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PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy has been compiled to serve better those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your Name, Email address, Mailing address, Phone number or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use specific other site features in the following ways:
- To personalize user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
- To enable us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
- To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
How do we protect visitor information?
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have exclusive access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Also, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures enters, submits, or accesses their information
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember specific information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled. It won’t affect the user’s experience that makes your site experience more efficient, and some of our services will not function correctly.
Third Party Disclosure
No, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en
We have not enabled Google AdSense on our site, but we may do so in the future.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating precisely the data being collected and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. – See more at http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy,’ and can be easily be found on the page specified above.
Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes:
- On our Privacy Policy Page
Users can change their personal information:
- By emailing us
- By calling us
How does our site handle do not track signals?
We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Does our site allow third party behavioral tracking?
It’s also important to note that we do not allow third party behavioral tracking.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect childrens privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under 13.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
To be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify the users via email:
- Within seven business days
We will notify the users via in site notification:
- Within one business day
We also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
CAN SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out strict penalties for violations.
We collect your email address to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
- NOT use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters
- Monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can:
- Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.
marketing@comservicesolutions.com
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
Collecting personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information that you enter while using the services on our website;
information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
Any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy
Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:
Administering our website and business;
Personalizing our website for you;
Enabling your use of the services available on our website;
Sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
Sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
Keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service); and other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
Disclosing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section.
Retaining personal information
This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
Security of your personal information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:
The payment of a fee and;
The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third party websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
We use Google Analytics on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”;
In Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
CASL – CEM Compliance Policy (Canada)
Purpose
One of the main purposes of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation is to regulate unsolicited commercial electronic messages (CEMs). Non-compliance with CASL will bring heavy penalties. Since we are a company that sends CEMs, the purpose of this policy is to ensure that everyone sending CEMs on behalf of is in compliance with the law and to provide the security framework upon which all CEM delivery efforts will be based. This policy defines appropriate and authorized behaviour for personnel approved to send CEMs on behalf of Communication Services Solutions.
Scope
All electronic messages sent from the network to outside organizations or persons will be presumed to be CEMs and will therefore fall under the guidelines of this policy.
This CASL – CEM Compliance Policy applies to all employees, interns, contractors, vendors and other parties sending electronic messages on behalf of of Communication Services Solutions.
Definitions
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL): An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act.
Electronic address: An address used in connection with the transmission of an electronic message to an electronic mail account, an instant messaging account, a telephone account or any similar account.
Electronic message: A message sent by any means of telecommunication, including a text, sound, voice or image message.
Commercial electronic message (CEM): CEMs are commercial electronic messages that encourage participation in commercial activity. Even if a commercial message is not sent with an expectation of garnering a profit, it still qualifies as a CEM.
Commercial activity: Any transaction of commercial character, regardless of whether there is an expectation of profit or not. All emails you send from your work email will be treated as commercial.
Express consent: Permission obtained when a recipient “opts in” to receive CEMs. Consent can be oral or written and could be an unedited audio recording, paper form or electronic checkbox on a website. Express consent never expires, but it can be revoked by the recipient. will maintain records of all contacts for whom express consent exists.
Unsubscribe: A withdrawal of consent to receive CEMs
Social networking sites: Specific online communities of users, or any website that links individuals electronically and provides a forum where users can connect and share information. These websites can be general or tailored to specific interests or certain types of users. Examples of popular social networking sites include Facebook®, Twitter®, Google+®, YouTube®, LinkedIn®, Foursquare®, Instagram® and TUMBLR®. The list of domains that constitute social networking sites is always growing and changing due to the nature of the Internet.
Policy Guidelines
All information systems within are the property of and will be used in compliance with policy.
All users will report any irregularities found in incoming or outgoing CEMs and the CEM delivery system to the IT team immediately upon detection.
The CEM delivery system is subject to monitoring at all times. Use of the CEM delivery system constitutes acceptance of this compliance policy.
Release of CEMs will be at the discretion of . All requests for release should be submitted to the IT team.
Users will not use devices to send CEMs without prior approval from management or another designated representative.
Users will not use devices to conduct personal business.
No personal emails should be sent from an email address.
No instant messaging should be conducted with parties outside of of Communication Services Solutions.
Employees are prohibited from using social networking sites to conduct personal or company business.
CEM Recipients
Employees, interns, contractors, vendors and anyone else sending CEMs on behalf of are to send CEMs ONLY to the electronic address of the parties listed on the Approved CEM Recipients List, which can be found at Communication Services Solutions.
All employees must ONLY use the approved email template in order to gain consent from a party NOT already on the Approved CEM Recipients List. The approved email template can be found at Communication Services Solutions.
CEM Components and Guidelines
All CEMs must contain: contact information, clearly laid out. This includes sender first and last name, sender email address, company name, company mailing address, company telephone number and company Web address.
If the CEM is to be sent on behalf of another party at , the name of this party and the sender must both be included, in addition to the information listed above.
An “unsubscribe” link, clearly visible.
Employees are prohibited from modifying the existing signature or contact information.
Employees are prohibited from removing the “unsubscribe” tool inherent in the approved email templates.
Employees must follow all approved guidelines on how to craft subject lines and emails messages thatare not false or misleading. The approved guidelines can be found at Communication Services Solutions.
All employees must attend the required training session on sending CEMs. Course content will include information on where to access the Approved CEM Recipients List, how to obtain consent if it does not yet exist, and how to craft a compliant CEM subject line and message. Proof of training attendance will be kept on file with HR.
Unsubscribe Requests
All “unsubscribe” requests must be immediately forwarded to the LIST APPROPRIATE PARTY
At LIST APPROPRIATE EMAIL ADDRESS in order to ensure prompt processing of the request and to maintain accurate records. EMPLOYEES MUST NOT SEND ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION TO THE UNSUBSCRIBED PARTY
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
comservicesolutions.com
301 W. Maine, Suite 301
Enid, OK
73701
dcrawford@comservicesolutions.com
866-727-4300