Overview
- Covered Sites
- Collecting of Information
- What scou-T does with your private information
- scou-T method of keeping your information secure
- Changes
We value your opinion. Should you have any comments and/ or questions regarding our
privacy policy, please send us an
email or
call us.
1. Covered Sites
This Privacy Statement applies to all
scou-T
-owned websites and domains, as well as our wholly owned subsidiaries
(
scou-T
websites).
Links to non-scou-T
websites
scou-T
websites may provide links to third-party websites. Once you access these links, you leave the
scou-T
has absolutely no control over such sites and/ or their privacy
practices. Please note that these privacy practices may differ vastly
from those of
scou-T
and that any personal data you may choose to reveal on such sites is not covered by the
scou-T
Privacy Statement. We urge and encourage you to carefully review the
Privacy Policy of any Company before submitting any personal
information.
2. Collecting of information
Children’s privacy
scou-T
is committed to the protection of children and primarily of their
privacy needs. We do not knowingly or willingly gather information from
children under the age of thirteen and no
scou-T
websites target children under thirteen.
Types of information
This Privacy Statement covers personal information, non-personal data collection
and aggregate reporting.
Personal information
is information directly associated with your name or personal identity.
Should you choose to provide us with any personal information, you may
be assured that such information will only be utilised to support your
customer relationship with
scou-T.
Your personal information will never be sold, rented or leased to other parties by us.
Various
scou-T
websites offer you the opportunity to order products or services,
request information, subscribe to marketing or support materials,
register yourself or even to apply for a career opportunity at
scou-T.
Any and all information you provide us on these pages will be used
solely for the specifically related subject.
In our ongoing quest to improve our products and services, and in order to
personalise the same as well as communications, we may on occasion
request that you provide us with information regarding your personal or
professional interests, demographics and experiences with and opinion
of our products. Providing such additional information is entirely optional.
Non-personal information
is data about usage and service operation that is not associated in
any way with a specific personal identity.
scou-T
accumulates and analyses non-personal information in order to
evaluate the method in which visitors make use of the
scou-T
websites.
Non-personal data that we gather may include such information
as pages and unique URLs* visited on the
scou-T
websites, browser type and IP-Adresse**.
Most non-personal data is collected via cookies or other
analysis technologies.
scou-T
Web pages make use of cookies and other technologies for data
analysis and personalization services.
scou-T
also places ads on other websites that may make the use of cookies.
3. What scou-T does with your private information
scou-T
utilizes your personal information to provide you with improved services as well
as to assist us in better understanding your requirements and
interests. More specifically, information is used to aid you with the
completion of a transaction or order, to communicate with you, to
present you with superior service and support, to update you on
services and benefits available. Also, such information is utilised to
personalise promotional offers and some
scou-T
websites. On occasion, we may also make use of your information in
order to contact you for market research regarding
scou-T
products or services.
Credit card information is used solely for payment processing and fraud
prevention. Sensitive personal information is gathered purely to
facilitate our financial service providers’ credit decisions and will
be shared with them exclusively and only with your permission. Credit
card information and sensitive personal data are not used for any other
purpose by our financial services providers or
scou-T
and will not be filed or kept for any longer than is absolutely
necessary for providing the services. The only exception to this would
be should you yourself specifically request that we retain your credit
card information for future purchases.
Any personal data collected online may also be combined with information you provide
scou-T
through other sources such as product registration, call centres or
public events such as trade shows or seminars. Personal data given to
scou-T
may be transferred across state and country borders for the purposes of
data consolidation, storage and simplified customer information
management.
Non-personal data is aggregated for reporting about
scou-T
website usability, performance and effectiveness. It is utilised to
enhance and improve the customer experience, usability and site content.
With whom we share information
scou-T
will never sell, rent or lease any of your personal information to others.
scou-T
will not provide your personal information to third parties except in
response to a request from you for specific products or services. Upon
submitting of any such personal information, your permission will
always be requested.
scou-T
does however share customer information across
scou-T
-owned business entities and companies working on our behalf, but only
as described above in
What scou-T does with your private information.
All suppliers and service providers are obligated to keep entirely confidential
any information received on behalf of
scou-T
and may not make use of it for any other purpose but to carry out
the services that are being performed on behalf of
scou-T
. These service providers may vary or
scou-T
may contract with additional service providers in order to
better accommodate our clients.
scou-T
will never share personal information with any other third party
without your permission, unless so required by law enforcement actions,
subpoena, or local law.
scou-T
or it’s related entities could merge with or be acquired by another
business entity or some or all of their respective assets could be
acquired. Should such a combination or acquisition occur,
scou-T
will make every reasonable effort to notify you in the event that we
share with the merging or acquiring entity some or all of your personal
information with a view to continuing being in a position to provide
you with service.
Non-subscription services
scou-T
never make use of your personal information for any other purpose than
that stated when you provide such data. Examples of such unrelated uses
include sending communications regarding special offers, product
information and/ or marketing messages. You may however choose to
receive this type of non-subscription communications by following the
instructions below.
Specify your privacy preferences by sending us an email
or call us. Please be sure to provide your full name,
e-mail address and postal address in all correspondence.
Subscription services
In order to cancel the receipt of any communications you may have
previously requested (such as e-mail newsletters, software updates,
etc.), the following methods are available:
- Select the e-mail "opt-out" or "unsubscibe", or follow the
opt-out instructions included in each subscription communication.
- Return to the web page(s) where you originally registered your
preferences and follow the opt-out instructions.
- Contact us either by email
or call us. Always be sure to provide your
name, e-mail and postal address, and relevant information about your
scou-T
subscriptions and registrations.
4.
scou-T method of keeping your information secure
Access to your data
scou-T
will ensure that you have easy access to your information, including
online access and the facility and opportunity to alter your
information should you choose to do so. In order to protect your
privacy and security, we will always take reasonable steps to verify
your identity, such as a password and user ID, before granting access
to your data. Certain areas of
scou-T
websites may limit access to specific individuals through the use of
passwords and other personal identifiers.
The most rapid and effective manner in which to view and alter your
personal information is to return to the web page where you originally
submitted such data and to follow the instructions on that web page.
Security
scou-T
is committed to protecting any information you may provide to us. To
prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy
and to ensure the appropriate use of information,
scou-T
in place appropriate physical and managerial procedures to safeguard
any information provided to us.
We make use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting or
transferring sensitive data such as Credit Card information. SSL
encryption is designed to make the information inaccessible and
unreadable by anyone but ourselves. One method by which you may notice
that this system is active, is by a symbol of either an unbroken key or
a closed lock (depending on your browser) at the bottom of your browser
window.
Credit card numbers are used solely for processing payment and not for any
other purpose whatsoever. As part of real-time payment processing,
scou-T
subscribes to a fraud management service. This service provides both you and
scou-T
with an extra level of security to guard against credit card fraud and to
protect your financial data.
5. Changes
Any and all updates to the terms of
scou-T's
Online Privacy Statement will be posted in this document and revision
dates will likewise be updated. In this manner, you will always be
aware of what information we accumulate online and what use we make of
it, as well as what choices are available to you. For material changes
to this statement,
scou-T
will provide notification to affected clientele.
Rev. October 2006
* A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the global address
of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. For example,
http://www.scou-t.com is the URL for
scou-T
international home page.
** An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network, such
as the World Wide Web. Networks use the TCP/IP protocol to route
information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words,
an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to
locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in
order for users to communicate on the Internet.
