This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time and is incorporated into the I-Escrow™ Terms and Conditions for Use of the iEscrow Web Site. By accepting the iEscrow Terms and Conditions for Use of the iEscrow Web Site, you agree to allow iEscrow and i-Escrow ("we" or "us" or "our" as the case may be) to use the information that we obtain as described in this Privacy Policy. We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any modifications shall be effective immediately upon the posting of such modifications on the iEscrow web site or by notification to you by other means. You also agree to receive notice and other information by electronic means. We have created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your financial information and information that personally identifies you. We treat and refer to this information as "Personal Information." This Privacy Policy discloses our information gathering, use and disclosure practices for our web site and services.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Registration Data: In order to register for our service, you need to submit contact information that includes your email address, name, address, phone number and birth date. In some cases, our business partners or affiliates, with whom you may have already registered as a customer or user, will provide this information to us. This allows us to provide services seamlessly and accurately.
Traffic Data: As you use our services, we collect some traffic data to help us better understand how our services are being used and how we can improve them. This automatically gathered data includes your computer's Internet Protocol address, statistics about how visitors navigate through our web site and information provided through the use of "cookies." Cookies are small files that we send to your computer so that we may recognize it as a unique machine.
Transaction Data: We also collect transaction data regarding items that you have purchased or sold while using our service, such as shipping information, payment methods (for example, credit card numbers) and the like.
Since all of the information that we collect may be associated with your username and contact information, it is Personal Information. As described below, we only disclose it in limited circumstances.
HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Providing the Service: We use the information you provide when you become a registered user to facilitate and monitor your activities on our web site and to carry out your transactions. We will send you messages about your transactions and we may send you occasional messages with important information about our service.
Promotional Use: Unless you specify that you would prefer not to hear from us, we may use your Personal Information to advise you of our services or products that may be of interest to you and to contact you for promotional reasons. We may also share your Personal Information with other companies that offer goods and services of possible interest to you. As described below in the "Choice" section, you may decline these mailings. We will never disclose your account access number or code for marketing purposes.
Personalization and Cookies: We may use cookies to identify you when you visit our web site, so that you can more easily access your iEscrow and i-Escrow account information without having to re-enter data. We also use cookies to gather information about our users in order to improve our understanding of our users, their needs and how they use our web site.
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
Personal Information: We will not disclose any Personal Information to third parties except under the following circumstances and unless you authorize us to do so. We will disclose to third parties the information necessary to complete your transaction, such as appropriate disclosures to the buyer and seller and credit card processing companies. This may include disclosures to third parties for fraud detection or evaluation of credit risk.
- Vendors. We may share your Personal Information with third parties, such as shipping companies, which perform certain services and functions on our behalf. We will require that such vendors use your Personal Information only in connection with the services they provide for us, in a manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.
- Affiliates. We may share your Personal Information with affiliates that offer similar services in other markets. Such affiliates will be controlled by us or will be under the common control of our business partner and us.
- Other Disclosure of Personal Information. We also disclose Personal Information as required by law, or if in our judgment it is necessary to protect our users or us from loss or liability. Our goal is to provide you continuity of service. If we were to merge with or be acquired by another company or the business unit providing you our services is transferred, the data we have will be transferred along with the business. If we ceased operation, our information may be transferred to and used by another company that offers similar or related products or services.
- Business Partners. We may also disclose your Personal Information to business partners, such as banks that provide related services, for our business partners' internal use and so that our business partners can alert you to special offers, updated information and new services. If you do not want to receive these messages, see the "Choice" section below.
Aggregate Information: We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related web site and user information to reputable third parties or otherwise release aggregate statistics. These statistics reveal no Personal Information about you.
Links: Our web site contains links to other web sites. These web sites may collect Personal Information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other web sites. Please check posted policies of web sites linked to our web site in order to learn about their privacy practices.
SECURITY
We restrict access to your Personal Information to employees that require such information in order to provide services to you. We also use industry standard security systems, including a combination of firewalls, encryption, login passwords and secure socket layer security protocol (SSL) in order to guard against unauthorized access to your Personal Information. Although we make extensive efforts to maintain the security of your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee that it will not be intercepted by a third party's illegal efforts.
PROTECTING YOUR USER ID AND PASSWORD
It is your responsibility to maintain the secrecy of your ID and password. Unauthorized access to your account will enable access to your Personal Information and transactions on your account.
CHOICE
Our web site provides users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving the type of communications from us (as described in the "Promotional Use" section above) or disclosing your Personal Information to our Business Partners (as described in item 4 above) by simply clicking on the appropriate opt-out boxes. This choice is generally located where you sign up for our service.
UPDATE
To update your registration data and modify your opt out preferences, just go to the QuikTrack page area of our web site and select "Modify Your User Account Information" under the Account Management section.
CONTACTING IESCROW
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our security systems, wish to modify your opt out preferences, please contact us in one of the following ways:
You can send email to privacy@iEscrow.com
You can send mail to:
ATTN: Privacy Policy
I-Escrow, Inc
724 S. Park View St.
Los Angeles, California 90057
If you feel that we are not abiding by the terms of this Privacy Policy, please contact us so that we can resolve the situation.