CorporateAffiliations.com Privacy Notice
Effective August 12, 2004
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this
notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make
about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy
to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where
personally identifiable information may be requested.
This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to the
following LexisNexis Group ("LNG") web sites, but to make this notice easier to
read we will use the term "our Web Site", which means
CorporateAffiliations.com. Other LNG web sites may operate under their own
privacy notices.
Our Web Site contains links to other web sites operated by third parties. LNG is
not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third party web
sites and this Notice does not apply to those web sites.
Application of This
Notice
This Notice applies only to the information collected by LNG from the users of
our Web Site. It does not apply to information collected by LNG in any other
way, including offline.
The Information We
Collect
Our Web Site is not set up to automatically collect personally identifiable
information from each visitor to our Web Site. It does recognize the home
server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which
Internet Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses or
other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the
particular visitors to our Web Site. This information is used only for internal
purposes by our technical support staff.
Our Web Site does track certain information about the visits to our Web Site.
For example, we compile statistics that show the numbers and frequency of
visitors to our Web Site and its individual pages. These aggregated statistics
are used internally to improve our Web Site and for product development and
marketing purposes generally. Those aggregated statistics may also be provided
to advertisers and other third parties, but again, the statistics contain no
personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.
In a few areas on our Web Site, we ask you to provide information that will
enable us to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain
information, materials and services available from our Web Site, or to enable
us to enhance your site visit, to assist you with customer service or technical
support issues, or to follow up with you after your visit, or to otherwise
support your customer relationship with LNG. It is completely optional for you
to participate. However, failure to participate may mean that you cannot access
and use certain information, materials and services.
For example, we request information from you when you:
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Log-on to certain areas of our Web site, where you may be prompted to provide
us with your username and password as a condition to gaining access to certain
information, materials or services
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Register or sign-up to use a service such as CorporateAffiliations.com
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Subscribe to a newsletter or desire to be added to our mailing lists for other
products or services
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Place an order
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Participate in a sweepstakes or other promotional offer
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Provide feedback in an online survey.
In each of the instances above, we typically ask for your name, e-mail address,
phone number, address, law practice information, product preference
information, username and password, as well as other similar personal
information that is needed to register or subscribe you to services or offers.
On occasion, we may ask for additional information to enable us to provide you
with access to and use of certain information, materials and services. In the
case of newsletters or mailing lists, you will be able to "unsubscribe" to
these mailings at any time.
How
We Use Information:
>> LNG only uses your personal information for specific
purposes.
The personal information you provide to us when using our Web Site, such as your
name, postal or e-mail address or telephone number will be kept confidential
and used to support your customer relationship with LNG, and to notify you of
special offers, updated information and new products and services from LNG,
offers from third parties that we think may be of interest to you, or used by
LNG or third parties for the purpose of conducting market research or surveys
on behalf of LNG. Agents or contractors of LNG who are given access to your
personal information will be required to keep the information confidential and
not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are
performing for LNG.
LNG may enhance or merge your information collected at its Web Site with data
from third parties for purposes of marketing products or services to you.
With respect to network advertising companies (companies that manage and provide
advertising for numerous unrelated companies), to the extent that LNG utilizes
such advertising companies to provide advertisements on our Web Site, LNG may
provide them with your log-in name and any demographic information about you
that we collect. Those advertising companies may combine that data with
non-personally identifiable data collected by the advertising company from your
computer solely for the purpose of delivering on our Web Site advertisements
that are targeted to you.
Circumstances may arise where we are required to disclose your personal
information to third parties for purposes other than to support your customer
relationship with LNG, such as in connection with a corporate divestiture or
dissolution where we sell all or a portion of our business or assets (including
our associated customer lists containing your personal information), or if
disclosure is required by law or is pertinent to judicial or governmental
investigations or proceedings.
You
can opt out of receiving further marketing from LNG at any time.
We will send you information about our various products and services, or other
products and services we feel may be of interest to you. Only LNG (or agents or
contractors working on behalf of LNG and under confidentiality agreements) will
send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such mailings,
simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you
can easily opt out of receiving further marketing from LNG by emailing us at
legalnotices@LexisNexis.com.
Our Commitment
to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct
use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect
online.
How
You Can Access or Correct Your Information
You can request a copy of the personally-identifiable information that LNG has
collected about you via the Internet by contacting our Information Privacy
Manager at the address below. You can also have factual inaccuracies in this
information corrected by contacting this same person.
How to Contact Us
If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices,
please contact us as follows:
