Privacy: TopNotary.org, the owner
of this Website, respects the privacy of users on the Internet and has
developed this privacy statement to protect user privacy on its Website.
The purpose of this statement is to explain the types of information
TopNotary.org obtains about users of this Website, how the information
is obtained, how it is used, how it may be disclosed to others, and how
users can restrict its use or disclosure.
Personally
Identifiable Information: The only personally identifiable
information TopNotary.org obtains about individual users through our
Website is information supplied voluntarily by the user. Users interacting
with our site may provide TopNotary.org with their name, address,
telephone number, email address, domain name or URL or other personally
identifiable information that TopNotary.org may use for its own
business purposes. TopNotary.org may share such information with its
partners and agents for purposes related to TopNotary.org products and
services, including for the purpose of contacting users about products and
services that may be of interest to them. Of course, users may visit our
Website without telling us who they are or revealing any personally
identifiable information about themselves.
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Using the Information: "Personally
identifiable information" is information about you such as name,
postal address, email address, company name, credit card number,
birth date, social security number, etc. Generally, we may use your
personally identifiable information in the following ways:
1.
To communicate with you about your account or the Site.
2. To
pre-populate online forms for your convenience.
3. To personalize
various aspects of the Site.
4. To build quality and useful
services by analyzing user trends and by measuring demographics and
interests.
5. To provide you with prompt and effective customer
service.
6. To support the operation of the Site (i.e., billing,
account maintenance) and troubleshoot.
7. To send you
newsletters, promotional messages, product announcements or other
communications that we feel may be of interest to you, although you
may opt out of receiving these communications (see "Opting Out"
below).
8. In other ways that you either expressly consent to or
instruct us to undertake.
Disclosing the Information:
We may disclose personally identifiable information about you to
third parties without asking for explicit consent from you as
follows:
1. We will perform research on our end users'
demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information we
collect, for example during registration, from our server log files
and from user surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our
users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated
basis. We may share this aggregated data with current or potential
advertisers, business partners, investors and other third parties
interested in our business.
2. TopNotary.org does not sell any of
your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties. However,
if you have not opted out of receiving postal mail from TopNotary.org
or third parties, TopNotary.org may rent your name postal address and
phone numbers to third parties, which the third parties may use one
time only to mail you information. These third parties will have no
continuing right to use your name or postal address. We do not sell
or rent your email addresses to third parties. All emails you
receive are deployed directly by TopNotary.org on behalf of third
parties.
3. We share web site usage information about visitors to
the Site who have received a targeted email promotional campaign
from us with a third-party advertising company - for the sole
purpose of targeting future email campaigns and upgrading visitor
information used in reporting statistics.
4. To allow third
parties to provide Site features and services. These third parties
are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except
for the purpose of providing these services.
5. To our
contractors, consultants and professional advisors so they can
provide a service to us. For example, from time to time we may use
third parties to help us collect information about our users. In
those cases, we will prohibit the third parties from using the
information they collect for any purpose other than providing the
service to us.
6. As we believe necessary to comply with the law
and protect the rights, property or safety of others.
7. If you
engage in illegal activity and we respond to a subpoena, warrant or
other court order.
8. In connection with the sale or transfer of
TopNotary.org or substantially all of its assets, we will share your
data with the acquiring party or transferee.
9. Due to
circumstances beyond our control.
Opting Out: As part
of the registration process, you will supply us with your postal
address, phone number, and email address, and you will be registered
to receive periodic communications from TopNotary.org or from other
reputable companies affiliated with TopNotary.org. If you do not wish
to receive such communications from TopNotary.org or from the
reputable companies affiliated with TopNotary.org, you can:
1.
Opt out of receiving future emailed messages by following the
"unsubscribe" instructions at the bottom of any emailed message you
receive from TopNotary.org.
2. Opt out of receiving future emailed
messages or newsletters from TopNotary.org by changing your
preferences on the which is located in the "Professional Profile"
section of the Site.
3. If you receive communications from
TopNotary.org or third parties selected by TopNotary.org by regular
mail, you can opt out of receiving future such communications by
contacting TopNotary.org customer service at customerservice@topnotary.org
Please allow 30 days for your opt-out election to take
effect. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving the types
of communications described above, we may still from time to time
communicate with you about your account or operation of the Site;
these communications will not be promotional in nature. For example,
if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might
send users an email. You cannot opt-out of receiving these
communications.
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Non-Personally Identifiable Information:
TopNotary.org does collect and use some non-personally identifiable,
generic information about our users as a means of measuring the
effectiveness of our Website. TopNotary.org servers identify certain
user information in the normal course of operation, but such information
does not reveal a user's personal identity. We collect this information
only in the aggregate and use it to evaluate and improve our Website and
to provide targeted information that may be of interest to users of our
Website. The following are examples of non-personally identifiable generic
information.
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IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that
is automatically assigned to a user's computer whenever that user is
using the World Wide Web. Website servers can automatically identify
individual computers by their IP address. TopNotary.org collects
IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to report
aggregate information. TopNotary.org does not link IP addresses
to any personally identifiable information.
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Cookies: Cookies are pieces of information
that are used for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow
TopNotary.org to save certain information about a user, such as a
password or individual preferences, in order to facilitate and
enhance the user's future activities on TopNotary.org Websites.
TopNotary.org will not use cookies to retrieve information from a
user's computer other than that voluntarily supplied by the user.
Except as otherwise provided in this statement, TopNotary.org
shall not use information transferred through cookies for any
promotional or marketing purposes.
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Computer Settings: Settings, technical and
other information from your computer, such as your operating system,
browser version, connectivity, various communication parameters and
other information related to the operation and interaction of
TopNotary.org Websites may be collected by TopNotary.org.
Except as otherwise provided in this statement, TopNotary.org
will use such information solely in order to provide technically
appropriate formatting of information provided by TopNotary.org
and access to TopNotary.org Websites. The collection of this
information will not include any personally identifiable information
about you or any individual user.
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Information Provided by Children:
TopNotary.org's Websites are not targeted at children and do not
collect or use any personally identifiable data from children.
Disclosure Pursuant to Legal Process:
TopNotary.org shall, pursuant to applicable law, regulation or legal
process, such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order, allow access
to all available and relevant information in order to comply with such
process and protect TopNotary.org's rights and property.
TopNotary.org may also allow access to this information in special
emergencies where physical safety is at risk.
Other
Websites: TopNotary.org is committed to protecting user privacy
on all TopNotary.org Websites and expects the same from our partners,
co-sponsors, and suppliers. TopNotary.org, however, is not responsible
for the content or the privacy practices of non-TopNotary.org Websites,
including Websites reached through a link on a TopNotary.org Website.
Other Websites may have different privacy policies, or no policy. Users
should review the privacy policies of any Website before providing
personal information.
Should TopNotary.org modify its practices
regarding the collection or use of information obtained from users in the
future, this privacy statement will be amended to reflect such
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