Inacom Information Systems

 

Inacom Information Systems Privacy Statement

At Inacom Information Systems (“we” or “us”), we care about providing you with information to manage and protect your online privacy. We have developed this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) to inform you of our information management practices, including the types of information gathered, how it is used and safeguarded, and the degree to which you may control the maintenance and sharing of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to the web site located at www.inacom.com (the “Web Site”). Your use of the Web Site constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

While we have made every attempt to make this Privacy Policy as clear as possible, if you have any further questions about it, please contact us at:

Inacom Information Systems
3001 W. Beltline Hwy
Madison, WI 53713
email: webmaster@inacom.com
Phone: 608-661-7700

Information Collected – Information Uses

We only collect personally identifiable information about you when you specifically choose to provide that information to us. For example, you may send us personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, your name, title, company name, supervisor name, e-mail address, physical address and/or phone number, via the following pages on the Web Site (there may be other pages on the Web Site from time as well from which you can submit personally identifiable information):

  1. Contact Us page - if you e-mail a request for information;
  2. Careers page - if you submit a resume online;
  3. Events page - if you register for an event;
  4. e-Newsletter page - if you subscribe to receive our monthly e-newsletter;
  5. Education Registration - if you choose to register for a class online.

We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that whatever information you provide will be maintained in a secure environment. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us and you provide such information at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

When you provide us with any personally identifiable information, we will use that information to provide you the information, services, or subscriptions you are looking to receive. Except as noted below in the “Information Sharing and Disclosure” Section, we will not sell your information or share it with any third party.

We may also use information you provide us to improve the content and functionality of our Web Site, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services. We also may share your information with our third party manufacturers if you have signed up for a class involving their product or personnel or have expressed interest in their product We also reserve the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics, either internally or by sending this data to a third party for further analysis. We do this in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of our Web Site. We may share this information with advertisers in aggregated, anonymous terms.

We may use the information you provide us to contact you in the future to tell you about products or services we believe will be of interest to you. Moreover, we may provide "subscription" email services, either directly or through affiliates, which enable you to receive current news about our products and services. For all such services and communications, you may "opt-out" of receiving future instances of such material by sending an email to [email address] requesting to opt-out of receiving such material. Additionally, and upon request, we will use reasonable efforts to allow you to update or correct personally identifiable information to the extent that changing the data will not compromise privacy or security interests. Furthermore, your e-mail address will be added to a suppression list that should stop any message directed to you before it leaves us. It is your responsibility, however, to make certain that we have your most current e-mail address. Even if you opt out of receiving any communications from us, we reserve the right to contact you regarding your account status, technical support, product information, and any other matter that might affect our service to you and/or our records on you and/or any products or services you purchased from us.

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web Site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store the following information about such visits:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web Site;
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our Web Site;
  3. The date and time you access our Web Site;
  4. The pages you visit; and
  5. If you linked to the Web Site from another web site, the address of that web site. We use this information to help us make our Web Site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our Web Site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We may disclose personally identifiable information about you to a subsequent owner or operator of the Web Site if we assign our rights and obligations regarding any of your information at the time of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of the Web Site's assets to a subsequent owner or operator. You will be deemed to have consented to the disclosure to, and use by, a subsequent owner or operator of the Web Site, and your continued use of the Web Site signifies your agreement to be bound by the Privacy Policy of the Web Site's subsequent owner or operator.

We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in the following instances: 1) we have been given your consent to disclose; 2) we have previously informed you of the disclosure, including by means of our Privacy Policy; 3) we are required by law or court order to disclose, or we believe in good faith that the law requires it; 4) disclosure is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against, someone who may cause or be causing harm to, or interference with, our rights or property, other Web Site users, or anyone else; or 5) to respond to an inquiry, request or complaint that you have made. We may also use IP addresses in cooperation with Internet service providers to identify users if we deem it necessary to comply with laws, to enforce compliance with this Privacy Policy, or to protect our Web Site, customers, or others.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer and they cannot be used to discover the identity of a user. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not and whether you are required to accept the cookie to view certain content. We may use cookies to "persist" a user session - that is, to maintain connection with a user as he or she moves through an application or series of web pages. The purpose of cookies in this context is to remember user inputs. For example, a "shopping cart" application records purchases up until the user reaches checkout. Personalization features also use cookies to identify groups of users and deliver appropriate content and services.

Links to Other Sites

We may from time to time offer links to other sites from within our Web Site, including to the sites of our manufacturing partners. Other sites may also reference, advertise, or link to our Web Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites, expressly disclaim any statements or assertions made on such web sites, and deny all liability associated with your use of, and the content on, such other sites. These sites might issue their own cookies or collect data or personally identifiable information. Use caution when visiting an external site.

Consent to Processing in the United States

By providing any personally identifiable information to us pursuant to this Privacy Policy, all users, including, without limitation, users in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to this Privacy Policy and to the collection and processing of such information in the United States of America.

Internet Security

For security purposes we monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this Web Site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the law.

Notification of Changes to This Policy

We are continually improving and adding new functionality and features to our Web Site and improving and adding to our existing products, services, and programs. Because of these ongoing changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, our data practices will change from time to time. If and when our data practices change, we will post the changes on our Web Site to notify you of the changes. We encourage you to check this page frequently. This policy was last updated on May 27, 2004.