| Privacy
Policy |
| At
The Graphic Studio we do not sell or provide your
personal information to third parties so that
they can fill your inbox with junk mail. No one
will contact you other than the staff at The Graphic
Studio. Your privacy is safe with us. |
Please
review our complete privacy policy below for a
more detailed explanation.
The Graphic Studio (hereinafter "The Graphic
Studio") values the privacy of our visitors/customers
and takes every known precaution to safe guard
the information we collect from unauthorized use.
The following is a detailed explanation of the
privacy policy for The Graphic Studio. |
WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
NationWide believes it is important for you
to know what types of information we collect
when you use our site. We employ various methods
for collecting information. To begin with, we
use "cookies" that are needed to compile
aggregate non-personally identifiable information
about the visitors to our web site. Personally
identifiable information consists of information
that is unique to you, such as credit card numbers,
bank accounts, social security numbers, home
address, email address and the like. This is
the type of information that most people consider
private and deem the most important to protect
from unauthorized access. Non-personally identifiable
information most often consists of things such
as your search preferences, the types of products
you have bought, how many times you have visited
a particular web site, etc. This type of information
is usually associated with a particular computer
or IP address but not with a particular person.
"Cookies" are pieces of information
generated by a Web server and stored in the
user's computer, ready for future access. Each
time you access our web site; our server finds
the relevant cookie on your computer. The information
contained within that cookie is then used to
customize your experience with our site. The
following is a list of the information we collect:
name, shipping address, billing address, credit
card information, email address. |
WHY
DO WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?
We use this information in order to serve the
needs of our customers. We need to know who you
are in order to verify the credit card information
you have sent us. We collect several pieces of
personal information from you in order to complete
this verification process. The non-personal information
that we collect from you is used in order to offer
you better service and to make your experience
with our site more enjoyable. Any information
that we may inadvertently collect from you, that
does not serve one of these reasons stated above,
is immediately purged from our system. |
HOW
IS YOUR INFORMATION PROTECTED?
We use the latest in encryption technology, including
128 bit SSL encryption to ensure that any sensitive
information that is sent by you to us via the
Internet is protected from unauthorized interception.
We employ the latest in firewall protection to
prevent unauthorized access into our information
storage areas. We maintain a rigorous hiring process
to screen out potential employees with criminal
backgrounds. All employees that we do hire have
to sign a confidentiality agreement that forbids
them from disclosing any information to which
the employee has access, to other individuals
or entities. We also have back up servers and
power supplies to guard against power outages
and other natural occurrences that could pose
a threat to the integrity of your personal information.
Passwords are required in order for you to gain
access to your account. Once an account has been
terminated, measures are taken to remove those
users from the system who no longer need access
to our system. When an employee is terminated
or is no longer with the company, we change the
access codes that the employee used to access
any customer accounts. Passwords must contain
at least six characters. Passwords are case sensitive
and should be updated every 90 days. Unused customer
accounts, those that have shown no activity for
12 months are purged from our system. |
WHO
HAS ACCESS TO MY INFORMATION?
Only those employees that are responsible for
handling your account have access to your information.
Additionally, employees in our technical department
may have access to your information in order to
conduct routine checks on the integrity of our
system and in order to perform necessary maintenance
work. In order to process your credit card we
have to consult with an out side credit card processing
company. These processing companies are regulated
by the banking industry and must meet certain
security requirements in order to be in business.
The processing companies will have access to your
credit card information, billing address, name,
and possibly your telephone number. The processing
company will communicate with the issuing bank
of your credit card in order to get final approval
to charge your credit card for the product or
services we are providing for you. Should you
choose to receive additional information regarding
one of our services or products, we may pass your
email address to one of our partners who offers
similar products or services that you might be
interested in. Additionally, judicial requests
by a duly authorized court will require us to
divulge certain information regarding your account
should that situation arise. Finally, should our
company ever be bought or sold, your account information
would then become the property of the new owner/entity.
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CAN
I CORRECT OR REMOVE INFORMATION FROM YOUR SITE?
You always have the option to view your account
to make sure the information we have collected
from you is indeed correct. You also have the
option of removing any information from your account
that you wish to keep private. However, please
note that removing certain information such as
your email address, contact information, and the
like may greatly hinder our ability to effectively
provide the service or products you have requested.
We recommend, that you contact us first to discuss
which information you may remove without interrupting
the quality of service we intend to provide for
you. |
CAN
I OPT OUT OF HAVING CERTAIN INFORMATION COLLECTED?
You have the option of disabling your computer's
ability to accept or transmit cookies. This will
prevent us from gathering certain non-personally
identifiable information from you. We do have
an email distribution program for special promotions,
etc. that you can opt out of by changing the setting
in your account. We will contact you via email
for normal communication necessary to approve
your project. We will not sell or supply your
email to other companies that may send you promotional
emails. |
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NOTICE
OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this privacy
policy at any time. However, if any changes
do occur, we will publish the changes to our
web site and post a notice on the home page
that a new privacy policy has been implemented.
We will also take reasonable steps to contact
you personally to let you know of the new changes.
Should the company be bought or sold to someone
else, we will take reasonable steps to notify
you personally. You will then be given the option
to keep your account open or to terminate. |
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