Privacy & Cookie Policy
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KEYSTONE ISS INC. INC. PRIVACY STATEMENT
Updated: January 5, 2022
Keystone
ISS Inc. is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing
a safe online experience for all our users. This privacy statement
explains data collection and use practices of the holdings, sites,
products, services or information owned and operated by Keystone ISS
Inc.; it does apply to other online or offline Keystone sites, products
or services. By accessing the Site, you are consenting to the
information collection and use practices described in this privacy
statement.
Your Privacy Is Serious Business To Us!The privacy of our
visitors and members is very important to us. Since we do gather
information about you, we provide this privacy statement to enable you
to understand the terms and conditions associated with the collection of
this data, as well as how we use it and how you can correct or change
it. In addition, we make to you the following pledge:
- The Keystone ISS Inc. Privacy Pledge
- The information we collect about your business will be used for purposes of site research and development in an effort to better serve your needs.
- We will never contact you without your permission, and we will immediately terminate any communications with you upon request.
On This Page:
Collection of your Personal Information
Use of your Personal Information
Control of your Personal Information
Security of your Personal Information
Protection of Children's Personal Information
Use of Cookies
Use of Web Beacons
Changes to this Statement
Contact Information
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We
will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you
(personal information) or allows us to contact you to provide a service
or carry out a transaction that you have requested such as receiving
information about Keystone ISS Inc. products and services, entering a
contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, joining a limited-access premium
site or service, signing up for an event or training, or when
purchasing, downloading and/or registering Keystone ISS Inc. products.
The personal information we collect may include your name, title,
company or organization name, work e-mail, work phone, work or home
address, information about your job function, information about your
company, and credit card information.
The Site may collect certain
information about your visit, such as the name of the Internet service
provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access
the Internet; the date and time you access the Site; the pages that you
access while at the Site and the Internet address of the Web site from
which you linked directly to our site. This information is used to help
improve the site, analyze trends and administer the site. Some of our
sites collect information about your hardware and software in order to
provide a requested service. Windows Update, for example, needs to know
information about your computer in order to recommend needed operating
system updates.
Keystone ISS Inc. technical communities provide
opportunities to interact with Keystone ISS Inc. employees, experts, and
your peers in order to share knowledge and news about Keystone ISS Inc.
products and related technologies. In order to avoid your e-mail
address or other personal information from being gathered and used by
others for inappropriate or harmful purposes, Keystone ISS Inc. advises
that you should be cautious about posting a real e-mail address or other
personal information to newsgroups, chats, or other public forums. Read
more about guidelines for safe use of Keystone ISS Inc. technical
communities.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The
personal information collected on this Site will be used to operate the
Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you
have requested or authorized.
In support of these uses,
Keystone ISS Inc. may use personal information to provide you with more
effective customer service, to improve the Site and any related Keystone
ISS Inc. products or services, and to make the Site easier to use by
eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or
by customizing the Site to your particular preference or interests. In
order to offer you a more consistent experience in your interactions
with Keystone ISS Inc., information collected by Keystone ISS Inc. may
be combined with information collected by other Keystone ISS Inc.
services.
We may use your personal information to provide
you with important information about the product or service that you are
using, including critical updates and notifications. Additionally, with
your permission, we may send you information about other Keystone ISS
Inc. products and services, and/or share information with Keystone ISS
Inc. partners so they may send you information about their products and
services.
We merge site-visitation data with anonymous
demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this
information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some
limited-entry sections of Keystone ISS Inc., with your approval, we will
combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to
provide you with personalized content. If you decline permission, we
will not provide you the personalized service and won't merge your
personal information with site-visitation data.
When you sign up for a
newsletter or agree to receive promotional e-mail, Keystone ISS Inc.
may use customized links or similar technologies to track e-mail links
that you click. We may associate that information with your personal
information in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications
or purchase information. Each e-mail communication includes an
unsubscribe link allowing you to stop delivery of that type of
communication.
