ChoicePoint Precision Marketing
Web Site Privacy Policy
To underscore our commitment to privacy and our vision that
good privacy is good business -- for ChoicePoint, for
our customers and for consumers -- we have adopted this
online privacy policy, which reflects and implements our
corporate privacy principles in an online setting, for
www.cp-pm.com, www.cp-pm.net, www.choicepointprecisionmarketing.com
and www.choicepointprecisionmarketing.net which are operated
by ChoicePoint Precision Marketing, 1000 Alderman Drive,
Alpharetta, GA 30005, (800) 864-1422, (770) 752-5787 (fax),
cppm.info@choicepoint.com. This site is not directed at
children.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement,
please contact us at:
ChoicePoint Inc.
Office of Privacy, Ethics and Compliance
1000 Alderman Drive MD-71A
Alpharetta, GA 30005
Telephone: 877.301.7097
Fax: 770.752.5939
Email: privacy@choicepoint.com
INFORMATION COLLECTION
I. Personally-identifiable information.
This site only collects personally-identifiable information
from you if you choose to provide this information to us.
Personally-identifiable information collected with your
consent may include, for example, name, e-mail address,
mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number, information
about your type of business, or any response you provide
to survey questions, information relating to any orders
you place or any inquires you may make through our Web
site.
II. Cookies.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information
that are stored by your browser on your computer’s
hard drive. While most browsers are set to accept cookies
by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to
alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer
has information on changing the default setting for your
specific browser.
This site uses first-party cookies, however personally
identifiable information is not collected through the
use of cookies. Cookies are used to determine whether
a visitor is unique or whether the visitor has viewed
our site before. Cookies are optional and do not affect
the operability of our site.
III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information.
This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information.
For example, as you browse this Web site we may collect
information about your visit, but not about you personally.
Via Web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics
such as: the number of people that visit our site, which
page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our
visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and
which browsers people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). Our Web
site uses an outsourcing program to assist us in analyzing
this data to better tailor our Web site.
INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE
The information collected by this Web site is used only
for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding
with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining
your account (if you have one), for other purposes permitted by
your organization's subscriber agreement(s) (if any), and for the administration,
review and/or the improvement the content of our Web sites.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries,
as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if
you have one), or in order to complete a transaction that
you requested.
We may also contact you to inform you of other products
or services we think may be of interest to you, but we
always offer you an opportunity to opt not to receive
such communications.
ONWARD TRANSFER
We may disclose information you provide to us to third
parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested
or as otherwise permitted by your organization's subscriber agreement(s) (if any).
In other cases, it may be necessary to disclose information
you provide about yourself or third parties in order to
obtain the information product you requested.
We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation
of some Web site functions that require access to information
you supply online. In such cases, however, we require
that the companies acting on our behalf abide by our privacy
policy and institute safeguards to protect the confidentiality
of your information.
We may disclose information you provide to other ChoicePoint
companies or to outside firms so that they can contact
you about products or services that may be of interest,
but we will provide you with an opportunity to opt not
to have your information disclosed for these purposes.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company,
that company will assume responsibility for the personal information
collected by us through this Web site and it will assume the rights
and obligations regarding the information collected through this Web site,
as described in this privacy policy.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information
when required by law or in the good faith belief that
such action is necessary in order to conform with the
law or to comply with a legal process.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
As an information company, we know the importance of
accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy
of the information collected through this Web site. Furthermore,
we believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring
that data is complete and accurate. We will provide you
with access to personally-identifiable information you
provide through our Web site for as long as we maintain
that information in a readily accessible format. Similarly,
we permit and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in
the information you submit to us through our Web site.
If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you
have submitted to this site, please either use the mechanisms
provided by the site or send an e-mail to: privacy@choicepoint.com.
SECURITY
We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or
unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information
collected through this Web site. We recognize the importance
of security for all personally-identifiable information
collected by our Web site. We exercise care in providing
secure transmission of your information from your PC to
our servers.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information,
we take steps to protect its security on our systems.
In the event we request or transmit sensitive information,
such as credit card information or Social Security Numbers,
we use industry standard, secure socket layer (“SSL”)
encryption.
We limit access to personally-identifiable information
to those employees who need access in order to carry out
their job responsibilities.
OTHER WEB SITES
This online privacy policy only applies to the Web site(s)
identified in the first paragraph of this privacy policy.
Our Web site, however, may include links to other Web sites which
may be operated by other ChoicePoint companies or by third parties.
If you visit a Web site not listed above, we recommend that you
review the online privacy policy of that Web site to determine how
the operator of that Web site will handle personal information collected
through that Web site.
POLICY CHANGES
We may revise this online privacy policy from time to
time. If we make any material changes, we will notify
you by posting a prominent announcement on the Web site.
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time of
collection we will notify you via e-mail. You will have
a choice as to whether or not we use your information
in this different manner.
