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RABSystems
WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
RABSystems, Web Sites (referred to in this document
as "COMPANY" or "We"), is concerned that its
reputation, and the responsibilities that come with
using it, always remain of paramount importance in
all of RABSystems's activities. To that end, in
addition to certain conditions and restrictions that
you will find under the Terms of Use Agreement
[insert hyperlink here] and our Legal Disclaimer
[insert hyperlink here] on our Internet Web Site,
the information and links to other web sites
provided below explain RABSystems's policy about
privacy, options you can use to limit the use of
information about you both here and elsewhere on the
internet, valuable information about the internet
generally, public policy issues about the internet
and internet privacy as well as other information
about rights and responsibilities concerning privacy
in a variety of non-internet areas.
We believe your business is no one else's. Your
privacy is important to you and to us. So we'll
protect the information you share with us. To
protect your privacy, RABSystems follows standard
principles in accordance with worldwide practices
for Customer/Member privacy and data protection.
PRIVACY POLICY
RABSystems's policy is to respect the privacy of all
of our visitors, so the following policy statement
tells you about what information we may receive,
send or ask of you, what its used for and ways you
can control its use.
Generally, anyone can come to visit
articles4hire.net, and RABSystems will not keep
information about these visits except for a record
of how many total visits have been made to the Web
Site and its various web pages altogether (not how
many times any single person has visited).
However, if you become a Customer/Member (see our
Terms of Use Agreement [insert hyperlink here] for a
detailed explanation), which requires giving
identifying information to RABSystems (together
referred to in this document as a "Customer/Member
"), Membership records will be started according to
information you give us or that we receive from or
send to your computer.
SECURITY
RABSystems has taken strong measures to protect the
security of your personal information and to ensure
that your choices for its intended use are honoured.
We take strong precautions to protect your data from
loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure,
alteration, or destruction. Your Personal
Information is stored on secure servers that are not
accessible by third parties. We provide you with the
capability to transmit you Personal Information via
secured and encrypted channels if you use a
similarly equipped web browser.
These
security measures are in place to prevent the loss,
misuse, and alteration of the information that we
obtain from you, but we make no assurances about our
ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or
to any third party arising out of any such loss,
misuse, or alteration.
In the event of unauthorized use of your credit
card, you must notify your credit card provider in
accordance with its reporting rules and procedures.
RABSystems strictly protects the security of your
personal information and honours your choices for
its intended use. We carefully protect your data
from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or
disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Your
personal information is never shared outside the
company without your permission, except under
conditions explained above. Inside the company, data
is stored in password-controlled servers with
limited access. Your information may be stored and
processed in the USA or any other country where
RABSystems, its subsidiaries, affiliates or agents
are located.
You also have a significant role in protecting your
information. No one can share these see or edit your
personal information without knowing your user name
and password, so do not with others.
NOTICE CONCERNING CHILDREN AND TO PARENTS
We adhere to the Children's Privacy Act. You must be
18 years of age to join or use articles4hire.net or
any of the recommended or linked sites. This site
follows the guidelines, policies and laws of the
Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov). We retain
the right to refuse anyone membership in any of our
sites. If we learn or have reason to believe that a
User is underage according to the guidelines,
policies and laws of the Federal Trade Commission,
we will promptly revoke that User's account and
delete any personal information.
ENFORCEMENT
If for some reason you believe RABSystems has
not adhered to these principles, please notify us
at: support@rabsystems.com or by certified mail,
return receipt requested, to 6342 Mccollum Ln,
Acworth GA. 30102. We will do our best to determine
and correct the problem promptly. Be certain the
words Privacy Policy are in the Subject line.
ELECTRONIC PRODUCT REGISTRATION
When you buy and install a new product, we may ask
you to register your purchase electronically. When
you do, we merge your registration information with
any information you've already left with us (we call
that information your personal profile). If you
haven't previously registered with us, we create a
personal profile for you from your product
registration information. If you ever want to review
or update that information, you can click on Update
Profile, and edit any of the Personal Information in
your profile. If you haven't already created a
membership, we will ask you to do so. This ensures
that only you can access your information.
CUSTOMER OR MEMBERSHIP PROFILES
As mentioned above, every registered customer or
member has a unique personal profile. Each profile
is assigned a unique personal identification
username, which helps us ensure that only you can
access your profile.
