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Our Commitment to Privacy
Guardware Inc.'s 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 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
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing
information, 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 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 security@guardwareinc.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 credit card 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 security@guardwareinc.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.
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