McCallie Associates, Inc. Privacy Notice
McCallie Associates, Inc. ("McCallie") is strongly committed
to protecting your privacy online when visiting our web site. McCallie knows that you care how
confidential information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your
trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This privacy notice outlines the information McCallie will
collect on the McCallie web site and how we will use that information. By visiting this web site, you are accepting
the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
1. TYPES AND USES OF
PERSONAL INFORMATION.
For each visitor to a McCallie web site, our web server
automatically recognizes and collects the individual's IP address and domain
name, not their e-mail address.
The only information McCallie obtains about individual visitors to our
web site is that supplied voluntarily by visitors (e.g. name, company name,
title, e-mail address, physical address).
In cases when McCallie may need additional personal information to provide
visitors with customized content or to inform them about new features or
services, visitors are explicitly asked for that information.
McCallie also collects certain personal information with
respect to our users or visitors in order to provide our services. Such personal information collected by
McCallie is kept strictly confidential and is used for internal purposes only,
including, without limitation, providing requested services, improving our
marketing and promotional efforts, statistically analyzing web site usage,
improving our content and web site offerings and to customize our web sites'
content and layout. McCallie also uses
visitor information to create aggregate reports; however, these reports do not
contain any personally identifiable information. We believe these uses allow us to improve the McCallie web site
and better tailor it to meet our users' needs.
Additional examples of the type of information we collect can be found
at the bottom of this page.
EXCEPT AS DISCLOSED
IN THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, McCallie does
not sell, lend, rent or otherwise disclose any personal information to any
third parties. HOWEVER, YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE
SHARED WITH AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR CONTRACTORS OF McCALLIE.
Our visitor's personal information
may be used in the following ways:
User IDs and Passwords.
Provides visitors with access to their profile areas and to protected content.
Account Information.
These tell us more about who the visitor's are, how to contact the visitor, and
the visitor's shipping and billing information. Also contains any preferences
you have provided, such as language, e-mail format and interests.
Customer Feedback and Support. Provides a mechanism for requesting information from
McCallie. Also used to tell us how we can improve our products, services and
site designs.
E-mail Correspondence.
Used to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types. Also used to
distribute information about McCallie, our products, and services.
Transactions. Shows
which products and services the visitor has requested.
2. BUSINESS
TRANSFERS.
As we continue to develop our business, McCallie, or
substantially all of its assets may be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information will of course be one
of the transferred business assets.
3. COOKIES.
Occasionally, our web site may place a text file called a
"cookie" in the browser
directories of your computer. "Cookies"
are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's hard
disk for record keeping purposes. Our
web site may use cookies during your online session to deliver content specific
to your interests. Cookies allow us to
avoid showing you the same ad or other messages repeatedly and allow us to
tailor a web site or to better match your interest and preferences. Our cookies
enable McCallie to relate your use of the web site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided to our web site. Most Internet browsers
enable you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or
receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more
about these functions.
4. REGISTRATION.
McCallie's web site's registration system requires users to
give us contact information such as their name and e-mail address, and
demographic information such as a ZIP code, sex or age. The customer's contact information is used
to contact the visitor when necessary.
Users may choose (opt-in) to receive future mailings; see the
choice/opt-in section below.
Demographic and profile data are also collected at our web site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's
experience at our web site, showing the visitor content that reflects their
stated preferences.
5. DISCLOSURE REQUIRED
BY LAW.
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment,
we cannot ensure that all of our visitor's private communications and other
personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in
this privacy policy. By way of example
(without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to
the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties
may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications. Further, we can (and
our visitor's authorize us to) disclose
any information about the visitor's to law enforcement or other government
officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. Therefore, although we use industry standard
practices to protect our visitor's privacy, we do not promise, and our
visitor's should not expect, that their personal information or private
communications will remain private.
6. EXTERNAL LINKS.
The McCallie web site may contain links to other Internet
web sites. We encourage all of our
partners, contributors and third parties to implement policies and practices
that respect the privacy of our users.
However, McCallie is not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such web sites. Our policy
only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from the
visitor's. To the extent that visitor's
disclose information to other parties,
whether they are linked from the McCallie web site, different rules may apply
to their use or disclosure of the personal information disclosed to them. Because McCallie does not control the
privacy policies of third parties, our visitor's are subject to the privacy
customs and policies of that third party.
We encourage our visitor's to ask questions before disclosing personal
information to others.
7. PUBLIC FORUMS.
McCallie may provide its users with chat rooms, forums,
message boards and/or news groups.
Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes
public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose
your personal information.
8. SECURITY.
The McCallie web site has security measures in place to
protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control. McCallie employs strict
security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is
stored in a secured database and, when accessed, always sent via an encrypted
Internet channel.
9. CHILDREN'S
PRIVACY.
McCallie understands the importance of protecting childrens'
privacy in the interactive, online world.
McCallie does not intentionally target or solicit to children thirteen
(13) or younger for purposes of collecting personal information. The McCallie web site may link to certain
web sites which may target or solicit to children thirteen (13) or younger and
may collect personal information. Those
web sites are not governed by this privacy policy, but will (or should) have
their own privacy policies that more fully explain how they respect and protect
the privacy of children while providing them information, goods or
services. Check out the FTC's site(1)
for more tips on protecting children's privacy online.
10. AMENDMENTS AND
UPDATES.
Please note that we review our privacy practices from time
to time, and that such practices are subject to change. McCallie reserves the right to change this
privacy notice at anytime by posting revisions on the McCallie web site. We ask that our visitor's periodically
review this page to insure familiarity with the most current version of our
privacy notice. However, this privacy
policy is not intended to, and does not, create any contractual or other legal
rights in or on behalf of any party.
11. TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF USE AND NOTICES.
If you choose to visit a McCallie web site, your visit and
any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms and Conditions, including limitations on damages,
arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the State of Nebraska.
If you have any concern about privacy at McCallie, please send us a thorough
description to privacy@mccallie.com, and we will try to resolve it. Our
business changes constantly. This Notice and the Terms
and Conditions will change also, and use of information that we gather now
is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail
periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us
not to, but you should check our web site frequently to see recent changes.
12. OPT-IN / REMOVAL
OF INFORMATION.
Our web site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to
receive communications from us and our partners at the point where we request
information about the visitor. Our web
site also gives users the following options for removing their information from
our database in order to stop receiving communications or our service.
You can send e-mail to:
opt-out@mccallie.com
You can visit the following URL:
You can call the following telephone number: (402) 291-2203 Ext. 210
13. CORRECTIONS AND UPDATES TO INFORMATION.
This web site gives users the following options for changing
and modifying information previously provided:
e-mail contact: helpdesk@mccallie.com
visit
call the following telephone number: (402) 291-2203 Ext. 210
14. INQUIRIES. Should you have other questions or concerns
about this privacy policy, please call us at or send us an e-mail at privacy@mccallie.com.
15. AUTOMATIC
INFORMATION.
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include
the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect the visitor's computer to
the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection
information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform;
purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to,
through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number;
products the visitor viewed or searched for; and phone number used to call our
800 number.
