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PRIVACY POLICY
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Introduction
Thank you for visiting the privacy policy page of ABONG.COM. We take your privacy seriously, and want you
to feel comfortable using our website at www.abong.com (our "Site").
This page describes our online privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"), which applies
to our Site. By visiting our Site, you are accepting the practices described
in this Privacy Policy, as well as our Terms of Use.
If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use,
please do not use or visit our Site, and do not disclose any information to us.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting the revised
privacy policy on our Site. It is your responsibility to periodically revisit
our Site. We may also notify you by sending you an email notification to the
email address that you provided to us. It is your responsibility to provide us
with your current email address. If we revise our Privacy Policy to broaden our
use of your personal information, you may contact us at the address below to
request that we either refrain from using your personal information or destroy
your personal information.
Collection of Personal Information
Each time you send us an email, or otherwise transmit information
via our Site, ABONG.COM may obtain and collect personally identifiable
contact information including (but not limited to) your name, email address,
mailing address, and telephone number. Generally, you can browse our Site without telling us
who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give
us your personal information, you will no longer be anonymous to us. If you
choose to use our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity
information, and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout
our Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields
are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing
not to use a particular service or feature.
Use of Personal Information
ABONG.COM may use and share with others your personal information:
- To enable us to generally respond to you, or to process, validate and verify requests and/or purchase orders;
- To fulfill any of your requests;
- To send information to you about additional goods or services;
- To compile and/or distribute information about our website users and usage patterns;
- To provide useful information to our website designers for developing new features and services; To tailor your experience on our websites, e.g., showing content that we believe may interest you or altering the content based on your personal preferences; and
- In any way we deem advisable to provide better goods or services to our customers.
ABONG.COM may also use personal information for any marketing and survey purpose on behalf of itself and its affiliates.
ABONG.COM may disclose personal information to third party agents and independent contractors that help us conduct our marketing and survey efforts. In addition,
ABONG.COM may disclose personal information to certain of its business partners in connection with marketing efforts,
including but not limited to direct marketing.
ABONG.COM may also disclose personal information to its affiliates for their marketing and survey efforts.
Additionally, ABONG.COM will use or disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:
- in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- in the event you violate or breach an agreement with ABONG.COM;
- we believe you will harm the property or rights of ABONG.COM or those of ABONG.COM's other customers;
- we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal
activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the
physical safety of any person, violations of ABONG.COM's terms of use, or
as otherwise required by law;
- personal information may also be shared with or sold to any successor to, or purchaser of, part or all of the assets of ABONG.COM.
Cookies
"Cookies" are a feature on your browser software. If enabled, cookies may
store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to our Site.
Cookies assist us in tracking which of our features appeals to you and what
content you may have viewed on previous visits. When you visit our Site again,
cookies can enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. We
may use cookies to: keep track of the number of return visits to our Site;
accumulate and report aggregate, statistical information on website usage;
deliver specific content to you based on your interests or viewing history; save
your password for ease of access to our Site. You can disable cookies, although,
if you do, our Site may not function properly for you. Your browser preferences
can be modified to accept or reject all cookies, or request a notification when
a cookie is set.
IP Addresses
We automatically track certain information based on your behavior on our
Site. We may use this information to do internal research on our users'
demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve
you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came
from (whether this URL is on our Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether
this URL is on our Site or not), your computer browser information, and your IP
address. Your Internet Protocol ("IP") is a unique Internet "address"; which is
assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider ("ISP"). For local area
network ("LAN"), DSL, or cable modem users, an IP address may be permanently
assigned to a particular computer. IP addresses are automatically logged by Web
servers, collecting information about a user's traffic patterns. While the IP
address does not identify an individual by name, it may, with the cooperation of
the ISP, be used to locate and identify an individual using the Web. Your IP
address can, however, reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or
which ISP you are using. Finally, other websites you visit have IP addresses,
and we may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages.
Computer Profiles
ABONG.COM may also collect and accumulate other anonymous data which
will help us understand and analyze the Internet experience of our visitors. For
instance, ABONG.COM may accumulate visitor data relating to referring
domain names, the type of browsers used, operating system software, screen
resolutions, color capabilities, browser plug-ins, language settings, cookie
preferences, search engine keywords and JavaScript enablement. Unless you
provide us with personally identifiable information, we will not use such
visitor data to identify you.
Adult Supervision
Persons under the age of 18 are not eligible to use our Site unsupervised and
we ask that minors do not submit any personal information to us. Persons under
the age of 18 may only use our Site in conjunction with and under the
supervision of your parents or guardians. ABONG.COM does not knowingly
collect contact or personal information from persons under the age of 18. Our
Site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under the
age of 18.
Security
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any
other country in which ABONG.COM or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents
maintain facilities, and by using our Site, you consent to any such transfer of
information outside of your country. [ABONG.COM abides by the safe harbor
framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the
collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.]
We use
procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against
loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your
privacy, including encryption, and "firewalls." We employ many different
security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users
inside and outside the company. However, perfect security does not exist on the
Internet.
Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please
contact us at the following address:
ABONG.COM
109 Flaherty Drive
Guelph, ON N1K 1Y7
CANADA
Telephone: (519) 400-1848
E-mail:webmaster@abong.com
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