Westward Connections Inc.
Corporate Web Site Privacy Statement
Westward Connections Inc. has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to honoring
your rights to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering
and dissemination practices for this Web site: westward.com.
Information Automatically Logged
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to
administer our Web site operations. Your IP address is also used to
gather broad demographic information and to help identify you when
registering for access to restricted areas, placing an order, participating
in a survey, entering a contest, or shopping in any online store we
currently publish or may publish in the future.
Cookies
Our site may use cookies to insure that you do not repeatedly see
certain information, including but not limited to advertising or promotional
messages. While we currently do not offer a shopping cart at this site,
we will most likely be using cookies for any we build in the future so
that we can track your transaction to its successful completion. We may
also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, and to
save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit
our site. Cookies are primarily created for your convenience and you
control which cookies you wish to keep on your computer after you leave
our site.
Advertisers
From time to time we may use an outside ad management service to display
third-party ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we
use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner
ads are collected by the ad management company, and we do not have
access to this information.
Registration Forms
Our site visitor and restricted access area registration forms requires
users to give us contact information (i.e. your name and addresses
for e-mail and postal delivery), unique identifiers (other than your
social security number), and demographic information (i.e. zip code,
age, or income level). Contact information from the registration forms
is used to get in touch with the registrant as necessary.
Any registrant may opt-out of receiving
future mailings at any time. See Your Choice: Opt-Out section below
for further information.
Unique identifiers (other than social
security numbers) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the
user's identity, and for use as account numbers in our record system.
Demographic and profile data is also
collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience
at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested
in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.
Order Forms
Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products,
and services. We collect contact information (like their email address),
financial information (like their account or credit card numbers),
unique identifiers (other than your social security number), and demographic
information (like your zip code, age, or income level).
Contact information from the order
forms is used to ship purchases, information about our company. The
customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the
visitor when necessary.
Any financial information collected
is used to bill for products and services. Unique identifiers (other than social security numbers or drivers license numbers) are collected
from Web site visitors to verify identity, and for use in setting up
accounts with us.
Demographic and profile data is also
collected at our site. While we may supplement the information that
you provide with information that is received from third parties, we
share information in aggragate numbers only. We may also use this data
to tailor our web site visitor's experience, serving content we think
our visitors might be interested in, according to what they have requested
previously.
Users may opt-out of receiving future
mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Surveys
Our online surveys may ask visitors for contact information (i.e. email
address), unique identifiers (other than social security numbers),
and demographic information (i.e. zip code, age, or income level).
Contact information from the surveys is used to get in touch with the
visitor when necessary. Unique identifiers (other than social
security numbers) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the
user's identity.
Demographic and profile data is also
collected at our site. We share this information with advertisers on
an aggregate basis only. We also use this data to tailor our visitor's
experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might
be interested in, according to their preferences.
Contests
We may run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for unique
identifiers (i.e. social security number), and demographic information
(i.e. zip code, age, or income level). Unique identifiers (other than social
security numbers) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the
user's identity, and for use as account numbers in our record system.
Demographic and profile data is also
collected at our site. This information may be shared with advertisers
or other third-parties on an aggregate basis.We use this data to tailor
our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think
they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to
their preferences. We never disclosure any personal contact information
you shared with us in confidence without your permission.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. Westward Connections is
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Public Forums
This site may offer chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news
groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that
is disclosed in these areas is available to the general public, whether
or not they may be accessing our web site. You should exercise caution
before disclosing any personal information in a public forum.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and
alteration of the information under our control. We use secure server
services to encrypt certain transactions and and confidential information
you share with us.
Your Choice: Opt-Out and Modifying
Information
You have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing
information sent from our site, whether it has been sent on behalf of
our partners or ourselves. You can also modify any information you have
already given us. To opt-out or change any information you have provided
at any time, you can:
- Send email through our feedback
form at http://www.westward.com/feedback.htm.
- Send postal mail to the following
address:
P.O. Box 23428, Albuquerque, NM
87192
- Call the following telephone numbers:
800-260-3094 (USA; outside Albuquerque, NM)
or 505-292-3094 (in Albuquerque)
Contacting Us Online
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of
our site, or your dealings with our web site, please use our email
feedback form.
URL: www.westward.com/policy.htm
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