Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 15th May 2008
BVIG Capital is committed to protecting your privacy. Please
read the BVIG Capital Online Privacy Statement below and
also any supplemental information listed to the right for
additional details about particular BVIG Capital sites and
services that you may use.
This BVIG Capital Online Privacy Statement applies to data
collected by BVIG Capital through its Web site and services,
as well as its offline product support services. It does
not apply to those BVIG Capital sites, services and products
that do not display or link to this statement or that have
their own privacy statements.
Collection of Your Personal Information
In order to access some BVIG Capital services, you will be
asked to sign in with a username and password, which we refer
to as your credentials. These credentials may or may not
be valid across the entire website. As part of creating your
credentials, you may also be requested to provide questions
and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity
and assist in resetting your password, as well as an alternate
email address. Some services may require added security,
and in these cases, you may be asked to create an additional
security key. Finally, a unique ID number will be assigned
to your credentials which will be used to identify your credentials
and associated information.
At some BVIG Capital sites, we ask you to provide personal
information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work
address or telephone number. We may also collect demographic
information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences,
interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase
or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for
additional information, such as your credit card number and
billing address, that is used to create a BVIG Capital billing
account.
We may collect information about your visit, including the
pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken
in connection with BVIG Capital sites and services. We also
collect certain standard information that your browser sends
to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser
type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.
When you receive newsletters or promotional e-mail from BVIG
Capital , we may use web beacons (described below ), customized
links or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail
has been opened and which links you click in order to provide
you more focused e-mail communications or other information.
In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized
experience in your interactions with BVIG Capital , information
collected through one BVIG Capital service may be combined
with information obtained through other BVIG Capital services.
We may also supplement the information we collect with information
obtained from other companies. For example, we may use services
from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic
area based on your IP address in order to customize certain
services to your geographic area.
Collection of Your Personal Information
BVIG Capital collects and uses your personal information
to operate and improve its sites and deliver the services
or carry out the transactions you have requested. These uses
may include providing you with more effective customer service;
making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating
the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information;
performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products,
services and technologies; and displaying BVIG Capital that
is customized to your interests and preferences.
We also use your personal information to communicate with
you. We may send certain mandatory service communications
such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on
technical service issues, and security announcements. Some
BVIG Capital services may send periodic member letters that
are considered part of the service. We may also occasionally
send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform
you of other products or services available from BVIG Capital
and its affiliates.
Personal information collected on BVIG Capital sites and
services may be stored and processed in the United States
or any other country in which BVIG Capital or its affiliates,
subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using
a BVIG Capital site or service, you consent to any such transfer
of information outside of your country.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose
your personal information outside of BVIG Capital and its
controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent.
Some BVIG Capital services may be co-branded and offered
in conjunction with another company. If you register for
or use such services, both BVIG Capital and the other company
may receive information collected in conjunction with the
co-branded services.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services
on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery
of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites,
processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis
of our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain
only the personal information they need to deliver the service.
They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the
information and are prohibited from using it for any other
purpose.
We may access and/or disclose your personal information if
we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the
law or legal process served on BVIG Capital ; (b) protect
and defend the rights or property of BVIG Capital (including
the enforcement of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of
BVIG Capital services or members of the public.
Accessing Your Personal Information
You may have the ability to view or edit your personal information
online. In order to help prevent your personal information
from being viewed by others, you will be required to sign
in with your credentials (e-mail address and password). You
will be able to access and modify your personal information
upon logging in to the private area of the website.
Some BVIG Capital services may collect other personal information
that is not accessible via your account. However, in such
cases, you may be able to access that information through
alternative means of access described by the service. Or
you can write us by using our Web form , and we will contact
you within 30 days regarding your request.
Communication Preferences
You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from
BVIG Capital sites and services by following the specific
instructions in the e-mail you receive.
This does not apply to mandatory service communications that
are considered part of certain BVIG Capital services, which
you may receive periodically unless you cancel the service.
Security of Your Personal Information
BVIG Capital is committed to protecting the security of your
personal information. We use a variety of security technologies
and procedures to help protect your personal information
from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example,
we store the personal information you provide on computer
systems with limited access, which are located in controlled
facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information
(such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet,
we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal
information, it is your responsibility to keep your password
confidential. Do not share this information with anyone.
If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always
choose to log out before leaving a site or service to protect
access to your information from subsequent users.
Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information
Many BVIG Capital sites and services are intended for general
audiences, investors, prospective customers and do not knowingly
collect any personal information from children. When a BVIG
Capital site does collect age information, and users identify
themselves as under 13, the site will either block such users
from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain
consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing
of their children's personal information. We will not knowingly
ask children under the age of 13 to provide more information
than is reasonably necessary to provide our services.
Please note that if you grant consent for your child to use
BVIG Capital services, this will include such general audience
communication services as e-mail, instant messaging, and
online groups, and your child will be able to communicate
with, and disclose personal information to, other users of
all ages. Parents can change or revoke the consent choices
previously made, and review, edit or request the deletion
of their children's personal information. If we change this
privacy statement in a way that expands the collection, use
or disclosure of children's personal information to which
a parent has previously consented, the parent will be notified
and we will be required to obtain the parent's additional
consent.
We encourage you to talk with your children about communicating
with strangers and disclosing personal information online.
Use of Cookies
The BVIG Capital website use "cookies" to enable
you to sign in to our services and to help personalize your
online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is
placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain
information that can later be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used
to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
BVIG Capital Web sites use cookies to store your preferences
and other information on your computer in order to save you
time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same
information and to display your personalized BVIG Capital
and appropriate advertising on your later visits to these
sites.
When you sign in to a site using your credentials, the BVIG
Capital /and or its Network stores your unique ID number,
and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your
hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page
at the site without having to sign in again on each page.
When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer.
The Passport Network also uses cookies to improve the sign
in experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored
in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign
out. This cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated,
so that you will only need to type your password the next
time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do
not otherwise want this information to be stored, you can
select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page,
and this cookie will not be used.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.
If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to
sign in or use other interactive features of BVIG Capital
sites and services that depend on cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
BVIG Capital Web pages may contain electronic images known
as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that
may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our sites
and allow us to count users who have visited those pages
and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web beacons
in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order
to determine whether messages have been opened and acted
upon.
BVIG Capital may also employ Web beacons from third parties
in order to help us compile aggregated statistiBVIG Capital
and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
We prohibit Web beacons on our sites from being used by third
parties to collect or access your personal information.
Finally, we may work with other companies to place Web beacons
on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistiBVIG
Capital on how often clicking on an advertisement on a BVIG
Capital site results in a purchase or other action on the
company's site.
Controlling "Spam" or Unsolicited E-mail
BVIG Capital is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial
e-mail, or "spam." BVIG Capital has a strict Anti-Spam
Policy prohibiting the use of a BVIG Capital e-mail account
to send spam. BVIG Capital will not sell, lease or rent its
e-mail subscriber lists to third parties. While BVIG Capital
continues to actively review and implement new technology,
such as expanded filtering features, there is no currently
available technology that will totally prevent the sending
and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using tools such as
the Inbox Protector and being cautious about the sharing
of your e-mail address while online will help reduce the
amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect
changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post
changes to this Statement, we will revise the "last
updated" date at the top of this statement. If there
are material changes to this statement or in how BVIG Capital
will use your personal information, we will notify you either
by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to
implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification.
We encourage you to periodically review this statement to
be informed of how BVIG Capital is protecting your information.
Contacting Us
BVIG Capital welcomes your comments regarding this privacy
statement. If you have questions about this statement or
believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact
us.
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