When
you register, you create your profile, your username
and password. It is your passport to seamless travel
across your member area, allowing you to download
software and order more plug-in modules without
having to fill out registration forms with
information you've already provided. Even if you
switch computers, you won't have to re-register -
just use your Registration ID to identify yourself.
WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION YOU SHARE
When you join us, you provide us with your contact
information, including your name and email address.
We use this information to send you updates about
your order, questionnaires to measure your
satisfaction with our service and announcements
about new and exciting services that we offer. When
you order from us, our 3rd party payment processors
such as PayPal and 2checkout.com will ask for your
credit card number and billing address. They use
this information only to bill you for the product(s)
you order at that time.
We
occasionally hire other companies to provide limited
services on our behalf, including programming,
answering Customer/Member questions about products
or services, sending email and processing event
registration. We will only provide those companies
the information they need to deliver the service,
and they are prohibited from using that information
for any other purpose.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy,
RABSystems will not share your personal information
with any third parties without your consent.
RABSystems will disclose your personal information,
without notice, only if required to do so by law or
in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to:
i.
Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with
legal process served on RABSystems or the site;
ii. Protect and defend the rights or property of
RABSystems and its family of Websites;
iii. Enforce our Terms of Use Agreement [insert
hyperlink here]; or
iv. Act under exigent circumstances to protect the
safety of the public or users of the Site.
If your information is lost or stolen, you must
promptly notify us if your credit card, user name,
or password is lost, stolen, or used without
permission. In such an event, we will remove that
credit card number, user name, or password from your
account and update our records accordingly.
The Site contains links to other websites. We are
not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such websites. We also make email
services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news
groups, forums, communities, personal web pages,
calendars, photo albums, file cabinets and/or other
message or communication facilities designed to
enable User to communicate with others (each a
"Communication Service" and collectively
"Communication Services") available to you. Please
understand that any information that is disclosed in
these areas becomes public information. We have no
control over its use and you should exercise caution
when deciding to disclose your Personal Information.
PERSONAL INFORMATION-WHY AND HOW "IP ADDRESSES" ARE
USED
An IP address is a basic element of the way the
Internet functions. It is a number that identifies
your computer according to its IP address, and IP
numbers are assigned to web sites automatically. IP
addresses may also be identified in "header"
information on emails. There may also be other
services and occasions when IP addresses will
appear. Always look carefully at what information
may be displayed about you, including your IP
address, and if you are unsure or uncomfortable
about the appearance of your IP address, do not use
that service.
In addition to being an important part of how
computers communicate with each other correctly, IP
addresses can be used for other things, as well. In
RABSystems's case, IP addresses are collected for
smooth operation in administrating our Web Site
system, for purposes of collecting the non-personal
"grouping" information for use by RABSystems and
certain third parties, as discussed above, and to
generally monitor the use of articles4hire.net. IP
addresses are exchanged many times when you are
surfing the web, so, for example, if you select a
web page or link within RABSystems, the IP address
is recorded by the server by which RABSystems's Web
Site is connected to the internet.
For most purposes, your IP address will not be
connected with personally identifying information,
only the fact of that access to a given place on our
web sites gets noted, but who you are individually
will be anonymous, even to RABSystems.
However, as with certain information discussed in
other parts of this document, IP Address information
will be used to help us identify a person if
RABSystems, in good faith, believes it important for
ensuring proper compliance with our rules and
policies, if it appears to be necessary to comply
with laws and to protect RABSystems, our members and
customers or other third parties.
PERSONAL INFORMATION-OPTING OUT
RABSystems, our affiliates or selected third parties
may use personal information you give RABSystems for
marketing and promotions. You do not have to let us
use this information in that manner. This is called
"opting out," and it means you can tell us not to
use your personal information for these purposes:
i.
Listing you in any Customer/Member directory,
ii. Receiving information from us about RABSystems
and our services and products, or
iii. Receiving information from third parties
selected by us because, for example, your interests
seem to match services or products they offer. To
opt out, contact support@rabsystems.com, modify your
personal information or cancel your Membership.
In addition, there may be specific opt-out processes
available when you enter certain areas of our Web
Site, join groups, use services or when other
merchandise is offered. When you see such opt-out
notices, read them for information on how to opt out
at that time. Also, some promotions may ask if you'd
like additional information. Choosing to ask for
additional information may require transfer of your
email address, but if more personal information than
that is required, you will be notified prior to such
information being transmitted and may opt out by
cancelling the request at that time.
