Proxyconn is committed to honoring the
privacy of our subscribers, affiliates and visitors. This privacy policy,
covers personally identifiable information shared through Proxyconn's
Service.
(1) We do not use any information about where
you personally go on the Web, and we do not give it out to others.
(2) We do not give out your email, telephone
number or credit card information. We give you the opportunity to correct your
personal contact and billing information at any time.
(3) We use secure technology, privacy
protection controls and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard
your personal information.
(4) We will keep you informed, clearly and
prominently, about what we do with your personal information, and we will advise
you if we change our policy.
Proxyconn, Inc. is a
licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. This privacy statement discloses the
privacy practices for www.proxyconn.com.
TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose
mission is to build users’ trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the
use of fair information practices. Because this web site wants to demonstrate
its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information
practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. By
displaying the TRUSTe trustmark, this web site has agreed to notify you of:
1.
What personally identifiable information of yours or third party
personally identification is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding
collection, use and distribution of the information
6. The kind of
security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration
of information under PROXYCONN control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the
information.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first
contact our support group by email
feedback@proxyconn.com, or by mail to Proxyconn, Inc., 3333 Michelson, Ste.
620, Irvine, CA
92612. If you do not receive
acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily
addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe
http://www.truste.org/watchdog.html. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison
with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
Information Collection and Use
Proxyconn is
the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not
sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is
disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at
several different points on our website.
Registration
In order to
use our service, a user must first complete the registration form. During
registration a user is required to give his or her contact information (name,
address, phone and email) and financial information (credit card number,
expiration date). This information is used to contact the user about the
services on our site for which they have expressed interest.. This
information is used for billing purposes. If we have trouble processing an
order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. If
the user subscribes after following an affiliate link, we record the affiliate
identity in order to reward the affiliate. The information about your browser
and OS type and referring web page may be stored at the time of registration as
well.
Cookies
A cookie is a
piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the
user.
We use cookies for some
technical purposes, such as storing the user’s access code, so the user would
not have to enter it manually when accessing our service or some areas of the
website. If a user rejects the cookie, the user may still use our site.
Log Files
We may log IP
addresses and some HTTP header fields on our website in order to administer the
site and to gather statistics (aggregate use). IP addresses and HTTP
header fields are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We use log files on our
proxy servers. Some data from the HTTP communication, going through our proxy
servers, can be logged for short time for technical purposes only. These data
is in no way linked to personally identifiable information.
Third Parties
We
may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf.
These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single
pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any
information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags
is completely anonymous, according their declaration.
If you would like more
information about this practice and your choices, visit
http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
Sharing
We use a
credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services.
We do not share personally identifiable data with other companies (apart from
those acting as our agents in providing our Service to you, who agree to use it
only for that purpose). We do not share personally identifiable data with
affiliates.
Links
This web site
contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we 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.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, this information is
protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such
as credit card 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 order 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 you are just
‘surfing’.
While
we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also protect
user-information off-line. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Every quarter, as well as any 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 customers’ information is protected.
Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are
kept in a secure environment.
Site and Service
Updates
We send all
new members a welcoming email, containing access code. We also send the
user site and service update announcements. Our site does not have a newsletter.
Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain
important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide
requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email
or phone. In addition, users may
receive secondary communications such as marketing announcements that contain
unsubscribe instructions.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information
If
a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), we
will endeavor to provide a way to correct or update that user’s personal
information provided to us. This can usually be done at the Account Info page.
If a user no longer desires our service, the user can unsubscribe on Cancel
Subscription page. The user logs in on My Account page and goes to Account Info
page, which allows the user to change the personal information, or goes to
Cancel Subscription page, which allows the user to unsubscribe.
Contact via email
If
a user contacts our site via email, that he/she will not be defaulted into
receiving any secondary/promotional material, unless specifically requested by
the user.
Notification of Changes
If we decide
to change our privacy policy significantly, we will post those changes on our
Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we
use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point
we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an
email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner.
Legal Liability
Although we do everything
within our power to protect the privacy of the information provided by the users
of our site, we do reserve the right to share user information in the event that
it is necessary to comply with any subpoena, court orders, or legal process.
If you’d like to comment
on or have questions about our privacy policy, or if you have a concern or aware
of policy violation, please send e-mail to
feedback@proxyconn.com.
Last updated on 10/09/03
