Privacy Policy
This privacy statement explains TheSeal.com’s privacy practices for users of the www.TheSeal.com web site.
The Seal’s Commitment to Privacy
The Seal respects your right to privacy. Your ability to make informed choices about the uses of your information is important to us. This privacy statement explains The Seal’s policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure and protection of personal information. The terms of this privacy statement apply to information collected from you unless different terms are specified as part of a special offer or in another form or contract we provide you. The links below provide more detailed information about The Seal’s privacy practices:
Collection of Personal Information
Sharing of Personal Information
Protection of Personal Information
Choice
Online Specifics
Cookies
The Seal.com is Not for Use by Children
Online Links to Other Web Sites
Questions, Concerns About or Reviewing or Correcting Personal Information
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is information that can be directly associated with a specific person or entity such as a customer’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number, or information about activities directly linked to that person, such as his or her purchases. Personal information also includes information that you choose to provide to us or that you ask us to provide to companies.
Personal information does not include “aggregate” information. Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of products, services or customers, from which individual customer identities have been removed. In other words, information about how you use a service may be collected and combined with information about how others use the same service, but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. Likewise, information about the products you purchase may be collected and combined with information about the products purchased by others. Aggregate data helps us understand trends and customer needs so that we can better consider new products and services, and tailor existing products and services to customer desires.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect the personal information that you provide us, such as when you:
- Request that a service provider who has been issued the The Seal.com Seal of Approval to contact you, whether on-line, by telephone or facsimile;
- contact us for any reason, reply to one of our inquires by mail or through our website, or by telephone through customer service;
- We may automatically collect some information when you visit our Web site, such as your computer’s IP address, operating system, the site from which you linked to us, and the time and date of your visit and purchases.
We also collect information received from third parties to the extent that they have contacted you or entered into an agreement with you as a result of your relationship with The Seal or through The Seal.com.
Use of Personal Information by The Seal
The personal information we collect is used to process your requests or transactions to provide you high quality service, tell you about opportunities we think will be of interest, and understand your needs so that we can serve you better. If you prefer not to receive promotional information from us, we make it easy for you to let us know. You can contact us at any time to decline promotional information (see Choice below).
Sharing of Personal Information
The Seal does not sell, rent, share, or disclose personal information to third parties without your prior consent, except in the limited circumstances described in this statement. Your consent may be provided on-line, for example, when you agree to permit us to provide your information to a company about which you searched. The Seal has contracts in place with these companies that they can only use the information we provide in accordance with the permission you have granted, namely in order to contact you and as otherwise permitted by you.
Other Disclosures
In addition, we may disclose personal information in the good faith belief that we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to any claims, or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of The Seal, our customers, employees or the public. Information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets or acquisition.
Protection of Personal Information
The Seal has put into place security measures in an effort to protect personal information from loss, misuse or alteration while it is under our control. Personal information we collect is stored electronically and may be combined with other membership information. We use technical, contractual, administrative and physical measures in an effort to protect against unauthorized access.
Further, when you enter personal information online, that information is encrypted using a security software called SSL (Secure Socket Layer). SSL encrypts all information entered on our site before it is sent over the Internet. We also use SSL to allow you to securely view your online account and registration information.
Choice
Our Web Site gives you the opportunity to elect that certain information be shared or not be shared with third-parties. In addition, if at any time you (1) wish to stop receiving promotional information from The Seal, (2) prefer to not receive information about our services, (3) prefer that we not share personal information about you with third-party providers you need not provide your personal information.
Online Specifics
What Are Cookies and Are You Required to Accept Them?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer. At The Seal.com, we use cookies to help optimize your shopping experience. For example, we use cookies to customize our home page for you and to better display pages according to your browser type. The Seal.com does not use cookies to store any personal information about you.
Use of the The Seal.com Web Site by Children
The Seal encourages parents to take an active interest in their children’s use of the internet. The Seal does not intend to collect information from children who are under 18 years of age.
Online Links to Other Sites
Through our Web site, The Seal members or users can link to other websites of third parties that provide useful information, or who have agreed to offer goods and services to The Seal members. Any personal information you provide on the linked pages is provided directly to this third-party and is subject to that third party’s provider’s privacy policy.
Except as described above, The Seal is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of Web sites to which we link. Links from our site to third party’s or other sites are provided for your convenience. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of each Web site before providing them with personal information.
Questions, Concerns About or Reviewing or Correcting Personal Information
If, for any reason, you have concerns regarding any questions or concerns about this privacy statement or the information that we may have collected about you may contact us by sending an e-mail to Info@TheSeal.com. .
Changes to this Statement
The Seal reserves the right to change this privacy statement at any time, but will alert you that changes have been made by indicating at the top of the privacy statement the date it was last updated. We encourage you to review our privacy statement to make sure you understand how your information will be used. If there is ever a material change to how we use your information and the new uses are unrelated to uses we disclose in this statement, we will communicate the changes in advance.