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PRIVACY POLICY
So that you can better protect your privacy, Thomas Publishing Company, LLC provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information is collected and used. If you do not agree with the practices explained in this policy, do not complete the registration form when signing-up for My Thomas Global or contact us at info@thomasglobal.com to request that your registration be cancelled.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
At times, Thomas Publishing Company, LLC will ask you to provide us with personal contact information. We will use this information to help customize your site experience or to facilitate communication with the companies that list on our site. You will be prompted to supply us with this information when initiating communication though the site or signing-up for My Thomas Global.
SIGNUP INFORMATION
As part of an optional sign-up process you are asked for limited personal and demographic information and are required to choose a username and password that can be used to gain access on subsequent visits. While most of the information we collect is used internally for site analysis and improvement, some of your signup data is used in compiling reports (see reporting) for the manufacturers that list on our site. Except as outlined below, Thomas Publishing Company, LLC will not disclose or associate with your site usage, any of your personal contact information, which consists of the following:
Your Name
Your Postal Address
Your Phone Number
Your Fax Number
Your E-mail Address
Your Username
Your Password
The only circumstances under which Thomas Publishing Company, LLC will distribute your information are spelled out in the subsequent sections of this policy titled Communicating with Suppliers, Email Communications Policy, and Reporting.
COMMUNICATING WITH SUPPLIERS
Your Personal Contact Information will be sent to manufacturers and vendors when you elect to send requests, place orders or ask for fax literature through our site. Before this information is sent, you are always prompted to verify your personal data and are given the opportunity to change your information or abort the request.
You may also change your profile at any time by logging onto Thomasglobal.com and clicking on the "Login to My Thomas Global" link.
E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS POLICY
By signing up with Thomas Publishing Company, LLC and providing us with your e-mail address you agree to accept essential communication concerning the services and operation of Thomasglobal.com including, but not limited to: confirmation, additions or deletions to our core services, notifications of product enhancements, notification of service interruption and changes to this policy.
By default, users who sign-up are "Opted Out" of all other communications from Thomas Publishing Company, LLC and will not receive any non-essential communications unless you choose to.
As part of the optional sign-up process, and at any time there after, you have the opportunity to opt in to receive non-essential communication, including newsletters and announcements, from Thomas Publishing Company, LLC and third parties via e-mail by checking the appropriate boxes on the Sign Up /Update Membership Form.
All e-mail communications from Thomas Publishing Company, LLC, or from third parties wishing to contact our users, are sent by Thomas Publishing Company, LLC or a provider under contract to Thomas Publishing Company, LLC. At no time will we ever distribute your e-mail address to another company except as stated in the “Communicating with Suppliers" section of this notice.
All non-essential communications from Thomas Publishing Company, LLC or one of our trusted partners will contain a link or instructions for opting out of future communications. If the message you receive has been sent on behalf of one of our partners, the message will contain two separate means of opting out. One Opt out will be from the Thomas Publishing Company, LLC e-mail list and the other opt out will be to remove you from the partners e-mail list. Please Note: To comply with the United States CAN-SPAM act, Opting Out from future communications from a Thomas Publishing Company, LLC partner will require your e-mail address be given to that partner so that they may add it to their own do not mail list.
COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of text that a web server can store on your computer’s hard disk. Cookies allow a website to store information on your computer and later retrieve it. Usage of a cookie is not linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Thomas Publishing Company, LLC uses cookies to: automate log in, permit guest access, enable personalization, measure site usage, and record user preferences.
For security reasons we allow users to accept or decline the cookie permitting automatic login during registration or any time thereafter, by updating their user profile. The other cookies will be loaded automatically unless your browser is configured to block them. Consult the documentation or help files for your web browser for instructions on setting cookie preferences. We feel that the use of cookies enhances the operation of our site, but they are not required. You will be able to use the core features of Thomasglobal.com with cookies blocked. NOTE: Personalization features will not work without cookies and will result in your using the default settings.
LOGGING
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC makes extensive use of web logging to understand the usage of our services, diagnose problems and identify future enhancements to our site. In addition to logging the pages viewed, and features used, our logs will also collect referring IP addresses or domain names of site visitors. This information is used in the reporting and analysis of our website some of which will be shared with Thomas Publishing Company, LLC’s vendors and advertisers.
REPORTING
The Thomas Publishing Company is able to offer Thomasglobal.com for free on the Internet as a direct result of the paid support of the manufacturers who advertise on our site. As a result we provide these advertisers with reports of non-specific information on the usage of Thomasglobal.com. This reporting can be based on any of the information collected by Thomasglobal.com and can include demographic information (Industry, Company Size, Job Function, Job Title and City) and your company name. Again, as stated in the Information section of this notice, your personal information is never divulged.
DATA SECURITY
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC uses reasonable precautions to keep user information disclosed to us secure. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC will disclose only domains and IP Addresses to third parties, under contract to us, as required to operate our site. We will only release this information to those firms that we believe to be responsible. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties who receive the information.
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC also links to a wide variety of other web sites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they collect or treat information about their users.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC reserves the right to change this policy as required. Users who have signed up to use Thomasglobal.com will be notified of changes using the e-mail of record in their user profile. Users who have not signed up should review this policy periodically or prior to any subsequent use.
CONTACTING THOMAS PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC
If you have any questions regarding this policy please contact us via e-mail at info@thomasglobal.com or by mail at:
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC
5 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
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