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Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to Privacy
At thangkahouse.com, we value the trust you
have placed in us by using our service to conduct
your transactions online. Because your relationship
with us is financial in nature, the protection
of your privacy and prompt resolution of your
questions is particularly important to us.
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension
of our commitment to combine the highest-quality
products and services with the highest level
of integrity in dealing with our clients and
partners. The Policy is designed to assist you
in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard
the personal information you provide to us and
to assist you in making informed decisions when
using our site and our products and services.
This statement will be continuously assessed
against new technologies, business practices
and our customers' needs.
How does thangkahouse.com safeguard your financial
information?
thangkahouse.com automatically encrypts your
financial information in transit from your computer
to our server using the Secure Sockets Layer
protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length
of 128-bits. We do not take financial information
on our server and all payments are processed
on eithr VeriSign or Paypal secured pages.
Once your information reaches us, it resides
on a server that is heavily protected. We maintain
physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
on your information. Only authorized employees
are permitted to access customer information.
Authorized employees have been trained on how
to handle information properly and are subject
to strict limitations and guidelines in the
handling of that information. Only a small subset
of authorized employees is permitted to access
customer credit card or bank account numbers.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide
us with two types of information: personal information
you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected
on an individual basis and Web site use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others
browse our Web site.
If you choose to purchase products or services
from us, you may need to give personal information
and authorization to obtain information from
various credit services. For example, you may
need to provide the following information:
· Full Name
· Mailing address
· Email address
· Contact number
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information
to our partners, if you choose to correspond
further with us through email, we may retain
the content of your email messages together
with your email address and our responses. We
provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance
of information received by mail and telephone.
Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web
site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies"
(see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?")
and Web server logs to collect information about
how our Web site 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 Web site, and the Web sites
visited just before and just after our Web site.
This information is collected on an aggregate
basis. None of this information is associated
with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide
to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information
for purposes of administering 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 Web site,
new services and special offers we think you
will find valuable. The lists used to send you
product and service offers are developed and
managed under our traditional corporate standards
designed to safeguard the security and privacy
of our customers' personal information. As a
customer, you will be given the opportunity,
at least once annually, to notify us of your
desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software
that allows Web servers to recognize the 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 what information a user accesses on
one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions
with that Web site by the same user or to use
the information to streamline the user's transactions
on related Web pages. This makes it easier for
a user to move from Web page to Web page and
to complete commercial transactions over the
Internet. Cookies should make your online experience
easier and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such
as cookies and Web server logs to gather information
about our Web site users' browsing activities,
in order to constantly improve our Web site
and better serve our customers. This information
assists us to design and arrange our Web pages
in the most user-friendly manner and to continually
improve our Web site to better meet the needs
of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business
and technical statistics. The information in
the cookies lets us trace the paths followed
by users to our Web site as they move from one
page to another. Web server logs allow us to
count how many people visit our Web site and
evaluate our Web site's visitor capacity. We
do not use these technologies to capture your
individual email address or any personally identifying
information about you although they do permit
us to send focused online banner advertisements
or other such responses to you.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers from
outside companies advertised on our Web site.
We take measures to select product or service
providers that are responsible and afford privacy
protections to their customers. However, we
cannot make any representations about the practices
and policies of these companies.
Sharing Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances
or partnerships with third parties who may be
given access to personal information including
your name, address, telephone number and email
for the purpose of providing you information
regarding products and services that we think
will be of interest to you. In connection with
strategic marketing alliances or partnerships,
we will retain all ownership rights to the information,
and we will not share information regarding
your social security number or other personal
financial data.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information
we collect to notify you about important changes
to our Web site, new services and special offers
we think you will find valuable. As our client,
you will be given the opportunity to notify
us of your desire not to receive these offers
by clicking on a response box when you receive
such an offer or by sending us an email request
at info@thangkahouse.com.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential information to us
on our Web site, a secure server software which
we have licensed encrypts all information you
input before it is sent to us. The information
is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches
our Web site.
Other email that you may send to us may not
be secure unless we advise you that security
measures will be in place prior to your transmitting
the information. For that reason, we ask that
you do not send confidential information such
as Social Security or account numbers to us
through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security. 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.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business practices
are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies
and procedures governing the security, confidentiality
and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations.
Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies
and practices are committed to the protection
of customer information. In general, our business
practices limit employee access to confidential
information, and limit the use and disclosure
of such information to authorized persons, processes
and transactions.
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 info@thangkahouse.com.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our
customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns
and related Web site information to our affiliates
or reputable third parties, but this information
will not include personally identifying data,
except as otherwise provided in this Privacy
Policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of
Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled
to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith,
believe that the law requires it or for the
protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web
Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed
by Web sites linked to or from our Web site
nor the information or content contained therein.
Often links to other Web sites are provided
solely as pointers to information on topics
that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Your Consent
By using our Web site 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 Web site to keep you aware of
what information we collect, how we use it and
under what circumstances we may disclose it.
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