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Articles Our Commitment to Privacy
The Maritime Executive respects your on-line privacy. Our privacy policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and products.
Information We Collect
When you visit the Maritime Executive web site, you may provide us with personal and/or business information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis. If you plan to purchase products from our web site, we will ask you to provide certain information such as your name, shipping/billing address, home or business telephone number, email and credit card information. We will also keep a record of your online product purchases, however, we do not store any credit card numbers. If you choose not to submit the information we request, you may be unable to purchase products offered on our web site.
Using Information About You
We use the personally identifiable information you provide for internal purposes such as maintaining your log-in session, as well as confirming and tracking your order. We may contract with companies to perform certain services such as credit card processing, and shipping.
Cookies
Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize a computer used to access a web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember information from a user to facilitate and maintain the log-in session of that user. We do not contract with third parties who may use cookies and collect them on our behalf.
Secure Information Transmissions
We use sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the integrity of the requested personal information that you share with us. Other information that you may send us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting that information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, Federal Identification Numbers, or other account numbers to us through an unsecured email. We urge you to keep your password in a safe place and remember to sign off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit.
Protecting Your Information
We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so.
Policy Changes
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on our Web site. This privacy policy was instituted in May 2005.
