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Strang Communications Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Statement

This is the web site of Strang Communications. Protecting your privacy is paramount. To assure you of your privacy, we provide this notice to assist you in understanding our commitment to security, what kind of information we gather about you when you visit our site, how we use that information, and how you can correct the information. By providing this information to you, we enable you to control your data.

Our postal address is

600 Rinehart Road

Lake Mary, Florida, 32746

We can be reached via e-mail at webmaster@strang.com or you can reach us by telephone at 407-333-06000

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).

E-mail Addresses

We collect the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, the e-mail addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number, fax number, payment information (e.g., credit card number and billing address).

Cookies

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart.

"Cookies" are a form of information that can be stored on your computer by a Web server for a variety of reasons. The Strang Communications Online (SCO) uses cookies, but our online visitors should be assured that cookies are simply used by us to facilitate automated activity that:

Passes no significant information about the user to the Internet or to Strang Communications

Is not analyzed to yield any information.

We use “cookies” for the following interaction with our Web sites:

Navigation and Personalization: Some actions that a user may take in SCO, particularly during Web publishing, may cause us to take the user through a series of steps that can be entered from a variety of locations. To make sure that we return the user to where they expect to be when they complete these steps, SCO will frequently send the user's browser a cookie to mark their current location. This sort of Web server "bookmark" helps us to provide a positive, predictable user experience for more sophisticated operations. If you choose to personalize your online visit with us by providing your name and city, we set a permanent cookie to display the information each time you visit. This “cookie” can be disabled or removed within your browser settings. However, browsers that have cookies disabled will always remain at "guest" status. We also use them to deliver content specific to your interests, and to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also use cookies to keep track of your shopping cart, and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly.

We do not use cookies for any other purpose, although this may change as we offer new features.

Information We Collect

The information we collect when you visit a Strang Communications website, is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our Web page, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes and .

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address, visiting us at http://www.strang.com/unsubscribe.php.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, writing to us at the above address, visiting us at http://www.strang.com/unsubscribe.php.

Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.

Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of: http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy/default.asp

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them, financial information (e.g., credit card account information) that we maintain about them, unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them , a description of information that we maintain about them.

Consumers can access this information by e-mail us at the above address, write to us at the above address, writing to us at the above address.

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, unique identifiers, transaction information.

Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.

E-mail Newsletters

When you request a free e-mail newsletter from Strang Communications, we will collect and store your e-mail address to provide you with the requested newsletter. Occassionaly, we may also send you special offers. You have the option at each newsletter to change your e-mail address, opt-out of receiving special e-mailed offers, or remove yourself from any mailing list by following instructions contained in each newsletter or selecting one of the following options:

UNSUBSCRIBE NOTICE:
If you wish to unsubscribe click here

Bulletin Board, Forums and Online Chat

This site has chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. SCO is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security Safeguards

With respect to security: The customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access. We have appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

It is our policy to always use industry-standard encryption technologies and processes such as access control procedures and network firewalls to protect such servers. User accounts and related information are password protected using industry-standard, commercially reasonable methods .

Sensitive information including but not limited to financial information that is transferred or received at our site, is redirected to a secure server and a notification in the form of a pop-up window is displayed.

Information collected from online visitors is stored on database and other servers kept in secure locations under the custody and control of Strang Communications or its third party vendors

Strang Communications makes commercially reasonable efforts to protect such information and to limit its use and disclosure of such information as described herein, but cannot guarantee that such efforts will be successful.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
We will NOT give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent
When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
1. Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
2. Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
3. Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes. We will use our best efforts to provide parental notification, which will include the nature and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information and participation in the activity.
We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their child.
We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what personally identifiable information is to be collected.
We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.

Any questions regarding the information we collect from children or our parental consent policy should be directed to:

Customer Service
Strang Communications Co.
600 Rinehart Rd.
Lake Mary, FL 32746
(407) 333-0600
custsvc@strang.com

Your Rights

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number. Your have the right to expect us to adhere to this policy and if we are not following your expectations, we need to know immediately so the issue may be addressed.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about any item contained in this Privacy Statement or its implementation please contact us via email at webmaster@strang.comor at the following address:

Strang Communications, Inc.

Attention: Webmaster

600 Rinehart Rd.

Lake Mary, FL 32746

http://strang.com/

This Privacy Notice was revised August 7, 2007

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