This privacy statement explains Ask the Seal.com’s privacy practices for users of
the www.Ask the Seal.com web site.
Ask the Seal’s Commitment to Privacy
Ask the Seal respects your right to privacy. Your ability to make informed choices
about the uses of your information is important to us. This privacy statement explains
Ask the Seal’s policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure and protection of
personal information. The terms of this privacy statement apply to information collected
from you unless different terms are specified as part of a special offer or in another
form or contract we provide you. The links below provide more detailed information
about Ask the Seal’s privacy practices:
What is Personal Information
Collection of Personal Information
Use of Personal Information
Sharing of Personal Information
Protection of Personal Information
Choice
Online Specifics
Cookies
Ask the Seal.com is Not for Use by Children
Online Links to Other Web Sites
Questions, Concerns About or Reviewing or Correcting Personal Information
Changes to this Statement
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is information that can be directly associated with a specific
person or entity such as a customer’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address,
credit card number, or information about activities directly linked to that person,
such as his or her purchases. Personal information also includes information that you choose to provide to us or that you
ask us to provide to companies.
Personal information does not include “aggregate” information. Aggregate information
is data we collect about a group or category of products, services or customers,
from which individual customer identities have been removed. In other words, information
about how you use a service may be collected and combined with information about
how others use the same service, but no personal information will be included in
the resulting data. Likewise, information about the products you purchase may be
collected and combined with information about the products purchased by others.
Aggregate data helps us understand trends and customer needs so that we can better
consider new products and services, and tailor existing products and services to
customer desires.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect the personal information that you provide us, such as when you:
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Request that a service provider who has been issued the Ask the Seal.com Seal of Approval
to contact you, whether on-line, by telephone or facsimile;
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contact
us for any reason, reply to one of our inquires by mail or through our website,
or by telephone through customer service;
- We may
automatically collect some information when you visit our Web site, such as your
computer’s IP address, operating system, the site from which you linked to us, and
the time and date of your visit and purchases.
We also collect information received from third parties to the extent that they
have contacted you or entered into an agreement with you as a result of your relationship
with Ask the Seal or through Ask the Seal.com.
Use of Personal Information by Ask the Seal
The personal information we collect is used to process your requests or transactions
to provide you high quality service, tell you about opportunities we think will
be of interest, and understand your needs so that we can serve you better. If you
prefer not to receive promotional information from us, we make it easy for you to
let us know. You can contact us at any time to decline promotional information (see
Choice below).
Sharing of Personal Information
Ask the Seal does not sell, rent, share, or disclose personal information to third
parties without your prior consent, except in the limited circumstances described
in this statement. Your consent may
be provided on-line, for example, when you agree to permit us to provide your information
to a company about which you searched. Ask the Seal has contracts in place with
these companies that they can only use the information we provide in accordance
with the permission you have granted, namely in order to contact you and as otherwise
permitted by you.
Other Disclosures
In addition, we may disclose personal information in the good faith belief that
we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply
with legal process, respond to any claims, or to protect the rights, property, or
personal safety of Ask the Seal, our customers, employees or the public. Information
about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of,
or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets or acquisition.
Protection of Personal Information
Ask the Seal has put into place security measures in an effort to protect personal
information from loss, misuse or alteration while it is under our control. Personal
information we collect is stored electronically and may be combined with other membership
information. We use technical, contractual, administrative and physical measures
in an effort to protect against unauthorized access.
Further, when you enter personal information online, that information is encrypted
using a security software called SSL (Secure Socket Layer). SSL encrypts all information
entered on our site before it is sent over the Internet. We also use SSL to allow
you to securely view your online account and registration information.
Choice
Our Web Site gives you the opportunity to elect that certain information be shared
or not be shared with third-parties. In addition, if at any time you (1) wish to
stop receiving promotional information from Ask the Seal, (2) prefer to not receive
information about our services, (3) prefer that we not share personal information
about you with third-party providers you need not provide your personal information.
Online Specifics
What Are Cookies and Are You Required to Accept Them?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer. At Ask the Seal.com, we
use cookies to help optimize your shopping experience. For example, we use cookies
to customize our home page for you and to better display pages according to your
browser type. Ask the Seal.com does not use cookies to store any personal information
about you.
Use of the Ask the Seal.com Web Site by Children
Ask the Seal encourages parents to take an active interest in their children’s use
of the internet. Ask the Seal does not intend to collect information from children
who are under 18 years of age.
Online Links to Other Sites
Through our Web site, Ask the Seal members or users can link to other websites of
third parties that provide useful information, or who have agreed to offer goods
and services to Ask the Seal members. Any personal information you provide on the
linked pages is provided directly to this third-party and is subject to that third
party’s provider’s privacy policy.
Except as described above, Ask the Seal is not responsible for the content or privacy
practices of Web sites to which we link. Links from our site to third party’s or
other sites are provided for your convenience. We encourage you to learn about the
privacy practices of each Web site before providing them with personal information.
Questions, Concerns About or Reviewing or Correcting Personal Information
If, for any reason, you have concerns regarding any questions or concerns about
this privacy statement or the information that we may have collected about you may
contact us by sending an e-mail to customerservice@AsktheSeal.com.
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Changes to this Statement
Ask the Seal reserves the right to change this privacy statement at any time,
but will alert you that changes have been made by indicating at the top of the privacy
statement the date it was last updated. We encourage you to review our privacy statement
to make sure you understand how your information will be used. If there is ever
a material change to how we use your information and the new uses are unrelated
to uses we disclose in this statement, we will communicate the changes in advance.