The privacy of our visitors and members is very important to us. Since
we do gather information about you, we provide this privacy statement to
enable you to understand the terms and conditions associated with the
collection of this data, as well as how we use it and how you can
correct or change it. In addition, we make to you the following pledge:
Unless you otherwise agree (as indicated below), the information you
give us or that we collect about you will not be shared with any third
party, except with those third parties providing services to us ("our
service providers") and then only in the form of statistical information
which has been aggregated with other user information for the purposes
of our own website research and development in an effort to better serve
your needs.
We will never contact you without your permission, and we will
immediately terminate any communications with you upon request.
Electronic Newsletters
You can choose to subscribe to one of our FREE electronic newsletters.
These newsletters are distributed through our service provider. To
subscribe, simply complete our online web inquiry form. From
time to time, you may be asked to provide additional information such as
job title, number of employees, country of origin, and type of business.
As a subscriber to our newsletter, you also agree to receive
advertisements, promotions, and special communications from OxBlue.com
and its partners. You can remove yourself from our newsletter E-mail
lists by simply following the "Unsubscribe" directions included in each
newsletter you receive. Please be assured that the
information you give us or that we collect about you in connection with
your subscription to our electronic newsletters will not be shared with
any third party, except with our service providers and then only in the
form and for the purposes stated in the above Privacy Pledge.
Usage Reports
In order to better understand traffic patterns on any site owned and
operated by OxBlue.com, we analyze our site activity to obtain overall
usage statistics. These usage statistics provide us with certain
information obtained through the use of cookies and from data within the
browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
Information we collect from the browser string includes domain name,
browser type, operating system, geographic origin, referring domain and
MIME type. Cookies allow us to track behavior on the site to determine
content preferences and usage patterns. This information is for internal
consumption and is only shared with third parties on a statistically
aggregated basis. No specific or personally identifiable information
collected through this process is ever shared with a third party.
E-mail Data Analysis
From time to time, we provide our E-mail lists (newsletters & special
offers) to our service providers, who in turn provide us with
specialized services, such as E-mail message deployment, merge-purge
(identifying and removing duplicate addresses) of lists, statistical
analysis and other data processing. Please be assured that the
information you give us or that we collect about you in connection with
your subscription to our electronic newsletters and/or special offers
will not be shared with any third party, except with our service
providers, and then for the purposes stated in the above Privacy Pledge.
All sites owned and operated by OxBlue.com use cookies. A cookie is a
small data file written to your hard drive. Cookies allow us to
understand user behavior so we can more effectively develop information
and programs to serve you better. Our third party ad serving company,
delivers a one time cookie to your hard drive in order to better track
ad impressions and click-through rates generated by your activity on our
websites. Advertisers require information regarding ad impressions and
click-through rates, and by providing them with this information, we are
able to keep our websites free to our visitors. Please be assured that,
except for sharing impressions and click-through rates with our
third party advertisers, the information you give us or that we collect
about you in connection with our use of cookies will not be shared with
any other third party, except with our service providers, and then only
in the form and for the purposes stated in the above Privacy Pledge.
If you're concerned about the use of cookies, you have the option to set
your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or to turn off
cookies entirely. The options to warn or disable cookies can be found in
the "Options" or "Preferences" feature of your browser. You do not need
to enable cookies in oder to use any site owned and operated by
OxBlue Corporation.
Links to Other Sites
Please be aware that when you're on OxBlue.com or any site owned by
OxBlue.com, or when you receive an E-mail message from us on behalf of a
marketer according to permission granted through our opt-in process for
newsletters and special offers, you could be directed to other sites
that are beyond our control, such as the marketer's site. There may also
be links to other sites from OxBlue.com pages or from the E-mail message
we send you that take you outside OxBlue.com. These other sites may send
their own cookies to visitors, collect data or solicit personal
information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be
significantly different from this privacy policy. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the
security of any of your personal information collected there.
NOTICE: Click here for important information about safe surfing from the
Federal Trade Commission.
Third Party E-mail Collection
In addition to OxBlue.com visitors providing permission to receive
newsletters and special offers, we do work with various marketing
partners to promote our newsletters and special offers to their
visitors. Each promotion on third party sites is branded under
OxBlue.com.
Security
Protecting the security of your personal information is very important
to us. When we store information you've provided to us, that information
is protected by security measures that include "firewalls" (a
combination of computer hardware and software that helps keep
unauthorized visitors from accessing information within our computer
network), "intrusion detection systems" (a combination of computer
hardware and software that helps detect any unauthorized visitors),
"secure socket layer" (data encryption used when transmitting certain
information). Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or
data repository can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while
OxBlue.com strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose
or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft,
destruction or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.
Deactivating
Any user receiving our electronic newsletter or who receives regular
offers from our partners may opt out of our E-mail list at any time by
simply following the instructions to "Unsubscribe" within each
newsletter or offering.
Changes to the OxBlue.com Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be modified from time to time. If there is a
significant change, we will indicate on our sites that our privacy
policy has changed and provide a link to the new policy.
Contacting OxBlue
Should you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, you may contact
OxBlue.com at the following address:
OxBlue Corporation
Privacy Policy Issues
814 Bellemeade Ave NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
Effective Date: January 1, 2008