Some services Keystone ISS Inc. holdings offer
individuals the ability to publicly display certain personal
information, such as for a Keystone ISS Inc. partner who wishes to
publish contact information as part of offering a business service.
Participation in such services is always optional.
Keystone
ISS Inc. occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services
on our behalf, such as Web site hosting, packaging, mailing and
delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and
services, and sending information about our products, special offers,
and other services. We will only provide those companies the personal
information they need to deliver the service. They are required to
maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from
using that information for any other purpose.
Keystone ISS Inc. may
disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts
of the law or comply with legal process served on Keystone ISS Holdings
or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Keystone
ISS Inc. and our family of Web sites; or (c) act in urgent circumstances
to protect the personal safety of Keystone ISS Inc. employees or
agents, users of Keystone ISS Inc. products or services, or members of
the public.
Personal information collected on the Site may be stored
and processed in the United States or any other country in which
Keystone ISS Inc. or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain
facilities, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of
information outside of your country. Keystone ISS Inc. abides by the
safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce
regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European
Union.
CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as
otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide
on the Site will not be shared outside of Keystone ISS Inc. and its
controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission.
Please
be aware that this privacy statement and any choices you make on the
Site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have
provided to Keystone ISS Inc. in the context of other, separately
operated, Keystone products or services.
Keystone ISS Inc. may send
out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service or security
issues related to a product or service you requested, or confirming you
requested a product or service. In some services offered by Keystone ISS
Inc., contact with the customer is an intrinsic part of the service.
You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they
are considered an essential part of the service(s) you have chosen.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Keystone
ISS Inc. is committed to protecting the security of your personal
information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to
help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use,
or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you
provide on computer servers with limited access, which are located in
controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive
personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet,
we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) protocol.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION
Keystone ISS Inc. is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
USE OF COOKIES
We
use cookies on this Site to ensure the integrity of the registration
process and to personalize the Site. A cookie is a small text file that
is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used
to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are
uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of
cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For
example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a
cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent
visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content,
eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the Web site, the
information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily
use the site's features that you customized.
Web beacons, also known
as clear gif technology or action tags, may be used to assist in
delivering the cookie on our site. This technology is a tool we use to
compile aggregated statistics about Keystone ISS Inc. Web site usage,
such as how many visitors clicked on key elements (such as links or
graphics) on a Keystone ISS Inc. Web page, blog or a newsletter. We may
share aggregated site statistics with partner companies.
You have the
ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to
decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may
not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or
other Web sites you visit.
COOKIES
All sites owned and
operated by Keystone ISS Inc. may use cookies. A cookie is a small data
file written to your hard drive. Cookies allow us to understand user
behavior so that we can more effectively develop information and
programs to serve you better. Our third party ad serving company,
delivers a one-time cookie to your hard drive in order to better track
ad impressions and click-through rates. Advertisers require information
regarding ad impressions and click-through rates, and by providing them
with this information, we are able to keep our sites FREE or at low cost
to our visitors.
Keystone ISS Inc. site may use third
party services for the serving and/or targeting of ads, promotions and
other marketing messages. To do this, DoubleClick collects anonymous
data through the use of cookies.
If you are concerned about the use
of cookies, you have the option to set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, or to turn off cookies entirely. The options to warn
or disable cookies can be found in the "Options" or "Preferences"
feature of your browser. YOU DO
NOT NEED TO ENABLE COOKIES IN ORDER TO USE ANY SITE OWNED AND OPERATED BY Keystone ISS Inc.
USE OF WEB BEACONS
Keystone
ISS Inc. Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons -
sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow Keystone ISS Inc. to
count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. Keystone ISS Inc. may include Web beacons in promotional
e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages
have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be
placed by third party service providers to help determine the
effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications.
These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a
persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the service
provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or
emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page
views. Keystone ISS Inc. prohibits Web beacons from being used to
collect or access your personal information.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
We
may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will
also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement.
