The ProFolio Group is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to The ProFolio Group website and governs data collection and usage. By using The ProFolio Group website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
The ProFolio Group collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The ProFolio Group also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by The ProFolio Group. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by The ProFolio Group for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of The ProFolio Group website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The ProFolio Group public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The ProFolio Group does not read any of your private online communications.
The ProFolio Group encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from The ProFolio Group so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The ProFolio Group is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of The ProFolio Group and The ProFolio Group family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
The ProFolio Group collects and uses your personal information to operate The ProFolio Group website and deliver the services you have requested. The ProFolio Group also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The ProFolio Group and its affiliates. The ProFolio Group may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The ProFolio Group does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The ProFolio Group may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The ProFolio Group may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The ProFolio Group and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The ProFolio Group does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
The ProFolio Group keeps track of the website and pages our customers visit within The ProFolio Group, in order to determine what The ProFolio Group services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within The ProFolio Group to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
The ProFolio Group website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 The ProFolio Group or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The ProFolio Group; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The ProFolio Group, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The ProFolio Group website use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a 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. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize The ProFolio Group pages, or register with The ProFolio Group site or services, a cookie helps The ProFolio Group to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same The ProFolio Group website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use The ProFolio Group features that you customized.
The ProFolio Group uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information.
The ProFolio Group reserves the right to use Google’s remarketing tools. AdWords Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Google. It connects the activity of www.theprofoliogroup.com with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie. It enables The ProFolio Group to advertise products and services you may be interested on participating sites as you browse the internet. An appropriate description of how you’re using remarketing or similar audiences to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the Internet. These third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits our website. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies here: http://google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout?hl=en
Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
In addition, as you browse theprofoliogroup.com, advertising cookies will be placed on your computer so that we can understand what you are interested in. Our display advertising partner, AdRoll, then enables us to present you with retargeting advertising on other sites based on your previous interaction with theprofoliogroup.com. The techniques our partners employ do not collect personal information such as your name, email address, postal address or telephone number. You can visit this page (http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy) to opt out of AdRoll and their partners’ targeted advertising.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer (version 9) you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block All Cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.
Security of your Personal Information
The ProFolio Group secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The ProFolio Group secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
The ProFolio Group will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The ProFolio Group encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The ProFolio Group is protecting your information.
Contact Information
The ProFolio Group welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The ProFolio Group has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The ProFolio Group at info@theprofoliogroup.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
