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privacy policy
Venali values you as a customer. Protecting the
privacy of information we have about you is of great importance
to us. We want you to understand how we protect the confidentiality of
that information about you as well as
how and why we use and disclose it. The following provides details about
our practices and procedures for protecting the security of nonpublic
personal information about you.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT:
Venali collects and uses personal information about you to conduct our
business, to advise you about our products and services, and to deliver
effective customer service.
Sources of this information include:
· Information we receive from you on applications and other forms,
such as your name, address,
social security number and telephone number
· Information about your transactions with us, such as your account
balances, payment history and
account activity
· Information we receive from consumer reporting agency, such as
your credit bureau reports and
other information relating to your creditworthiness
· Information we receive about you from other sources, such as
your employer or third parties
USE OF IP ADDRESSES:
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and
to administer
our website. Venali.com website also logs IP addresses for systems administration
purposes. IP addresses are logged to track a user's session. This gives
Venali, Inc. an idea of which section of our site users are visiting
and helps us to improve our site to better serve our customers. We do
not link IP addresses to anything
personally identifiable. This means that a user's session will be tracked,
but the user will be anonymous.
USE OF COOKIES:
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard
drive when you visit them.
A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site
uses to track the pages you have visited. However, the only personal information
a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
Venali, Inc. uses cookies when you
request information that is contained within a database. We do not store
passwords or any personal information about you. We use this ID to identify
you anonymously in our database and to track the pages you visit on our
site.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Our site uses order forms for customers to request information, products,
and services. We collect visitor's contact information (such as your email
address) only when they
are provided to us. We use your contact information to communicate with
you if and when necessary in connection with your use of our website,
to respond to your questions, or to send you material and information
you request. We may also use this information to notify you of changes
to our website or new services we think you may
wish to know about.
INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE:
We do not sell, rent, license, trade or otherwise disclose the personal
information
of our customers to unaffiliated third parties. We may share such information
among our affiliates as necessary
to provide you with the information and services you request. We may disclose
information about you if and when we believe it is necessary to comply
with any law, rule or court order, or subpoena, or to enforce our legal
rights or rules of our website, or to protect our business, property and
operations.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY:
We restrict access to personal information about you to our employees,
our affiliates' employees or to others who need to know that information
to service your account. We store all information we collect on servers
that we believe are secure from unauthorized access. We use a variety
of technologies to minimize the likelihood of the loss, alteration or
misuse of the information we collect.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES:
By using our website, you signify your acceptance of the Privacy Policy,
and you adhere to the terms and conditions posted on the website. If you
do not agree with any
of these terms in this Privacy Policy, please do not use this site or
submit any personal information.
COPYRIGHT LAW:
United States copyright laws protect all information on our website. You
may not copy information from our website without first receiving our
written authorization.
CONTACTING THE WEBSITE:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please send your
inquiries to: privacypolicy@venali.com
Revision date 10/02
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