Buynowwithintegrity.com Privacy Policy
Overview
Buynowwithintegrity.com takes your privacy very seriously. We are committed to your privacy and security and want to provide you with the best possible online experience. To that end, we want you to understand what kinds of information we gather from you, how this information is used and safeguarded, and how you can control its use. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. This privacy policy applies to the use of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website by consumers (“you”) who are customers of Trust Associates and its subsidiaries, and affiliates (collectively, “Trust Associates”, “we”, “us” and “our”). This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, so please check back frequently.
Table of Contents
A Special Note About Children
Information We Collect
Information Sharing and Usage
Registration
Tools
User Requested Services
Solicited Information
User-Initiated Communication
Referrals
Cookies
Automatically Gathered Data
Opting-Out
Editing and Deleting Your Account Information and Preferences
Security
Scope of This Privacy Policy: Outside Links
Notification of Changes
Questions or Comments
A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.
Information We Collect
The kinds of information we collect from you will vary, depending on how you use the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. It’s possible to browse the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website without submitting any Personally Identifiable Information (“personal information”) at all, but if you choose to take advantage of some of our products and services, you may be asked to provide information such as a user name and password, your full name, e-mail address, phone number, address, or, for certain financial products or services, your Social Security number and banking information, and for certain e-commerce transactions your credit card information. Whenever we ask for this kind of information, we strive to provide a link to this Privacy Policy to help you understand how your personal information will be used before you decide whether to disclose it.
In addition to the personal information you choose to submit, our systems are set up to gather certain anonymous data to help us to better understand how the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website are being used and how we can improve them. This automatically gathered data includes your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, statistics about how visitors navigate through the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website and information provided through the use of “cookies” (which is described in more detail below).
As you visit the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website, be aware that third parties may at times be able to gather information from and about you. For example, third party advertiser servers, companies that place advertisements on the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website and companies offering products or services through the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website may use cookies to collect and use information about you and may collect information that you submit. In these cases, the third parties will use such information according to their own privacy policies that may differ from this Privacy Policy.
Information Sharing and Usage
The use of your information depends on the context in which it is collected. Therefore, pay special attention to the categories below that relate to the features of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website that you wish to utilize. In addition to using your personal information as set forth below, note that we may disclose the information that we collect about you when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, to us or to others, and may also disclose such information when we believe that the law requires it, such as identifying (but not limited to) violations of our Terms of Use. Also be aware that licensee of this StreetSmartInvestorWebsites.com Website may at times be legally compelled to disclose certain information, by means such as subpoenas or court orders.
We may link information collected from you through various means, including information collected automatically and through the use of cookies and purchase information, or other personal information you provide to help us offer content, advertisements, products and services that we believe will be of interest to you, and this information may also be shared among the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. In addition, we may share this information, in aggregate form, with our current and potential advertisers so they can present advertisements more effectively.
If you have indicated that you want to be contacted by third parties, we may use the information we collect to select which names to provide to a particular third party in order to present you with products and services that we believe will be of interest to you, but we will not disclose this type of information, other than your Contact Information (information that provides a means of contacting you), to any such third party.
Buynowwithintegrity.com Website may use anonymous data automatically gathered by our servers so that we can understand how to make the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website more convenient and useful to our audience. This information may also be shared among the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website and used for similar purposes. In addition, we may share this information, in aggregate form, with our current and potential advertisers or marketing allies so they can try to present advertisements and content more effectively. We may also use aggregate information to share information with the public regarding products, services, content or tools that may of interest to them.
If we sell off a division, merge with another company or spin off a business, your information may be included in such a transaction. However if such a transaction occurs we will notify you of the event and give you an opportunity to respond.
