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This
privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for Dive Adventures.
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. This web site
has agreed to notify you of:
- What
personally identifiable information of yours or third party
personally identification 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 protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under Dive Adventures
control
- How
you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
- If you
feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy
policy, you should contact Tom Gorman by PHONE or POSTAL MAIL
(listed at bottom of this page).
Information
Collection and Use
Company Dive
Adventures is the sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others
in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Company
Dive Adventures collects information from our users at several
different points on our website.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form. Here
a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping
address) and financial information (like credit card number,
expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes
and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing
an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with
the user.
Cookies
A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked
to any personally identifiable information while on our site.
Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates.
For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would
not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving
time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may
still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user
may be limited in some areas of our site.
Log Files
We
use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track
user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Sharing
We
do not share aggregated demographic information with our partners
and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person.
We may use
outside postal and shipping companies to ship orders, and a
credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services.
These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We partner
with another party to provide specific services. When the user
signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact
information that is necessary for the third party to provide
these services.These parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose of providing
these services.
Links
This
web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that
we Dive Adventures are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for
contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys
& Contests
From
time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys
or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely
voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not
to disclose this information. Information requested may include
contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code, certification level).
Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award
prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring
or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If
a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend
about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email
address. Dive Adventures will automatically send the friend
a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Dive Adventures
stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this
one-time email. The friend may contact Dive Adventures at [email protected]
to request the removal of this information from their database.
Security
This
website takes every precaution to protect our users' information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
Special
Offers
Established
members will occasionally receive information on products, services,
special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy
of our users we present the option to not receive these types
of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Site
and Service Updates
We
also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members
are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which
contain important information about the service. We communicate
with the user to provide requested services and in regards to
issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If
a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as
your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service,
we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove
that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be
done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer
Support.
Choice/Opt-out
Our
users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their
information used for purposes not directly related to our site
at the point where we ask for the information. For example,
our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a
product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can
keep their email address off of our lists.
Users who
no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials
from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications
by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email
or email us at [email protected]
Notification
of Changes
If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
on our privacy policy page so our users are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated
at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of
an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use
their information in this different manner. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information
was collected.
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