We collect information from you when you submit inquiries through our online contact form. We also use technology to collect information from you.
We collect information from you when you speak to us by telephone. We may record telephone conversations for quality assurance purposes. This Privacy Policy also governs those recordings.
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser that enables the sites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/Performance Cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website. This helps us improve the way the Website works.
Functionality Cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Website. This enables us, subject to your choices and preferences, to personalize our content and remember your preferences.
Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make the Website more relevant to your interests.
This Website also includes certain components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Also in this case, they are third party cookies collected and managed anonymously to monitor and improve the performance of the Website. Google Analytics uses the cookies to collect and analyze anonymously the information on the behavior of use of the website. This information is collected by Google Analytics, which processes in order to prepare reports for the Company regarding activities on the Website. This Website doesn’t use the analysis tool of Google to track or collect personal information.
We use the following web beacon technology:
Web beacons (a.k.a. clear gifs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, which are used on our website to track online movements of web users and compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used and may be used, in our services, or in our emails. Our use of Web beacons also includes to count visits and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon. We do not link the information gathered from web beacons to any personal information.
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exist pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this data to personal information.
You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons and similar technologies.