Beacon Ship Supply maintains high standards for the protection of privacy over the Internet. The following policy statement explains how Beacon Ship Supply protects the privacy of information transmitted over the Internet from its web-site visitors.
Generally, Beacon Ship Supply obtains only specific and individualized data about its website visitors when such information is supplied voluntarily, i.e., when web site visitors send e-mail, inquiries or make registrations of purchases from Beacon Ship Supply. Beacon Ship Supply then uses the information for the purpose of fulfilling the visitors' requests. However,Beacon Ship Supply gathers some generic information automatically, solely to help Beacon Ship Supply determine the success and usefulness of its websites. This generic information, which does not reveal the identity of the visitor, include: what web site the visitor visited, how much time people spend on various pages of the site, visitors' domain name types (.com, .org, etc.), and the originating web page of the visitor. Beacon Ship Supply uses this information to determine customer service needs. In the future, Beacon Ship Supply may increase its technical abilities for gathering data about visitors in order to enhance the services offered to visitors and customers. This privacy policy will be periodically updated to reflect any such changes to Beacon Ship Supplys' practices.
Beacon Ship Supplys' websites may employ "cookies". Cookies are small segments of text that are transmitted to a visitor's web browser and which store information on the visitor's hard drive. This information is later transmitted back to the server that originally sent it to the visitor upon a later visit to that site. Cookies allow servers to recall previous transactions to avoid repetition in data gathering. A visitor can configure their equipment hardware/software, usually with its browser to make notification when they receive a cookie. The visitor can refuse it.
Beacon Ship Supply will not sell or reveal information obtained about its visitors to anyone outside of Beacon Ship Supply unless authorized by the visitor through the nature of their transaction, it is legally required, or such disclosure is required to protect the safety of employees, visitors, customers, or property. Beacon Ship Supply does not send "junk" e-mail, also known as "spam". In certain instances, when Beacon Ship Supply wishes to contact customers via e-mail, respond to messages, confirm purchases, or transmit information requested by or of interest to a visitor, Beacon Ship Supply will typically use e-mail. Any time a customer or visitor receives unwanted e-mail from Beacon Ship Supply, the customer can request to receive no further e-mails from Beacon Ship Supply.
Beacon Ship Supply has security measures in place for protecting data conveyed during a visitor's purchase with Beacon Ship Supply. Beacon Ship Supplys' employees, partners and subcontractors are required to protect the privacy of such data. Beacon Ship Supply wants visitors and customers to feel that their privacy will be protected when the visitor accesses their account or purchases services from Beacon Ship Supply on-line. Beacon Ship Supply denies any responsibility for the privacy protections or content offered by other sites to which Beacon Ship Supplys' websites may contain links.
Because Beacon Ship Supply desires accuracy in the information it obtains and uses about its visitors and customers, Beacon Ship Supply will attempt to verify its data and will ask customers to provide notification of any inaccuracies or mistakes of which they may become aware through their on-line account data.
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