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S. B. Whistler & Sons, Inc., Privacy Policy Statement
Whistler
is firmly committed to the privacy of customers and visitors to its web sites. The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices for our web site.
Your personal privacy is a principal concern to us at Whistler. Our goal in outlining our policy on the collection and
use of customer data is to ensure the highest level of confidentiality and security. When you provide your personal information to Whistler, we will not give or sell
your personal information to any outside company for its use in marketing or solicitation. We will maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and it will
be used only to support your customer relationship, assisting us in providing better and more targeted services to you. Additionally, internal practices are in place to
help protect your privacy by limiting employee access to and use of customer data. When Whistler
asks for customer information, it is done with the goal of improving the relationship between our
organizations. Our intention is to send e-mail only to customers who have chosen to receive such e-mails. At any time, you have the right to decline receiving future
communications in any manner, including email, fax, telephone and postal mail.
Privacy Policies
When you browse our Web site, you do so anonymously. Personal information -- including your e-mail address --
is not automatically collected. Some pages, however, may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your E-mail address
for purposes of participating in correspondence, site registration, streaming player registration, or online surveys. For these types of activities we may require your
name, e-mail address, and other company information.
Like many other commercial Web sites, some sections may use a standard technology called a "cookie"
to collect information about how our site is used. Please read About Cookies below for more information.
- We collect only information that is needed.
We limit the collection of information about our visitors to what we need to know to manage the site information content, some of this information includes browser
type, ISP (service provider) and network access information.
- We give customers choices about how their data will be used.
On a regular basis, we provide our customers the ability to decline any or all future email communications.
- We use information security safeguards. We
attempt to limit access to customer data to those who specifically need it to conduct their business within the company. While we use security techniques designed to
protect our customer data, given constantly changing technologies that may exist, we do not guarantee the security of our customer data.
- We hold employees responsible for our privacy principles.
Each Whistler employee is personally responsible for maintaining customer confidentiality. Employees who violate these policies are subject to
disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal. Employees are expected to report violations -- and may do so confidentially -- to their managers or other
supervisors
- We anonymously track visitor usage of our sites for general marketing purposes, such as determining what
information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system
performance or problem areas. We track this activity utilizing an out-sourced product, Urchin, from
Quantified Systems, Inc. As such, we present the following information on behalf Quantified Systems, Inc. to address your privacy concerns specific to this area:
Privacy Statement for
Visitors to Sites Tracked by Quantified Systems, Inc.
Privacy Policy
Quantified Systems, Inc., Overall privacy statement
Your privacy on the internet is of the utmost importance to us. Because we gather certain types of
information about our site and software users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This
privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to remove yourself from our systems.
Quantified Systems, Inc.
uses all information gathered in the course of business for internal use only; no information is ever sold to mailing lists or other third-party organizations. All
information is kept strictly confidential.
1. What information is collected
Quantified collects only voluntarily submitted personal information on our
Download page, on our
Licensing page, and on our
Feedback
page.
Download form information:
This information is used for internal statistical information and for occasional notices regarding important product updates. These product updates are entirely
voluntary, and anyone asking to be removed from our mailing lists, both electronic and conventional, will be immediately.
Licensing form information:
This information is used to keep track of who has purchased our software. This information is also used to determine if the software has been "pirated", so that
corrective measures, such as legal action, can be taken. Occasional product updates are also sent to people who have filled out the licensing form.
Feedback form information:
This information is used to improve our products, and is not disseminated in any way. All information submitted is entirely voluntary.
2. How do users "opt out"?
Anyone not wishing to receive information from Quantified can send an email to our
List Manager for immediate removal from all mailings, both electronic and conventional.
3. Usage Tracking
Quantified tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Quantified does break down
overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in
every user's browser). Quantified also retains keywords typed into search engines when users attempt to find our site. This information is not correlated with specific
users.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your
IP address is used to gather broad demographic information.
4. Advertisement Banners on Urchin Reports
Quantified Systems, Inc. works with a third party,
Engage
Media, that serves ads to the "adware" versions of Urchin (2.x and 3.x Community). To
find out more about how Engage Media manages the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads to Urchin's reports, please go to
http://www.engage.com/privacy.
We contract with Engage Media to display ads on Urchin ASAP 2.x and Urchin 3.x Community reports. Ads
may contain cookies, and appear to be coming from our site, but in reality they are coming from Engage. Our site does not use cookies. We do not have access to any
information about you from cookies you might receive while visiting our site.
Additional Information
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We collect visitors' contact information in order to inform them of important product updates.
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This site contains links to other sites. Quantified Systems, Inc. is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such websites.
If you have specific questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please send them
to Privacy Policy info.
If you provide us with your E-mail address, or have done so in the past, we may send you E-mail
offers or newsletters. These offers or newsletters are based on information you provided in our registration forms, These E-mail offers will come from Whistler only.
Your information or email address is never sold to a third party. All offers are carefully developed to guarantee that they meet our policy
standards. Our goal is to target offers to customers who will find them of value.
- The data you provide is used to enhance the services and offers our company provides.
As a result of providing personal information, Whistler
can provide a more customized online experience, making your interaction with us more productive and
helpful.
- Declining E-mail Offers - Whistler
provides customers with an easy means to decline receiving E-mail offers and recognizes the
importance of providing you with choices. At any time, you may request to discontinue receiving these offers from us by simply replying to the E-mail address included
in every e-mail message you receive.
- What else should I know about my privacy?
Third-party Internet sites and services accessible through our site have separate privacy and data
collection practices, independent of us. Whistler
has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions. In addition, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
passwords, membership ID, or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. If you post personal information online that is
accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we aim to protect your personal information, Whistler
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own
risk.
We will make all reasonable efforts to adhere to the above privacy standards. However, the policy
should not be construed as a contractual undertaking. Additional restrictions may be imposed to comply with state and local laws, and/or internal specific programs,
products and services. Whistler
reserves the right to alter, amend or supplement the privacy standards at anytime.
Thank you
S. B. Whistler & Sons, Inc.
32 Main Street
Akron, New York 14001
(716) 542-4141
Effective Date: January 1, 2002
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visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie is a small string of text that a Web site can
send to your browser. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your E-mail address. Currently, Web sites
use cookies to enhance the user's visit; in general, cookies can securely store a user's ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have
been visited or keep track of selections in a "shopping cart."
If you are just browsing our Web site, a cookie identifies only your browser. If you become a
registered user on an Whistler's Web
site (with a designated user ID and password), we may use cookies so that we can provide personalized information that we believe will be of value to you based on
preferences you have stated while visiting the site. It is possible to set your browser to inform you when a cookie is being placed -- this way, you have the opportunity
to decide whether to accept the cookie. If you are just browsing one of our sites and are not a registered user, you do not have to accept a cookie and you may still
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