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Fran Slanders (AFS) Privacy Statement
Ask Fran Slanders
respects the privacy of every individual who visits our
website. This privacy statement provides notice of the
standards and terms under which AFS protects the privacy of
information supplied by visitors to sites on the World Wide
Web that are owned and operated by AFS, including
www.AskFranSlanders.com. This privacy statement provides
notice of our information collection practices and of the
ways in which your information may be used. This policy may
change from time to time, so please check back periodically
to review this information.
What
information does AFS collect and how is it used?
A.
Personally-Identifiable Information:
AFS
typically receives specific data about its website visitors
only when such information is provided voluntarily, such as
when our visitors request information, purchase or enroll
for services, or send us e-mail. Of course, some of these
activities require that you give us information, such as
when you make a purchase, or request certain types of
information. When you provide personally-identifiable
information to AFS through one of our websites, it will be
used to fulfill your specific request. AFS reserves the
right, in its discretion, to send you bulletins and other
important information about AFS services. AFS will not sell
or trade your personally-identifiable information unless we
are authorized or legally required to do so, or in the case
of imminent physical harm to the visitor or others. On AFS
sites where you may provide AFS with credit card or other
ordering information via the web, AFS protects and secures
this information by employing commercially customary
web-based security and encryption protocols, examples of
which include Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Secure
Electronic Transaction (SET). On those sites where you
voluntarily offer any feedback, data, answers, questions,
comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, AFS will treat
that portion of the information as non-confidential and
non-proprietary and, except as otherwise expressed in this
privacy statement, AFS assumes no obligation to protect such
information from disclosure.
B. Non
Personally-Identifiable (Generic) Information:
In
general, AFS gathers some generic information automatically.
Generic information does NOT reveal the identity of the
visitor. It usually includes information about the Internet
address assigned to your computer, the number and frequency
of visitors, and the AFS pages visited. AFS gathers this
information for the limited purpose of determining customer
service and website needs. We accomplish this by using
certain technologies, including "cookies" (a technology that
can be used to provide the visitor with tailored information
about AFS services). AFS does not combine information
collected in this way with any personally-identifiable
information. You can set your browser to notify you when you
receive a cookie and you can refuse it.
C.
Exceptions and Limitations:
Notwithstanding the foregoing and in compliance with
applicable laws, AFS (i) cooperates fully with state, local,
and federal officials in any investigation relating to any
content (including personal or private electronic
communications transmitted to AFS) or purported unlawful
activities of any user of the Service, and (ii) takes
reasonable measures to protect its proprietary rights. For
the limited purposes of accomplishing such cooperation and
measures and in compliance with applicable laws, AFS may be
required to disclose personally identifiable information. In
addition, AFS may elect to monitor the areas of
communication of any kind (i) to satisfy any law,
regulation, or government request; (ii) if such disclosure
is necessary or appropriate to operate AFS; or (iii) to
protect the rights or property of AFS or others. In
connection with the potential sale or transfer of any of its
interest in www.askfranslanders.com and other sites owned by
the company, AFS reserves the right to sell or transfer your
information (including , but not limited to name, address
information, and other information you provided to AFS) to a
third party that (i) concentrates its business in
communication products or services; (ii) agrees to be AFS's
successor in interest with regard to the maintenance and
protection of information collected and maintained by AFS;
and (iii) agrees to the obligations of this policy statement
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