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Collecting and using personal information
Welcome to Accent's website. We appreciate your interest in us.
When you visit and navigate our sites and when you communicate with
us via our sites, we will not collect personal information about you
unless you provide us that information voluntarily. Any non-public
personal information that you may provide via our sites will be used
solely for the purpose stated on the page where it is collected. Accent will not sell, license, transmit or disclose
this information outside of Accent unless (a) expressly authorized by you, (b) necessary to enable
Accent contractors, agents, or customers to perform certain
functions for us, or (c) required or permitted by law. In all cases,
we will disclose the information consistent with applicable laws and
regulations and we will request that the recipient protect the information and use it
only for the purpose it was provided.
By “personal information,” we mean data that is unique to an
individual, such as a name, address, e-mail
address, or telephone number. From time to time, we may request
personal information from you at our sites in order to respond to your questions, or deliver a
product or service.
Your email
We welcome your comments or questions about our websites and have
provided e-mail boxes for that purpose. We will share your comments
and questions with only those
employees most capable of addressing your questions and concerns.
Please note that your e-mail, like most, if not all, non-encrypted
Internet e-mail communications, may be accessed and viewed by other
Internet users, without your knowledge and permission, while in
transit to us. For that reason, to protect your privacy, please do
not use e-mail to communicate information to us that you consider
confidential. If you wish, you may contact us instead via
non-cellular telephone at the numbers provided on our sites.
Other information; "cookies" and "tags"
You should also be aware that when you visit our websites, we
collect certain information that does not identify you personally,
but provides us with "usage data," such as the number of visitors we
receive or what pages are visited most often. This data helps us to
analyze and improve the usefulness of the information we provide at
these websites.
Like most commercial website owners, we may use what is known as
"cookie" technology. A "cookie" is an element of data that a website
can send to your browser when you link to that website. It is not a
computer program and has no ability to read data residing on your
computer or instruct it to perform any step or function. By
assigning a unique data element to each visitor, the website is able
to recognize repeat users, track usage patterns and better serve you
when you return to that site. The cookie does not extract other
personal information about you, such as your name or address.
We may also use what is known as "client-side page tagging", which
uses code on each page to write certain information about the page
and the visitor to a log when a page is rendered by your web
browser. This technique is also commonly used on commercial
websites. "Tagging" does result in a JavaScript program running on
your computer, but it is limited to providing information about the
page that you are requesting and the configuration of your browser.
It will not read any of your data files, or execute any additional
programs. It does not extract any personal information about you,
such as your name or address. You can prevent tagging by disabling
JavaScript in your browser, but that may prevent you from using all
of our website's functions.
Linking to other sites
From time to time, Accent websites may provide links to other
websites, not owned or controlled by Accent, that we think might be
useful or of interest to you. We cannot, however, be responsible for
the privacy practices used by other website owners or the content or
accuracy of those other websites. Links to various non-Accent
websites do not constitute or imply endorsement by Accent of these
websites, any products or services described on these sites, or of
any other material contained in them.
Security
Accent has adopted and adheres to stringent security standards
designed to protect non-public personal information
against accidental or unauthorized access or disclosure. Among the
safeguards that Accent has developed for this site are
administrative, physical and technical barriers that together form a
protective firewall around the information stored at this site. We
periodically subject our site to testing to evaluate the
effectiveness of our security.
Changes to this statement
Accent may change this statement from time to time; when updates are
made, the privacy policy version date (located at the bottom of this
policy) will also be updated to reflect that a revision occurred. We
encourage you to periodically reread this policy to see if there
have been any changes that may affect you. This statement is not
intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal
rights in or on behalf of any party.
Privacy policy update: 6/13/2011
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