Privacy Policy
Last updated on
August 1, 2006
Please note that the
practices of SE Jones LLC ("SE Jones"), with respect to
data collected and used by SE Jones
in connection with this website and all other websites of SE
Jones LLC with links to this policy
(collectively, the “Site”) and SE Jones products and services
available or enabled via the Site (“Products and Services”),
are governed by this online privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) as
amended from time to time, and not the privacy policy in effect at
the time the data was collected. Please regularly review our Privacy
Policy. If you have objections to the Privacy
Policy, you should immediately discontinue use of the Site and the
Products and Services enabled by the Site and follow the procedure
described in the section entitled "Updating your personal
information and privacy preferences". This Privacy Policy
does not govern privacy practices associated with offline
activities, websites other than the Site, or Products and Services
not available or enabled via the Site, except as expressly set forth
in the section entitled "Data not collected on this Site."
Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent
that any terms of the Privacy Policy conflict with the terms of an
existing written (including electronic) agreement between you and
SE Jones regarding the use of specific
areas of the Site or specific Products and Services (including
Product- and Service-specific licenses, terms of use, or privacy
disclosures) (collectively, “Product Agreements”), the terms of the
Product Agreements shall govern.
The Site and the Products and Services are
intended for adult audiences, and SE Jones does not knowingly
collect any personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Changes in Privacy
Policy
All personal
information ("personal information" is defined as any information
that identifies or can be used to identify the person to whom such
information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject
to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. SE Jones may
change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion
and will provide notice of changes in the Privacy Policy and on the
home page of SEBB.com and other sites owned and operated by SE
Jones LLC. If as the result of such changes you want to alter the
ways in which SE Jones is allowed to use your personal information,
you can do so by following the procedure described in the section
entitled “Updating your personal information and privacy
preferences.” You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and
will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy Policy after such
notice has been posted with the following exception: if at the time
you provide personal information to SE Jones you limit how such
information will be used to communicate with you, either by SE Jones
or by third parties, SE Jones will not change your preference in
this regard without your express consent. However, if SE Jones sells
assets (or the assets of a division or subsidiary) to another
entity, or SE Jones (or a division or subsidiary) is acquired by or
merged with another entity, you agree that SE Jones may provide to
such entity customer information that is related to that part of our
business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without
obtaining your further consent, but SE Jones will provide notice of
such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this Site.
Entities collecting
personal information
Personal information
on this Site
Personal information
submitted through this Site or in connection
with the Products and Services of SE Jones is collected on
behalf of SE Jones LLC, who is responsible for this site. SE Jones
LLC’s address is 4853 Cordell Ave, Suite 1109, Bethesda, MD 20814
USA, and its telephone number is 301-580-4064.
The Site contains
links to other sites at which personal information is collected. In
such instances, unless expressly provided to the contrary, the
collection and use of your personal information will be governed by
the privacy policy applicable to that site. That privacy policy
should identify the entity that is collecting your personal
information.
Updating your
personal information and privacy preferences
You have the right to
access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences
at any time. You may access and correct your personal information
and privacy preferences (such as whether you wish to receive
promotional communications) by writing SE Jones at:
SE Jones LLC
4853 Cordell Ave
Suite 1109
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
Please include your
name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us. In your
correspondence, please indicate with as much detail as possible the
location on this Site or otherwise where you provided your personal
information. You may expect a response within 30 days.
For information submitted in connection with
Products and Services, you may also follow instructions included or
referenced within such Product and Service to access or correct the
information.
Collection of
personal information
As a visitor to this
Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any
personal information. In connection with other activities, such as
utilizing online or hosted Products and Services, SE Jones may ask
you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and
submitting a form. It is optional for you to engage in these
activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, SE
Jones may ask that you provide personal information, such as your
first and last name, mailing address (including ZIP code),
country of residence, e-mail address,
employer, job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers,
and other personal information. When ordering Products and Services
via the Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number.
Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you
to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you
do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular
activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
Similarly, if you wish to delete your
information (pursuant to the mechanism set forth in “Updating your
personal information and privacy preferences”) that is mandatory,
you will no longer be able to engage in a particular activity.
When you use the Site
and the Products and Services, SE Jones
may also collect certain information about your computer to
facilitate and evaluate your use of the Site and the Products and
Services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as
browser type, operating system, CPU speed,
referring or exit web pages, and the Internet Protocol (IP)
address of your computer. SE Jones also uses such information to
measure traffic patterns on the Site and usage of the Products and
Services. We do not match such information with any other
information held by SE Jones unless we have
your consent.
