Audiocasefiles Privacy Policy
August 3, 2006
Your privacy is important to us. AudioCaseFiles adheres to the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement. The Company is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerces safe harbor program.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us at 213 McLaws Circle, Suite 1, Williamsburg, VA 23185.
Information we collect and how we use it:
Our service requires that you register for an account and provide personal information to us. When you register we may collect the following information:
- Information you provide. When you sign up for an AudioCaseFiles account, we ask you for personal information, such as your name and your email address. We also collect your credit card and payment information, which we maintain in encrypted form on our secure servers. We may use your email address to communicate information to you about our service, but will give you the option to opt of this type of communication.
- Audiocasefiles Cookies When you visit AudioCaseFiles, we send cookies a small file containing a string of characters to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by tracking user preferences and trends. To ensure that our service works properly for you, ensure that your browser is enabled to accept cookies.
- Log Information When you use our service, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
- User Communications. When you send email or other communications to AudioCaseFiles, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated sites and organizations. We offer some of our services in connection with other websites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to AudioCaseFiles in order to deliver the service. In addition, University members may have membership through their school. The University may provide information about you, so that you may access our services.
- Links. AudioCaseFiles may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our service.
AudioCaseFiles only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
Choices for personal information
AudioCaseFiles processes personal information on our servers in the United States.
- Your consent to use. When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to use.
- Option to opt out. If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy.
- Option to decline to submit personal information. You may decline to submit personal information to our service, in which case AudioCaseFiles may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information Sharing
AudioCaseFiles only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of AudioCaseFiles in the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- Third-party processing. We provide such information to affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- Necessary to use. We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of AudioCaseFiles, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If AudioCaseFiles becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to AudioCaseFiles employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
AudioCaseFiles processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use AudioCaseFiles services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required.
Enforcement
AudioCaseFiles regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to contact us at the address below. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolve between AudioCaseFiles and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor.
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this website or at our headquarters in Williamsburg, Virginia:
AudioCaseFiles
213 McLaws Circle, Suite 1
Williamsburg, VA 23185
757.208.0299
info at audiocasefiles.com