Glycoshare.com Online Privacy Policy
Last updated September 10,2006
Purpose of This Privacy Policy
The purpose of this Privacy Policy (hereinafter "Policy" or "Privacy Policy" or "Agreement") statement is to establish the grounds upon which you (the customer) may understand the nature of the Agreement entered into with Glycoshare.com (hereinafter referred to as "COMPANY" or the "Company"). COMPANY presents this Privacy Policy in order to set forth its procedures for the management, protection, and use of the personal information that it collects online from the customer of this site. A customer is assumed to be anyone who uses this or any site of the Company for any one or more of the following reasons:
COMPANY has implemented this Privacy Policy so as to protect the personal information provided by its customers. In addition, COMPANY may need to respond to the inquiries of its customers from time to time and this Policy references the reasons, means, and occasions for such Company response or refusal thereto.
Your Agreement to the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Online Information
Your use of this site and/or your registration for COMPANY products and services constitute your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, then COMPANY understands that you will not use the COMPANY site. From time to time COMPANY may update this Privacy Policy. When it does, COMPANY will also revise its "last update" date at the top of this Privacy Policy page. Any customer may, at their own discretion and at any time, withdraw his or her consent for the collection, dissemination, disclosure and use of their private information by sending an email to that effect to the Company. If such consent is so withdrawn, COMPANY may, at its own discretion suspend its provision of products and services to the customer without further notice. This includes ezine and newsletter subscriptions or any other product or service offered, whether such is a free or paid service. If the customer does unsubscribe to a service and still falls within the period of a guarantee offered with some product or service of COMPANY already purchased or in free use, then the guarantee will be honored nonetheless, for the period stated, unless specified otherwise by the Company. However, all subscriptions to newsletters or ezines in or by whatever offer made by the Company, may be suspended or cancelled without notice as the Company may, at its sole discretion, decide.
COMPANY has selected a person as its Privacy Compliance Officer who is responsible for ensuring compliance with the principles herein set forth. COMPANY also may elect other individuals to act on behalf of COMPANY with respect to the matters pertaining to this Policy or in place of the Privacy Compliance Officer. You may contact the Privacy Compliance Officer concerning matters relating to this agreement by email or by "snail" mail at Glycoshare.com, Box 1171, West Bend, Wisconsin.
The Privacy Compliance Officer will endeavor to answer such contacts when possible or advisable. Nonetheless, the Company reserves the right to refuse an answer to a request but will, comply with the request in the removal of said party from further subscriptions.
Security for Your Personal Information
COMPANY will use such reasonable means as are necessary to protect your personal information. This Policy also provides that COMPANY will use necessary and reasonable means to protect your personal information when processed by third parties on behalf of COMPANY and at its request on its secure site.
The Purposes for Collecting Your Personal Information
At the time that you register and sign-on to this website, COMPANY, at its discretion, may collect personal information such as your name, address, phone number(s), email address, and information about your computer hardware and software, such as IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, time of access and the website referring addresses. COMPANY collects and uses personal information in accordance with standard marketing guidelines. Such practices fall within the scope of the Federal Trade Commission's regulatory procedures for online commercial activity. Such purposes include the following:
To facilitate understanding of the needs and desires of our customers concerning our products, any services, this website and COMPANY as a company.
To facilitate understanding of the needs and desires of our customers concerning any advertising and marketing already undertaken or desirable for future consideration.
To fulfill our customer's request for access to this website and any of its affiliate links, advertising, promotions, ezine and/or newsletter(s), information, and benefits according to the procedures and policies of COMPANY.
To make available for purchase the products and services offered at the time of customer visitation.
To allow customers access to limited-entry areas within the COMPANY website or other sites elsewhere associated with its offers in accordance with any agreements between COMPANY and the customer.
To properly charge customer accounts and maintain payment records and reports for all customer purchases.
To deliver advertisements, offers, and promotions to our customers from COMPANY and third parties.
To communicate with customers and website visitors when necessary.
To inform customers of upgrades, products and services from COMPANY, its affiliates, and third parties.
To cooperate with governing authorities in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, legal proceedings, and requests by government authorities and agencies.
To communicate with customers concerning technical problems involving COMPANY's products, services, ezines, newsletters and its website(s).
To protect the rights, reliability, security and integrity of the COMPANY's:
To address our reasonable belief that a customer is in violation of the rights of any third party or any policies, agreements, this Policy, website(s), product use, or services as offered, owned, copyrighted, or licensed by COMPANY or otherwise protected by law.
To respond, when appropriate, to claims made by customers.
For use in business analysis, marketing and promotional purposes in a summative or collective form (when not individually attributable to a person's identity).
