Privacy Policy Statement
This Privacy Policy is provided to help you understand how we protect
Customer information. AASEC (herein referred to as The African American
Supplier Engagement Collaboration (AASEC), we, us or our) respects
your decision to do business with us and takes your privacy seriously.
Our Privacy Policy provides you with an opportunity to make informed
choices about the management of personal information. You trust us
with your personal, business and estimated financial information and
we'll honor that trust by handling your information carefully and
sensibly. This Privacy Policy will help you understand how we safeguard
and use information, and how it applies to all Members or former Members
who obtain merchandise/products and services from us for business.
Similarly, our Members who receive information from us or transact
business with us through the Internet are covered by additional privacy
policies on our websites.
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Collection of Information
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Security Procedures
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Disclosures to Service Your Membership Account
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Disclosures to Provide You with Offers for Merchandise/Products and
Services
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Offers for Merchandise/Products and Services of Other Companies
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Protecting Our Children
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Former Members
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Commitment to Service
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Online Privacy Addendum
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Information Collection
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Information Usage
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Links to Third Party Websites
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Your Online Security
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Legal Disclaimers
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Controls
Collection of Information
We collect information from and about you in order to identify you
as our Member, establish and manage Membership accounts, complete
Member request/transaction, understand Member needs, market merchandise/products
and services we believe are of value to Member, and comply with legal
and regulatory requirements. We collect and obtain Member information
from various sources including the following:
• Public Information
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Security Procedures
We are committed to maintaining the security of our Members’ business,
financial and personal information. All operational and data processing
systems are in a secure environment that protects Member information
from being accessed by unauthorized individuals or third parties.
Access to nonpublic information about you is restricted to those Associates
who need to know that information in order to provide merchandise/products
or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic
personal information. Correspondence and telephone conversations are
monitored for quality, compliance, and accuracy to ensure that our
standards are being followed.
From time to time, we may enter into agreements with other companies
to provide services to us or to make merchandise/products and services
available to you. Under these agreements, the companies may receive
information about you. They must safeguard this information, and they
may not use it for any other purpose.
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Disclosures to Service Your Membership Account
It is often necessary for us to disclose Member information to companies,
including our affiliates, which perform services necessary to establish
and manage Membership accounts on our behalf. These services may include
transaction and statement processing, research and analysis, delivery
of benefits and programs, marketing services, Customer Service, and
protection against fraud. Additionally, if we offer Member the opportunity
to enroll in affinity, frequent user, or award programs, we may provide
certain Member information to companies that administer such programs.
When it comes to disclosing Member information to others for the purpose
of establishing and managing Member accounts, we place limits on who
receives specific information. We disclose to these companies information
that they need to establish and manage Member accounts and restrict
the use of that information so that it cannot be used for any purpose
beyond the intended service. We may also provide certain Member information
to others outside of the corporation as required or permitted by law,
such as to government entities, other third parties in response to
subpoenas, or to consumer reporting agencies.
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Disclosures to Provide You with Offers for Merchandise/Products
and Services
We do not disclose any Member information to anyone, except as permitted
by law. However, we recognize that an important benefit for our Members
is the opportunity to receive offers for merchandise/products and
services from other companies that may work with us. In the future,
we may provide these offers to Member when we believe they will find
them of value. These offers will be developed under conditions designed
to safeguard Member information.
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Offers for Merchandise/Products and Services of Other Companies
As described in this Privacy Policy, we work with affiliated and non-affiliated
companies that help us service your account, and disclose information
to these companies as permitted by law. In the future, we also may
work with other companies to provide our Member with offers for products
and services that they provide. These other companies may include
financial service providers (that offer for example, insurance, loan
and investment products) and non-financial companies (that offer for
example card registries, membership clubs, and other consumer products
and services). Unless you direct us not to, we may disclose information
about you to those companies to enable them to develop and deliver
these offers to you.
