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INFORMATION COLLECTION |
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I. Personally-identifiable information. |
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This site only collects personally-identifiable information
from you if you chose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable
information collected with your consent may include, for example,
name, e-mail address, resume information, or any inquires you may
make through our web site. Open Systems of Cleveland, Inc does not
provide personally-identifiable information to unaffiliated third-parties
in its normal course of business. However, we will provide such information
when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action
is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process. |
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II. Cookies. |
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“Cookies” are small pieces of information
that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive.
This site uses third party cookies, however personally identifiable
information is not collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are
used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether the visitor
has viewed our site before. Cookies are optional and do not affect
the operability of our site. |
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While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default,
you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting
them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default
setting for your specific browser. |
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III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information. |
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This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information.
For example, as you browse this web site we may collect information
about your visit, but not about you personally. Via web server logs,
for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people
that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which
domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which
browsers people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, etc.). |
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IV. Retention. |
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We reserve the right to retain personally-identifiable
information collected through this site for the length of our business
relationship with you. |
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INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER
CHOICE. |
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The information collected by this web site is used only
for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with
you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account
(if you have one), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement
the content of our web sites. |
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We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries,
as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one),
or in order to complete a transaction that you requested. |
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If you decide that you do not want to receive further
emails regarding your inquiry from Open Systems of Cleveland, Inc,
you can reply to the email or use the telephone number (888) 991-6660
with a request that we not continue to email you. We do not use outside
data sources to enrich marketing data obtained online. |
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ONWARD TRANSFER. |
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We may disclose information you provide to us to third
parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested. |
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We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation
of certain website functions, that require access to information you
supply online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies
acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute safeguards
to protect the confidentiality of your information. |
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Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information
when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action
is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process. |
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ACCESS AND CORRECTION. |
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As an information company, we know the importance of
accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the
information collected through this web site. Furthermore, we believe
that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete
and accurate. We will provide you with access to personally-identifiable
information you provide through our web site for as long as we maintain
that information in a readily accessible format. Similarly, we permit
and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in the information you submit
to us through our web site. |
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If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you
have submitted to this site, please call (888) 881-6660 or send an
e-mail to: customer.service@osinc.com |
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SECURITY. |
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We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or
unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected
through this web site. We recognize the importance of security for
all personally-identifiable information collected by our web site.
We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information
from your PC to our servers. |
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Once we receive personally-identifiable information,
we take steps to protect its security on our systems. In the event
we request or transmit sensitive information, such as credit card
information we use industry standard, secure socket layer ("SSL")
encryption. |
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We strictly limit access to personally-identifiable
information to those employees who need access in order to carry out
their job responsibilities. All employees are prohibited from "browsing"
through our files and databases. We train our employees in the application
of our need-to-know standard. We periodically audit for compliance
with this standard and we impose penalties for any failure to comply
with this standard. |
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POLICY CHANGES. |
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We may revise this online privacy policy from time to
time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting
a prominent announcement on the web site. If we are going to use your
personally identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You
will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in
this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes
in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already
stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our web
site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the
notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications
from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices. |
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