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 our partners, or from us, 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 (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@parkercomputer.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@parkercomputer.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.