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IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE CERTAIN FUNCTIONS ON THIS WEBSITE.
PRIVACY POLICY
Our Commitment to Privacy
Stanford Who's Who Publishing, Inc. ("Stanford") recognizes and
respects the importance of individual privacy and values the confidence
of its customers. The globalization of business in this increasing electronic
economy makes the collection of personal information of individuals
a necessity. It is our goal to balance the benefits of e-commerce with
the preservation of individual privacy rights.
Collecting Personally Identifiable Information
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "personally identifiable information" means information concerning a natural person which, because of name, number, personal mark, or other identifier, can be used to identify such natural person but only to the extent such information is (i) collected through the Website by Stanford; and (ii) is maintained by Stanford in an accessible form. Personally identifiable information includes (1) a first and last name, (2) a home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town, (3) an e-mail address, (4) a telephone number, and (5) a social security number. In the course of your use of this Website, Stanford may collect personally identifiable information from you that includes (1) first and last name, (2) company or business name, (3) a home or business address, including street name and name of a city or town, (4) an e-mail address, (5) a telephone number, and (6) biographical description.
Generally, you browse our Website anonymously. However, in some circumstances, we may request you to provide personally identifiable information. Although, your response to such a request is completely voluntary, there are areas of our Website that require this information such as the Basic Listing Page, Online Application for Stanford and the Nomination Ballot which functions may not be available to those individuals who elect not to provide the information requested.
Use of Personally Identifiable
Information
Stanford may use the personally identifiable information it collects
from you during the course of your use of the Website for a variety
of business and marketing purposes including specifically, without limitation,
(1) processing online membership applications, (2) contacting potential
registry nominees, (3) maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the
online registry, (4) conducting transactions, (5) for record-keeping
and archival purposes pursuant to applicable law, (6) promoting Website
development and registration, (7) customer service purposes, and (8)
to contact and correspond with you for marketing and other business
purposes.
Additionally, pursuant to your acceptance of this Privacy Policy, you
hereby acknowledge, agree, and consent to receive e-mail communications
from Stanford for purposes of, among other things, to receive (1) marketing
material, promotional offers, events, and news related to Stanford,
(2) legal notices regarding changes to Stanford online Terms of Service
or Privacy Policy as well as notices for any security breaches involving
your personally identifiable information as required by applicable law
(3) to correspond with you regarding any transactions you may have completed
or attempted to complete on the Website or otherwise with Stanford.
Please note that your access or use of the Website or right to purchase
products or services from Stanford is NOT conditioned upon your consenting
to receive e-mail communications from Stanford, and that you may opt-out
of receiving future e-mail communication from Stanford by clicking the
"unsubscribe" link in any Stanford' e-mail communication e-mailed
to you.
Stanford also collects domain information as a part of our analysis
of the use of our Website. This data enables us to become more familiar
with which customers visit our Website and web pages, how often they
visit, and what parts of the Website they visit most often. Stanford
uses this information to improve our web-based offerings. This information
is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.
In addition, Stanford may provide
customer satisfaction surveys or other surveys which you may complete
at your sole option. These surveys may collect information to help us
determine which products, services and offers are of most interest to
our current and future customers.
Stanford will deem that your independent decision to access and use
the Website constitutes an act of acceptance to the terms and conditions
of this Privacy Policy and that you have given your permission to us
to collect and use your information in accordance herewith.
Disclosure of Your Information to Third Parties
Stanford may share and disclose your personally identifiable information
(with the exception of credit card information) with its (1) business
partners, (2) affiliates, (3) subsidiaries, (4) legal representatives,
(5) sales agents, (6) independent contractors, and (7) third-party vendors
and suppliers for Stanford' business purposes described above, across
borders and from your country of residence or jurisdiction to other
countries around the world. Notwithstanding anything stated to contrary
herein, Stanford will not share your personally identifiable information
with third-parties for third parties' direct marketing purposes, that
are unrelated to Stanford products and services.
Collecting Your Information Through Cookies
Some pages on our Website use "cookies," which are small files that
are placed on your hard drive by the Website for identification purposes.
These files are used for site registration and customization the next
time you visit us. It identifies you to the Website when you revisit
to load your preferences and track the pages you visit. If your browser
is set up to automatically accept cookies then your browser will add
this text in a small file to your hard drive. Most web browsers allow
you to modify the way cookies are handled. You can refuse cookies or
choose to be warned when receiving a cookie in order to be given a choice
to accept or reject a cookie. By not accepting cookies, you may have
to manually input user IDs and passwords to access certain information
on this Website, and some pages may not fully function. Please note,
the only information held in a cookie is information you have provided
to Stanford.
Securing Your Information
Other than the personally identifiable information you provide to us
during the course of using the Website, any material, information or
other communication you transmit or post to our Website will be considered
non-confidential and non-proprietary ("Communications"). Except
as otherwise provided by applicable law that cannot be waived, Stanford
will have no obligations with respect to the Communications. Accordingly,
you hereby acknowledge and agree that Communications will not be entitled
to any security or privacy protection by Stanford and that Stanford
has no obligation to protect the security or privacy of Communications.
Stanford and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute,
incorporate and otherwise use the Communications and all data, images,
sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial
or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting
to or from our Website any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory,
obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.
Changing Our Privacy Policy
Stanford reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from
time to time. A notice of change to the Privacy Policy will be posted
at the top of the Privacy Policy web page during the first ten days
prior to the effective date of such changes. We recommend that all visitors
and users of this Website re-visit this Privacy Policy page occasionally
to learn of any new privacy practices or changes to our policy. Your
continued use of the Stanford Website constitutes an act of acceptance
of any changes to this Privacy Policy.
