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Personal
Information Collected
AbyssDiveCharters.com
collects information in several ways. Some personal information
is gathered if you register. During registration, AbyssDiveCharters.com
may ask for your name, email address, address, and phone
number, credit card number, and mother's maiden name.
Cookies
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized
services, AbyssDiveCharters.com uses cookies
to store and sometimes track information about you. A
cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your
browser from a web server and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Any time that AbyssDiveCharters.com prompts
you to log-in, or on any pages that are customizable,
it is required that you accept cookies.
We
use cookies to:
Remind
us of whom you are and to access your account information
(stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a
better and more personalized service. This cookie is set
when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you
"Sign Out" of our services.
Information
Uses
AbyssDiveCharters.com uses all data collected for identification
and convenience. When we use cookies, you are not prompted
to re-login every time you come to the auctions. It also
allows us to easily identify that you are who you say
you are, thus alleviating the potential for fraudulent
use of your account.
Collecting
Information
When you are on the AbyssDiveCharters.com site and are
asked for personal information, you are sharing that information
with AbyssDiveCharters.com alone, unless it is specifically
stated otherwise. If data is being collected and/or maintained
by any company other than AbyssDiveCharters.com, you will
be notified prior to the time of the data collection or
transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you
can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that
particular service.
Promotions
that run on AbyssDiveCharters.com may be sponsored by
companies other than AbyssDiveCharters.com or may be cosponsored
by AbyssDiveCharters.com and another company. Some or
all data collected during a promotion may be shared with
the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified
prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You
can decide not to participate in the promotion if you
don't want your data to be shared. Currently, most AbyssDiveCharters.com
promotions are limited to North American or US residents.
Please
be aware that AbyssDiveCharters.com advertisers or web
sites that have links on our site may collect personally
identifiable information about you. This privacy statement
does not cover the information practices of those web
sites linked to AbyssDiveCharters.com.
Shared
Information
As a general rule, AbyssDiveCharters.com will not disclose
any of your personally identifiable information except
when we have your permission or under special circumstances,
such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires
it or under the circumstances described below. Please
see the User Agreement. The following describes some of
the ways that your information may be disclosed.
Business
Partners & Sponsors: AbyssDiveCharters.com may
disclose your personal information to business partners
or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you
prior to data collection or prior to transferring the
data. Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional
information from sponsors. By requesting more information,
you give AbyssDiveCharters.com permission to transfer
your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill
your request. In many instances, only your email address
will be shared. If more information will be shared with
the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Third
Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality
agreements, AbyssDiveCharters.com may match user information
with third party data. Also, AbyssDiveCharters.com discloses
aggregated user statistics (for example, 65% are male)
in order to describe our services to prospective partners,
advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful
purposes.
Other:
AbyssDiveCharters.com may also disclose user information
in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing
this information is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be causing
injury to or interference with (either intentionally or
unintentionally) AbyssDiveCharters.com's rights or property,
other AbyssDiveCharters.com users, or anyone else that
could be harmed by such activities. AbyssDiveCharters.com
may disclose user information when we believe in good
faith that the law requires it and for administrative
and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain
and improve our products and services.
Collection,
Use, and Distribution of Information
You have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying
your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept
all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to
reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies
you will be unable to use those AbyssDiveCharters.com
services that require registration in order to participate.
AbyssDiveCharters.com
does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will
notify you at the time of data collection or transfer
if your data will be shared with a third party and you
will always have the option of not permitting the transfer.
If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you
can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate
in certain promotions or contests.
Editing
AbyssDiveCharters.com Account Information
You may edit your and your public AbyssDiveCharters.com
Profile at any time by using your AbyssDiveCharters.com
ID and password. If you have forgotten your password,
please got to "Account" page to request a new
password.
AbyssDiveCharters.com
and Personal/Financial Information
Keeping your personal financial information private is
vitally important to us. As with all information, AbyssDiveCharters.com
will never rent or sell your personal financial information.
Knowing
that you use certain services or features may help us
to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements.
But as with all personally identifiable information, we
do not make this available to any third parties without
your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide
to prospective advertisers or partners regarding financial
product or service usage on AbyssDiveCharters.com are
provided in the aggregate only and do not include any
personally identifiable information about any individual
user.
Please
note that on the AbyssDiveCharters.com, where you can
transmit credit card information in order to complete
a purchase transaction or for verification purposes, we
transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format.
We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Security
Precautions
Your AbyssDiveCharters.com Account Information and AbyssDiveCharters.com
Profile are password-protected so that you and only you
have access to this personal information. You may edit
your AbyssDiveCharters.com Account Information by using
your AbyssDiveCharters.com ID and password.
We
recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone.
AbyssDiveCharters.com will never ask you for your password
in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email.
Also remember to sign out of your AbyssDiveCharters.com
account and close your browser window when you have finished
your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access
your personal information and correspondence if you share
a computer with someone else or are using a computer in
a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Unfortunately,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect
your personal information, AbyssDiveCharters.com cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to us or from our online products or services,
and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
we make our best effort to ensure its security on our
systems.
Children's
Protection
Children should always ask a parent for permission before
sending personal information to anyone online. AbyssDiveCharters.com
does not share personal information about users under
the age of 18 with third parties and we do not sell or
rent personal information about any of our users, regardless
of age. In addition, AbyssDiveCharters.com will not send
any direct email offers to users who indicate they are
under the age of 18.
Online
Privacy
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose
personal information online - for example on message boards,
through email, or in chat areas - that information can
be collected and used by others. In short, if you post
personal information online that is accessible to the
public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return.
Ultimately,
you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy
of your passwords and/or any account information. Please
be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
Addtional
Resources
Questions regarding this statement should be directed
to Privacy@AbyssDiveCharters.com.
Electronic
Frontier Foundation - a civil liberties organization
working to protect your rights online.
Electronic
Privacy Information Center - established to focus
public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating
to the National Information Infrastructure.
Privacy
Issues Page - from the Center for Democracy and Technology
(CDT).
The
EPIC Cookies Page - definitions, links, and news.
How
to Protect Your Privacy - information from the Federal
Trade Commission.
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