Privacy Policy: Last Updated on 7/01/2004
This document sets forth the biowriters.NET Online Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") for this web site, www.biowriters.NET (the "Site"). If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this Site. This Privacy Policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities or other biowriters.NET web sites.
Changes in Privacy Policy
All "personal information" ("personal information" is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain is subject to this Privacy Policy. Biowriters.NET reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion, so you must periodically review it and note any changes. If you want to alter the ways in which biowriters.NET uses your personal information, you can do so by following the procedure described below in the section entitled "Updating your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, any changes to the Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site with the following exception: at the time you provide personal information to biowriters.NET, you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by biowriters.NET or by third parties and biowriters.NET will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if biowriters.NET sells assets (or the assets of a division or subsidiary) to another entity, or biowriters.NET (or a division or subsidiary) is acquired by or merged with, another entity, biowriters.NET may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent.
Entities Collecting Personal Information
Personal information on this Site is collected by biowriters.NET. biowriters.NET 's address is 2328 MacArthur Lane Newport, KY 41071 and its telephone number is (859) 781-6150.
The Site contains links to other sites at which personal information is collected. In such instances, unless expressly provided to the contrary, the collection and use of your personal information will be governed by the privacy policy applicable to that site. That privacy policy should identify the entity that is collecting your personal information.
Collection of Personal Information
As a visitor to this Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information. In connection with other activities, such as utilizing online software applications, biowriters.NET may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, biowriters.NET may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), e-mail address, employer, job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal information. When ordering products or services on the Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
When you use the Site, biowriters.NET or third parties authorized by biowriters.NET may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol ("IP") address of your computer. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its services. Biowriters.NET also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Site. Without expressly informing you in each particular circumstance, we do not match such information with any of your personal information.
When you submit personal information to biowriters.NET through this Site, you understand and agree that this information may be transferred across national boundaries and may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which biowriters.NET and its affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including without limitation, the United States. You also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to certain activities, the collection, transferring, storage and processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted vendors of biowriters.NET. Such vendors are bound by contract to not use your personal information for their own purposes or provide it to any third parties.
In order to reduce errors in our database, authenticate our users and prevent abuse of our system, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submit to us with information from third party sources. For example, we may supplement your registration information with address information provided by the U.S. Postal Service to qualify your information and prevent errors in our database.
How Your Personal Information is Used
biowriters.NET collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you subscribe to a service or register a product, for example, the information is used to register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users. As another example, if you enter a contest, information is collected to qualify the entry and contact you regarding the contest or prize awards. Your personal information is also used to keep you informed about product upgrades, special offers, and other products and services of biowriters.NET and selected third parties if you have so opted to receive such communications.
biowriters.NET may collect information about the use of the Site; such as the types of services used and how many users we receive daily. This information is collected in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually. biowriters.NET may use this aggregate, non-identifying statistical data for statistical analysis, marketing or similar promotional purposes.
Your Choices with Respect to Personal Information
biowriters.NET recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on this Site. Without your consent, biowriters.NET will not communicate any information to you regarding products, services and special offers available from biowriters.NET, although we may find it necessary to communicate with you regarding your use of the services on this Site. Except in the particular circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, biowriters.NET will also not provide your name to other companies or organizations without your consent.
There are other instances in which biowriters.NET may divulge your personal information. biowriters.NET may provide your personal information if necessary, in biowriters.NET 's good faith judgment, to comply with laws or regulations of a governmental or regulatory body or in response to a valid subpoena, warrant or order or to protect the rights of biowriters.NET or others.
Protection of Your Personal Information
The personal information that you provide in connection with registering yourself as a user of biowriters.NET products or services or registering an biowriters.NET product is classified as Registration Information. Registration Information is protected in several ways. Access by you to your Registration Information is available through a password and unique customer ID selected by you. This password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. In addition, your Registration Information resides on a secure server that only selected biowriters.NET personnel and contractors have access to via password. biowriters.NET encrypts your personal information and thereby strives to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to biowriters.NET.
Personal information that you provide that does not constitute Registration Information also resides on a secure server and is only accessible to selected English-Warden, Inc. DBA: www.biowriters.NET personnel and contractors via password.
Please note that any information you authorize as public is available to all persons accessing that public area of www.biowriters.NET. If you designate information about you as public, you are granting biowriters.NET with a worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty-free license to use the information at the sole discretion of biowriters.NET.
Use of Cookies
When you visit this Site, you can browse the Site and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to improve our Site, we use "'cookies" to track your visit. A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your identification card, and enables biowriters.NET to record your passwords, purchases, and preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to access those pages.)
While biowriters.NET uses cookies to track your visit to biowriters.NET, and our Web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, biowriters.NET does not generally use this information to identify you personally. However, if you expressly provide consent for biowriters.NET to "remember" the unique identifier that you select when you register for various activities on the site, that unique identifier will be stored on a cookie on your computer, linked to your registration information, and your navigation path around the site will be tracked. We associate this data to understand how our site and services are being used so we can understand our customers and offer appropriate products and services.
Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences
You have the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences at any time. With respect to Registration Information, this may be accomplished by linking to your account at Edit Your Account where you can view and make changes to your personal information. You may also access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences (such as whether you wish to receive promotional communications from biowriters.NET or third parties) by writing or calling biowriters.NET at:
biowriters.NET
Attn: Change of Address/Privacy
2328 MacArthur Lane
Newport, KY 41071
USA
Telephone Number 859-781-6150
Please include your name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us.
Privacy Related Inquiries and Complaints
biowriters.NET takes its users' privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that biowriters.NET has not complied with this Online Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information or you have other related inquiries or concerns, you may write the biowriters.NET Privacy Officer at the address indicated above.
In your letter, please describe in as much detail as possible the nature of your inquiry or the ways in which you believe that the biowriters.NET Online Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your inquiry or complaint promptly.
Please note that if you provide biowriters.NET with inconsistent privacy preferences (for example, by indicating on one occasion that third parties may contact you with marketing offers and indicating on another occasion that they may not), biowriters.NET cannot guarantee that your most recent privacy preference will be honored.
Also, please note that biowriters.NET is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non-biowriters.NET Web Sites to which this Site or any other biowriters.NET Web Site may link. You should review the privacy policy of such sites before using the sites.