By using this Site
and the Products and Services, you
agree and acknowledge that personal information collected through
the Site or in connection with the Products and Services may be
transferred across national boundaries and stored and processed in
any of the countries around the world in which SE Jones maintains
offices, including the United States. You also acknowledge that in
certain countries or with respect to certain activities, the
collection, transfer, storage, and processing of your information
may be undertaken by trusted third parties. Such third parties are
bound by contract with SE Jones not to use your personal information
for their own purposes or provide it to any third parties. One
instance where this could occur is in conjunction with framed pages
in which the URL for the pages is not visible, and the pages are
hosted for SE Jones by such third parties. For example, on the sign
up pages for some newsletters, the pages may be hosted by a third
party vendor, but appear to be Sites owned and operated by SE Jones
and are governed by the SE Jones privacy policy.
SE Jones has
established relationships with various service providers whose
services are available to you from the Site, from websites that are
linked to the Site, or in connection with the
Products and Services. Typically, these providers offer
services that SE Jones customers might find useful, such as those
that can be used in conjunction with Products and Services. In order
to use those providers’ services, you may be required to provide
personal information to the providers. Unless expressly provided to
the contrary, personal information that you provide while you are
visiting a provider's website will be subject to the privacy policy
posted on that site, and personal information that you provide while
on the Site will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
In order to reduce
errors in our database, authenticate our users, prevent abuse of our
Site and the Products and Services, and
provide more consistent, relevant experiences to our users,
we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submit to
us with information from third-party sources. For example,
if permitted under applicable law, we
may supplement your Registration Information with address
information provided by the U.S. Postal Service to qualify your
information and prevent errors in our database. As permissible, we
may also supplement the information you provide to us with
demographic and other information (such as age or interest in
photography) stored in third-party databases in order to make it
more likely that marketing communications we send will be of
interest to you.
How your personal
information is used
SE Jones collects
your information in order to record, support
and facilitate your participation in the activities you
select. If you subscribe to or register for Products and Services,
for example, the information is used to register your rights, if
any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made
available to registered users. As another example, if you enter a
contest, information is collected to qualify the entry and to
contact you regarding the contest or prize awards. Your personal
information is also used to track customer preferences and keep you
informed about product upgrades, special offers, and other products
and services of SE Jones and selected third parties unless you have
opted not to receive such communications or such communications are
prohibited by law.
SE Jones may collect
information about the use of the Products and
Services and the Site, such as the
number of downloads, types of Services used, how many users
we receive daily, and the IP/Internet address
of your computer. This information is collected in aggregate
form, without identifying any user individually.
SE Jones may use this
aggregate, nonidentifying statistical data for
improving the Site and the Products and Services, providing more
relevant experiences to our customers and for statistical
analysis.
Certain Products and Services may require you
to use the most current version of such Product and Service or are
offered in conjunction with other Products and Services, which you
may or may not have already downloaded. The Product and Service may
automatically check to determine if you are using the most current
version or have other Products and Services and through e-mail
messages, pop-up boxes or similar mechanisms inform you if need to
upgrade in order to use the Product and Service you have requested.
During this process, an IP address identifying your computer and the
Product and Service version may be sent to a Web server, but system
profile information is not transmitted nor are cookies used to store
information.
Your choices with
respect to personal information
SE Jones recognizes
and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information
collected on the Site and in connection with
the Products and Services. SE Jones
will respect your legal rights regarding access to and correction
and deletion of your personal information. SE Jones may
communicate information to you regarding products, services, and
special offers available from SE Jones or selected third parties
unless you have opted not to receive such communications or such
communications are prohibited by law, although we may find it
necessary to continue to communicate
with you regarding your use of the Site and the Products and
Services. Except in the particular circumstances described in this
Privacy Policy, SE Jones will not provide your name to other
companies or organizations without your consent.
There are other
instances in which SE Jones may divulge your personal information,
such as where required by law, regulation, or litigation. We may
also disclose information about you if we determine that such
disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law
enforcement, or other issues of public importance.
Protection of your
personal information
The personal
information that you provide in connection with registering yourself
as a user of the Site or of the Products and
Services is classified as Registration Information.
Registration Information is protected in several ways. Access by you
to your Registration Information is available is available to you.
If you wish to access and/or correct such information, please see
instructions for doing so in the section entitled "Updating your
personal information and privacy preferences." In addition, your
Registration Information resides on secure servers that only
selected SE Jones personnel and contractors have access to via
password. SE Jones and its contractors will attempt to encrypts your
personal information where possible and thereby strives to prevent
unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is
transmitted to SE Jones.