OTHER IMPORTANT COMPANY PRIVACY ISSUES
A "Cookie" is a small file sent to and stored in
your computer to keep accurate records and customize
certain services. In fact, it's become so common
that you can almost always expect cookies to be sent
to your computer from a wide variety of Internet
sites.
For
RABSystems, cookies are designed to try to make your
visits more personal and helpful according to the
ways you use our Web Sites. They tell us the name
that a Customer/Member uses at RABSystems and can
tailor things like greetings, e-cards and so-forth
to make your use of RABSystems feel like you're
right at home. They can also tell us, for example,
that you focus on particular types of information
you need as a Customer/Member, and the cookie may
automatically see to it that when you log in you get
a message about some new feature in your areas of
interest or about other services that fit the way
you use RABSystems. Also, sometimes when messages
are sent to certain RABSystems destinations, like
"customer service," a cookie may be used to help
process your message more efficiently and
accurately.
However, cookies at RABSystems are never used for
storing or accessing important personal information
that you alone should control the use of-like your
password or your credit card number.
Even
though cookies are usually thought to be helpful to
web sites and their users alike, not everybody wants
them being put in their computer. That's okay, but
there are two things you need to know: if you don't
have cookies, not everything on your RABSystems
visits may be accessible, as efficient or as
personable; and, stopping cookies is something we
can't do, instead you have to do it in your own
computer.
Stopping cookies shouldn't be difficult; however,
because cookies are so commonly used and welcomed
today, most browsers are set to automatically accept
them. Even so, if you look through the settings in
your browser, often in "preferences," "setup" or
"configuration," you should be able to find a place
where you can change the cookies setting, either to
tell your browser never to accept cookies, or to
tell your browser to notify you if a cookie is about
to be sent and give you a chance to accept it or
not. In the latter case, you should know that
cookies are often just numbered or use some kind of
computer term that will not be helpful for you to
identify what the cookie is actually for so that you
can make a clear choice, but the option is yours.
SPECIAL CONCERNS ABOUT HYPERLINKS
In this document, there are buttons or underlined
words and phrases that you can click on. You will
find these all over our Web Site and nearly every
other web site you visit throughout the Internet,
too. Some of them link to other parts of the same
web site, but others will send you to another site
unrelated to the web site you were at. This kind of
link is called a hyperlink and could send you to a
web page a block away or on the other side of the
world.
When
we use hyperlinks at RABSystems, we try to make sure
they are updated and accurate links and that they
are compatible with the kinds of visitors we have.
However, RABSystems has no control over the
business, operations or representations of these
hyperlinks to unrelated web sites-and any hyperlinks
included on them-and what the destination web pages
may contain. RABSystems's Privacy Policy does not
cover other such destinations. You should always be
careful at other web sites about how they operate
and how information is being used. They may have
their own policies that differ from RABSystems's,
they may send different kinds of cookies and they
may gather and use information in very different
ways than RABSystems.
We
can take no responsibility or protect you on other
web sites, so always be careful-not just about
things like opting out on advertising, but also
about safety and security. Once again, carefully
protect personal information about yourself, and be
wary of who might get such information, especially
the public through chat-rooms, bulletin boards or by
email. Not being careful about this can be risky,
and because RABSystems can't control these
hyperlinked sites or users, and because our own
policies and rules don't apply, the risk is on you
to decide how, and how not, to use them.
DO
YOU ACCEPT OUR PRIVACY POLICY?
By using this Web Site, you are verifying that you
agree to, and will abide by, the terms of the
RABSystems Privacy Policy.
IF
YOU DO NOT AGREE TO DO SO, STOP VISITING OUR WEB
SITES.
Second, check our privacy policy every once in a
while. Certain things may change over time, and we
may include new information and privacy policies
that will be placed in this document. If you
continue to visit RABSystems after any such changes,
you will again be verifying that you agree to, and
will abide by, the current privacy policy, as it
then exists.
UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right, at any time and without
notice, to add to, change, update, or modify this
Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change,
update, or modification on the Site and without any
other notice to you. Any such change, update, or
modification will be effective immediately upon
posting on the Site.
QUESTIONS & COMMENTS?
RABSystems is always ready to review your questions
and comments and we will attempt to give you our
best responses. Remember, we have a lot of
Customer/Member s and other visitors to respond to,
as well, but we will try to reply as promptly and
thoroughly as possible. To contact RABSystems about
our privacy policy, send an email to
support@rabsystems.com.
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