The following
document outlines the Privacy Policy for our site. SPI
CORP will not export products or information that is
deemed to be in violation of US export control law. You
should check with the US Department of State and/or the
US Department of Commerce before viewing this site. SPI
Corp reserves the right to report any information
gathered on this site to the appropriate authorities.
Terms of Use Agreement
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our
commitment to combine the highest-quality products and
services with the highest level of integrity in dealing
with our clients and partners. The Policy is designed to
assist you in understanding how we collect, use and
safeguard the personal information you provide to us and
to assist you in making informed decisions when using
our site and our products and services. This statement
will be continuously assessed against new technologies,
business practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two
types of information: personal information you knowingly
choose to disclose that is collected on an individual
basis and Web site use information collected on an
aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services from us
or our partners, you may need to give personal
information and authorization to obtain information from
various credit services. For example, you may need to
provide the following information:
·
Name
· Mailing address
· Email address
· Credit card number
· Home and business phone number
· Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information to
our partners, if you choose to correspond further with
us through email, we may retain the content of your
email messages together with your email address and our
responses. We provide the same protections for these
electronic communications that we employ in the
maintenance of information received by mail and
telephone.
2.
Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site
utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see
explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server
logs to collect information about how our Web site is
used. Information gathered through cookies and Web
server logs may include the date and time of visits, the
pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web
sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
This information is collected on an aggregate basis.
None of this information is associated with you as an
individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for
purposes of administering our business activities,
providing customer service and making available other
products and services to our customers and prospective
customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information
we collect to notify you about important changes to our
Web site, new services and special offers we think you
will find valuable. The lists used to send you product
and service offers are developed and managed under our
traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard
the security and privacy of our customers’ personal
information. As a customer, you will be given the
opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of
your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of Web browser
software that allows Web servers to recognize the
computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small
pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser
on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what
information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify
subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same
user or to use the information to streamline the user’s
transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier
for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to
complete commercial transactions over the Internet.
Cookies should make your online experience easier and
more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies
and Web server logs to gather information about our Web
site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly
improve our Web site and better serve our customers.
This information assists us to design and arrange our
Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to
continually improve our Web site to better meet the
needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical
statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace
the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move
from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to
count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate
our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these
technologies to capture your individual email address or
any personally identifying information about you
although they do permit us to send focused online banner
advertisements or other such responses to you.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers from outside
companies advertised on our Web site. We take measures
to select product or service providers that are
responsible and afford privacy protections to their
customers. However, we cannot make any representations
about the practices and policies of these companies.
Sharing Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances or
partnerships with third parties who may be given access
to personal information including your name, address,
telephone number and email for the purpose of providing
you information regarding products and services that we
think will be of interest to you. In connection with
strategic marketing alliances or partnerships, we will
retain all ownership rights to the information, and we
will not share information regarding your social
security number or other personal financial data.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect
to notify you about important changes to our Web site,
new services and special offers we think you will find
valuable. As our client, you will be given the
opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive
these offers by clicking on a response box when you
receive such an offer or by sending us an email request
at __________________.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card
information to us on our Web site, a secure server
software which we have licensed encrypts all information
you input before it is sent to us. The information is
scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web
site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure
unless we advise you that security measures will be in
place prior to your transmitting the information. For
that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential
information such as Social Security or account numbers
to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security. We utilize encryption/security
software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal
information we collect from unauthorized access or
disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or
destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business practices are
reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and
procedures governing the security, confidentiality and
quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our
corporate values, ethical standards, policies and
practices are committed to the protection of customer
information. In general, our business practices limit
employee access to confidential information, and limit
the use and disclosure of such information to authorized
persons, processes and transactions.
Do
We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our
customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and related
Web site information to our affiliates or reputable
third parties, but this information will not include
personally identifying data, except as otherwise
provided in this Privacy Policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do
so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that
the law requires it or for the protection of our legal
rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web
sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information
or content contained therein. Often links to other Web
sites are provided solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our
Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no
longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any
other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on
our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules
and policies. Please read over those rules and policies
before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and
use of your personal information as described in this
Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and
procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site
to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we
use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.