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Information
Collection and Use
Westlake
Software, Inc. 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. Westlake
Software, Inc. collects information from our users at several
different points on our website.
Ordering
Information
is requested from the user on our order form.
Here a user must provide contact information such as, name,
telephone number, and shipping address as well as financial
information such as, credit card number and expiration date.
This information is used for billing purposes and to fill
orders placed on our website.
If we have questions or difficulty processing an order,
this contact information will be used to get in touch with the
user.
Cookie
A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage
of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our site.
Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply
terminates. For
instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not be
required to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time
while on our site. If
a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site, however
the user will be limited in some areas of our site.
Some
of our business partners use cookies on our site, such as
advertisers; however, we do not have access to or control over
these cookies.
Log
Files
We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s
movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are
not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We
will share aggregated demographic information with our partners
and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person.
Links
This
web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that
we, Westlake Software, Inc., are not responsible for the privacy
practices of 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, the
information is protected both online and off-line.
When
our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive
information such as credit card number and/or social security
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, while browsing the Internet.
While
we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we
also do everything in our power to protect user-information
off-line. All of our
users’ information, including both the contact information and
the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our
offices. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific job, such
as our billing clerk or a customer service representative, are
granted access to personally identifiable information.
Our employees are required to use password-protected
screen-savers, to re-gain access to your 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, with restricted access.
Notification
of Changes
Changes
to our privacy policy, will be posted on our home page.
This will keep our users informed of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it. If at
any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in
a manner different from what was stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users via email.
This will allow users to decline usage of their information
in a manner other than they originally agreed to.
Information will be used in accordance with the privacy policy
under which the information was collected.
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