findanexpertonline.com Privacy Policy (Last updated June 1, 2006)
findanexpertonline.com has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it
protects and manages personal information that it collects from you (the
client) online.
1. Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure
Your use of the findanexpertonline.com site and/or your registration for
findanexpertonline.com products and services constitute your consent to the
terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this
Privacy Policy, please do not use the findanexpertonline.com site.
findanexpertonline.com may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When it
does, findanexpertonline.com will also revise the "last update"
date at the top of this Privacy Policy. In addition, findanexpertonline.com
will seek a client's prior consent, by email, for any new uses or proposed
disclosures of information collected from the client prior to the change.
findanexpertonline.com will notify clients by email of changes to this
policy that will affect information collected from them in the future. In
certain circumstances, however, findanexpertonline.com will not inform and
obtain the consent of the client, such as in connection with an
investigation of a breach of an agreement, contravention of laws, an
emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened,
the collection of a debt or in compliance with the request of a law
enforcement agency or a court order.
A client may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and disclosure
at any time by sending an email to admin@findanexpertonline.com. Please note
that, if you do, findanexpertonline.com may suspend its provision of
products and services to you. When you withdraw, if you fall within the
guarantee period for any findanexpertonline.com product and you request a
refund, the guarantee will be honored.
2. Accountability
findanexpertonline.com collects, at the time of your registration and your
sign-on to its web site, certain "personal information"
(information that personally identifies you) including but not limited to
your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and
information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address,
operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and
referring web site addresses).
findanexpertonline.com has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect
personal information received from its clients, and to respond to any
inquiries. The Privacy Policy also provides that findanexpertonline.com will
use appropriate contractual means to establish a comparable level of
protection for personal information which is sent for processing by third
parties on findanexpertonline.com's behalf.
findanexpertonline.com has designated responsibility for your personal
information to its Privacy Officer, who ensures compliance with the
principles in this Privacy Policy. Other findanexpertonline.com individuals
may be delegated to act on behalf of the Privacy Officer.
3. Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
findanexpertonline.com collects and uses personal information for the
following Identified Purposes:
(a) to understand client needs
regarding findanexpertonline.com's services;
(b) to develop and provide
our web site and our products and services for our clients;
(c) to fulfill your requests for
products, services or information;
(d) to communicate with clients and
site visitors, when necessary, and to inform clients
of
upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from
findanexpertonline.com, its affiliates and third parties;
(e) to allow clients to access
limited-entry areas of findanexpertonline.com's site;
(f) to personalize some of our
services and products for you and to deliver targeted
advertisements and offers from findanexpertonline.com and third parties;
(g) to bill accounts and maintain
payment records;
(h) to comply with any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request;
(i) to respond to a legitimate
claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating
the
rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern
your use of the
findanexpertonline.com site, or any
findanexpertonline.com product or service;
(j) to protect the services,
products or rights of findanexpertonline.com, including but not
limited to the
security or integrity of the findanexpertonline.com site; and
(k) to identify and resolve technical
problems concerning findanexpertonline.com's site,
products and services.
findanexpertonline.com also uses personal information in an aggregate form
(i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis,
operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
If we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our
behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal information
they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use
and further disclose your personal information as appropriate in the course
of their work for us.
4. Limiting the Collection of Personal Information
findanexpertonline.com limits its collection of personal information to only
that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes.
findanexpertonline.com does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly
collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen.
When you visit the findanexpertonline.com web site, a cookie may be placed
on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the
findanexpertonline.com site previously. findanexpertonline.com uses cookies
to allow findanexpertonline.com to determine which products and services you
have already purchased so that findanexpertonline.com does not provide
redundant information to you, and, if you are an findanexpertonline.com
affiliate, to track findanexpertonline.com sales made to clients referred by
you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you
choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the
findanexpertonline.com web site, you may not be able to view all the text on
the screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or to subscribe to
certain service and product offerings on the findanexpertonline.com site.
5. Disclosure, Processing and Retention
findanexpertonline.com does not sell, rent or disclose your personal
information to anyone else, except:
(a) to someone you have designated to
act as your agent, for one or more of the
Identified
Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
(b) to findanexpertonline.com's
employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates,
consultants,
business associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on
findanexpertonline.com's behalf for any of the Identified Purposes;
(c) as necessary if
findanexpertonline.com has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to
identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to
or
interference, either intentionally or unintentionally) with findanexpertonline.com's rights or
property, other users of
findanexpertonline.com's web site, products or services, or anyone
else that could be harmed by such
activities; and
(d) to respond to judicial process and
provide information to law enforcement agencies or
in connection
with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by
law,
or otherwise
as required by law.
In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we, or our affiliates,
may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another
company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the
transferred business assets. Also, in the event that findanexpertonline.com
or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information
may be one of the transferred assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States, or in any
other country in which findanexpertonline.com or its affiliates,
subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you
consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed
from our database), findanexpertonline.com will keep your personal
information in its archives. Your information will then be used only as
necessary for tax reasons or to prove findanexpertonline.com's compliance
with any applicable law.
6. Accuracy of Personal Information
findanexpertonline.com will use reasonable efforts to keep client personal
information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the
possibility of making inappropriate client decisions based on such
information. Customers are responsible for informing findanexpertonline.com
about changes to their personal information. You can do this by calling
818-991-7135 or sending an email to admin@findanexpertonline.com.
findanexpertonline.com will use new or updated personal information it
receives from clients to update its own records.
7. Security Safeguards
findanexpertonline.com will use reasonable efforts to protect clients'
personal information.
8. Access to Personal Information
findanexpertonline.com will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review
the personal information in your file, if you so request, by calling 818-991-7135, writing to:
findanexpertonline.com
28191 Laura La Plante Drive
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
... or upon request to the Privacy Officer at admin@findanexpertonline.com.
If findanexpertonline.com is not able to provide access to some aspect of a
client's personal information, it will provide reasons for denying access
such as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about a
third party, or that it is confidential commercial information or attorney-client
privileged communications, or that the information relates to a breach of an
agreement or a contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably
be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual.
Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete
information be amended as appropriate, by contacting findanexpertonline.com
or the Privacy Officer as described above. findanexpertonline.com will
promptly correct such personal information.
E-mail:
privacy@findanexpertonline.com