Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Website.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
- Registration Information.You may provide us with your name and email address to sign up for blog alerts.
- Email Information. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
- Comments. Comments you may make on this site are not personally identifiable nor stored with your personal information.
Information Used to Complete a Purchase
Benz Communications collects information (such as your name, shipping and billing address, credit card number, email address, etc.) from you that we need to process your order for toolkits or our content subscription.
Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website, and the Websites visited just before and just after our Website. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at privacy@benzcommunications.com.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use our Website, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Website and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Website and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We will not share, rent, lease or sell your personal information (e.g., your email address, your credit card information, your name or address) to any third party for their independent use or benefit. Never. Ever. Website data, such as cookies, may be shared with third parties to improve the Website’s usability.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request at privacy@benzcommunications.com.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Website may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing privacy@benzcommunications.com.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Websites Linked to Our Website?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites that link to our website nor the information or content contained therein. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please the read rules and policies for that specific site.
What About Links From Us to Other Websites?
Throughout our site we often link to third party websites. Benz Communications assumes no responsibility for the information practices and privacy policies of websites to which our site provides links. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites. Feedback can be sent to privacy@benzcommunications.com. So please be aware, when you go to another website from ours, Benz Communications’ privacy practices and the terms and conditions of this Statement no longer apply. You should review each site’s privacy and security policies to determine such practices and whether you wish to disclose personally identifiable information on them.
Your Consent
By using our Website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Future changes to this privacy policy may be made at any time by sending you an email or posting notice of the changes on the site, with the changes effective 30 days after Benz’s dispatch of the email or posting of the notice. To ask questions about this policy or to remove your personal information from our database, write us at privacy@benzcommunications.com.