SYMMETRY also collects nonpersonal information that helps us to understand
site visitor demographics such as your location, occupation, interests,
etc. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information and,
using physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, we restrict access
to personal information to those employees and agents for business purposes
only. Additionally, we routinely review the adequacy of our security
procedures.
How is information collected, used, and disclosed?
We do not share or sell your personal information to anyone. We do not
give your personal information to anyone outside of SYMMETRY for their
promotional or marketing use. We do not collect personally identifiable
information unless we first ask you for it during the registration process.
If you opt to receive additional information during the registration
process, you may get periodic emails from SYMMETRY or our trusted partners.
These emails will contain information from companies that offer legitimate
products and services typically in the finance, taxation, accounting or
payroll related areas. Again, SYMMETRY does not share or sell your personally
identifiable information to these companies; we directly manage any email campaigns on behalf of these trusted partners. Finally, you may
always unsubscribe from future informational emails if you wish.
Whether you provide any information is entirely up to you. If you have voluntarily provided information, you consented to the collection and use
of your personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy. Also, SYMMETRY may provide aggregate statistics about visitors to our sites, such as volume, traffic patterns, visitor demographics and
related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifiable information. SYMMETRY
may also disclose information in special cases when we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or
comply with legal process; (b) protect and defend our rights or property;
(c) enforce the Web site Terms and Conditions of Use; or (d) act to protect the interests of our users or others.
What are cookies and how are they used?
Some SYMMETRY sites, like many other commercial web sites, may utilize
a standard technology called "cookies" to collect information
about how our site is used. Cookies were designed to help a web site
operator determine that a particular user had visited the site previously and thus save and
remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing
the site. Cookies are small strings of text that web sites can send to
your browser. Cookies cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive
or obtain your e-mail address. If you are simply browsing a SYMMETRY
informational site, a cookie may be used to identify your browser as one
that has visited the site before.
We may also make use of memory-based cookies in support of authenticating
the user of certain SYMMETRY web applications. Similarly, we may use cookies
so that we can provide information based on preferences you have indicated
while using the site. Although you have the ability to modify your browser
to either accept all cookies, notify you when a cookie is sent, or reject
all cookies, it may not be possible to utilize SYMMETRY services which
require registration if you reject cookies.
What are your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of your
information?
If you have voluntarily provided information, you consented to the
collection and use of your personally identifiable information as described
in this Privacy Policy. If, at a later time, you do not wish to permit
that use, you can delete your registration and personally identifiable
information by clicking on the Profile link
located at the top of the bulletin
board. Simply follow the instructions
to delete your registration information. You may also click
here to modify
your Personal
Information. You will need to sign in to make any changes.
How can you correct, access, and update your information?
If you wish to view and change your personally identifiable information
simply use the Profile link
located at the top of the bulletin
board. Simply follow the instructions to delete your registration information.
You may also click
here to modify your Personal Information. You will need to sign in to
make any changes.
How do we protect your information?
We exercise great care to protect your personally identifiable information.
This includes, among other things, using industry standard techniques such
as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection and site monitoring.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally
identifiable information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you transmit to us or receive from us. This is especially true
for information you transmit to us via e-mail. We have no way of protecting
that information until it reaches us. Once we receive your transmission,
we make our best effort to ensure its security on our servers. Internally,
we will restrict access to your personally identifiable information to
employees who need access to the information in order to do their jobs.
These employees are limited in number, and are committed to our privacy
policies. We will review our security arrangements from time to time as
we deem appropriate.
How can you help protect your information?
If you are using a SYMMETRY web site for which you registered and chose
a password, we recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone.
We will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in
an unsolicited e-mail. Also remember to sign out of the registered site and
close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to
ensure that others cannot access your personal information and
correspondence if others have access to your computer. Other SYMMETRY sites
may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners.
While we seek to link only to sites that share our high standards and
respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices
employed by other sites. If you have questions or concerns regarding this
Policy, please contact us.
Last Updated: September 30, 2004
