Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect
and store the following information about your visit:
- The name of the
Internet domain (for example, "yourcompany.com")
and the IP address (a number that is automatically assigned
to your computer when you are using the Internet) from which
you
access our site;
- The type of browser and operating system used to access
our site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The Internet address of the Web site from which you linked
directly to our site; and
- The pages you visit and the information you request.
This information is primarily collected for statistical analysis
and technical improvements to the site. Our computer system uses
software programs to create summary statistics, which may be
used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most
and least interest, determining technical design specifications,
and identifying system performance or problem areas.
If You Send Us Personal Information
Please
remember that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception.
If your communication is sensitive or includes
personal information you may prefer to send it by postal mail
or call us at our toll free number instead. We strongly discourage
everyone from sending us information such as credit card numbers
by
email.
Surveys
Any surveys
you fill out before, during or after visiting our site, including
surveys sent to you by email is used for internal
use only. This information is used only to help us in determining
how best to modify our site and marketing processes to serve
our customer's needs. Emails are sent strictly based on the preferences
outlined in the body of the survey submitted.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either
used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"),
or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user,
or information
about that user, the next time the user logs on to a Web site
("persistent cookies"). There are three places where
this takes place: when using our shopping cart (in order to
keep track of your products); on the sign in page (in order
to remember
your username); and on all product pages (in order to track
where you were referred to us from). Session cookies are deleted
from
the component's server soon after your session ends and are
not collected or saved. You can set up your Web browser to
inform
you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set.
You can still use our Web site if you do not accept the cookies,
but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features
such as the Shopping Cart.
Security
When ordering from our site you are ordering on a secure Stronghold
server authenticated with a Thawte certificate. When you
connect to a secure web server such as ours, you ask that
server to
authenticate itself. This authentication is quite a complex
process involving
public keys, private keys and a digital certificate. The
certificate tells you that an independent third party has
agreed that the
server belongs to the company it claims to belong to. A
valid certificate means that you can have confidence that you
are
sending information.
Any information
we have about our clients and visitors is used only by 123-Awards.com
and is never sold or otherwise provided to any third party without
the client's prior consent.