For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you
either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or
by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to
periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we
are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your
continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy
statement and any updates.
MESSAGE BOARDS & PUBLIC POSTINGS
Keystone
ISS Inc. is not responsible for the information you volunteer about
yourself in the course of discussions in our message boards or other
forms of publicly accessible interaction.
USAGE REPORTS
In
order to better understand traffic patterns on any site owned and
operated by Keystone ISS Inc., we analyze our site activity to obtain
overall usage statistics. These usage statistics provide us with certain
information obtained from data within the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser). Information we collect from the
browser string includes domain name, browser type, and operating system
and MIME type.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Please be aware
that when you are on Keystone ISS Inc. or any site owned by Keystone ISS
Inc., or when you receive an email message from us on behalf of a
marketer according to permission granted through our opt-in process for
newsletters and special offers, you could be directed to other sites
that are beyond our control, such as the marketer's site. There may be
links to other sites from Keystone ISS Inc. pages or from the email
message we send to you that take you outside Keystone ISS Inc. These
other sites may send their own cookies to visitors collect data or
solicit personal information. The privacy policies of these other sites
may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot
guarantee the security of any of your personal information collected
there.
NOTICE: Click here for important information about safe surfing from the Federal Trade Commission.
POPS
Keystone
ISS Inc. does serve pop advertisements to visitors upon entry and exit.
The frequency of these pops is controlled by cookies, mentioned
heretofore in this Privacy Policy. Although we do serve pop
advertisements, you can choose to block these pop-up windows by using
pop-up blocker software. There are many good pop-up blockers on the
market.
SECURITY
Protecting the security of your
personal information is very important to us. When we store information
you have provided to us, that information is protected by security
measures that include "firewalls" (a combination of computer hardware
and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing
information within our computer network), "intrusion detection systems"
(a combination of computer hardware and software that helps detect any
unauthorized visitors), "secure socket layer" (data encryption used when
transmitting certain information such as personal information from a
form or a transaction within SmallBizBooks.com or Free-Bookstore.com)
and other security measures such as secure storage. Unfortunately, no
data transmission over the Internet or data repository can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. As a result, while Keystone ISS Inc. strives to
protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or
warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us
online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or
inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.
REPORTING UNSOLICITED E-MAIL
Despite
our concerted efforts to prevent unsolicited (spam) e-mail relayed
through Keystone ISS Inc. servers, unsolicited e-mail may sometimes get
through. Keystone ISS Inc. NEVER sends unsolicited or spam e-mail. We
view spam as a serious violation of privacy and a misuse of the Internet
in general. If you receive an unsolicited e-mail with a domain of
Keystone ISS Inc., please send it immediately to abuse@Keystoneiss.com.
Upon receipt of the email, we will do our utmost to track down the
offender and take any actions necessary to stop spam messages.
CORRECTING INFORMATION
You
can correct or update any information you have provided to Keystone ISS
Inc. by following the instructions in any electronic newsletter or
offering we send or you may correct your information by sending an email
to info@Keystoneiss.com.
DEACTIVATING
Any user
receiving our electronic newsletter or who receives regular offers from
our partners may opt out of our email list at any time by simply
following the instructions to "Unsubscribe" within each newsletter or
offering or by following the instructions at editor@keystoneiss.com.
VISITORS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
Our
Web site and the servers that make this site available worldwide are
located in the United States. All matters relating to these sites are
governed by the laws of the State of New York in the United States. Any
information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By
visiting our sites and submitting information, you authorize this
transfer.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Keystone ISS Inc. welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you believe that Keystone has not adhered to this privacy statement, please contact us electronically or via postal mail at the address provided below, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
Abuse@Keystoneiss.com
In the Subject line type “Privacy Issue”
Or you can send US Mail to:
Privacy
Keystone ISS Inc.
P.O. Box 2307
Hagerstown, MD 21741-2307