Privacy
At ForgeHouse, Inc, your right to privacy is a primary concern. ForgeHouse, Inc is committed to protecting your privacy and adheres to the privacy principles of the Safe Harbor for the European Commission’s Directive on Data Privacy. This privacy policy explains how the information you provide to ForgeHouse, Inc during your use of the Site is protected by ForgeHouse, LLC.
Information Collected About You
There are several areas on our Site where ForgeHouse, Inc requests information from you, which ForgeHouse, Inc collects and uses to provide the services that you request. ForgeHouse, LLC asks for this information so that we can enhance your visit to our Site or to follow up with you after your visit or other communication from you. At ForgeHouse, Inc, when you provide your personal information, including name, address, phone number, email address, etc., your personal information is used by ForgeHouse, LLC and conveyed third parties only for use in processing your request and for providing you with enhanced business services. ForgeHouse, Inc may collect the following information:
Name, address, phone number, email address, company name, member ID, password, service preferences or other information that is required to fulfill your service request.
ForgeHouse, Inc may collect information, such as your name, Member ID and e-mail address whenever you submit a question, suggestion, or request assistance from ForgeHouse, Inc.
To improve the services we offer to you, ForgeHouse, Inc may periodically obtain information about you from independent third party sources, and add it to the information that you have provided to us.
If you are not a user of our enhanced business services, we will only collect the information you provide us which will be limited to name, address, and email address.
Use of Your Information
The information you provide to ForgeHouse, Inc will be kept confidential and used only to support your customer relationship with ForgeHouse, Inc and our vendors. It will not be passed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Though it is not our usual practice, you may receive occasional email or telephone calls from ForgeHouse, Inc. These communications will be informational and service-oriented only and will not be solicitations (there may be notices about new features, training opportunities, etc.). You also may receive a call to follow up on a service issue you have experienced or to confirm any modifications of your information or termination of your account. Permission to contact you will have been given by your employer/organization. Your privacy will continue to be protected during these communications. You will not receive any unsolicited communications from ForgeHouse, Inc regarding any commercial offers or advertisements at any time.
Each time you enter or update information via our Site (“Dynamic Session”), encrypted session I.D. information is communicated via URL to ForgeHouse, Inc. This information is not stored by ForgeHouse, Inc, but is deleted at the completion of each of your Dynamic Sessions. The ForgeHouse, LLC Site may use cookies (small text files stored on a user’s computer by a website to enable the website to tailor the user’s needs.) ForgeHouse, LLC does not use any other automatic or electronic means to track or collect information about or from you.
Your Right to Choose
At ForgeHouse, Inc, we believe that you should have the right to choose how your information is processed and/or shared. Any information that ForgeHouse, Inc collects from you on the Site is information that you specifically and voluntarily provide to ForgeHouse, Inc either through use of our enhanced business services or by entering it directly into the Site. You may choose not to provide any or all of the information that is requested on the Site. By so choosing, however, you may limit your ability to receive some or all of the services generally offered to users of the Site. In the event that you no longer want ForgeHouse, Inc to process or utilize your information in accordance with this privacy policy, please contact your vendor representative. If your organization is not a customer of our enhanced business services, please contact ForgeHouse, Inc Information Security at "webmaster AT forgehouse DOT us" and inform us of this choice.
Sharing Your Information
Except as explained herein, the information that you provide to ForgeHouse, Inc through the Site regarding you and/or your service purchase will not be sold, shared, or rented to any outside organization for its use in marketing or solicitation. ForgeHouse, LLC may share your information with a third party acting as its agent to provide and process the services that you request. Such third parties shall subscribe to the privacy principles in this privacy policy or be subject to the European Union Data Privacy Directive or some other adequacy finding. ForgeHouse, LLC may also share aggregated customer information such as statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information, with ForgeHouse, LLC’s business partners and other reputable vendors, but such aggregated information will not contain any personally identifying information of any users of the Site.
ForgeHouse, Inc may disclose or access your account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
The Security of Your Information
ForgeHouse, Inc strives to protect the privacy of the information that you share with us. ForgeHouse, Inc has implemented security measures designed to protect all data we collect against unauthorized access. We utilize the industry standard security measures available through your browser, called SSL (Secure Sockets Layering) encryption, so that your information cannot be read as it travels over the Internet. The characters you type are encrypted, making it nearly impossible for a third party to intercept the information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, although ForgeHouse, Inc strives to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of the information that you submit to ForgeHouse, LLC via the Site and you do so at your own risk.
The Integrity of Your Information
ForgeHouse, Inc uses the information that you provide to us only for the purposes for which you submit such information and not in any way that is incompatible with the purposes for which it was collected. We request from you only that information which is necessary to provide the services you access. ForgeHouse, Inc takes reasonable steps to ensure that information that we receive from you is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and current, including providing mechanisms by which you can amend or update your information.
Linked Internet Sites
You should be aware that links to other Internet sites might be available on the Site. Once you leave the Site and go to another site, be aware that those sites may follow privacy policies that differ from the provisions provided herein. ForgeHouse, LLC is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims any and all liability related to, actions of such linked sites, their privacy policies or the content of such sites.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by ForgeHouse, Inc in accordance with this privacy policy. If ForgeHouse, Inc updates or modifies this privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you will always have the ability to know what information we collect, how we use the information, and under what circumstances we deliver the information. Your continued use of this site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new terms. ForgeHouse, LLC will use your personally identifiable information in accordance with the privacy policy that was in effect at the time such information was collected.
If ForgeHouse, Inc makes any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect your information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Site notifying you of the change. In some cases where ForgeHouse, Inc posts a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
Your Age
This Site is not directed to children under than 13 years of age, and children under 13 years of age shall not use this Site to submit any individually identifiable information about themselves. By using the Site you certify that you are over 18 years of age.
Transfer of Business Assets
As we continue to develop our business, we may be acquired, merge with another business, acquire or buy other businesses or assets. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred business assets. In such an event, both personally and non-personally identifiable information, will be part of the transferred assets.
Last Updated: 02/15/2005 |
