PRIVACY
POLICY
1. Our Commitment
to Privacy. This notice describes our Privacy Policy. Our
Privacy Policy is designed to
advise you about
how we collect, use, and protect the Personally Identifiable
Information you provide.
By visiting this
site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
2. What Information
is Collected.
(a) Information You Provide to Us:
We collect the Personally Identifiable Information you choose to enter
on various pages of our site,
or that you may
choose to give us in some other way (such as by email, physical mail,
or by telephone). For
example, you will
be asked to provide Personally Identifiable Information when you
register for access to
certain portions of
our site, sign up for newsletters or mailings, or make a purchase.
The categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect are
your first and last name, e-mail
address, physical
address, and telephone number.
You can choose not to provide certain information, but you may not be
able to take advantage of our
services and
features.
(b) Automatic Information:
When you visit a website, you disclose certain information, such as
your Internet Protocol (IP) address
and the time of
your visit. This site, like many other sites, records this basic
information about visits to our site.
(c) “Cookies”:
Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to your computer
from a web server.
We use cookies to store visitor preferences, record session information
(such as items that you add to your
shopping cart)
record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit,
alert visitors to new areas
that we think might
be of interest to them when they return to our site, record past
activity at a site in order
to provide better
service when visitors return to our site, ensure that visitors are not
repeatedly sent the same
banner ads, and to
customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other
information that the visitor sends.
Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can change your
settings to have your browser notify
you when you
receive a new cookie or you can change your settings to refuse to
accept cookies.
3. How and When the
Information is Used. The information we collect is used for
administering our business
activities as
follows:
(a) to improve the content of our site;
(b) to customize the content and/or layout of site pages for each
individual visitor;
(c) used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site;
(d) shared with other reputable organizations to help them contact
consumers for marketing purposes;
(e) used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes.
4. How We Protect
Your Information. The privacy and protection of your
information is important to us. We offer
some of our
services in connection with other web sites. The affiliated sites may
have different privacy practices
and we encourage
you to read their privacy policies. Your access to some services and
content is password protected.
We advise that you
do not disclose your password to anyone. In addition, we recommend you
sign out of password-protected
services at the end
of your session. You should also be aware that if you voluntarily
disclose Personally Identifiable
Information on
message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed
publicly and can be collected and used
by third parties
without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other
individuals or third parties.
Such activities are
beyond our control and this policy.
5. Who Has Access
to the Information. Information about our users is important
to us. Access to your information may
be provided to
third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our
site. In addition, we may sell
our business or
buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such
transactions, user information may
be transferred
along with other assets. We may also disclose your information in
response to a court order and we may
disclose your
information when we believe we are required to do so by law. We may
disclose your information in connection
with the collection
of amounts you may owe to us and to law enforcement authorities
whenever we deem it appropriate or
necessary. Please
note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure.
6. Methods We Use
to Protect Your Information. We use security software to
protect the confidentiality of your personal
information. In
addition, our business practices are reviewed periodically for
compliance with policies and procedures
governing the
security and confidentiality of our information. Our business practices
limit employee access to confidential
information, and
limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons.
7.
Children. This website does not provide services or sell
products to children under the age of 18. If we discover we
have received any
information from a child under the age of 18 in violation of this
policy, we will delete that information
immediately. If you
believe we have received any information from or about anyone under the
age of 18, please contact us at
the address listed
below.
8. How You Can
Access Your Information. You can request access to all your
personally identifiable information maintained
by us by sending an
e-mail to us at the address listed below. Upon request we offer you the
ability to have inaccuracies
corrected in your
personally identifiable information. You can have this information
corrected by sending us an e-mail at
the address listed
below.
9.
Consent. By using our website, you consent to the collection
and use of your personal information as described in this
Privacy Policy.
10. Changes to
Privacy Policy. If our Privacy Policy or procedures change, we
will immediately post those changes to our
website. Any such
changes will be effective immediately upon being posted, unless
otherwise stated in the change.
11. Effective
Date. This Privacy Policy is effective as of 1st September
2008.
12. Contact
E-Mail. You may contact us concerning this Privacy Policy at
the following e-mail address: arthur (at)
costa-classified-ads.com.
