The Internet is rapidly changing the way all of us communicate and interact with each other. While the Internet allows each of us access to a greater array of information and services than has ever been available, these new online activities do raise new challenges, such as the privacy issues addressed in this policy. MrCPA.net is committed to working with public policy organizations, industry groups, and government institutions to understand and address these challenges as they arise. But most importantly, having a relationship with our customers that is founded on trust is not only good manners, it is also good business. Any feedback you'd like to provide to help us better meet your expectations in this arena is welcomed.
Our Commitment to You
MrCPA.net wants to make your online experience satisfying and safe. Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much information to provide to us, and to control how we use that information. Our goal is to provide you with a robust online experience while allowing you to control your privacy.
MrCPA.net collects information online primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such as your name, email address, or information about what you like and do not like. On other occasions such as when we provide items or services for purchase online, we may request your credit card number to conclude the transaction, or your mailing address to ensure proper delivery. We request this information to provide our strongest value to you - a personalized online experience. Customers who personalize our service come back more often - and it's the customers that visit us often who make us successful
Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable:
The amount of Personally Identifiable Information that you choose to disclose to MrCPA.net is completely up to you. In other words, we will know Personally Identifiable Information about you only if you choose to share this type of information with us.
Like you, we at MrCPA.net have children of our own and are concerned about their safety and privacy when they use the Internet. That is why we have established the following guidelines for the way we interact with children when they access our services.
Children Under the Age of 13
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), MrCPA.net will never knowingly collect PII from anyone under the age of 13 without first obtaining parental consent. We will place a "Children's Seal" on any page directly targeted to children under 13 that requests the disclosure of PII, informing those children that parental consent is needed prior to the collection of such information.
In addition, MrCPA.net will never list Personally Identifiable Information, or information that would allow for the online or offline contact of a child under age 13 anywhere on our site.
The management and employees of MrCPA.net are very proud of the steps we have taken to safeguard the privacy of all minors online. We're doing what we can to ensure that Personally Identifiable Information users under the age of 18 won't leave our company for commercial use, and that someone using our site won't be able to easily discover their age. These protections are a start, but there are additional measures parents and guardians can take to protect the privacy and safety of children online. For more information, we recommend that you visit the Parents and Children portion of the TRUSTe site, which contains information and links to other resources on this subject.
In our effort to providefor services, we may at times ask you to submit information such as your name or email address, or to share your interests and hobbies with us. You never have to answer these questions, and you can decline this exchange of information on any site on the Internet - not just ours - at any time. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information, such as requests for quotation and submission of referrals.
When you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator® or Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits some information to MrCPA.net every time you access content on our site. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the "Refer"), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site. All of this information is collected by MrCPA.net and is used to help improve our offerings to you. For instance, from this information we determined that few of our customers use older browser versions. Because of this we recently decided to enhance the quality of content available to all of our customers by using the advanced features of HTML that cannot be accessed from those older browser versions. All of the information that is automatically submitted to us by your browser is considered Anonymous Information.
To enable certain features available within MrCPA.net, we will assign "cookies" to your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer). A cookie is a small text file that contains a unique identification number stored on your computer. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. This unique identification number automatically identifies your browser - but not you - to our computers whenever you interact on one of our Internet domains. When you visit our site, a cookie in effect says to our server computers "Hello, I'm browser #655. What do you do just for me?"
There is a lot of confusion about cookies, how they are used, and what they can do. Cookies only contain information that the server computer "knew" in the first place, and can only be read by the serving domain that placed them. For instance, GoMyTown.com utilizes cookies, but MrCPA.net's servers can't read their contents nor canGoMyTown 's servers read ours. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today, and allow server computers to recognize your computer's browser when you return. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot "run" on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information, or transmit it to anyone.
Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your Web browser. But don't just take our word for it - read what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!
For Netscape, please visit: http://home.netscape.com/security/basics/privacy.html#cookies
For Microsoft, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/insider/internet/articles/security2.htm#cookies
If you are providing us Personally Identifiable Information, it will only be used within the MrCPA.net domain. In the unlikely event that we find it benificial to transfer your information to third parties, MrCPA.net will share aspects of your information with our valued partners. Some of these transactions may include financial payment to MrCPA.net for the information provided but are only undertaken with companies whose privacy practices are consistent with the principles established within this policy and with whom MrCPA.net believes that a product that truly benefits our customers can be promoted.
Although unlikely, MrCPA.net may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information the appropriate governmental authorities. If requested by law enforcement or judicial authorities, we will provide this information upon receipt of the appropriate documentation.
Other companies that place advertising on our site may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content through the use of cookies (using the same techniques as described above). Due to the way the Internet technically operates, we cannot control this collection of information - but we can control which companies are allowed to place such advertising on our site. As the consumer you should contact these advertisers or content providers that place information on the MrCPA.net directly if you have any questions about their use of the information they potentially collect. It should be noted that anyone placing advertising on our Web sites can only collect Anonymous Information about you unless you actively provide Personally Identifiable Information to them.
And finally, the MrCPA.net Network does not control the information collection and distribution policies on Internet domains other than MrCPA.net . We do, however, encourage our co-branding partners to adopt privacy policies similar to this one.
The MrCPA.net operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as a customer's credit card number collected for a commerce transaction, is encrypted prior to transmission.