The Internet is rapidly changing the way all of us communicate and interact with each other. While the Internet allows each of us access to a greater array of information and services than has ever been available, these new online activities do raise new challenges, such as the privacy issues addressed in this policy.
Interpine Forestry is committed to working with public policy organizations, industry groups, and government institutions to understand and address these challenges as they arise. But most importantly, having a relationship with our customers that is founded on trust is not only good manners, it is also good business.
Any feedback you'd like to provide to help us better meet your expectations in this arena is welcomed.
Find out more on our commitment to privacy:
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Our Commitment to You !
The Internet is rapidly changing the way all of us communicate and interact with each other. While the Internet allows each of us access to a greater array of information and services than has ever been available, these new online activities do raise new challenges, such as the privacy issues addressed in this policy. Interpine Forestry is committed to working with public policy organizations, industry groups, and government institutions to understand and address these challenges as they arise. But most importantly, having a relationship with our customers that is founded on trust is not only good manners, it is also good business. Any feedback you'd like to provide to help us better meet your expectations in this arena is welcomed. Our Commitment to You Interpine Forestry wants to make your online experience satisfying and safe. Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much information to provide to us, and to control how we use that information. Our goal is to provide you with a robust online experience while allowing you to control your privacy.
Interpine Forestry collects information online primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such as your name, email address, or information about what you like and do not like. On other occasions such as when we provide items for purchase online, we may request your credit card number to conclude the transaction, or your mailing address to ensure proper delivery. We request this information to provide our strongest value to you - a personalized online experience. Customers who personalize our service come back more often - and it's the customers that visit us often who make us successful - so we do everything we can to make Interpine Forestry your service with your name on it and to give you just the content you want.
Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable:
- Anonymous Information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. For instance, we may know that 10,000 people visit this Privacy Statement today, but we do not necessarily know their names, where they live, or their date of birth. What we collect from transactions such as this constitutes anonymous information, much like how your hometown's bus service knows how many people take a given route - but doesn't necessarily know who those people are. Many of the individuals who access our services decline to use the personalization features that are available to them, and therefore those individuals are anonymous to us and the data we collect is similarly anonymous information.
- Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, phone number, or postal address. In many cases we need this information to provide the personalized or enhanced service that have requested. Examples of use is you secure login name and password, which uses your name as part of a security mechanism to protect your secure zone from being read by anyone but you or those others authorized to see it.
The amount of Personally Identifiable Information that you choose to disclose to Interpine Forestry is completely up to you. In other words, we will know Personally Identifiable Information about you only if you choose to share this type of information with us.
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What kind of security procedures are in place ?
These protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under the company's control.
The Interpine Forestry Network operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
You the consumer are ultimately responsible for the security of your Interpine Forestry Member Name and password. Please take care to store you Interpine Forestry Member Name separately from your account password, or better yet, choose a password that you don't need to write down at all.
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How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
The Interpine Forestry believes strongly in providing you with the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us.
To update the information retained about you, or to deactivate your account, please visit our Interpine Forestry Feedback page.
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What Personally Identifiable Information of yours is collected ?
When you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits some information to Interpine Forestry every time you access content on one of our sites. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the "Refer"), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site. All of this information is collected by Interpine Forestry and is used to help improve our offerings to you. For instance, from this information we determined that few of our customers use older browser versions. Because of this we recently decided to enhance the quality of content available to all of our customers by using the advanced features of HTML that cannot be accessed from those older browser versions. All of the information that is automatically submitted to us by your browser is considered Anonymous Information.
To enable many of the features available within the Interpine Forestry, we will assign "cookies" to your Internet browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer). A cookie is a small text file that contains a unique identification number stored on your computer. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. This unique identification number automatically identifies your browser - but not you - to our computers whenever you interact on one of our pages. When you visit our site, a cookie in effect says to our server computers "Hello, I'm browser #655. What do you do just for me?" But only when you agree to provide Personally Identifiable Information directly to an Interpine Forestry, such as through feedback, will we be able to know anything about you that you provide, other than the random number that our server computers originally assign to your browser.
There is a lot of confusion about cookies, how they are used, and what they can do. Cookies only contain information that the server computer "knew" in the first place, and can only be read by the serving domain that placed them. For instance, Yahoo! utilizes cookies, but Interpine Forestry's servers can't read their contents nor can Yahoo!'s servers read ours. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today, and allow server computers to recognize your computer's browser when you return. If you have ever gone to a Web page that automatically provides personalized content without you having to "sign in," such as your own stock portfolio, this is almost certainly being accomplished with a cookie. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot "run" on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information, or transmit it to anyone.
Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your Web browser. But don't just take our word for it - read what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!
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What choices are available to you ?
Especially regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
The Interpine Forestry does offer you the ability to control the email communications we make to you. It is our intention to give you as much control over our relationship as possible.
First, as mentioned earlier, the client always has the final word on whether Interpine Forestry knows who you are. It is your choice to share Personally Identifiable Information with Interpine Forestry and we encourage you to consider only sharing information with any site on the Internet if you receive true value in exchange for that information transfer and if you respect the privacy practices of the firm.
If you do choose to share Personally Identifiable Information with Interpine Forestry, you can control whether we contact you or share the information with third parties, either through declarations you make at the time you share information with us, or through updates to your information in the Interpine Forestry Clientzone area.
Interpine Forestry does reserve the right to send a confirmation email, and infrequent Service Alert messages to its customers to inform them of specific changes that may impact their ability to use a service they have previously signed up for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. An example of a Service Alert message would be notification of the impending closing of an account that is believed to be abandoned.
And finally, we also reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as part of a legal proceeding or if there has been a violation of our Terms of Service. Interpine Forestry is retaining these rights because in limited cases we feel that we may need the right to contact you as a matter of law or regarding matters which will be important to you. These rights do not allow us to contact you to market a new or existing service if you have asked us not to do so, and issuance of these types of communications are rare.
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