Registration
The personal information you provide when you become a registered user of one of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website is used primarily to help us customize your online experience. This personal information may also be shared among the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website to make your use of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website more convenient by, for example, limiting the number of times you have to register with us. Your e-mail address serves as a unique identifier in our record system, and it is used together with your password to prevent unauthorized access to any information you choose to store on the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. The data you give us about your personal preferences and demographics (e.g., your age, ZIP code, occupation or the like) may be used to help us offer content, advertisements, products, and services that we believe will be of interest to you. In addition, we may share this information, in aggregate form, with our current and potential advertisers so that they can present advertisements more effectively. If you forget your password for any registered area of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website, we have an automated password recovery system, which can be accessed by clicking on the “Forgot Password?” link on the sign in page. Please note that we do not knowingly accept or store any Personally Identifiable Information about any individual under the age of 18 under any circumstances. If we become aware that Personally Identifiable Information regarding an individual under the age of 18 has been stored, we will promptly delete it from our records (see A Special Note About Children for more information). Unless you specify that you’d prefer not to hear from us, we may also use the e-mail address you provide at the time of registration to contact you for promotional or other purposes. You may have these communications terminated at any time. If you indicate that you’re interested in hearing from other companies, we may also share your Contact Information with such companies for that purpose. We may have to contact you now and then to inform you of changes to your service, a change in this Privacy Policy or other administrative purposes. These administrative e-mails will not contain any advertisements.
Tools
The Buynowwithintegrity.com Website allow you to use many helpful tools, such as financial calculators, real estate search tools and other tools most of which will not ask you to disclose any personal information. These tools are for your benefit, and the information you submit when you use them (typically impersonal data) is not disclosed to anyone or used for any purpose other than to provide you with the service you’re seeking. However there are several online tools where we may ask your permission to use the personal information you enter in order to offer services, products or information that we believe may be of use to you or to merge such information into your profile registration.
User-Requested Services
You may choose to request products or services of a more substantial or personal nature when using the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. For example, you may apply for a loan, request our help in locating a home, store your preferences for convenience in using the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website or make an online purchase or payment. The information you provide when seeking these services may be used in the following ways:
For services provided by the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website, the information you submit is used by us to provide the service you’ve requested. We may also share this information with subcontractors, but only to the extent necessary to fulfill your request or to facilitate your use of their services. For instance, we may use your information on Buynowwithintegrity.com Website to pre-populate a form to be sent to the provider of a service you request, but the information will not be transmitted for use in providing the service by that provider until you choose to submit the information to them. In addition, we may use the contact information and non-financial information you’ve supplied, such as your e-mail address, as set out in the registration section, above. Further, we may, with your permission, contact you by phone to request additional information to help you find products and services that we believe you will find useful. You are not required to cooperate with any telephone requests if you do not wish to take advantage of our products or services. If the service you request requires submission of financial information, such as a credit card number for an online purchase, rest assured that this financial information is used only for processing your payment, and is not retained after completion of your order. We may, however, store your non-financial order information for accounting purposes and to help us understand your preferences better, so that we can offer you products or services in the future that you may find useful.
For products and services offered to you jointly by us and a third party, your personal information may be shared with or independently gathered by the third party. In these situations, the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website will only use your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy, but the third party may use the information in different ways. You can tell when a product or service is offered by a third party, because a page of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website will be “co-branded” and will display the third party’s logo and/or name along with our own, or you will be linked to the third party’s site to complete the transaction. Please be aware that each company we do business with has its own policies regarding the use and protection of your information that may differ from those outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you are concerned about how your personal information might be used or protected by a third party, we encourage you to become familiar with its Privacy Policy before using the service or requesting the product.
From time to time, we may wish to use personal information you provide when requesting a product or service for purposes beyond those listed above. If this is the case, you will always be notified of the additional use prior to your submitting the personal information, and you’ll be given a chance to opt-out of that use or to not complete the request for the particular product or service.
Solicited Information
You may occasionally see contests, surveys and other features of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website that ask you to provide us with personal information. When you choose to respond to these requests, the personal information you offer may be used for several purposes. These include the uses set out in the registration section above. They also include providing information to third parties as necessary for prize fulfillment and other aspects of any contest, sweepstakes, game or other promotion. If we are going to use your personal information for any other purpose, we will notify you of that purpose and give you a chance to opt-out before responding to our survey or participating in our contest, sweepstakes, game or other promotion. Any contest, sweepstakes, game or other promotion that is accessible through the Site is governed by specific rules. By entering any such contest, sweepstakes, game or other promotion, you will become subject to those rules. We urge you to read the applicable rules, which are linked from the particular contest, sweepstakes, game or other promotion.
