Privacy Policy
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I. INFORMATION THAT YOU MAY
SUPPLY TO US
Equinox Global Sourcing. does not
collect personal information from you unless you voluntarily provide it to
us. From your interactions with this site we do not capture or save your
name, electronic mail address, telephone number, mailing address, or any other
personal information identifying you. Nor do we capture or save any information
that you supply in your interactions with our various planning tools, such as
calculators and worksheets.
Cookies
We use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use
information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone
number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like
more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having
this information used by these companies, click
here.
We may install one or more software
"cookies" on your hard drive in connection with your visit to this
Web site. A "cookie" is a small piece of information, in the
form of lines of text, that the Web site transmits to your web browser
when you click on a hyperlink. When you return to the page or site that
installed the cookie, this information is transmitted back our site's server.
YOU CAN SET UP YOUR WEB BROWSER TO
INFORM YOU WHEN COOKIES ARE BEING SENT AND/OR TO PREVENT COOKIES FROM BEING
SENT.
We do not use "cookies" to
store confidential or sensitive information on your computer, or to capture
your electronic mail address, obtain data from your hard drive, or gain
confidential or sensitive information about you. We do not combine information
collected through cookies with other personal information to derive any such
information about you.
In addition, we also use standard
Web server log files, to help us count visitors and evaluate our site's
technical capacity.
Whether by cookies or server log
files, we may be collecting any or all of the following from your visits to
our site:
(1) The name of the domain from
which you access the Internet (for example, "aol.com" if you are
connecting from an America Online account, or "american.edu" if you
are connecting from an American University account.);
(2) The date and time you access our
web site;
(3) The pages that you visit on our
site and the sequence in which you visit them;
(4) The amount of time that you
spend on any given page of our site;
(5) The Internet address of the web
site that you visited immediately before visiting our web site;
(6) The Internet address of the site
that you visit immediately after leaving our site;
(7) The material that you have
downloaded from our site as an individual;
(8) The type of operating system
(e.g., Macintosh, Windows) on your computer;
(9) The type of browser (e.g.,
Netscape, Internet Explorer) that you are using to view the site.
II. INFORMATION THAT YOU MAY
SUPPLY TO US ACTIVELY
If, in interacting with our site,
you actively transmit to us by electronic mail information such as your
electronic mail address or your account number, or information concerning your
account, to enable you or us to perform certain tasks (for example, to review
your accounts or to correspond with us), we will collect your information if
necessary to interact with you. We will also retain the content of the
form or electronic mail, the electronic mail address and our response.
This allows us to retain an audit trail of our contact and provide you with the
product, service or information that you may have requested.
The information that you actively
supply to us will be used only for the purpose specified. For example, if
you send us your electronic mail address and indicate that you wish to be
notified by electronic mail of special promotions offered by Equinox Global
Sourcing, the information will be used only for that purpose and only until you
ask us to stop (using the 'unsubscribe' instructions that we will provide to
you with each such electronic mail). We will never use your electronic
mail address to send you any unsolicited message or information, nor will we
share it with or sell it to anyone else for that purpose.
Questions regarding our privacy
statement can be sent to info@equinoxgs.com.
III. RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYEE ACCESS
TO INFORMATION
We will limit our employees' access
to personally identifiable information to those with a business reason for
knowing such information. We will ensure that our employees are trained
to understand the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy, and will
take appropriate disciplinary measures where necessary to enforce employee
privacy responsibilities.
IV. RESTRICTIONS ON THIRD-PARTY
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Customer information will only be
disclosed to authorized account holders, and only after identification of that
account holder has been verified. Verifying information may include your
social security number, date of birth, place of birth, mother's maiden name,
signature, and/or other identifying information. If the information request is
made over the telephone or by electronic mail and we are uncertain about the
identity of the person requesting the information, we will ask that the request
be made in "hard copy" writing or in person.
We will only share with third
parties specific information about our customer accounts or other personally
identifiable information under one or more of the following circumstances:
(1) to comply with applicable laws
and regulations of regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies (e.g.
subpoenas, court orders, investigation of fraudulent activity, etc.);
(2) to protect us against fraud;
(3) to complete online, email or
telephone purchases initiated by you;
(4) to provide information to our
selected credit card or third party fund collections entity;
(5) by your request.
If a court order or subpoena
requires us to release information about you, we will notify you promptly to give
you an opportunity to exercise your legal rights. The only exceptions to
this policy are when we are prohibited by court order or law from notifying
you, or cases in which fraud and/or criminal activity is suspected.
If we provide personally identifiable
customer information about you to a third party, Equinox Global Sourcing will
insist that the third party adhere to similar privacy principles to keep such
information confidential.
V. MAINTENANCE OF PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Equinox Global Sourcing retains no
personally identifiable financial, credit card, banking or account information
on its computer systems, unless specifically directed by you to do so.
Any information retained by us is solely used to make your return visits to our
web site easier to you or to provide you with information that you may have
requested. Under no circumstances is any of the personally identifiable
information sold or transmitted to any third party entities, except as outlined
in PROVISION IV. RESTRICTIONS ON THIRD-PARTY ACCESS TO INFORMATION, outlined
above.
This Privacy Policy was last
revised on May 13, 2011. |