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RABSystems
WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
RABSystems, Web Sites (referred to in this document as "COMPANY"
or "We"), is concerned that its reputation, and the
responsibilities that come with using it, always remain
of paramount importance in all of RABSystems's
activities. To that end, in addition to certain
conditions and restrictions that you will find under the
Terms of Use Agreement [insert hyperlink here] and our
Legal Disclaimer [insert hyperlink here] on our Internet
Web Site, the information and links to other web sites
provided below explain RABSystems's policy about
privacy, options you can use to limit the use of
information about you both here and elsewhere on the
internet, valuable information about the internet
generally, public policy issues about the internet and
internet privacy as well as other information about
rights and responsibilities concerning privacy in a
variety of non-internet areas.
We believe your business is no one else's. Your privacy
is important to you and to us. So we'll protect the
information you share with us. To protect your privacy,
RABSystems follows standard principles in accordance
with worldwide practices for Customer/Member privacy and
data protection.
PRIVACY POLICY
RABSystems's policy is to respect the privacy of all of
our visitors, so the following policy statement tells
you about what information we may receive, send or ask
of you, what its used for and ways you can control its
use.
Generally, anyone can come to visit articles4hire.net,
and RABSystems will not keep information about these
visits except for a record of how many total visits have
been made to the Web Site and its various web pages
altogether (not how many times any single person has
visited).
However, if you become a Customer/Member (see our Terms
of Use Agreement [insert hyperlink here] for a detailed
explanation), which requires giving identifying
information to RABSystems (together referred to in this
document as a "Customer/Member "), Membership records
will be started according to information you give us or
that we receive from or send to your computer.
SECURITY
RABSystems has taken strong measures to protect the
security of your personal information and to ensure that
your choices for its intended use are honoured. We take
strong precautions to protect your data from loss,
misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration,
or destruction. Your Personal Information is stored on
secure servers that are not accessible by third parties.
We provide you with the capability to transmit you
Personal Information via secured and encrypted channels
if you use a similarly equipped web browser.
These
security measures are in place to prevent the loss,
misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain
from you, but we make no assurances about our ability to
prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third
party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or
alteration.
In the event of unauthorized use of your credit card,
you must notify your credit card provider in accordance
with its reporting rules and procedures.
RABSystems strictly protects the security of your
personal information and honours your choices for its
intended use. We carefully protect your data from loss,
misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration,
or destruction.
Your
personal information is never shared outside the company
without your permission, except under conditions
explained above. Inside the company, data is stored in
password-controlled servers with limited access. Your
information may be stored and processed in the USA or
any other country where RABSystems, its subsidiaries,
affiliates or agents are located.
You also have a significant role in protecting your
information. No one can share these see or edit your
personal information without knowing your user name and
password, so do not with others.
NOTICE CONCERNING CHILDREN AND TO PARENTS
We adhere to the Children's Privacy Act. You must be 18
years of age to join or use articles4hire.net or any of
the recommended or linked sites. This site follows the
guidelines, policies and laws of the Federal Trade
Commission (www.ftc.gov). We retain the right to refuse
anyone membership in any of our sites. If we learn or
have reason to believe that a User is underage according
to the guidelines, policies and laws of the Federal
Trade Commission, we will promptly revoke that User's
account and delete any personal information.
ENFORCEMENT
If for some reason you believe RABSystems has not
adhered to these principles, please notify us at:
support@rabsystems.com or by certified mail, return
receipt requested, to 6342 Mccollum Ln, Acworth GA.
30102. We will do our best to determine and correct the
problem promptly. Be certain the words Privacy Policy
are in the Subject line.
ELECTRONIC PRODUCT REGISTRATION
When you buy and install a new product, we may ask you
to register your purchase electronically. When you do,
we merge your registration information with any
information you've already left with us (we call that
information your personal profile). If you haven't
previously registered with us, we create a personal
profile for you from your product registration
information. If you ever want to review or update that
information, you can click on Update Profile, and edit
any of the Personal Information in your profile. If you
haven't already created a membership, we will ask you to
do so. This ensures that only you can access your
information.
CUSTOMER OR MEMBERSHIP PROFILES
As mentioned above, every registered customer or member
has a unique personal profile. Each profile is assigned
a unique personal identification username, which helps
us ensure that only you can access your profile.
