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Effective Date: 6/01/07
Privacy Policy
Our
Privacy Policy is designed to assist you-businesses, consumers and the
general public-in understanding how we collect and use the personal
information you provide to us, and to help you make informed decisions
when using our web site and all of our related services therein.
Contact Information
To
request a correction or deletion of your private information, or if you
have any questions and general comments about this privacy policy,
please contact us:
e-mail: customerservice@alwaysurban.com
Surface mailing address:
Always Urban
2557 W. Cortland St
Chicago, IL 60647
773-489-2808
What Information Do We Collect?
When
visiting the our web site, you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information you voluntarily choose to disclose
that is collected on an individual basis, and Web site use information
gathered on a collective basis as you and others browse our Web site.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information
You
will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and
your practices when you register to be a user of our services, register
for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts.
Email Information
If
you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the
content of your email messages together with your email address and our
responses. If you use our "Email this page" feature to send a copy of
that page to someone else, your email address will appear as the sender
of the email. Both your email address and the recipient's email address
will not be used for any other purpose.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Generally,
we use personal information for purposes of managing and expanding our
business activities, providing customer service and making available
other products and services to our customers and prospective customers.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you
about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable.
Choice/Opt-out
We
allow you the choice to opt-out of having your information used for
purposes not directly related to our site, when we ask for the
information.
Until
you explicitly opt-in for the first time we consider you in the opt-out
category. We always notify our customers when their information is
being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can
make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with
services that require an outside party.
If
you do not wish to receive any promotional or marketing e-mails and/or
surface mail marketing letters, you may opt-out of receiving those
communications by using the opt-out mechanism on the User Account
Settings Web page, or by sending an e-mail with the subject line
"Unsubscribe" to or e-mail address - see above.
What Are Cookies?
A
cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous
unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks
your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard
drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its
own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but
(to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to
access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to
you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As
you visit our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you
from other customers. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you
from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more
than is necessary for security.
Cookies,
in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate
the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of
the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to
constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies
do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do
not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in
your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We
may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements
with third parties who may be given access to personal information
including your name, address, telephone number and email for the
purpose of providing you information regarding products and services
that we think will be of interest to you.
In
connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also
provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that
the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible
third party.
We
also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not
limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In
connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners
and other third parties may have access to your personal information
for use in connection with business activities.
As
we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business
offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of
the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may
also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures,
mergers, or any dissolution.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Secure Information Transmissions
Email
is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason,
we request that you do not send private information to us by email.
Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be
transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption
services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start
with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact
customerservice@alwaysurban.com if you have any questions or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You
may request access to all your personally identifiable information that
we collect online and maintain in our database by contact us, see the
above contact information.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We
are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to
or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein.
Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to
information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to
another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your
browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites
which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own
rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before
proceeding.
Your Consent
By
using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your
personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change
our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our
Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use
it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. At any time you may
request to view any and all changes and updates, via surface mail.
Notification of Changes
The
Privacy Policy is subject to periodic review and change. In order to
view the current Privacy Policy, simply check this section of the
website.
If
we materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to
this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so users
are aware of what information we collect, how it is used, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. In some cases where we post
a notice, we may also email user who have opted to receive
communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy
practices.
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