Our mission is
to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting
the use of fair information practices. Because this web site
wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has
agreed to disclose its information practices and has agreed
to notify you of:
1. What personally
identifiable information of yours or third party personally
identification is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection,
use and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to
protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under
Melucci, Thomas & Brown control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you feel that
this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you
should contact Melucci, Thomas & Brown by phone at 888-475-2610
or email at: info@nowaybk.com.
Information Collection
and Use
Melucci, Thomas & Brown is the sole owner of the information
collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this
information to others in ways different from what is disclosed
in this statement. Melucci, Thomas & Brown collects information
from our users at several different points on our website.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is
in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie
simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our
site, the user would not have to log in a password more than
once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects
the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to
this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site.
For example, the user will not be able to participate in any
of our Sweepstakes, Contests or monthly Drawings that might
take place. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the
interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that we at Melucci, Thomas & Brown are not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our
users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely
to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for
contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests
is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice
whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested
may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes.
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or
improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a
friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and
email address. Melucci, Thomas & Brown will automatically
send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the
site. Melucci, Thomas & Brown stores this information for
the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend
may contact Melucci, Thomas & Brown at info@nowaybk.com
to request the removal of this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order
form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit
card number and/or social security number), that information
is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software
in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order
form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as
opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.
To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://www.verisign.com/site/ssl.html
or http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/S/SSL.html.
While we use SSL
encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also
do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line.
All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information
mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees
who need the information to perform a specific job (for example,
our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are
granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees
must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their
desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to
re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees
are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every
quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees
are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on
privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information
is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally
identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment,
behind a locked cage.
If you have any questions
about the security at our website, you can send an email to
info@nowaybk.com.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such
as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service,
we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove
that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be
done by emailing us at info@nowaybk.com
Users of our site
are always notified when their information is being collected
by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an
informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services
that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of
Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated
at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of
an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use
their information in this different manner. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information
was collected.
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