Last updated on October 10, 2006
Kanal, Inc. is a licensee of the Kanal, Inc. Privacy Program. Kanal, Inc. is an organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by Kanal, Inc. By displaying the Kanal, Inc. trustmark, this web site has agreed to notify you of the following:
• What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site
• The organization collecting the information
• How the information is used
• With whom the information may be shared
• What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
• The kind of security procedures that are in place to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under Kanal, Inc.'s control
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please send an email to contact@kanalinc.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact Kanal, Inc. at . Kanal, Inc. will then serve as a liaison with the web site to resolve your concerns.
Privacy & Security Statement
At Kanal, Inc., we are committed to protecting your privacy. It is also our goal to constantly improve our services to you and to keep up with rapidly changing technologies. In order to maximize our services to you, we use information collected about you while still protecting your privacy. Expecting future updates to our service, these policies are subject to change. If there are any modifications to these policies, we will post them on this page and notify you as described at the end of this policy.
I. Security Measures Concerning Your Personal Information
While transmission of information over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure, we make every effort to provide protection for the information that we collect about you.
It is our policy never to sell or share traceable information about our users to third parties without user permission. See “Use of Collected Information” below.
This site contains various links to other Web sites. Kanal, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. You should not assume that other sites take similar steps in securing your information, and should evaluate their privacy standards before using their systems.
II. Collection of Information
In the course of your using our site, we automatically track certain information including your IP address, and information about your use of our site in order to optimize our site usability.
II.i. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following the directions provided in your Internet browser's “help” file. We use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. At this time we do not use persistent cookies on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site without any limitation to you, the customer.
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."
II.ii. Service Providers
We advertise our services on third-party advertising channels such as search engines. These third parties track on our site’s generalized data, such as how many of the visitors they send us become actual customers. When you make a purchase through our site, we will share your IP address with the third party from whom you clicked on a link to reach our site (if applicable), so that we are able to generally quantify the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose than that specified.
III. Use of Collected Information
The primary reason that Kanal, Inc. collects information from its users is to facilitate business.
Kanal, Inc. does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We use your information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, statistically analyze site usage, and improve our site's content, offering, and layout. Your IP address may be used to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site, and for security needs.
We may use the information we collect to notify you about important functionality changes to our Web site, new Kanal, Inc. services, and special offers we think you'll find valuable. We may also contact you to verify your information or ask you about your experiences with us.
When it is necessary to contact you, we use your email address, and in some situations your mailing address, phone, or fax number.
Kanal, Inc. may release account information to a third party as a legal disclosure when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to:
• comply with law
• enforce or apply the terms of any of our user or seller agreements, or
• protect the rights, property, or safety of Kanal, Inc., our users, or others.
IV. Consent and Changes to This Statement
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Kanal, Inc. If we change our privacy statement, we will post those changes on this page so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. If we make any changes to how we disclose personally identifiable information to others, we will notify you by email and provide you at least ten (10) days to object to such disclosure and to modify your relationship with us.
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