Privacy Policy
Our Promise to You…
What you do at Barrett Web Services is nobody else's business. We respect your privacy and will not share your information with any third parties for the purpose of marketing or selling products to you, ever! If you wish to be contacted by a third party that promotes a product or service through Barrett Web Services, you will contact the third party directly or through a link provided on our site or in an email. We will only share your information when required to fulfill an order and/or process and collect payment for an order made by you through Barrett Web Services.
Information Collection & Use
Registration
Much of the information on our website is available to you without the need to register. In order to join our community and access other portions of our Web site, you are required complete the registration form. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address) and create a password. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You may also have the option to provide additional contact and/or demographic information (such as address and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
In order to enhance the service we provide, completing the registration form automatically subscribes you to our informative newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe to the newsletter, a link will be provided in the email you receive.
Barrett Web Services is the sole owner of the information collected on BarrettWebServices.com. Barrett Web Services collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time, we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, monitor site traffic, enhance our products and services, and/or personalize your experience on our site. If you participate in contests or surveys, you will automatically be invited to participate in future contests and surveys. You can opt out of future participation by selecting a link contained in the invitation.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Barrett Web Services stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at unsubscribe@barrettwebservices.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Uses of Information
When you complete your registration, we store your email address, encrypted password, and contact information on our web server.
When you register, we send you an email to confirm your registration and verify the email address you provide. The email will contain instructions on how to verify your email address and complete the registration process.
When you place an order on our website, we will encrypt highly sensitive information prior to transmitting. For your protection, we do not store highly sensitive information on our web server. We use secure third-parties to process credit card payments for orders placed on Barrett Web Services.
We also offer products from third parties through our site where the payment is processed by the third party. We do not collect or store payment information for these types of transactions.
We will use aggregate (i.e. non-personally identifying) information to track site activity and enhance our products and services. We will also share this information with third parties to promote our site, products, and services. For the protection of your privacy, we will not share any personally identifying information with these third parties.
Communications from the Site
Newsletters and Informational Products
Out of respect for your privacy, you will have total control over the communications you receive from us. You will have the option to subscribe to newsletter(s) and other informational products to enhance the service you receive from Barrett Web Services. If wish to subscribe to newsletter(s) or other informational products we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter(s) or informational products to you. If you wish to unsubscribe, you may opt out of the subscriptions by modifying your profile. We also provide a link to unsubscribe in each issue of newsletter(s) and informational products.
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and/or promotions. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out."
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a "profile" of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties. We share your profile in aggregate (non-identifying) form only.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
Credit Check
To determine if you qualify for a credit account, we use your name and social security number to request a credit report. Once we determine your credit-worthiness, we destroy this document.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
To protect your privacy, we DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties, except to fulfill orders, process and collect payments.
Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use other third parties to provide domain name registration and web hosting services on our site. When you sign up for domain name registration or web hosting services, we will share your contact information as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at unsubscribe@barrettwebservices.com.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, 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 automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We do not use cookies on this site for transmitting personally identifying information. We only use cookies to track a login session. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use session ID cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See "Third Party Advertisers."
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by BarrettWebServices.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. See the "Third Party Advertisers" section.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by www.google.com, our advertising partner. We do not share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Barrett Web Services. Please be aware that we, Barrett Web Services, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. Barrett Web Services reserves the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use our services inconsistent with our Terms of Service.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at service@barrettwebservices.com or by contacting us using the "Contact Us" link on our web site.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at service@barrettwebservices.com.
Business Transitions
In the event Barrett Web Services goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: services@barrettwebservices.com.
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