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TRADEMARKS
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EXACTCOST PRIVACY POLICY
The protection of your privacy is very important to ExactCost. This Privacy Policy describes the information and data we collect about you, your organization and what may happen to that information. By using this web site or any of the services there within, you consent to the collection and use of information, as described in this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted on the ExactCost site. This policy and its terms are subject to change from time to time at ExactCost's sole discretion.
Information Collected
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you and/or your organization is to provide you / your organization with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our services. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience faster and more efficient.
In order to provide you / your organization with some of our services you have to provide us with certain information regarding your organization. Such as organizational structure, expenditure and supply charge data, and so forth. This information may be collected at the setup stage or later at other ExactCost web pages.
To use our services you must register with us, where you will need to provide us with personal information regarding you and/or your organization and other information that we request.
We automatically track certain information about you and/or your organization. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior, to better understand and serve our users. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address and other information that is readily available to us as a result of your activities on our web site and in connection with the application or services we provide.
If you choose to post messages in our chat rooms or forums, we will collect such information about you as you choose to disclose. We do not give personal information or passwords to anyone in chat rooms or forums. When you disclose your personal information, it may be collected and used by others to send you unsolicited mail.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as e-mails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
Use of Cookies
A cookie contains information that is stored on your hard drive. You are always free to decline our cookies. The option of refusing to accept a cookie is available from most browsers.
In the future, we may offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Among other reasons why we use cookies, cookies allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information, which is targeted, to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our site and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during a session.
By using this web site or other related services you grant ExactCost the right to store cookies on your hard drive. In no event shall we or our suppliers or third party contractors be liable to any invasion of your privacy that may occur to you as a result of using our web site or other related services.
Use of Your Information
Some of the information that we collect is being processed and analyzed in order to enable you to use ExactCost application services such as the Cost Analysis application, the Simulation application, the Benchmarking application, etc. ExactCost convert the provided information into "actionable information" that is used in our application. We use certain data collected from you to perform statistical analyses for a variety of objects such as to establish standard cost data, etc.
In addition, we use personally identifiable information about you and/or your organization to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users' needs.
We may also use your information to deliver information to you and/or your organization that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as certain activities, new services and promotions. By using this web site or any of the services offered there within you expressly agree to receive this information.
We use your and/or your organization's e-mail address to contact you and/or your organization regarding administrative notices, new service offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site and its services. If you do not wish to receive these communications, you may have the option to opt out by sending us an e-mail about it.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be compelled to disclose information to adjudicative bodies or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose our company to legal liability. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal identifiable information or private communications shall remain private.
We do not sell or rent any personal identifiable information about you and/or your organization to any third party. The following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
Sponsors. We may aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate to sponsors and for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. Certain information, such as your password, is not disclosed to marketing advertisers in aggregate at all.
Legal Requests. ExactCost cooperates with law enforcement inquires and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Therefore, intellectual property and other rights' owners, and local, state, federal and international law enforcement can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.
Suppliers and Other Service Providers. We may use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. For example, we may outsource the operations of one or more aspects of our site to a Supplier or Service Provider who performs services according to our requirements. In some instances, the Service Provider may collect information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us). In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional. In all cases, we restrict how these Suppliers and Other Service Providers may access, use and disclose your information. In general, we do not permit these Suppliers and Other Service Providers to sell your information to third parties.
Your Use of Other Users' Information
By using this web site, you agree that, with respect to other users' personally identifiable information that you obtain through the Site or through an ExactCost-related communication or ExactCost-facilitated transaction, ExactCost hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for ExactCost-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages. In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure. Note that law enforcement personnel, and other rights holders are given different rights with respect to information they access.
ExactCost and our users do not tolerate spam (sending email to bulk addresses). Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add an ExactCost user to your mail list (e-mail or physical mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure.
Link to other Web Sites
ExactCost is a web site that may link you to other sites. For example in case you are interested in purchasing certain goods we may link you to a web site that can provide you with these goods. You should be aware that these web sites may have different privacy policies or may not have any privacy policy.
Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you and/or your organization. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are users, buyers or sellers on our system or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
Security
ExactCost uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such as firewalls, Secure Socket Layers, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, roles-based authorizations. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the internet.
CONTACT DETAILS
ExactCost, Inc.
1920 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. Suite 704
Hallandale Beach, Florida 33009
Telephone: (954) 455-5665
Facsimile: (954) 455-3559
