Collection of your Personal Information
At some sites, SWSCOMPUTERS collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. At other sites, SWSCOMPUTERS collects anonymous demographic information, that is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. Some sites collect a combination of the two types of information. In some cases, information collected by SWSCOMPUTERS MEMBERSHIP may be combined with information obtained from other SWSCOMPUTERS services and other companies.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by SWSCOMPUTERS and may be shared with other Web sites within the SWSCOMPUTERS family of web sites. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by SWSCOMPUTERS for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of SWSCOMPUTERS.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personal information through Chats, Communities, or other public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: SWSCOMPUTERS does not read any of your private online communications, such as your private messages and e-mails.
SWSCOMPUTERS encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from SWSCOMPUTERS so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. SWSCOMPUTERS is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the SWSCOMPUTERS and SWSCOMPUTERS MEMBERSHIP family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
SWSCOMPUTERS and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate SWSCOMPUTERS and deliver the services you have requested. SWSCOMPUTERS MEMBERSHIP also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from SWSCOMPUTERS and its affiliates. SWSCOMPUTERS may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
SWSCOMPUTERS does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. SWSCOMPUTERS 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 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.
SWSCOMPUTERS keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within SWSCOMPUTERS, in order to determine what SWSCOMPUTERS sites and services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within SWSCOMPUTERS to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
SWSCOMPUTERS does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
SWSCOMPUTERS may 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 SWSCOMPUTERS or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SWSCOMPUTERS, including its SWSCOMPUTERS family of Web sites; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SWSCOMPUTERS, its web sites, or the public.
Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which SWSCOMPUTERS 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.
Control your Personal Information
SWSCOMPUTERS offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You may email optout@swscomputers.com to proactively make choices about the use and sharing of your personal information. You may choose not to receive marketing material from SWSCOMPUTERS or on behalf of external third party business partners.
In addition, you may visit the "MEMBERSHIP PROFILE" to view, edit or delete your personal information from the SWSCOMPUTERS database.
You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from SWSCOMPUTERS by emailing optout@swscomputers.com.
SWSCOMPUTERS MEMBERSHIP sends out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements and news about SWSCOMPUTERS products and services. You will not be able to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered a part of the service you have chosen.
Security of your Personal Information
SWSCOMPUTERS strictly protects the security of the personal information you provide. SWSCOMPUTERS secures the personal information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted over the Internet, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information
SWSCOMPUTERS is intended for users of all ages. Children may visit these general audience areas of SWSCOMPUTERS and provide personal information, which will be collected, used and disclosed as described is this Statement of Privacy. Some, but not all, SWSCOMPUTERS sites require users to provide age information. For those users who visit such sites and identify themselves as under 13, SWSCOMPUTERS will attempt to obtain consent from parents with a validated adult email address for the collection, use and sharing of their children's personal information as described in this Statement of Privacy. If SWSCOMPUTERS changes this Statement of Privacy 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 SWSCOMPUTERS will be required to obtain the parent's additional consent.
If you grant consent for your child to use such general audience communication services as Chat, Communities, Instant Messenger, email, your child will be able to communicate with other users of all ages. Before providing consent, please be aware that such services will give your child the ability to disclose personal information (e.g. name, address, e-mail, phone numbers) on his or her own. We encourage you to talk with your children about communicating with strangers and disclosing personal information online. You and your child can visit Microsoft's Stay Safe Online site for additional information about using the Internet safely.
When an SWSCOMPUTERS service knows that a user is a child, it will not condition the child's participation in an activity, such as a game or a prize drawing, on the provision of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in that activity. Additionally, you have the right, subject to verification that you are the child's parent, to change or revoke the consent choices you have previously made for SWSCOMPUTERS services and to review or request the deletion of your child's personal information. You may send such requests, or any questions you have about SWSCOMPUTERS' practices with regard to personal information about your child, by clicking here to send e-mail.
Use of Cookies
SWSCOMPUTERS uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize SWSCOMPUTERS' pages, or register with SWSCOMPUTERS sites or services, a cookie helps SWSCOMPUTERS to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to SWSCOMPUTERS, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the SWSCOMPUTERS features that you customized.
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 fully experience the interactive features of the SWSCOMPUTERS services or Web sites you visit.
Use of Web Beacons
SWSCOMPUTERS Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow SWSCOMPUTERS to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. SWSCOMPUTERS may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or SWSCOMPUTERS Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personal information on the SWSCOMPUTERS network of sites and services; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about SWSCOMPUTERS Web site usage.
Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. SWSCOMPUTERS Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.
Use of Third Party Ad Networks
The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on SWSCOMPUTERS Web pages are displayed by SWSCOMPUTERS.
In addition, SWSCOMPUTERS allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on SWSCOMPUTERS Web pages. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the ad network 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. SWSCOMPUTERS does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
Changes to this Statement
SWSCOMPUTERS will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how SWSCOMPUTERS will use your personal information, SWSCOMPUTERS will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. SWSCOMPUTERS encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how SWSCOMPUTERS is protecting your information.
Contact Information
SWSCOMPUTERS welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that SWSCOMPUTERS has not adhered to this Statement, please contact SWSCOMPUTERS by telephone, e-mail. Contact SWSCOMPUTERS