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The Policy is designed
to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the
personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making
informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.
This statement will be
continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices
and our customers' needs.
Information Collection
When you visit our web
site you may provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an
individual basis and web site use information collected on an
aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site.
If you choose to
correspond further with us through e-mail, we may retain the content
of your e-mail message together with your e-mail address and our
responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
Information Use
Cgest S.A. (Cgest) use
personal information for sales purposes of administering our
business activities, providing customer service and making available
other products and services to our customers and prospective
customers.
Occasionally, we may
also use the information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our web site, new services and special offers we think
you will find valuable.
The lists used to send
you product and service offers are developed and managed under our
traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security
and privacy of our customers' personal information.
As a customer, you will
be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive
these offers.
Cookies
Cookies are a feature of
web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the
computer used to access a web site. Cookies are small pieces of data
that are stored by the web browser on your computer's hard drive.
Cookies can remember
what information you access on one web page to simplify subsequent
interactions with that web site or to use the information to
streamline your transactions on other areas of the web site This
makes it easier for you to navigate the Internet and to complete
commercial transactions online. Cookies should make your online
experience easier and more personalized.
We use web site browser software tools such as cookies and web
server logs to gather information about our users' browsing
activities, in order to constantly improve our web site and better
serve our customers. This information assists us to design and
arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to
continually improve our web site to better meet the needs of our
customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics.
The information in cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users
to our web site as they move from one page to another. Web server
logs allow us to count how many people visit our web site and
evaluate our web site's visitor capacity. We do not use these
technologies to capture your individual e-mail address or any
personally identifying information about you although they do permit
us to send focused online banner advertisements or other such
responses to you.
Information Sharing
We reserve the right to
share aggregated demographic information with our partners and
advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can
identify any individual person.
From time to time you may notice offers from outside companies
advertised on our web site. We take measures to select product or
service providers that are responsible and afford privacy
protections to their customers. However, we cannot make any
representations about the practices and policies of these companies.
Opt-In Policy
We may enter into
strategic marketing alliances or partnerships with third parties who
will be given access to personal information including your name,
address, telephone number and e-mail only if you OPT IN to such
under the "website announcements" option.
In connection with
strategic marketing alliances or partnerships, we will retain all
ownership rights to the information, and we will not share
information regarding your social security number or other personal
financial data.
Security
This web site takes
every precaution to protect our users' information. When you submit
sensitive information via the web site, your information is
protected both online and off-line.
When our registration form asks you to enter sensitive information
(e.g., credit card number, social security number), that information
is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in
the industry - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
While on a secure
page, the lock icon at the bottom of the Microsoft Internet Explorer
browser should be locked and the key icon on Netscape Navigator
should be unbroken.
Notice of New Services and Charges
Occasionally, we may
also use the information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our web site, new services and special offers we think
you will find valuable. As our client, you will be given the
opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers
by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by
sending us an e-mail to the information update address listed below.
Information Updates
You may update your
account information in any of the following ways:
Send e-mail or mail to the address listed on our Contact Us page.
Call the phone number listed on our
Contact Us page.
Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in
other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires
it or for the protection of our legal rights.
Links to Other Web Sites
Cgest reviews all links
to third party websites and takes very seriously the review of the
third-party material.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our web site to
another web site, that that website has its own website policies.
Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including web
sites which have a link on our web site, is subject to that web
site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and
policies before proceeding.
Feedback
If you have questions
about information, security, privacy, and usage at Cgest that have
not been answered here, please contact using the information on our
on our Contact Us page.
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