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| Policies and Legal Information Privacy This statement discloses the privacy practices for HollAm-Group LLC / Hollam.com /800local.com ("The HollAm-Group").The HollAm-Group is a Limited Liability Company established within the State of Michigan that acknowledges a users' trust and confidence in the Internet. As such, The HollAm-Group promotes the use of fair information practices. Because The HollAm-Group wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices. The HollAm-Group agrees to notify you of: What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identification is collected from you through the web site The organization collecting the information How the information is used With whom the information may be shared What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under The HollAm-Group's control How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. If you feel that we are not abiding by our posted privacy policy, you should contact Robert Trompetter by e-mail at legal@800local.com or US mail at The HollAm-Group LLC, 102 N.Hanchett ST Coldwater MI 49036 Information Collection and Use The HollAm-Group is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. The HollAm-Group collects information from our users at several different points on our web site. Registration Registration is not required for any user to use this web site. Any information submitted by any user is at the user's sole and exclusive discretion. Order We may request information from the user on an order form. Here, a user must provide contact information (such as their name and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders and requests for information. If we have trouble processing an order, this information is used to contact the user. Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie, if any, is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. We do not currently employ the use of cookies on our site.Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. For these cookies, please refer to the owner of such cookies (that is, the advertiser placing the cookie on your computer). Log Files We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. The purpose of gathering this information is to improve the quality of the information presented to you on our site. The information in the aggregate currently being collected on our site includes peak usage periods, top documents, top paths, referring URL, domains, operating system, browser, screen resolution (including color depth), errors, and search keywords Sharing We may, at our sole discretion, share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and we may use an outside credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.We partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. Links This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, The HollAm-Group, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site they visit, especially those that collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site. Newsletter If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, should we provide one, we ask for contact information such as name and e-mail address so that we may deliver the newsletter to such user. Surveys & Contests We do not currently request information from users via surveys or contests. Tell-A-Friend We do not currently provide a referral service or affiliate program. Security This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just "surfing." To learn more about SSL, please visit Verisign, Inc.'s web site.While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted to our offices. Only employees, affiliates, agents, or subcontractors who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees, affiliates, agents, and subcontractors must use password-protected systems while working on a project for you. Furthermore, ALL such employees, affiliates, agents, and subcontractors are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Any time new policies are added, they are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected.If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to webmaster@800local.com. Correction/Updating Personal Information: If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done by emailing Customer Support. Choice/Opt-out Although we do not currently share personally identifyable information with others, our users will be given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information, should we choose to share such information in the future. If we do decide to share such information in the future, then we will use our best efforts to notify those users who have submitted personally identifyable information to allow them to opt out.Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials via e-mail may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line of the email or they can e-mail us at support@800local.com. If a user no longer wishes to receive a newsletter or promotional material from our partners, they should contact such partner directly.Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not. Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Unlike other sites, any changes to our Privacy Policy will become effective with respect to any information collected from the point this policy has been changed. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Legal All information contained in this web site, all images, files, graphics, multimedia files, and all such other content contained herein, including The HollAm-Group logo, © 2002, 2003 The HollAm-Group, except as otherwise stated or with respect to any image or logo of another company, such as that placed in an advertisement, link, or any content contained in our portfolio section. Links/Browsing/Hacking The HollAm-Group recognizes that some links may take you away from its domain. The HollAm-Group maintains no responsibility of any kind for any such links outside its domain. The HollAm-Group further disclaims any and all liability resulting from the content of any web page(s) contained in its portfolio; all such liability lies with the client that hired The HollAm-Group to provide services in respect of such web page(s).You may not link to any page within The HollAm-Group's domain without the express, written permission of The HollAm-Group, with the exception of the web page located at http://800local.com/index.html (the "Splash Page"). Furthermore, you may not enter this site via any page other than the Splash Page, and you may not bookmark any page within this site other than the Splash Page (i.e., you cannot enter the site by browsing directly to http://800local.com/internet). Moreover, you may not ping our site repeteadly or otherwise engage in attempts to hack into our site, nor may you engage in activity deemed to induce a denial-of-service attack ("DoS"). The HollAm-Group will be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be hacking activity or activity designated to induce a DoS.Linking to or entering the site by browsing to any page other than the Splash Page, bookmarking any page other than the Splash Page, hacking, or attempting to induce a DoS may result in legal action taken against you as a cyber trespasser or as is otherwise provided for by Michigan or United States law. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing, nothing contained herein is to prevent you from navigating through our site once you have legally entered it via the Splash Page.Subject to its sole discretion, The HollAm-Group may assess a fee if it chooses to grant you permission to link to pages within The HollAm-Group's domain, other than the Splash page. Notwithstanding the foregoing, The HollAm-Group hereby expressly grants permission to the major Internet Search Engines (i.e., Yahoo, Excite!, Google, AskJeeves, AltaVista, Go.com, etc.) to link to all of the web pages contained under The HollAm-Group's domain, except to those pages which comprise The HollAm-Group's portfolio and which are hosted under its domain. Discrimination The HollAm-Group does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, veterans' status, age or any other factors prohibited by federal, state, or local law, in its employment policies, contractual relationships, services to clients, or in any other aspect of its operations. Harassment The HollAm-Group is firmly committed to providing its employees, associates, agents, subcontractors, partners, clients, and other business contacts with a workplace that is free of discrimination, harassment or intimidation on the basis of an individual's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, veterans' status, age or any other factors prohibited by federal law. Similarly, The HollAm-Group expects its clients, employees, associates, agents, subcontractors, partners, and other business contacts to treat other clients, employees, associates, agents, subcontractors, partners, and other business contacts of The HollAm-Group, while working for or working with The HollAm-Group, in a manner consistent with this policy. All questions concerning this or any other legal policy should be addressed to legal@800local.com. | |
