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Optimized Payments
Consulting and its affiliates ("OPC" or "we") are
committed to protecting the privacy of the
personally-identifiable information that we
collect from you as you use this Web site (the
"Site"). The scope of OPC’s commitment is detailed
in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information,
you agree to OPC’s use of such information as
described herein. Please see our Terms of Use for
more information about our on-line policies in
general.
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What
personally-identifiable information is
collected?
OPC collects
personally-identifiable information on certain
areas of the Site when users request information,
sign up for events, apply for jobs, and
participate in user posting areas, such as OPC’s
blog and surveys. The personally-identifiable
information collected may consist of information
that you provide, such as names, mailing
addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax
numbers, and, for recruiting purposes, any other
personally-identifiable information on your
resume. In addition, OPC collects certain
information that you do not visibly enter, such as
your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site,
click stream, and the status of cookies placed on
your computer by OPC, as described below.
- How may OPC use my
personally-identifiable information?
OPC uses your personally-identifiable
information to fulfill your requests for
information, to process your requests to
participate in events, to evaluate any job
applications or other employment-related inquiries
that you may submit, or for such other business
purposes as you may initiate or request. We may
keep any of your personally-identifiable
information on file and use it to contact you for
recruiting purposes. OPC also uses
personally-identifiable information to perform
statistical analyses of user behavior in order to
measure interest in specific areas and information
posted on our Site. OPC uses
personally-identifiable information collected from
cookies and IP addresses as described below. OPC
may provide your personally-identifiable
information to any of its affiliates worldwide for
such purposes.
- Are cookies and IP
addresses used?
The Site uses cookies
to identify you and your interests and to track
usage of the Site. Cookies are small pieces of
text stored on your computer that help us know
which browser you are using and where you have
been on the Site and on Web sites to which you may
link in order to use some of our features. By
accepting our cookie, you will be permitted access
to certain pages of the Site without having to log
in each time you visit. A user who does not accept
the cookie from the Site may not be able to access
certain areas of the Site. OPC also logs IP
addresses, or the location of computers on the
Internet, to help diagnose problems with our
server and to administer the Site. If you prefer
not to accept a cookie, you can set your web
browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or
you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in
your web browser.
- Is
personally-identifiable information disclosed to
third parties?
OPC will not
intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take
reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality
and security, and to prevent the unauthorized or
accidental disclosure of) your
personally-identifiable information to third
parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not
affiliates of OPC), whether for such third
parties' marketing purposes or otherwise, subject
only to the following four exceptions: OPC may
disclose your personally-identifiable information
to third parties in the event that such disclosure
is required by the laws, rules, or regulations of
any nation, state, or other applicable
jurisdiction; OPC may disclose your contact
information to third parties as appropriate for
OPC to make transmissions or deliveries to you;
OPC may disclose your personally-identifiable
information if, in connection with submitting the
information, you consent to such disclosure; and
OPC may disclose contact information for you in
response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners
in connection with allegations of infringement of
copyright or other proprietary rights arising from
information you have posted on the Site or
otherwise provided to OPC.
- Links
to third-party sites
We may provide
links to third-party Web sites as a service to our
users. In addition, some of the content appearing
to be on this Site (such as industry news) is in
fact supplied by third parties, for example, in
instances of framing of third- party Web sites or
incorporation through framesets of content
supplied by third-party servers. Please be aware
that we cannot control and are not responsible for
the information collection practices of such
third-party Web sites, which may differ from those
of this Site. We encourage you to review and
understand the privacy policies on these Web sites
before providing any information to them. How can
I access, change, and/or delete information? You
may access, correct, update, and/or delete any
personally-identifiable information that you
submit to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from
mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To
do so, please either follow instructions on the
page of the Site on which you have provided such
information or subscribed or registered or contact
us at OPC at privacy@optimizedpmts.com.
- Security
OPC has
implemented generally accepted standards of
technology and operational security in order to
protect personally-identifiable information from
loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only
authorized OPC personnel are provided access to
personally-identifiable information, and these
employees are required to treat this information
as confidential. Despite these precautions, OPC
cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will
not obtain access to your personally-identifiable
information.
- Consent; Changes to
Privacy Policy
By using the Site, you
consent to the collection, use, and storage of
your information by us in the manner described in
this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We
reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy
Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any
such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This
Privacy Policy was last updated on September 2,
2007.
- Contact our Privacy
Department
If you have any questions
about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at OPC
at
privacy@optimizedpmts.com. |
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