When you
register, you create your profile, your username and
password. It is your passport to seamless travel across
your member area, allowing you to download software and
order more plug-in modules without having to fill out
registration forms with information you've already
provided. Even if you switch computers, you won't have
to re-register - just use your Registration ID to
identify yourself.
WHAT
WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION YOU SHARE
When you join us, you provide us with your contact
information, including your name and email address. We
use this information to send you updates about your
order, questionnaires to measure your satisfaction with
our service and announcements about new and exciting
services that we offer. When you order from us, our 3rd
party payment processors such as PayPal and
2checkout.com will ask for your credit card number and
billing address. They use this information only to bill
you for the product(s) you order at that time.
We
occasionally hire other companies to provide limited
services on our behalf, including programming, answering
Customer/Member questions about products or services,
sending email and processing event registration. We will
only provide those companies the information they need
to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from
using that information for any other purpose.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy,
RABSystems will not share your personal information with
any third parties without your consent.
RABSystems will disclose your personal information,
without notice, only if required to do so by law or in
the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
i.
Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal
process served on RABSystems or the site;
ii. Protect and defend the rights or property of
RABSystems and its family of Websites;
iii. Enforce our Terms of Use Agreement [insert
hyperlink here]; or
iv. Act under exigent circumstances to protect the
safety of the public or users of the Site.
If your information is lost or stolen, you must promptly
notify us if your credit card, user name, or password is
lost, stolen, or used without permission. In such an
event, we will remove that credit card number, user
name, or password from your account and update our
records accordingly.
The Site contains links to other websites. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of
such websites. We also make email services, bulletin
board services, chat areas, news groups, forums,
communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo
albums, file cabinets and/or other message or
communication facilities designed to enable User to
communicate with others (each a "Communication Service"
and collectively "Communication Services") available to
you. Please understand that any information that is
disclosed in these areas becomes public information. We
have no control over its use and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your Personal
Information.
PERSONAL INFORMATION-WHY AND HOW "IP ADDRESSES" ARE USED
An IP address is a basic element of the way the Internet
functions. It is a number that identifies your computer
according to its IP address, and IP numbers are assigned
to web sites automatically. IP addresses may also be
identified in "header" information on emails. There may
also be other services and occasions when IP addresses
will appear. Always look carefully at what information
may be displayed about you, including your IP address,
and if you are unsure or uncomfortable about the
appearance of your IP address, do not use that service.
In addition to being an important part of how computers
communicate with each other correctly, IP addresses can
be used for other things, as well. In RABSystems's case,
IP addresses are collected for smooth operation in
administrating our Web Site system, for purposes of
collecting the non-personal "grouping" information for
use by RABSystems and certain third parties, as
discussed above, and to generally monitor the use of
articles4hire.net. IP addresses are exchanged many times
when you are surfing the web, so, for example, if you
select a web page or link within RABSystems, the IP
address is recorded by the server by which RABSystems's
Web Site is connected to the internet.
For most purposes, your IP address will not be connected
with personally identifying information, only the fact
of that access to a given place on our web sites gets
noted, but who you are individually will be anonymous,
even to RABSystems. However, as with certain
information discussed in other parts of this document,
IP Address information will be used to help us identify
a person if RABSystems, in good faith, believes it
important for ensuring proper compliance with our rules
and policies, if it appears to be necessary to comply
with laws and to protect RABSystems, our members and
customers or other third parties.
PERSONAL INFORMATION-OPTING OUT
RABSystems, our affiliates or selected third parties may
use personal information you give RABSystems for
marketing and promotions. You do not have to let us use
this information in that manner. This is called "opting
out," and it means you can tell us not to use your
personal information for these purposes:
i.
Listing you in any Customer/Member directory,
ii. Receiving information from us about RABSystems and
our services and products, or
iii. Receiving information from third parties selected
by us because, for example, your interests seem to match
services or products they offer. To opt out, contact
support@rabsystems.com, modify your personal information
or cancel your Membership.
In addition, there may be specific opt-out processes
available when you enter certain areas of our Web Site,
join groups, use services or when other merchandise is
offered. When you see such opt-out notices, read them
for information on how to opt out at that time. Also,
some promotions may ask if you'd like additional
information. Choosing to ask for additional information
may require transfer of your email address, but if more
personal information than that is required, you will be
notified prior to such information being transmitted and
may opt out by cancelling the request at that time.
