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Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we
collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist
you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and
services.
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
Registration Information.
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company,
and your practices when you register to be a member of Pay-It.com,
register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and
alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see Pay-It.com
servicing your needs and interests.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the
content of your email messages together with your email address and
our responses.
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. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small
pieces of code called "web beacons" or "clear gifs" to determine which
advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to
them.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of
administering and expanding 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. You may
notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by
emailing us at privacy@Pay-It.com.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous
unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks
your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard
drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own
cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to
protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the
cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other
sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate
you from other users so your payment information is only available to you.
In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary
advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for
security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow
us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and
which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in
order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers.
Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and
we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us
in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We may enter into alliances, partnerships, or other business
arrangements 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 alliances,
partnerships, or arrangements, we may also provide certain information to
third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a
responsible manner by a responsible third party. For example, some of our
partners operate stores or provide services on our site, while others
power offerings developed by us for your use. We also use third parties to
facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and
processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and
business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access
to your personal information for use in connection with business
activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or
business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally
one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We
may also transfer such information in the course of corporate
divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
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 customer, you will be given the
opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by
sending us an email request at privacy@Pay-It.com.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
This web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.
When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their
information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration 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 payment 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 users are just ‘surfing’.
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. ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our
security and privacy practices. Every 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 users’ information is
protected. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable
information are in a secure environment.
If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can
send an email to privacy@Pay-It.com.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this
reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by
email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be
transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption
services, which are enabled by Thawte, Inc. Pages utilizing this
technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please
contact privacy@Pay-It.com if you have any questions or concerns.
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
privacy@Pay-It.com.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or
subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to:
- conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or
Affiliated Parties;
- protect and defend our rights and property, the Site, the users of
the Site, and/or our Affiliated Parties; or
- act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the Site,
us, or third parties.
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. |