This privacy statement applies to consumers that are customers or former customers of our U.S. businesses, and to other persons evaluating or otherwise using our services. Our customers’ privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this statement explaining our online information practices about the way we collect, retain, and use your “identifiable information.” “Identifiable information” means, as the term suggests, information that identifies you, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and financial information that is collected through MasterFiles’ web sites. This statement applies to the identifiable information collected from or submitted to MasterFiles’ web sites, including, but not limited to, the following: masterfiles.com, probe360.com, reach411.com, and reachdirect.com. Please read this statement to understand how identifiable information collected through MasterFiles’ web sites will be treated. This Privacy Statement may be updated from time-to-time, so please check back periodically. Your use of MasterFiles’ web sites represents your acceptance of the practices described in this Privacy Statement.
Collection, Disclosure, and Use of Identifiable Information
In some areas on our web sites, we ask you to provide identifiable information. For example, when you register with MasterFiles®, or become a MasterFiles’ customer, MasterFiles requests information about you such as name, email address, address, telephone number, and credit card number. Once you become a registered user, you also may be required to provide identifiable information prior to accessing MasterFiles’ services. Your identifiable information may be gathered, processed, or used in the following ways:
To enable us to verify whether you are entitled to access, use, and receive certain information, materials, services, and products available from our web sites;
To enhance your site visit, to fulfill orders, to provide services, to assist you with customer service or technical support issues, to follow up with you after your visit, to communicate with you, or to otherwise support your customer relationship with MasterFiles®; and
To alert you of new products, services, product upgrades, special offers and other information related to MasterFiles’ web sites.
It is completely optional for you to provide this information. However, if you decide not to provide this information, you may not be able to access, use, or receive certain information, materials, services, and products.
If, in the course of obtaining access, material, services, or products from MasterFiles®, you disclose identifiable information about third parties to MasterFiles, MasterFiles will not use, disclose, re-use, or re-disclose such information other than to fulfill your request or for other purpose for which it was disclosed.
Remove?
We may share identifiable information that you provide to us about yourself or your company with selected third parties, unless you choose not to receive such offers. If you prefer not to receive this type of communication, please e-mail your request for removal to privacy@masterfiles.com.
Automatic Information
MasterFiles’ web sites automatically gather, through cookies or otherwise, certain usage information such as the number and frequency of visitors to our web sites and certain user demographics. MasterFiles will use aggregate information at its sole discretion and may provide such aggregate information to third parties. These statistics contain no personal information and can not be used to gather such information. If MasterFiles decides to share this information with third parties with whom it does not have a strategic relationship, such information would be shared with those third parties only on an aggregate basis.
Other Disclosure
Circumstances may arise where we are required to disclose your personal information to third parties for purposes other than to support your customer relationship with MasterFiles, such as disclosure required by law or is pertinent to judicial or government investigations or proceedings. MasterFiles also may use your Identifiable Information and may allow law enforcement agencies access to monitor you as needed to investigate and help prevent potentially unlawful activity or activity that threatens the network or otherwise violates the MasterFiles’ Terms and Conditions of Use or this Privacy Statement, in MasterFiles’ sole discretion.
Subject to Transfer
All or some of the information provided or collected through MasterFiles’ web sites, including Identifiable Information, is a business asset of MasterFiles. As a business asset, notwithstanding the foregoing, such information may be subject to the sale or transfer to another party.
Confidentiality and Security Safeguards
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collected.
Other Web Sites
Our web sites contain links to third party maintained web sites. MasterFiles is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third party web sites and this statement does not apply to those web sites. This statement applies only to the information collected by MasterFiles from the users of our web sites. It does not apply to information collected by MasterFiles in any other way, including offline.
Questions or Concerns
If you need assistance in updating the information you have provided to MasterFiles® or you have questions or comments about these policies, contact us at privacy@MasterFiles.com
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