OTHER
IMPORTANT COMPANY PRIVACY ISSUES
A "Cookie" is a small file sent to and stored in your
computer to keep accurate records and customize certain
services. In fact, it's become so common that you can
almost always expect cookies to be sent to your computer
from a wide variety of Internet sites.
For
RABSystems, cookies are designed to try to make your
visits more personal and helpful according to the ways
you use our Web Sites. They tell us the name that a
Customer/Member uses at RABSystems and can tailor things
like greetings, e-cards and so-forth to make your use of
RABSystems feel like you're right at home. They can also
tell us, for example, that you focus on particular types
of information you need as a Customer/Member, and the
cookie may automatically see to it that when you log in
you get a message about some new feature in your areas
of interest or about other services that fit the way you
use RABSystems. Also, sometimes when messages are sent
to certain RABSystems destinations, like "customer
service," a cookie may be used to help process your
message more efficiently and accurately.
However,
cookies at RABSystems are never used for storing or
accessing important personal information that you alone
should control the use of-like your password or your
credit card number.
Even
though cookies are usually thought to be helpful to web
sites and their users alike, not everybody wants them
being put in their computer. That's okay, but there are
two things you need to know: if you don't have cookies,
not everything on your RABSystems visits may be
accessible, as efficient or as personable; and, stopping
cookies is something we can't do, instead you have to do
it in your own computer.
Stopping
cookies shouldn't be difficult; however, because cookies
are so commonly used and welcomed today, most browsers
are set to automatically accept them. Even so, if you
look through the settings in your browser, often in
"preferences," "setup" or "configuration," you should be
able to find a place where you can change the cookies
setting, either to tell your browser never to accept
cookies, or to tell your browser to notify you if a
cookie is about to be sent and give you a chance to
accept it or not. In the latter case, you should know
that cookies are often just numbered or use some kind of
computer term that will not be helpful for you to
identify what the cookie is actually for so that you can
make a clear choice, but the option is yours.
SPECIAL CONCERNS ABOUT HYPERLINKS
In this document, there are buttons or underlined words
and phrases that you can click on. You will find these
all over our Web Site and nearly every other web site
you visit throughout the Internet, too. Some of them
link to other parts of the same web site, but others
will send you to another site unrelated to the web site
you were at. This kind of link is called a hyperlink and
could send you to a web page a block away or on the
other side of the world.
When we
use hyperlinks at RABSystems, we try to make sure they
are updated and accurate links and that they are
compatible with the kinds of visitors we have. However,
RABSystems has no control over the business, operations
or representations of these hyperlinks to unrelated web
sites-and any hyperlinks included on them-and what the
destination web pages may contain. RABSystems's Privacy
Policy does not cover other such destinations. You
should always be careful at other web sites about how
they operate and how information is being used. They may
have their own policies that differ from RABSystems's,
they may send different kinds of cookies and they may
gather and use information in very different ways than
RABSystems.
We can
take no responsibility or protect you on other web
sites, so always be careful-not just about things like
opting out on advertising, but also about safety and
security. Once again, carefully protect personal
information about yourself, and be wary of who might get
such information, especially the public through
chat-rooms, bulletin boards or by email. Not being
careful about this can be risky, and because RABSystems
can't control these hyperlinked sites or users, and
because our own policies and rules don't apply, the risk
is on you to decide how, and how not, to use them.
DO YOU
ACCEPT OUR PRIVACY POLICY?
By using this Web Site, you are verifying that you agree
to, and will abide by, the terms of the RABSystems
Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO
NOT AGREE TO DO SO, STOP VISITING OUR WEB SITES.
Second,
check our privacy policy every once in a while. Certain
things may change over time, and we may include new
information and privacy policies that will be placed in
this document. If you continue to visit RABSystems after
any such changes, you will again be verifying that you
agree to, and will abide by, the current privacy policy,
as it then exists.
UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to
add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy,
simply by posting such change, update, or modification
on the Site and without any other notice to you. Any
such change, update, or modification will be effective
immediately upon posting on the Site.
QUESTIONS & COMMENTS?
RABSystems is always ready to review your questions and
comments and we will attempt to give you our best
responses. Remember, we have a lot of Customer/Member s
and other visitors to respond to, as well, but we will
try to reply as promptly and thoroughly as possible. To
contact RABSystems about our privacy policy, send an
email to support@rabsystems.com.
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