If COMPANY hires or works with other companies in order to provide products and services on our behalf then we provide only such information as is necessary for such contractual arrangements and identifiable purposes while restricting the disclosure of any personal information not necessary for their ongoing work on behalf of COMPANY. For example, awebmaster may have access to information provided by the customer without being able to use said information for his/her own independent profit.
Disclosure of Personal Information
COMPANY does not rent, sell, or disclose to other persons or entities any personal information gathered from our customers, except in the following instances:
In response to the demands of law and legal process as ordered and undertaken by governing authorities.
If, in the reasonable belief of COMPANY, the Company believes that legal action is necessary in regards to someone or entity that may be causing injury or interference in any of the following categories:
If a party is designated by the customer to act as an agent on the customer's behalf.
To the professional business associates, COMPANY employees if any, affiliates, consultants, service providers, suppliers, agents, independent contractors, subsidiaries that are acting at the request of -and on behalf of Ð COMPANY, for any of the identified purposes listed above (Section 4).
If, in the process of developing the business of COMPANY, we or our affiliates purchase or sell businesses or entities, merge with other companies, or acquire or discharge assets then personal information may one of the transferred business assets. In addition, if COMPANY should be acquired or substantially all of its assets are acquired, then customer personal information may be one of such assets transferred to the acquiring company.
Your information may be stored or processed in the United States or in any other country in which COMPANY, its affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, or service providers maintain facilities. By using this website you consent to any such transfer of information outside the boundaries of the United States, its protectorates or your country. However, as of the writing of this Agreement, no such facilities are maintained by the Company and none are planned in the foreseeable future.
Any information offered by the customer to COMPANY for its use will remain in use until such time as the customer requests removal of said information from its active database.
Inactive Accounts
If the customer should request to be removed from the database of COMPANY then such personal information as is affected by such a request will be honored and will be removed from the active (marketing) database of COMPANY. Such information will be kept in the archives of the Company for tax purposes, accounting procedures, or as necessary to prove COMPANY's compliance with any applicable law or regulation or agreement of governing authorities, Internet service providers, customer guarantees, or policies binding COMPANY to affiliates and associates, or such processes as are needed for the protection of the Company from accusation or claims made against Company of whatsoever nature.
Accuracy of Personal Information Acquired by COMPANY
Customers are responsible to keep COMPANY apprised of any changes in personal information. This can be done by contacting COMPANY by phone at 1262.675.0360 or by contacting the Company by email as indicated on the site they have contacted in the first place. COMPANY will endeavor to promptly update all information received by its customers. Customers may also request that inaccurate information be corrected, as appropriate. Customers requesting reasonable review of personal information in their own files may request such information in writing at COMPANY Net Enterprises, Inc. Box 1171, West Bend, Wisconsin. COMPANY is not liable for any incorrect information supplied by the customer. Customer holds COMPANY harmless from all actions, effects, and results involving inaccurate or misrepresented information, either willful or innocent, and accepts all responsibility and liability associated with the giving of incorrect or misrepresented personal information.
Children's Use of Sites Maintained by Company
All users of the site hereby declare that they are at least 18 years of age or older. Any credit transaction or signing on to Free services or products offered by the company must be undertaken by such individuals who are 18 years of age or older and are authorized users of the credit card they are using with our services. The Company reserves the right to deny, cancel or otherwise challenge or rescind offers of services or products to anyone deemed to be an unauthorized user of the site or credit card in question. The Company may do so at its sole discretion and without liability to the Company until proof of compliance is offered to Company at its address in writing. Such compliance must show such issues as are requested by the Company to corroborate information desired and may include but is not limited to the following guidelines:
If a request is made to the Company or any order is made by a person under the age of 18 for products or services from this site or to the Company, by fax, email, "snail mail" or any other means, such order must be made with the permission of a parent or guardian of the minor in question and a written note by the parent or guardian of the minor in question must accompany such order or request. Said parent or guardian must testify that he or she is authorized in every respect legally to undertake or permit the transaction of the minor in question. Any issues involving a conflict of parental authority of divorced parents will be borne solely by the parent or guardian who has undertaken to grant permission for the activity of a minor. Company cannot be held responsible for having to know who does or who does not have proper custodial rights over the activities of any minor in a child custody conflict or issue.
This agreement constitutes the only agreement between the customer and Company.
Customer agrees that this agreement is the sole agreement between the company and the customer and that no other agreements are authorized by nor honored by the Company by any other persons or entities whatsoever in the representation or distribution of its services or products to the customer.
Institute for Christian Heritage Research
Customer understands that the Institute for Christian Heritage Research (herein "Institute") is only a voluntary group who engage in research only. Customer further agrees that the Institute makes no offers, no representations, obligates no one and is obligated to none for the products and services offered by Company.
Further, customer agrees that at no time is Company obligated to reveal or announce which person or persons constitute the Institute. Customer agrees that such names will not be revealed to any person or entity despite requests made for any purpose whatsoever.