Privacy Statement / Effective
January 1, 2008
*************We respect our clients wishes and we therefore hold client's personal information private.
We NEVER ask for client's credit card or financial information. All transactions are done through Payapal a secured SSL online server transaction company.
SeaSupport.org has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site: SeaSupport.org. We never disclose your personal information to any third party.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our affiliation program if applicable. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. Please read the SeaSupport.org "Privacy Statement" below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular SeaSupport.org services that you may use. This SeaSupport.org Privacy Statement applies to data collected by SeaSupport.org through its services; it does not apply to data collected through other online or offline sites, products or services. Other sites and services linked to from this Web site, have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on their privacy statements.
Collection of your Personal Information
Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information through SeaSupport.org groups, or other public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others. We caution you against providing personal information to strangers online, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes. We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with SeaSupport.org. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website or service you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses. Some SeaSupport.org services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both SeaSupport.org and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.
Use of your Personal Information SeaSupport.org collects and uses your personal information to operate SeaSupport.org services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information we have collected. In order to provide services in conjunction with other SeaSupport.org products or services, personal information collected on SeaSupport.org may be accessed and used by other SeaSupport.org services as necessary to provide such services. Any use of such information within SeaSupport.org will remain subject to the limitations of this privacy statement.
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 SeaSupport.org services, including SeaSupport.org Internet Access 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 SeaSupport.org and its affiliates.
SeaSupport.org does not sell, rent or lease its SeaSupport.org customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
SeaSupport.org may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on SeaSupport.org site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SeaSupport.org, including its SeaSupport.org sites; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SeaSupport.org services or members of the public. Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in Canada or any other country in which SeaSupport.org or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. SeaSupport.org abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the Canada Government regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
Control of your Personal Information
We offer you choices for the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. You may make choices about the use of your personal information. You may choose not to receive marketing material from SeaSupport.org or on behalf of external third party business partners. You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from SeaSupport.org by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. You may subscribe and unsubscribe to SeaSupport.org newsletters.
In addition, each newsletter you receive will have instructions on how to unsubscribe prominently mentioned in it. These communications choices do not apply to mandatory service communications that are considered part of certain SeaSupport.org services, which you may receive periodically unless you cancel the service. You may have the ability to view or edit your personal information.
Some services offered on SeaSupport.org may collect personal information that is not accessible via the links above. 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 and we will contact you within 30 days regarding your request.
Security of your Personal Information
SeaSupport.org is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures via our hosting providers 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 via PayPal) over the Internet, which is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies
SeaSupport.org services 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. SeaSupport.org may 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 content and appropriate advertising on your later visits to SeaSupport.org.
Use of Web Beacons
SeaSupport.org Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that 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 SeaSupport.org Newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. We may also place Web beacons from third parties on our site in order to compile aggregated statistics and to help determine the effectiveness of our joint promotional or advertising campaigns. SeaSupport.org prohibit Web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to access your personal information. Finally, we may work with other companies that advertise on SeaSupport.org to place Web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on SeaSupport.org results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser’s site.
Use of Third Party Ad Networks
The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on our Web pages are displayed by SeaSupport.org . However, we allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on SeaSupport.org Web pages. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. SeaSupport.org does not have access to the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks. Those ad networks that use persistent cookies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact SeaSupport.org.
Changes to this Statement
We will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front pages of SeaSupport.org. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how SeaSupport.org will use your personal information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how SeaSupport.org is protecting your information.
Contact Information
SeaSupport.org 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 SeaSupport.org.
SeaSupport.org, 1881 Yonge Street, Mail Section 48067,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4S 3C6.
Tel: 416.208.0701
admin@SeaSupport.org