Last updated: April 9,
2010
PRIVACY POLICY
- OVERVIEW
This privacy policy describes how Asset International, Inc. maintains,
uses and shares information that it may collect when you use any of the
following websites that it operates (the “Sites”):
- PLANSPONSOR.COM
- PLANADVISER.COM
- AI5000.COM
- ASSETINTERNATIONAL.COM
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted here.
- HOW
WE COLLECT AND USE INFORMATION
Personal Information: Some of the information
that we collect when you use this Site, such as your name, company name, postal
address, email address, credit card number or telephone number, may allow you
to be identified. We call this
information “Personal Information.”
Registration: When you register on a Site, such as to receive
a publication or email newsletter, you will be asked to provide certain Personal
Information, which we use to provide the publication or newsletter to you.
Surveys: We may
ask you to complete surveys or opinion polls from time to time. Participation is voluntary. We only use the information that we collect
from surveys in an aggregate manner, not in individually identifiable form.
Blogs and Forums: Our
Sites may provide an opportunity for you to post information to blogs, forums
or other public areas. By doing so, you
consent to the posting of any Personal Information that you provide. You should
be aware that such Personal Information can be read, collected, or used by
other visitors to these public areas. We
have no control over how these visitors use your Personal Information.
Visitors: If you are just visiting the Sites and not registering for a
publication, contacting us or posting to a public area of the Sites, we do not
ordinarily collect any Personal Information about you except through web logs
(see below), or if you choose to share information with us in any other way. In
that case, we will obtain the information that you provided and will use it to
respond to your inquiry or to fulfill your request if we can. We do not share
any of this information with anyone else, except to respond to your request, if
you consent, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
Web Logs: We
maintain web logs that automatically record basic information about everyone
who visits the Sites. We use web log information to help us design our
websites, to identify popular features, and for other managerial and analytic purposes.
We may also use web logs to help
identify any person attempting to break into, damage or misuse any of the
Sites. These logs contain:
- The Internet domain from
which you access any of the Sites.
- Your IP address.
- The type of browser and
operating system that you use.
- The date and time you
visited any of the Sites.
- The pages that you
visited on any of the Sites.
- The address of the
website you linked from to get to any of the Sites.
Cookies: We use cookies, web beacons and similar
technology to help you navigate the Sites, to allow us to learn how you use the
Sites and to improve the Sites. Cookies are text
files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies,
by themselves, do not reveal any Personal Information unless you choose to
provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our
Sites. However, once you choose to provide Personal Information to a Site, this
information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. If you decide not to permit cookies on your computer, this may
affect your ability to use the Sites.
Communicating with
You. We may use information that we collect from
you for the purpose of communicating with you and responding to your inquiries. Those communications could, for example, take
the form of news updates, promotions for products or services that we or one of
our marketing partners provide, or e-newsletters.
Service Providers: We sometimes contract with third party service providers to
perform functions for us. These service providers may be given access to your
information for the purpose of performing those functions, but they may not use
this information for any other purpose.
Marketing Partnerships: From time to time, we may make your Personal Information available
to other reputable organizations to market, or allow others to market, products
or services that may be of interest to you.
Business Transfers: If we were to transfer all or substantially all of our assets, or
the assets pertaining to one or more Site(s), to another company, one of the
assets we would likely include in the transfer is the relevant database of
Personal Information.
Webinars: From time to time, a Site may host webinars or similar events in
conjunction with cosponsors. We may share Personal Information of
attendees of these webinars with the cosponsors.
Disclosures for Legal
Reasons: We will disclose Personal Information when we are
required to do so by law, regulation or securities exchange requirement, for
example, in response to a court order or subpoena. We also may disclose such
information in response to a law enforcement agency's request or when we
believe such disclosure is appropriate to protect our legal rights or to safeguard
anyone’s property or safety.
Overseas Transfers: We are a global business. In order to provide you with products or
services, we may transfer your Personal Information to other parts of our organization
or to our agents in countries outside of your own. By using this Site, you consent to the
transfer of your Personal Information in this manner. Although the data protection legislation in
some countries may differ from that in your own country, we will make good
faith efforts to ensure Personal Information is protected as described in this privacy
policy.
- COLLECTION
OF INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES
We use a third-party
advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Sites. This company may use
information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visit to this Site in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving
advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize
a unique "cookie" on your browser. If you would like more
information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this
information used by this company, please click here.
We may offer you the
opportunity to contact other companies, such as advertisers, marketing
affiliates and content providers, to obtain information or to buy products or
services. You decide when and whether to
give your Personal Information to these companies. If you provide information,
its use and security is governed by the policies and practices of those
companies and not by this privacy policy.
We make no
representations or warranties about any of these other companies or their
privacy or security policies. Once you click through to an unaffiliated
website, this privacy policy no longer applies. We strongly urge you to read
the applicable policies of these other companies and their websites.
- YOUR
PRIVACY CHOICES
If you would like us to
stop sending you email or other communications; would like us not to disclose
your Personal Information to marketing partners or advertisers; or would like
to access your registration information to correct or delete it, you may send
us a request at optout@assetinternational.com. We will
endeavor to satisfy such requests within a reasonable time. Removing
registration information from our main files does not remove your records from
any of our backup systems. It may take months before backup records are
completely recycled and related data are completely removed. Backup records
remain subject to the same protections as our other records. We take reasonable
steps to ensure that the information we collect is reliable for its intended use,
accurate, complete and current.
- SECURITY
We maintain all Personal
Information with physical, electronic, and managerial safeguards to help ensure
the security and confidentiality of the data against reasonably foreseeable
risks. Security is designed to prevent unauthorized use, access, disclosure,
destruction, and changes of data. For example, we restrict access to our
computing facilities to individuals identified by management as needing access
to perform their jobs. We also review changes in technology and security
measures and regularly train our personnel.
- CHILDREN
The Sites are intended
for use by adults. We do not target, or knowingly
collect any Personal Information from, children under the age of 13.
- ACCOUNTABILITY
We are committed to adhering
to our privacy policy and applicable laws and to making your online experience
enjoyable, secure, comfortable, and valuable. If you have a question, request,
complaint, dispute or concern related to this privacy policy, you may send a
message by email to Support or write to us at: Asset International, Attention:
Privacy Matters, 1055 Washington Blvd., Stamford,
CT 06901.
We will work with you to obtain a prompt resolution of any such issues you may
have.