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.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services from us or our partners, 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.
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@bionatures.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.
Valuation 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.
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.
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