Personal information
that you provide that does not constitute Registration Information
also resides on secure servers and is accessible only to selected SE
Jones personnel and contractors via password. Since this information
is not accessible online by you, you
will not be asked to select a password in order to view or modify
such information.
Please note that any
information you post to a public or private bulletin board or chat
room is available to all persons accessing that location, and
your e-mail address may also be posted on
these venues. The information you share, including your email
address, would then be available to all persons accessing these
venues, and such information may be read, collected or used by
others for any purpose, including sending you unsolicited messages.
SE Jones is not responsible for any information you elect to submit
in these venues or the use of such information. In addition,
you should be aware that the Forums may offer a service in which
subscribers are e-mailed a copy of all messages posted to the Forums
on a particular topic. Consequently, if you post a message to the
Forums, your e-mail address will be sent to those subscribers who
have indicated an interest in the topic of your message.
Data not collected
on this Site or in connection with the
Products and Services
Personal information
that is not collected on the Site or in
connection with the Products and Services is not generally
subject to this Privacy Policy. However, personal information
submitted on physical product registration cards is classified as
Registration Information and is subject to this Privacy Policy. If
you wish to access and/or correct such information, please see
instructions for doing so in the section entitled "Updating your
personal information and privacy preferences."
Tracking, use of cookies, web beacons
and similar devices
In order to improve
our Products and Services and the Site and provide more convenient,
relevant experiences to our customers, we and our vendors may use
"cookies", “web beacons”, and similar devices to track your
activities. A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to
your browser by a web server and can only be read by the server that
gave it to you. It functions as your identification card and enables
SE Jones to record your passwords, purchases, and preferences. It
cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.
A web beacon is a small transparent gif image that is embedded in an
HTML page or email used to track when the page or email has been
viewed. A similar device may be used by which a Product and Service
may send data to a server when a set of user-initiated events occur
such as the “Add to Cart” button is clicked. This device is similar
to a cookie in that it tracks your visit and the data can only be
read by the server that receives the data. It is different than a
cookie in that it is not browser-based, may not function as an
identification card, and does not store any data on your computer.
While SE Jones uses
cookies and similar devices to track your use
of the Site and the Products and Services, such as the number of
downloads, types of Products and Services used and downloaded, how
many users we receive daily, and our web servers
automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, SE Jones
does not generally use this information to identify you personally.
However, if you expressly provide consent for the Site
or the Product and Service to
"remember" the unique identifier that you select when you register
for various activities on the Site or the
Products and Services, that unique identifier will be stored
on a cookie on your computer and that unique identifier will be
linked to your Registration Information. As a result, your
navigation path around the Site and the Products and Services will
be tracked.
Some Products and Services allow the tracking
of access to or use of Products and Services by users, as opposed to
SE Jones. For example, certain Products and Services allow document
authors to restrict access to documents, track access to or use of
those documents, or involve communications and transmission of data
over the Internet to verify the authenticity of documents, authors
and recipients. In many cases, this type of tracking will be obvious
to you as a user of the Products and Services, and in others, the
software and services license or terms of use, pop-up boxes, or
email messages will inform you of these features and your options,
such as disabling options.
Most browsers are
initially set to accept cookies, and most
Products and Services that include similar devices are typically
initially activated to collect data. You can set your browser
to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to
decide whether or not to accept it. (For some web pages that require
an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to
accept cookies or similar devices will probably not be able to
access those pages or the related Products and
Services.)
SE Jones also hires
other companies to place our banner ads on other websites and
where they are permitted to perform
tracking and reporting activities ("third-party advertisement
servers"). Aside from IP addresses, they do not collect personally
identifiable information in doing this work for us, and we do not
give any personally identifiable information to them. Third-party
advertisement servers are subject to their own privacy policies.
SE Jones may also allow other companies to
display advertisements on certain pages of the Site or within the
Products and Services. If you click on these advertisements these
companies may place a persistent cookie on your computer which will
allow them to contact you directly.
Privacy complaints
SE Jones takes its users' privacy
concerns seriously. If you believe that SE
Jones has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect
to your personal information, you may write to the
SE Jones, registered mail, return-receipt,
at the following address:
SE Jones LLC
4853 Cordell Ave
Suite 1109
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
If you provide SE
Jones with inconsistent privacy preferences (for example, by
indicating on one occasion that third parties may contact you with
marketing offers and indicating on another occasion that they may
not), SE Jones will endeavor to update your privacy preferences in a
timely and accurate manner.
Also, please note
that SE Jones is not responsible for the content or privacy
practices of non-SE Jones websites to which this Site or any other
SE Jones website may link. You should review the privacy policy of
such sites before using the sites. |
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