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Privacy Policy
As a leading global provider of security management
solutions for the Internet, protecting digital assets and ensuring safe
and uninterrupted online business operations, Global Security Consulting
understands and respects your privacy concerns when you visit our Web
site. In general, you may browse through our site without providing us
any information about yourself. However, we will need to request
personal information on occasion in order to provide you with specific
services that you have requested. This policy statement describes how
we collect and use this personal information.
Methods of Data Collection
Global Security Consulting collects data in the following ways:
- ˇ In registration screens and online forms
- ˇ In the process of online purchases and sales inquiries
- ˇ In emails sent to Global Security Consulting from users
What data we collect and how we use it
Global Security Consulting collects information for the following purposes:
- To engage in transactions and communications.
Name, address, email, purchase details, and credit card/payment
information may be collected and stored as a necessary part of an
online transaction and its attendant history. Global Security Consulting
may need to share some of this information (address, etc.) with
fulfillment houses, credit card clearing houses, and other similarly
situated third parties as a requirement to complete a transaction.
- To provide future service and support.
Contact and other information related to products and services may be
collected to assist future needs and customer support for Global Security
Consulting customers. This information is also used to provide product
and service updates, and similar notices.
- To provide customized content.
Information may be collected to help create relevant and user-friendly
Web site content and navigation. This information may include a
visitor's path through the site, as well as information provided
through online forms.
- To respond to user inquiries and requests for information. This information includes registrations for newsletters and sales inquiries.
- To provide useful marketing information. We may use information from you to provide timely and relevant notices of product releases and service developments.
- To provide additional information on corporate events or related products. We occasionally use your information to provide you with details on events and products that may meet your needs.
- To improve our online presence.
When Global Security Consulting uses tracking devices, such as IP address
logging or cookies, we do so to assist a specific function on our Web
site (online store, license key distribution), or to determine which
areas of our site are being used most heavily. This information is very
important in helping us make our Web site as useful as possible, both
for our customers and for the broader network security community. We do
not correlate specific sessions back to the individual visiting our
site, nor do we log the specific search terms entered into any given
search engine request. Global Security Consulting creates internal reports
on user demographics, Web site traffic patterns and other items that
help us assess the utility and performance of our Web site.
- For usage tracking.
Our Web server system automatically collects limited information about
you when you request pages from our server, including your IP address.
Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on a network to
identify your computer so that data, such as the Web pages you request,
can be sent to you. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems
with our server, and to provide general administration tasks on our Web
site. Your IP address is also used to keep track of your shopping cart
on any Global Security Consulting hosted online store. In addition, the
hostname (or computer name) of your computer may be looked up by our
server. This information is normally captured by Web servers. We use it
to help us maintain and improve our online presence. We do not use it
to generate marketing lists, or to resell this information to any third
party.
- As a result of legal requirements.
Global Security Consulting may be required to provide personally
identifiable information to comply with legally mandated reporting or
process requirements.
- For online registration.
Global Security Consulting has provided you with the ability to register
with us. We maintain the information and allow you to update it at any
time. To change this information, please click on My Profile and log
in. Please email webmaster@globalsc.com with any questions or concerns
regarding your profile.
How we use Cookies Some
of our Web servers use cookies to assist in administering our online
license key distribution system and online store. This information is
temporary in nature, and is not used for any other purpose. At no time
do we use cookies to capture personally identifiable information about
our visitors, nor do we ever make this information available to any
external organization.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Global Security Consulting is a global company, and
may share your personal information with other Global Security Consulting
offices around the globe. Your information may be stored and processed
in the United States, or any other country in which Global Security
Consulting, its subsidiaries or agents maintain normal business
operations.
As part of conducting transactions, Global Security
Consulting may need to share some of this information (address, etc.)
with fulfillment houses, credit card clearing houses, and other
similarly situated third parties that are required to complete a
transaction.
Contacting Internet Security Systems If
you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of
this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact, privacy@globalsc.com.
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