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Our Privacy Policy is designed to
assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you
provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site
and our products and services.
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
Registration Information.
You will provide us
information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you
register to be a member of the Benchmark Consulting website, register for certain services, or
register for email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional
comments on how you see the Benchmark Consulting website servicing your needs and
interests.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond
with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together
with your email address and our responses.
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. We, our
advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small pieces of code called
"web beacons" or "clear gifs" to determine which advertisements and promotions
users have seen and how users responded to them.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use
personal information for purposes of administering and expanding 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. You may
notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us
at support@benchmark-consulting.com
What
Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often
includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's
computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your
hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own
cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect
your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has
already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
How
Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you browse on our web
site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other visitors so your
information is only available to you. In some cases, we also use cookies to
prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in
more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web
server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people
visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps
us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve
our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about
you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to
us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third
Parties
We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business
arrangements 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 alliances, partnerships or arrangements,
we may also provide certain information to third parties if we have determined
that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third
party. For example, some of our partners operate stores or provide services on
our site, while others power offerings developed by us for your use. We also use
third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending
email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings
and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to
your personal information for use in connection with business activities. As we
develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer,
email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business
assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in
the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any
dissolution.
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 customer, you will be given the
opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending
us an email request at support@benchmark-consulting.com.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium
of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private
information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web
site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit
encryption services, which are enabled by VeriSign, Inc. Pages utilizing this
technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact
support@the Benchmark Consulting website if you have any questions or concerns.
How Can
You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to
all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain
in our database by emailing support@benchmark-consulting.com.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclosure your personal information if required
to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to
(a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or Affiliated
Parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, the Site, the users of
the Site, and/or our Affiliated Parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect
the safety of users of the Site, us, or third parties.
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.
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