Ada Salon is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy and wants you to feel secure when visiting our site and providing information to us. In order to provide you with relevant information, respond to your requests, and increase the benefits you receive from our website, we sometimes request that you provide us with information about yourself.
We have prepared this Privacy Notice to inform you of the information we gather and how it is used. You should also note that Ada Salon maintains the same privacy practices with respect to data that is collected off-line and this notice may be relied upon with respect to those methods of data collection and use.
What
information do we gather?
In general, you may visit this website without identifying yourself or
revealing any personal information. Ada Salon collects domain
information from your visit to assist us in improving user experience
while visiting our website.
This website may collect certain information from your visit, including the date and time of your access, the pages you have accessed, the name of the Internet Service Provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address by which you are accessing the Internet, and the Internet address from which you linked to our site, if applicable. We use this information to better understand how our website is being used so that we can improve its quality and make it more beneficial to our users.
Some portions of this website may request that you give us information about yourself, from which we are able to identify you, such as your name, email or other address. Some of the ways in which we may collect information from you are:
- Event registrations for web casts, seminars, conferences, etc.
- Product support registration
- Education registration
- Subscription to newsletters or other Ada Salon content-related notifications
- Product purchases or trials
- White paper or other downloads
- Product purchases
How
do we use the information we gather?
When we collect information about you, it is our intention to tell you
why we are asking for the information and what we intend to do with it.
You will have the option of not providing the information, in which
case you may still be able to access other portions of this website,
although you may not be able to access certain programs or services. In
certain areas of our website, we may, where appropriate, enable you to
"opt out" of certain uses of your information, or elect not to receive
future communications or services.
The information we collect about you or your computer will be used to operate our website and to provide customer support, respond to your requests or process any transactions you have authorized. It may also be used to verify your identity, send you information or contact you in relation to a Ada Salon product or service that you are using or that we believe may be of interest to you.
Will
we share this information with third parties?
In certain instances, we may make your information available to third
parties with whom we have a relationship where that third party is
providing services on our behalf. We will only provide those third
parties with information that is necessary for them to perform the
services and we take measures to protect your information.
Ada Salon seeks to provided product and services in a number of countries. Accordingly, the information we collect may be used, stored and processed in the United States or in any other country in which Ada Salon does business. By providing the information via the website, you are consenting to the transfer of the information outside of your country to any country (including countries which may not have adequate levels of protection).
Ada Salon may disclose information it has collected about you on the website if required to do so by law or when necessary in order to protect the rights of Ada Salon or its employees.
What
about data security?
Ada Salon's intent is to strictly protect the security of your personal
information; honor your choice for its intended use; and carefully
protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure,
alteration, or destruction. We have taken significant steps to
safeguard and secure information we collect online, including the use
of encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as
credit card information.
However, you should always take into consideration that the internet is an open forum and that data may flow across networks with little or no security measures, and therefore such information may be accessed by people other than those you intended to access it.
Can you
update and/or amend the personal information you have provided?
You are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if
we do (subject to certain limitations), to have access to that
information and have it corrected if it is inaccurate or out of date.
Web
Beacons
Ada Salon uses third party advertising companies to serve ads on our
behalf across the Internet. These third party companies employ cookie
and web beacon (also referred to as 1x1 pixel.gifs or action tags)
technology to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their
clients. Cookies are also used to help us track usage patterns in order
to improve or manage our site, to ensure the integrity of the
registration process, and to help provide personalized service and
deliver content specific to your interests. A "cookie" is a small
amount of data transferred to your browser and read by the Web server
that placed it there. It works as a sort of identification card,
recording your preferences and previously entered information. By using
cookies, the information you previously provided can be retrieved on
your next visit to the website so that your navigation time is reduced
and your use of the website is simplified. Cookies are uniquely
assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that
issued the cookie. Web beacons may be used to deliver the cookie and to
compile statistics about our website, such as how many people visited a
particular page or clicked on certain links. While your particular use
of the site will not be revealed and no personally identifying
information will be collected, this anonymous information may be used
for online preference marketing purposes, and Ada Salon's third party
advertising companies may use the information about your visit to the
website(s) in order to provide ads about goods and services of interest
to you. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown,
related cookie, and the first three octets of the IP address. Ada Salon
may share aggregated statistics about the use of the website with third
parties.
You can set your browser to decline cookies if you prefer. If you do so, you may not be able to get the benefit of some of the features of this website or other websites that you visit.
Ada Salon may modify or update this privacy notice from time to time at any time without prior notice. You can check the "Last Updated" date below to see when the notice was last changed. We encourage you to check this notice often so that you can continue to be aware of how we are protecting your personal information. Your continued use of the website constitutes your consent to the contents of this privacy notice, as it may be modified from time to time.
For Additional information about our privacy policy you may click the Web Privacy Statement link at the bottom of this page.
Last Updated April 06, 2009
