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Our Privacy Policy... continued
Freeman & Sear takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy
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Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use a referral service for informing a friend about our site, we may ask them for the friend's name and email address. Freeman & Sear reserves the right to automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Freeman & Sear reserves the right to store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact Freeman & Sear at FreemanandSear.com to request the removal of this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. All employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Routinely, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to webmaster@freemanandsear.com.
Supplementation of Information
In order for this website to properly fulfill its obligation to our customers, it may be necessary for us to supplement the information we receive with information from 3rd party sources.
For example, to determine if our customers qualify for one of our credit cards, we may use their name and social security number to request a credit report. Once we determine a user's credit-worthiness, this document is secured, and/or destroyed.
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In order for this website to enhance its ability to tailor the site to an individual's preference, we may combine information about the purchasing habits of users with similar information from our partners, to create a personalized user profile. When a user makes a purchase from any of our partners, the companies may collect and share that purchase information with us so we can tailor a site to our users' preferences.
Special Offers
We reserve the right to send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members may occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Site and Service Updates
We also reserve the right to send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We reserve the right to communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer Support. [Some sites may also provide telephone or postal mail options for updating or correcting personal information].
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For the purpose of an example, our order form may have an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at support@freemanandsear.com
Users of our site are usually notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We may do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will endeavor post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will try to notify users by way of an email. Users may have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We reserve the right to use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
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