Etcos.com recognizes the importance of your privacy. Therefore, we have designed this privacy policy as an extension of our commitment to you. Although no transmission on the Internet is 100% secure, we guarantee that we will never release personal information about you (without first obtaining your consent). Therefore, at etcos.com, our goal is to not only provide you with relevant industry information, but also to provide you with a safe and secure environment filled with integrity. You are our valued customer and you can be assured that any and all information collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential.
What personal information do we collect?
When you visit our site, you remain anonymous. We do not presently require you to register to access any portions of our site. The only time that your personally identifiable information will be available is when you use our site’s online forms. At that time, you will not remain anonymous. However, you can be assured that any and all information you give to etcos.com will be held with the utmost care and will not be used in ways that you have not consented to. If you send an electronic mail (e-mail) message that includes personally identifiable information, for example, in an e-mail message containing an inquiry, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry.
Remember that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. If your communication is very sensitive, or includes information such as your bank account, charge card, or social security number, you should not send it electronically unless it is encrypted.
Cookies.
We want you to know that we may use “cookies” which are small text files that are placed on a visitor’s computer hard drive that, among other things, allows us to record how many times a user has visited our site. The information is “generic” and helps us maintain your preferences between visits, provides us with demographic information and also helps us determine the numbers of different users who visit our site. This important information enables us to improve the value of our site materials. However, if you prefer not to share this “generic” information with us, then you can disable your “cookies” by utilizing your Web browser’s features.
Other web sites that we link to may also use cookies, and we have no control over how those cookies are used. However, you can easily prevent cookies from being placed on your computer by disabling the “accept cookies” option in your browser. For more information on doing this, please contact your Internet Service Provider.
Personnel who have access to this information.
We take privacy concerns very seriously and have thus configured our software to refuse to divulge any personal client information to anyone but authorized etcos.com staff. Our employees may view information that you provide us in order to perform their jobs and provide services to you. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you.
Information Sharing.
WE DO NOT DISCLOSE OR SHARE ANY NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WITH ANYONE FOR ANY PURPOSE THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED BY LAW.
Privacy policies of third-party sites.
Although we value your privacy, please be aware that we provide links to other web sites that may collect information about you. What they do with that information is beyond our control. Therefore you should always use discretion when accessing information via links from this or any other site. For your protection, you should always review the privacy policies posted on any and all third party sites. etcos.com undertakes no obligation to ensure enforcement or compliance with the privacy policy of any Web site to which it links.
Changes to our privacy policy.
From time to time, we may change our Privacy Policy. We will post those changes on this page so that our customers will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we share the information with others .