Privacy & Security
Cheatham & Associates and your privacy
Revised October 25, 2005
At Cheatham & Associates we respect your right to privacy and we understand that, as a visitor to http://www.cheatham-associates.com, you prefer to control your own personal information and preferences. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information and preferences when you visit certain areas of http://www.cheatham-associates.com, register for projects, download free software, request information, or subscribe to our newsletters.
We will guard the personal information you share with us to ensure the content, services, and advertising that we provide on cheatham-associates.com are always tailored to your current, designated preferences.
When you provide us with your name (or alias), e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number,Cheatham & Associates and affiliates may use the provided information to alert you to new project announcements, product upgrades, special offers, updated information, new services, and other Cheatham & Associates information. Representatives and affiliates may include value-added resellers and authorized training partners. Beyond its representatives and affiliates, we do not offer or allow the selling of any user-provided information to third parties.
We respect the rights users give us when opting to receive e-mail communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to retain the long-term ability to continue to communicate with our users.
If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still visit most Cheatham & Associateswebsites; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification.
If a user elects to use our “Tell A Friend” application for forwarding a Cheatham & Associates e-mail to their friend or informing a friend about our website, we ask them for the friend’s name and e-mail address. We will automatically send the friend the specified e-mail or the specified website information. We will not use the friend's information to contact them in the future.
Cheatham & Associates membership and the use of log files (cookies)
Cheatham & Associates offers free membership to all cheatham-associates.com visitors. In order to establish membership, visitors are requested to provide both personal information and preferences. This information is stored and protected by your user-established Member ID and Password.
There is an additional "Remember me" option. By selecting it, you allow us to store your Member ID and password so you can access certain areas of the website without re-signing in. The sign-in information is stored until you explicitly sign out. It also allows you to return to any Cheatham & Associates website on subsequent visits without having to re-enter your information. Our site remembers you by placing a log file (cookie) that contains only enough information to identify you upon return visits. A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with your web browser for record-keeping purposes and helps us provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent.
No information, other than that found in the Membership cookie, will be accessed by any Cheatham & Associates system. Access to your membership information always requires both your Member ID and Password.
We also utilize visitor log files (cookies) and hosted tracking with our website. Once a user enters our site, a cookie follows them through their click stream path. Examples of information being collected by these cookies and the hosted tracking include the number of times a user came to our site(s), and the paths they took to get there. We use the data collected from website visitor cookies and hosted tracking in aggregate form only and does not collect any personally identifiable information. Use of this information helps us better understand what users are seeking and learning at our website(s) and helps us identify potential navigation issues.
We also gauge effectiveness of our communications by inserting transparent GIF images in our HTML e-mails. These GIF files are not unique identifiers and do not gather any personally identifiable information. They simply let us know the number of e-mails that have been opened.
How we will protect your personal information
We will always protect the personal information that you share with us. We store information internally in a controlled, secure environment. If, for example, you make a purchase online, we route all transactions through SSL (Secure Socket Layers) and will process your credit card number only to secure your current payment. The SSL transaction does not retain your credit card number subsequent to the transaction at hand and will not use the number for marketing purposes.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose..
If we request general demographic information, this information is limited to reporting purposes only; members remain anonymous. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses are not shared for demographic reports with outside entities. We may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s), we will provide an up-front statement to that effect.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.
How to update your personal information and preferences: You can help us maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your name, address, title, phone number, e-mail address, or your content preferences. If at any time you wish to update your information or preferences, or you prefer to stop receiving communication from us, feel free to contact us at any time.
Phone
(817) 548-0696
Postal Mail
Cheatham & Associates
Attn: Privacy
2233 Avenue J, Suite 107
Arlington, TX 76006-5883
If you change your e-mail or postal address, please contact us. In order to make the appropriate corrections, please include both your old and new address. We will respond to your request in a reasonable timeframe.
Cheatham & Associates would like to receive your comments and questions about this Privacy Policy:Please address comments or questions regarding the Cheatham & Associates Privacy Policy to one of the addresses listed above (online, e-mail, or postal mail). We may occasionally update, amend, or change this Privacy Policy based on user feedback and as needed or appropriate. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and will e-mail the information to our users so that they are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Users will always have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in accordance with, and in respect to, the posted privacy policy. If users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted.
Links
Our websites may contain links to other sites. We assume no responsibility for the content or the privacy policies and practices of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites; their privacy practices may differ from ours.
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