Freelance Web and Graphic Design

What Information is Collected?

When you visit David J. Pond web site you may provide 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 the David J. Pond web site.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Credit Card Information

If you choose to purchase products or services from David J. Pond web site, 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 via a 3rd party shopping cart:

Name
Mailing address
Email address
Credit card number
Home and business phone number
Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Email Information

In addition to providing the foregoing information, you may choose to correspond further with David J. Pond through email, David J. Pond may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and responses. David J. Pond provides the same protections for these electronic communications that is employed in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.

2. Web Site Use Information

Similar to other commercial web sites, David J. Pond web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how David J. Pond 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 David J. Pond web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

How Does David J. Pond Use the Information That You Provide?

Broadly speaking, David J. Pond web site will 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 list used to send you product and service offers is developed and managed under traditional business standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of David J. Pond customers’ personal information. As a customer, you may notify David J. Pond at any time, 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 Does David J. Pond Use Information Collected 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 the David J. Pond Web site and better serve customers. This information assists David J. Pond to design and arrange web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve David J. Pond web site to better meet the needs of customers and prospective customers.

Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets David J. Pond trace the paths followed by users on David J. Pond web site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow David J. Pond to count how many people visit the web site and evaluate David J. Pond web site’s visitor capacity. David J. Pond does not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.

How Does David J. Pond Protect Your Information?

Information Security. David J. Pond utilizes any of the following features firewall/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, David J. Pond operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of personal information gathered when using David J. Pond web site products and or services.

Employee Access, Training and Expectations. David J. Pond business values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer information. In general, David J. Pond business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.

Does David J. Pond Disclose Information to Outside Parties?

David J. Pond 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?

David J. Pond may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when David J. Pond, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to David J. Pond web site?

David J. Pond is not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from David J. Pond Web site nor the information or content contained therein.