PRIVACY
Communications International, Inc. (“Ci,” “we” or “us”) operates the ask4ci.com website at http://www.ask4ci.com (the “Site”), which is hosted in the United States. We want you, to understand how we may collect and use data about your Site visit. The privacy policy below identifies what information the Site may collect, and what it may be used for. We may use cookies, which gather certain forms of information from your computer to help us monitor and improve Site usage and performance. Certain web pages may allow you to voluntarily submit personal information about yourself, your residence, or your business so that we can contact you for services in which you express an interest.
We do not disclose this information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your prior consent, but we do use third party software and services to assist us with collecting and analyzing information regarding use of the Site. We may also disclose your information to others for other purposes, particularly if required to do so by law. The privacy policy for the Site is set forth below and you should contact the Ci Legal Department if you have questions or concerns about this policy or the use of your information.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
This is our online privacy policy (“Web Privacy Policy”). This Web Privacy Policy applies only to activities we engage in on the Site and does not apply to activities that are “offline” or unrelated to the Site.
Anonymous Information. We may collect two types of information through this Site: anonymous information and personally identifiable information (“PII”). We may collect certain anonymous data regarding the usage of the website. This information does not personally identify users, by itself or in combination with other information. We may gather it to improve the performance of the Site. The anonymous data we may collect can include information such as the type of browser you are using, IP address, the pages you view and the length of your visit to the Site.
Personally Identifiable Information. We may also ask you to provide personally identifiable information on the Site, which may include your name, address, telephone number, fax number, company name, e-mail address and relevant details about the product or service that interests you. This information may be gathered when you send us an e-mail or when you complete the specific web page request form. In all such cases you choose whether to provide us with the personally identifiable information, but certain portions of the Site may not be available to you or we may not be able to respond to your inquiry effectively if you do not provide the PII requested.
ONLINE ACTIVITY AND TRACKING
Like many websites, the Site may employ technologies, such as cookies and web beacons (also known as clear GIFs), to automatically receive and store certain information about your use of the Site. We may use this information to permit the Site to function properly, to evaluate how you use the Site, to determine where you are located, and to support website analytics and our marketing efforts.
Use of Cookies. Cookies refer to small bits of data that are based on your internet activity and stored as text files by your internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. Through the use of cookies, we may collect information about your location and your online activity on the Site, such as the specific web pages that you visit, the links you click, and the time you may spend on a specific page. Although most internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies, you can generally find a “help” section on the browser toolbar that will inform you how to stop accepting cookies, to be notified when you receive a browser cookie and to disable existing browser cookies. Without browser cookies, however, you will be unable to take advantage of all the features that the Site has to offer.
Use of Web Beacons. Web beacons are tiny graphics embedded on a website that allow the website to transfer or collect information through a graphic image request. We may use web beacons to collect information about your web browsing activities to help us determine if a particular webpage on the Site has been visited, and, if so, how many times. This information permits us or third parties to deliver interest-based advertisements, measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising and to customize the services offered to the Site’s users. We do not tie the information gathered by web beacons to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
Third Parties. As noted above, we may have relationships with third party service providers to perform tracking and other similar functions for the Site and to assist us in providing you with customer services. While we do not share your personal information with these companies, they may automatically collect information about your visit to the Site, your IP address, your browser and your network by using cookies and web beacons. Such information may be used to present you with advertisements tailored to your interests, to provide you with customer service, and to better understand how the Site is used, among other things. Any information collected by such third parties via cookies or web beacons is not linked to any personal information that we collect from you. The use of cookies and web beacons by third parties is governed by their privacy policies, not this Web Privacy Policy.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Uses by Ci. Ci uses the personal information you provide through the Site in a manner that is consistent with this Web Privacy Policy. If you provide personal information for a certain reason, we may use it in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by email, we may use the personal information you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. We use the information collected through the Site for statistical purposes and for improving the Site, as well as for our marketing purposes and potentially sending commercial emails to you. We often engage a third party’s software or services to assist us with these collections and analyses. As a practical matter, we must release your mailing address to a postal or courier service to deliver information you requested. We use third-parties to assist us with our marketing efforts, including assisting us with sending emails to you.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information in order to respond to a subpoena, court order or other such request. We may also provide such personally identifiable information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or as otherwise required by law.
MODIFICATIONS OF THE WEB PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this Web Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you by posting an amendment to the privacy policy on the Site, 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. 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. We encourage you to frequently review the Web Privacy Policy for any modifications.