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PRECISION TECHNOLOGY Privacy Policy |
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If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first contact
PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC.. by
sales@ptiassembly.com, PHONE, or POSTAL MAIL numbers listed below.
Information Collection and Use
Your data is 100% private --
we do not use the data that you put into the system for any purpose other than
supporting your system. The data that you put in shall be and always will
remain the sole property and private data of those individuals and organizations
that input the data into this system. This data is never shared with any outside
organizations or 3rd parties. In the event that our company becomes acquired,
insolvent, comes under new ownership or any other change in corporate structure,
we shall always insure that your data is completely private and never becomes
compromised.
Information Collection
PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC..
collects information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
We also collect our client's information as entered by the client. We treat both
types of information as confidential.
Registration
In order to use Web site, a
user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user may
give[s] contact information (such as name and email address). We use this
information to contact the user about services on our site for which he has
expressed interest. For our free service where all information is optional,
portions of the site may not function unless the user inputs specific
information required by the site functions.
Orders
We request information from
the user on our order form for paid services. A user must provide contact
information (such as name, email, and billing address) and financial information
(such as credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for
billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an
order, the information is used to contact the user.
Information Use
Anonymous Profile
We store anonymous user
information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third
parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is anonymous stored
information that we keep for reporting user information and demographics to our
advertisers in a completely anonymous fashion, without any personally
identifiable information. Our profiling is always s anonymous and is never tied
to the users personally identifiable. This profile is used to provide anonymous
user data and submitted, optional demographics to site advertisers. We do not
share your personal information with other third parties.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this
Web site may be delivered to users by third parties or ourselves or any of our
Web advertising partners. Information about users' visit to this site, such as
number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other
personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site. This privacy
statement covers the use of cookies by PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC.. only and does not
cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site
servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses,
browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform
type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the
site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web
Bugs)
We may employ or our third
party advertising partners may employ a software technology called clear gifs
(a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by
informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a
unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the
online movements of Web users. The main difference between the two is that clear
gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the
period at the end of this sentence. Clear gifs are not tied to users' personally
identifiable information, except as noted for html emails.
Clear Gifs can "work with"
existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same Web site or
advertising company. That means, for example, that if a person visited
"www.companyX.com", which uses an advertising company's clear gif, the Web site
or advertising partner would match the clear gif's identifier and the
advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past online behavior for
that computer. This collected information would then be given to the advertising
company [or site.
In addition, we may use
clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened
by the recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain
communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If users would
like to opt-out of these emails, please see the Opt-out section.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We may send new members a welcoming email to verify password and username.
Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services,
special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we
present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the
Choice and Opt-out sections.
Newsletter If a user wishes
to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and
email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out
of these communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.
Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is
necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if
our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an
email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can
deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in
nature. Users may opt-out of these communications. Please see our Choice and
Opt-out section.
Customer Service
We communicate with users on
a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating
to their account we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the user's
wishes.
Sharing
Aggregate Information
(non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated
demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to
any personally identifiable information.
Third Party Advertisers
PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC.. shares
Web site usage information about users with reputable third parties for the
purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site and other
sites. For example, PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC.. uses cookies and clear GIFs on this
site, which allow them to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this
site. The information they collect and share through this technology is not
personally identifiable.
These are the instances in
which we will share users' personal information:
We ONLY share personal
information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such
action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order,
legal process served on our Web site or as required by law.
Third Party Intermediaries
We use an outside shipping
company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for
goods and services. These companies do not retain or share, store or use
personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Service Providers
We may partner with other
third parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these
particular services, we may share names, or other contact information that is
necessary for the third party to provide these services. These third parties are
not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of
providing these services.
Business Transitions
In the event PRECISION
TECHNOLOGY INC. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being
acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users' personal
information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users
will be notified via email or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days for a
change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of
the business transition, the users' personally identifiable information will be
used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will
be given notice and/or choice consistent with our notification of changes
section.
Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to
receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving
these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email
or email us at
sales@ptiassembly.com We also offer an opt-out mechanism
on the member setup pages or the user may contact us at phone or postal mail to
opt-out.
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 or not they should
proceed with services that require an outside party.
Links
This Web site contains links
to other sites. Please be aware that we, PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC.., 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.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site
may request information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys
is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose this information. Survey information is used for purposes of monitoring
or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Though we may use an
intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users'
personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our
referral service for informing a friend about our site, we may ask them for the
friend's name and email address. PRECISION TECHNOLOGY INC.. will automatically send
the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. PRECISION
TECHNOLOGY INC. does not store this information.
Security
The security of your
personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information
(such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration
or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology
(SSL).
We follow generally accepted
industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both
during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the
Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore,
while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Supplementation of
Information
In order for this Web site
to properly fulfill its obligation to users it is necessary for us to supplement
the information we receive with information from 3rd party sources.
For example, we utilize
real-time Credit Card processing software and services by third parties for
using this service to accept payment for our paid services. We will transmit;
use and share personally identifiable information and credit-card information to
process secure e-commerce for our services.
For increased security, we
use credit-card processing and AVS (address verification services) to process
customer credit cards. This feature is only available on US-issued cards;
International users may or may not be subject to credit card address
verification.
In order for this Web site
to enhance its membership, we may combine information about the click-stream
habits of users with similar information from our partners and add it to
anonymous user profiles. When a user makes a purchase, the affiliates that we
work with may collect and share anonymous demographic information and
commissions based upon an affiliate program or other such service.
Enhancement of Marketing
Profile
We may purchase third party
marketing data and add it to our existing user database (not specifically the
client's information) to better target our advertising and provide pertinent
offers we think our users would be interested in. We may use this information to
enhance or overlay the 'profile' of individual users. This aggregate marketing
data is therefore tied to the users' anonymous profile information. See also the
"Profile."
Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information
If a user's personally
identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal
address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to
correct, update or delete/deactivate users' personally identifiable information.
This can usually be done at the member setup and information page or by emailing
our Customer Support or, contact us by telephone or postal mail.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the
homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if
any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy
policy under which the information was collected.
We reserve the right to
modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we
make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by
means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Information If users
have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact
us at: