PRIVACY
POLICY |
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| Welcome to SimplePath. We strongly
believe that consumers deserve the utmost respect
when it comes to the privacy of their personal information.
Our privacy policy applies to all current and former
SimplePath members. Following is a summary
of SimplePath's privacy practices. |
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| We
Collect Information About You |
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Directly from you as a member at the
time of registration. |
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Periodically as you update your profile information. |
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Though feedback from other users of SimplePath
with whom you may interact. |
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| We Share Your Information |
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With other members of SimplePath, but only as
much information as you choose to reveal about yourself. |
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As permitted or required by law. |
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SimplePath does not sell or rent your information
to third parties for marketing purposes. |
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| We Give You Choices Regarding
Your Information |
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You have choices about the personal information
you display about yourself. |
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We give you easy access to update your personal
profile and view your transaction documents. |
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You can update your personal preferences at any
time. |
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| We Protect Your Information |
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Using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology
to protect your personal information that you submit
to SimplePath. |
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By limiting employee and third party access to
your personal information on a "need to know"
basis. |
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| We Collect Information About
You |
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SimplePath collects personal information
as part of the registration process for people joining
the SimplePath community. This information includes
name, email, address, and telephone number. If you
have a question regarding our services, we may collect
your name and email address in order to respond
to your requests.
Each member and group has their own community page,
where they post information about themselves. These
pages may contain any other information you make
the personal decision to post. You may elect to
be identified only by your screen name, which you
choose and which you can use to remain anonymous.
If you provide identifying information, either in
your choice of screen name or otherwise, it is your
choice, and you do so at your own discretion.
SimplePath does not sell or rent your personal information
to third parties for marketing purposes. |
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We Protect Your Information |
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At SimplePath, we are committed to
maintaining the security and confidentiality of
your personal and financial information. We maintain
physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
that meet or exceed industry standards for financial
institutions.
We protect your sensitive account information by
storing it in encrypted form on computers not connected
to the Internet. We control access to this information
via secure web pages, and limit access to only those
employees or third parties on a need to know basis.
We do not allow visibility to credit card information
via the web site.
We employ firewalls and other security technologies
to protect our servers from external attack. We
enable our servers with Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
technology to establish a secure connection between
your computer and our servers, creating a private
"conversation" that cannot be viewed or
accessed by other parties. We test our systems
regularly to insure that our security mechanisms
are up to date.
The security of your account also depends on the
protection of your SimplePath password. You should
not share this password with anyone. We have developed
procedures for recovering your password which will
not require you to send us your password via email
or give it out over the phone. If you ever
receive an email requesting entry of your username
and password, please confirm that you are on our
web site with a URL beginning http://www.simplepath.org/. |
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PRIVACY
AND SECURITY AT SIMPLEPATH |
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| Ensuring that SimplePath is private
and safe is our highest priority. Here is
how we protect your privacy, your identity, and
your data: |
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| Rigid Privacy Policy |
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| We follow very strict guidelines to
protect your privacy. SimplePath does not sell,
rent, or share your personal information with third
parties for marketing purposes. We share your information
with other members of SimplePath, but only as much
information as you choose to reveal about yourself.
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| Secure Encrypted Sessions |
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| To protect your personal and financial
information, we use SSL to encrypt your entire session
from sign in to sign out. |
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| Expert Fraud Prevention and
Protection |
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| SimplePath's extensive identity and
fraud checks use numerous internal and external
databases to ensure that the people on our site
are who they say they are. |
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Secure Data Center |
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| Your information is kept in a state-of-the-art
data center. Physical access is strictly controlled
and we use the latest in threat prevention technologies
including the very best in firewall, VPN, antivirus,
web filtering and antispam technologies. |
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OTHER
IMPORTANT INFORMATION |
| Marketing Preferences |
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| SimplePath does not sell or rent your
information to third parties or marketing firms.
We do send communications to you periodically to
notify you of status or events related to your participation
in our community. |
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| Our Use of Cookies |
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We use cookies to establish that you
are a unique visitor to our website, assess the
performance of our website, and to provide you with
personalization capabilities for your member pages.
We set persistent cookies that do not contain any
personal information about you as a user.
We may offer you the option to use cookies to remember
your email address when you return to our website.
If you use Internet Explorer as your browser, you
can change your cookie settings at any time through
your toolbar: Tools/Internet Options/Privacy. If
you choose to disable cookies, you will still be
able to access the SimplePath website. However,
certain features may not be available. |
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| Third Party Links |
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| SimplePath may post links to third
party websites that are not subject to this privacy
policy. Some member pages may also contain links
unrelated to SimplePath. If you visit these
websites, we encourage you to read their privacy
policies before providing them with any personal
information. |
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| Helpful Tips on Protecting
Your Information |
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| Password reminder: It is a good practice
to select a password for your account that is unique,
a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, and
isn't predictable or easy to guess. For instance,
"Buster" may be your pet's name and easy
to remember, but "!Buster1" would be difficult
for someone to guess. Another good practice is to
change your password periodically (every 90 days). |
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| State law |
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| You may have privacy rights under
applicable state law in addition to those outlined
in this privacy policy. |
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| Changes to this Policy |
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| To accommodate changes to our website,
changing technology, and possible legal requirements,
SimplePath may change this privacy policy at any
time. We will promptly post any policy changes to
this page and notify our members directly with notice
of any material changes. |
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GENERAL
POLICIES |
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| Publishing Content on SimplePath |
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| Because sunlight is the best disinfectant,
SimplePath allows members to publish personal information
on its web site. SimplePath does not allow
the use of profanity or patently vulgar language
in a public area of the site. This includes
the use of language that is racist, hateful, sexual
or obscene in nature. This policy extends
to text within group pages, listing pages, member
pages, discussion and chat boards and all other
areas of the site that another member may view.
The material displayed on profile, listing, and
group pages must not infringe on any third party's
copyrighted materials, patents or trademarks. |
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| Contacting SimplePath Members |
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| Spam is not allowed. Spam is email
that is both unsolicited and commercial in nature. |
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Unsolicited: The email has been sent without the
permission of the person who received it |
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Commercial: The email discusses buying, selling
or trading of goods or services. |
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Site Interference |
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| Interference or attempted interference
with SimplePath's site and/or operations using any
software program, routine or activity is a serious
offense and is not permitted. Members using
the SimplePath site may only modify or add content
in those areas specifically designated for member
use. All content must also abide by all other
SimplePath policies. In no case may a user
block, obscure, overwrite or modify any SimplePath-generated
content or pages. All other site locations
or components of SimplePath pages are strictly for
SimplePath use. |
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| Employee use of SimplePath |
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| SimplePath employees must follow strict
rules when publishing content and participating
in transactions on company web sites. Specifically: |
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Employees are subject to all the fees and policies
for using services. |
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Employees must use a personal, non-company email
address, telephone, and physical address to conduct
business. |
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