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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC (“Bullivant”) is committed to protecting yourprivacy, and to developing technologies that provide a safe and securecomputing experience. This privacypolicy (“Policy”) is applicable to the Bullivant website located at http://www.bullivant.com/ (the“Website”). This Policy summarizesBullivant’s data collection policies and practices on the Website. This Policy does not apply to the practicesof companies that Bullivant does not own or control, or to people thatBullivant does not employ or manage.
We do not collect personal information about you unless you choose toprovide that information to us or you choose a service on this Website wheregathering personal information is necessary in order to deliver the specificservices. If you contact us voluntarilyregarding Bullivant services, we may collect the following categories ofpersonal information: name, company name, title, email, telephone and facsimilenumbers, industry, address, email subscription preferences including yourselection of particular industry groups, and your confirmation to attendupcoming Bullivant events.
The Site is not directedto children under thirteen (13) years of age, and Bullivant does not knowinglycollect personally identifiable information from such children. If you areyounger than thirteen, please do not provide any personally identifiableinformation while using the Site.
In some instances we may include certain links in our emails that will allowus to monitor whether you access specific content in that email. When you click on one of these links, we willrecord that click and certain activities on the Website associated with thatlink. We use this information to conductinternal research on our users' demographics, interests, and to better serveyou.
We use log files to track system activity and maintain our systems. Log data includes IP addresses, browser type,referring and exit pages, platform type, date and time stamps, and number andnature of clicks through our Website. Weuse this information to analyze usage patterns, observe trends, administer theWebsite, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Log files are not linked to personallyidentifiable information.
How we use your information:
The personal information we collect from you will be used by Bullivantto provide the service or carry out the transaction you have requested orauthorized. In addition, Bullivant may share or transfer information about you,to one or more third party entities pursuant to a sale, merger, assignment,joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion, or all of, theassets of Bullivant.
Bullivant may disclose personal information if required to do so by law orin the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply withapplicable law including legal process served on Bullivant; (b) protect anddefend the rights or property of Bullivant, and, (c) act in urgentcircumstances to protect the personal safety of Website users or the public.
Personal Profile
Personal information is used by our Website to serve content according to yourdesignated preferences. Personal information will not be used to contact youunless you request it, such as when you sign up to attend an event or subscribeto receive a publication. Once you register with Bullivant, you are notanonymous to us. Bullivant automatically receives and records information onour server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information,and the page you request. Bullivant aggregate certain elements of your personalidentifying information with the information of other users of our Website toanalyze the usefulness and popularity of various web pages on our Website.
Collection of Information byThird-Party Sites and Sponsors
Our Website contains links to other sites whose information practices maybe different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacypolicies as we have no control over information that is submitted to, orcollected by, these third parties.
Bullivant posts information about programs and events that are sponsored byor co-sponsored other firms or organizations. Should you choose to register electronically for any of these events,Bullivant will have no control over the third-party sponsors' use of theregistration information.
Cookies
Acookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to thecookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website canremember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of thedomain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie,and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. When you visit our Website we send you acookie. Cookies may be used in thefollowing ways:
- Tocompile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how usersuse our Website and to help us improve the structure of our Website. We cannotidentify you personally in this way.
- To enablepersonalization features on our Website (which give you the ability to recallrecently viewed pages and see information which you have input on line).
Two types of cookies may be used onthis Website, session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in thecookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies,which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though howlong will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
Security of Your Personal Information
Bullivant carefully protects the security of the personal information youprovide. Personal information we collect is stored in password-controlledservers with limited access, and we protect this information from loss ormisuse, and from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.When sensitive personal information is transmitted over the Internet, it isprotected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)protocol.
Changing Your Status
To have all of your personally identifiable information removed from ourdatabase or to update your personally identifiable information, send an e-mailrequest to webmaster@bullivant.com.
Notification of Changes and Your Acceptance of the Privacy Policy
By using our Website you consent toour collection and use of your personal information as described in thisPrivacy Policy. If we change our privacypolicies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Website to keep youaware of what information we collect, how we use it and under whatcircumstances we may disclose it. Yourcontinued use of this Website shall constitute your acceptance of any revisedprivacy policy. Questions regarding this policy should be directed to webmaster@bullivant.com.
Effective date: December 15, 2006 |