.
This policy reflects and implements---in an online setting---our corporate
privacy principles and Fair Information Practice Principles of notice,
choice, access, security, and accountability.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
I. Personally-identifiable information.
This site only collects personally-identifiable information from you if you
chose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable information
collected with your consent may include, for example, name, e-mail address,
resume information, or any inquires you may make through our web site.
Privacy Solutions™ does not provide personally-identifiable information to
unaffiliated third-parties in its normal course of business. However, we
will provide such information when required by law or in the good faith
belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or
legal process.
II. Cookies.
"Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on
your computer's hard drive. This site uses third party cookies, however
personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of
cookies. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique or
whether the visitor has viewed our site before. Cookies are optional and
do not affect the operability of our site.
While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours
to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser
manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific
browser.
III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information.
This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information. For example,
as you browse this web site we may collect information about your visit, but
not about you personally. Via web server logs, for example, we may monitor
statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s)
are visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com,
hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit our site (e.g.,
Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). Our web site uses an
outsourcing program, Sitewise, to assist us in analyzing this data to better
tailor our web site.
IV. Retention.
We reserve the right to retain personally-identifiable information collected
through this site for the length of our business relationship with you. In
some cases, we will retain the information for a longer period if required
to do so by law, regulation, or the Individual Reference Services Group
Industry Principles.
INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE
The information collected by this web site is used only for responding to your
inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions
you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the
administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our web sites.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of
the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to
complete a transaction that you requested.
If you decide that you do not want to receive further emails regarding your
inquiry from Privacy Solutions™,
you can reply to the email or use the telephone number (800) 675-9671
with a request that we not continue to email you. We
do not use outside data sources to enrich marketing data obtained online.
ONWARD TRANSFER
We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to
complete a transaction that you requested.
We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain website
functions, that require access to information you supply online.
In such cases, however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf
abide by our privacy policy and institute safeguards to protect the
confidentiality of your information.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required
by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to
comply with the law or legal process.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
As an information company, we know the importance of accurate data.
Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected
through this web site. Furthermore, we believe that the individual is
invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate. We will provide
you with access to personally-identifiable information you provide through
our web site for as long as we maintain that information in a readily
accessible format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct
inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our web site.
If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you have submitted to this
site, please
call (800) 675-9671
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SECURITY
We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration
of personally-identifiable information collected through this web site. We
recognize the importance of security for all personally-identifiable
information collected by our web site. We exercise care in providing
secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps to
protect its security on our systems. In the event we request or transmit
sensitive information, such as credit card information or Social Security
Numbers, we use industry standard, secure socket layer ("SSL") encryption.
We strictly limit access to personally-identifiable information to those
employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.
All employees are prohibited from "browsing" through our files and databases.
We train our employees in the application of our need-to-know standard.
POLICY CHANGES
We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any
material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement
on the web site. If we are going to use your personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection
we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not
we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make
any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user
information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice
on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we
post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive
communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy
practices.
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