April 24th, 2006
At JTH Enterprises we recogzznize that privacy is
important. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and
websites offered by JTH Enterprises Inc. or its subsidiaries or
affiliated companies (collectively, JTH Enterprises's
"services"). In addition, where more detailed information
is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post separate privacy
notices to describe how particular services process personal
information, which are accessible from the navigation bar to the
left of this notice.
JTH Enterprises adheres to the US safe harbor privacy
principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data
Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S.
Department of Commerce's safe harbor program.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please
feel free to contact
us through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o
JTH Enterprises, 389 Dogwood Lane, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72701
USA.
Information we collect and
how we use it:
We offer a number of services that do not require you
to register for an account or provide any personal information to
us, such as JTH Enterprises Search. In order to provide our full
range of services, we may collect the following types of
information:
- Information you provide - When you sign up for a JTH
Enterprises Account or other JTH Enterprises service or
promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal
information (such as your name, email address and an account
password). For certain services, such as our advertising
programs, we also request credit card or other payment account
information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure
servers. We may combine the information you submit under your
account with information from other JTH Enterprises services or
third parties in order to provide you with a better experience
and to improve the quality of our services. For certain
services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of
combining such information.
- JTH Enterprises cookies - When you visit JTH
Enterprises, we send one or more cookies - a small file
containing a string of characters - to your computer that
uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the
quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking
user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is
being sent. However, some JTH Enterprises features and services
may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
- Log information - When you use JTH Enterprises
services, our servers automatically record information that your
browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs
may include information such as your web request, Internet
Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and
time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely
identify your browser.
- User communications - When you send email or other
communication to JTH Enterprises, we may retain those
communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to
your requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in
connection with other web sites. Personal information that you
provide to those sites may be sent to JTH Enterprises in order
to deliver the service. We process such information in
accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have
different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their
privacy policies.
- Links - JTH Enterprises may present links in a format
that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been
followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our
search technology, customized content and advertising. For more
information about links and redirected URLs, please see our FAQs.
- Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites
and services that are owned and operated by JTH Enterprises. We
do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search
results or links from within our various services. These other
sites may place their own cookies or other files on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
JTH Enterprises only processes personal information for
the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or
privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such
purposes include:
- Providing our products and services to users, including the
display of customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect
and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process
personal information by referring to the privacy notices for
particular services.
JTH Enterprises processes personal information on our
servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In
some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your
own country. We may process personal information to provide our own
services. In some cases, we may process personal information on
behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such
as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal
information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires
registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use
this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it
was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any
purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the
specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt
out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We
will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other
than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service
notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any
of our services, in which case JTH Enterprises may not be able to
provide those services to you.
Information sharing
JTH Enterprises only shares personal information with
other companies or individuals outside of JTH Enterprises in the
following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the
sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated
companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose
of processing personal information on our behalf. We require
that these parties agree to process such information based on
our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any
other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or
disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a)
satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms
of Service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent
harm to the rights, property or safety of JTH Enterprises, its
users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If JTH Enterprises becomes involved in a merger,
acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we
will provide notice before personal information is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of
aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users
who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users
clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not
identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any
additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect
against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration,
disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of
our data collection, storage and processing practices and security
measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to JTH
Enterprises employees, contractors and agents who need to know that
information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may
be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
JTH Enterprises processes personal information only for
the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this
Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review
our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that
we only collect, store and process the personal information needed
to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to
ensure that the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or
correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal
information
When you use JTH Enterprises services, we make good
faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal
information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or
to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required
to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask
individual users to identify themselves and the information
requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing
such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are
unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate
technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be
extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise
required. In any case where we provide information access and
correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing
so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services
have different procedures to access, correct or delete users'
personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in
the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
JTH Enterprises regularly reviews its compliance with
this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns
regarding this Policy or JTH Enterprises's treatment of personal
information by contacting
us through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters,
c/o JTH Enterprises, 389 Dogwood Lane, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA.
When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is JTH
Enterprises's policy to contact the complaining user regarding his
or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory
authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve
any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot
be resolved between JTH Enterprises and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from
time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy
without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will
be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page
and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice (including, for certain services, email
notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be
identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will
also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for
your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about
this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this
web site or at Privacy Matters, c/o JTH Enterprises, 389 Dogwood
Lane, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
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