User-Initiated Communication
Portions of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website enable you to send e-mail to us or to third parties and to participate in public bulletin boards and discussion groups. All postings to public bulletin boards and discussion groups become our property. Whenever you choose to initiate these kinds of communication with us, or anyone else, you may expect to be contacted in return. Also, remember that our bulletin boards and discussion groups are open to the public, and therefore, your postings can be seen by anyone and are not protected by us or any other entity. Please use your own discretion when deciding what to post publicly and whom to contact. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit or delete inappropriate postings from our bulletin boards and discussion groups; provided, however, the reservation of this right shall not, under any circumstances, obligate us to conduct such editing or deletions.
Referrals
If you participate in any referral service we may offer, we will use the information you submit to determine which of our participating professional(s) may be able to serve your needs. We may then forward your name, Contact Information and other responses contained on our sign-up form to the selected professional(s), who may then contact you using that information. Any information you provide also may be used by us in accordance with the uses set out in the registration section, above. In some cases we may store these communications to participating professionals or other third parties, but solely for the purpose of assisting the professional in tracking their communications.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that we send to and store on your computer so that we can recognize it as a unique machine the next time you visit the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. Our cookies are used for three purposes: (1) to keep track of your information for your own convenience; (2) to help us optimize your online experience by altering our content depending on your particular needs or browsing patterns, and to provide you with advertisements, products and services that we believe will be of interest to you; and (3) to help us understand the size of our audience and their traffic patterns within the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. Some of our advertisers and third-party ad servers may also utilize their own cookies. Also, companies offering products or services through the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website may use their own cookies.
Automatically Gathered Data
The information gathered automatically by our system ” such as your computer’s IP address, the kind of browser you’re using, and a record of your navigation through the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website may be used to help us understand how to make the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website convenient and useful to our audience. This information may also be shared among the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website and used for similar purposes. In addition, we may share this information, in aggregate form, with our current and potential marketing allies and advertisers so they can know how to present their advertisements more effectively. When such data is aggregated, all Personally Identifiable Information is eliminated.
Reading this Privacy Policy should help you understand how any information you share with us might be used. If you feel concerned about any of these uses, you might elect not to participate in certain services, features or products that we offer. We will never collect personal information about you without your knowledge, so the decision whether or not to share this information is completely up to you.
Opting-Out
You also have the ability to terminate e-mail correspondence from us at any time. You may be given the chance to opt-out of direct mailings when you disclose your e-mail address to us. Further, you can click the link to “Unsubscribe” found within our email messages and we will promptly remove you from our email lists.
Editing and Deleting Your Account Information and Preferences
To view, edit or delete the personal information you submitted on the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website during registration, follow the instructions found in the “My Profile” or “Edit Your Profile” area of the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website where you registered.
Security
The Buynowwithintegrity.com Website have implemented the following protective measures to protect your personal information against loss, misuse or alteration:
Whenever personal information about you is stored on our computers, that information is kept on servers that are located behind a “firewall” and password-protected to prevent unauthorized access or use.
Since your Social Security and financial information is especially sensitive, we take special care to keep it secure. We will only transmit or ask for this information over secure Internet connections, using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption ” the currently accepted standard for online security ” and security keys. In addition, we require password authentication from any third parties you’ve authorized to receive this information. Finally, your Social Security number, credit card number, and financial information are never stored on our servers. While this means you may have to enter this information more than once, we believe the added security is well worth the extra effort.
Of course, we appreciate your help in safeguarding the integrity of your own and others’ privacy. We hope you’ll use common sense whenever you disclose personal information over the Internet.
Scope of This Privacy Policy: Outside Links
This Privacy Policy only applies to the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. The Buynowwithintegrity.com Website contain links to sites operated and maintained by third parties over which we have absolutely no control. Please be aware that these sites may collect information about you, and operate according to their own privacy practices that may differ from this Privacy Policy. Remember that once you’re outside the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website, any information you submit is outside of our control.
Notification of Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date first written above and may be updated and modified from time to time by us in our sole discretion. If we choose to update or modify this Privacy Policy, such updated or modified policy shall become effective upon its posting on the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website. Accordingly, we encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy and the Site in order to keep apprised of our current privacy practices. If you do not agree to any provision of this Privacy Policy, or any update or modification thereto, please do not use the Buynowwithintegrity.com Website.
Trust Associates
ATTN: Legal Department
4426-B Hugh Howell Road, Suite #200
Tucker, GA 30084
(770) 939-8283
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