Privacy Policy
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect only such information as is necessary to conduct business on
this Site. Such information may include your name, mailing address, e-mail address and
telephone number. If we offer you the opportunity to open an account with us, you will
create a user name and password, and we will maintain a record of your transactions with
us. We may also place a “cookie” (a special text file) on your machine to identify you in
future transactions with us. You are welcome to set your browser to refuse cookies, but
such action may result in less convenience in using this Site. We do NOT collect such
information as Social Security numbers, Taxpayer ID numbers, credit card numbers, bank
account numbers or other similar proprietary information. All financial transactions
conducted through this Site are conducted by third-party payment processors, such as that
provided by Pay Pal®, American Express® or other similar organizations and companies.
Frankly, we don’t want the responsibility for maintaining your account numbers. If you
receive communication from what appears to be us asking for such information,
IT DID NOT COME FROM US, and if you should respond to it, you do so
only at your own peril. Most likely, it is a “phishing” program and should be
avoided. Such communication should be reported to a government authority, such as the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
United Stated Federal Trade Commission,
United States Treasury Department,
Federal Communications Commission, or
state or local law enforcement agencies.
2. WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
As stated above, the information we collect is primarily for the purpose
of conducting business through this Site.
SOME AREAS OF THIS SITE ARE FOR THE USE OF REGISTERED USERS ONLY. To access these
areas, you must create an account. There is NO charge for creating an account. All other
areas of the Site may be browsed anonymously.
The infomation we collect is used to conduct sales transactions. It is also used
for statistical analysis of our Site. We use this information to make improvements to our
Site that we believe will make it easier and more attractive to our users and customers.
We derive statistical models of our customers from such data and its collection. We
consider all such information statistical in nature and use it internally as such. While
some information we collect is personally identifying, we presume such information is
private and proprietary, and understand you are providing it to us solely for our mutual
benefit. We take our fiduciary responsibility seriously, and therefore do not and will
not divulge such data to any third party whatsoever, except as stated below. We do
however use personally identifiable information to maintain correspondence and
communication with our customers for informational updates, as well as sales and
marketing of our own products and services. But, to repeat, such information is for this
Site’s purposes, and is NOT divulged or revealed to any third party, except under such
extraordinary circumstances as are outlined below in Section 3.
3. EXCEPTIONS TO OUR SELF-PROHIBITION TO DIVULGING INFORMATION
We are, however, not above the law. We will reveal any personally
indentifying and non-personally identifying information to a legal authority that compels
us to. If we are served with a subpoena or warrant to report such data by a court of law
anywhere within the jurisdiction of the United States of America, including Federal,
state and muninciple courts, we will comply. Such subpoenas and warrants issued by
government authorities outside the United States of America will be referred to our own
lawyers for disposition. If at that time, it is determined we have no choice but to
reveal or divulge such information, we will do so.
Note that, as stated in the first paragraph above, we use third-party providers to
process financial transactions you may have with us. Thus, for the express purpose of
completing such transactions, we also provide such information as the payment processor
requires to complete such transactions.
4. THIRD PARTIES THAT MAY APPEAR ON OUR SITE
You may also see (and/or use) links to third parties on our Site. Any
information you reveal to those parties, whether our Site is involved directly or
indirectly, are strictly between them and you. Our putting a link to third-party Sites is
simply a courtesy to those Sites, thus, the disposition of information or data revealed
to the third party (or parties) is covered by
their policies and you are advised to be familiar with such policies. In no way
does this Site dictate to third parties what their policies should be, neither are we
able to control the entities to which such links as we may provide may connect. You are
hereby advised to use such links cautiously, despite the fact we perform due diligence
before granting a link to third party Sites. In any event, we accept no responsibility
for the actions of third parties, and you agree to hold us harmless in the event of a
dispute you may have with such third parties.
5. ACCESS TO INFORMATION
We strive to maintain the accuracy of any and all information we
collect, and you are entitled to such accuracy. We welcome and desire to make corrections
of errors of fact and inaccuracies of data and information we collect from you. If you
are or become aware of any mistakes or inaccuracies related to you or your account,
please provide us with the appropriate corrections at your earliest convenience by
writing to our
administrative
offices.
6. PROBLEM RESOLUTION
We remain committed to resolving privacy disputes as quickly as
possible, and to as great a degree as possible. Direct such problems to our
administrative
offices.
7. DATA STORAGE AND SECURITY
SocraticDuck.com protects user information with the following security
measures: by the security protocols, secure servers, firewalls, SSL encryption and other
technology provided by our Webite hosting company. All information collected by
SocraticDuck.com is for our purposes only, and will never be knowingly divulged to any
other third party, except as ordered to be divulged by Federal, state or local authority,
i.e., the FBI, CIA, Internal Revenue Service, law enforcement or Federal, state or local
courts by subpoena, as noted in paragraph 3 above.