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ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
(Last updated 5/23/08)
To underscore our commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy
is good business -- for ChoicePoint, for our customers and for
consumers -- we have adopted this online privacy policy, which
reflects and implements our corporate privacy principles in an
online setting, for
www.volunteerselectplus.com,
which is operated by ChoicePoint Inc., 1000 Alderman Drive,
Alpharetta, GA 30005, (877) 301-7097, (770) 752-5939 (fax) and
privacy@choicepoint.com.
This site is not directed at children.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us at:
ChoicePoint Inc.
Office of Privacy, Ethics and Compliance
1000 Alderman Drive MD-71A
Alpharetta, GA 30005
Telephone: 877.301.7097
Fax: 770.752.5939
Email: privacy@choicepoint.com
INFORMATION COLLECTION
I. Personally-identifiable information
"This site only collects personally-identifiable information from
you if you choose to provide this information to us.
Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may
include, for example, name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone
number, facsimile number, credit card information, date of birth,
user name, password and Id numbers, social security number, Tax Id
number, driver's license number, gender, educational history,
criminal history, former employment, any response you provide to
survey questions, information relating to any orders you place, or
any inquires you may make through our Web site.
II. Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your
browser on your computer's hard drive. While most browsers are set
to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or
to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has
information on changing the default setting for your specific
browser.
This site uses first and third-party cookies, however personally
identifiable information is not collected through the use of
cookies. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique
or whether the visitor has viewed our site before. This site also
uses cookies to enhance navigation, to manage your session and/or
for security purposes.
Refusing to accept cookies may limit your ability to use certain
features of our Web site.
III. Nonpersonally-identifiable
information
This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information. For
example, as you browse this Web site we may collect information
about your visit, but not about you personally. Via Web server logs,
for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people
that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from
which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.),
and which browsers people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.).
INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE
The information collected by this Web site is used only for
responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you,
for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account
(if you have one), for other purposes permitted by your
organizations's subscriber agreements (if any),and for the
administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our Web
sites.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as
part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one),
or in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
We may also contact you to inform you of other products or services
we think may be of interest to you, but we always offer you an
opportunity to opt not to receive such communications.
ONWARD TRANSFER
We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in
order to complete a transaction that you requested or as otherwise
permitted by your organizations's subscriber agreements (if any).
In other cases, it may be necessary to disclose information you
provide about yourself or third parties in order to obtain the
information product you requested.
We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of some
Web site functions that require access to information you supply
online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies
acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute
safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information.
We may disclose information you provide to other ChoicePoint
companies or to outside firms so that they can contact you about
products or services that may be of interest, but we will provide
you with an opportunity to opt not to have your information
disclosed for these purposes.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that
company will assume responsibility for the personal information
collected by us through this Web site and it will assume the rights
and obligations regarding the information collected through this Web
site, as described in this privacy policy.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when
required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary in order to conform with the law or to comply with a legal
process.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
As an information company, we know the importance of accurate
data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the
information collected through this Web site. Furthermore, we
believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is
complete and accurate. We will provide you with access to
personally-identifiable information you provide through our Web site
for as long as we maintain that information in a readily accessible
format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct
inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our Web
site.
If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you have submitted
to this site, please either use the mechanisms provided by the site
or send an e-mail to: privacy@choicepoint.com.
SECURITY
We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized
alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through
this Web site. We recognize the importance of security for all
personally-identifiable information collected by our Web site. We
exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information
from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps
to protect its security on our systems. In the event we request or
transmit sensitive information, such as credit card information or
Social Security Numbers, we use industry standard, secure socket
layer ("SSL") encryption.
We limit access to personally-identifiable information to those
employees who need access in order to carry out their job
responsibilities.
OTHER WEB SITES
This online privacy policy only applies to the Web site(s)
identified in the first paragraph of this privacy policy. Our Web
site, however, may include links to other Web sites which may be
operated by other ChoicePoint companies or by third parties. If you
visit a Web site not listed above, we recommend that you review the
online privacy policy of that Web site to determine how the operator
of that Web site will handle personal information collected through
that Web site.
POLICY CHANGES
We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we
make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent
announcement on the Web site. If we are going to use your personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a
choice as to whether or not we use your information in this
different manner.
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