If you prefer, you may tell us not to disclose information about you
to other companies for the purpose of providing you with their products
and services; you can write to the AASEC c/o P.O. Box 4967, Compton,
CA 90224 (“opt-out”). You can also email us at: bizpartnership@aol.com.
Please include your AASEC Account Email(s) in your letter. If you
opt out, everyone associated with your account will be excluded as
well. If you have more than one account with us, you may receive multiple
copies of this Privacy Policy. In that event, you will need to separately
opt-out of this information disclosure for each of your accounts with
us.
If you opt-out, you may still receive offers for merchandise/products
and services provided by affiliated or non-affiliated companies when
we communicate with you about your account. These offers, however,
will be developed without disclosing information about you to the
other companies. You may also still receive offers that are developed
without the use of information that we have collected about you.
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Protecting Our Children
We do not knowingly market to children. We recognize the importance
of protecting children's identities and privacy.
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Former Members
If you decide to close your account or your account becomes inactive
or is closed for some other reason, we will continue to treat and
safeguard your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
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Commitment to Service
We believe the confidentiality and protection of Member information
is one of our fundamental responsibilities. While information is critical
to providing quality service, we recognize that one of our most important
assets is our Members’ trust. Thus, the safekeeping of Member information
is a priority for us. We will continuously strive to maintain complete
and accurate information about our Members and their accounts. If
you believe that our records contain inaccurate or incomplete information
about you, it is important that you notify us as soon as possible.
We will investigate your concerns and correct any inaccuracies.
This Privacy Policy replaces any prior privacy policy we have posted
or delivered to you. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy
at any time, and we will inform you of changes as required by law.
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Online Privacy Addendum
This document is an addendum to the AASEC Privacy Policy covering
our Members who receive information or transact business with us over
the Internet.
Through our website, we strive to provide valuable information to
you about theartofbidding.com and how we may serve you. In addition,
we make available timely updates on new products, services, locations,
and Member Service hours for our valued Members.
We safeguard all information our Members share with us through our
website.
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Information Collection
We collect and store information about the name of the domain (such
as Yahoo.com or Google.com) from which you access the Internet, the
date and time you access our site, and the Internet address of the
website from which you linked to us. While you use our site, we collect
other information regarding your browser and operating system, the
amount of time you spend and links you use on each page, and the address
to which you go when leaving our site. This information simply enables
us to tell which areas of the site are of most interest to our users,
which avenues of site promotion are most effective, and the volumes
and times of peak website usage. We collect, retain, and use information
about you for the purpose of serving your educational needs and administering
our account relationships.
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Information Usage
Any information you choose to provide us may be used to improve the
content and services offered on our website, as well as to contact
you with more information about our merchandise/products, services,
or upcoming events.
In order to provide better service or to address security matters,
we may occasionally use a "cookie." A cookie is a small
piece of information that a website stores on your web browser and
can later retrieve. The cookies, which provide added convenience to
the user, will be used by us for administrative purposes only. Most
cookies last only through a single visit to our site. None of the
cookies will contain information that will enable anyone to contact
you.
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Links to Third Party Websites
The AASEC website contains links to, and may be linked from, third
party websites, which are not under the control of AASEC. AASEC makes
no representations whatsoever about any other website to which you
may have access through, or to, the AASEC website. When you access
a non-AASEC website, you do so at your own risk, and AASEC is not
responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data,
opinions, advice, or statements made on these sites. AASEC is not
responsible for updating or correcting false or misleading information
on any third party website. AASEC provides these links merely as a
convenience, and the inclusion of such links does not imply that AASEC
endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or uses of
such websites. Furthermore, any opinions expressed on any third party
website are not necessarily those of AASEC.
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Your Online Security
One of our highest priorities for Online Account Services is to ensure
your privacy and peace of mind by employing some of the most advanced
online security measures in the industry.
Once you enroll in AASEC Online Membership Account, you will be able
to use your email address(s) as a self-selected username and password
that serves as our first line of defense.
Whenever we ask you to send confidential information over the Internet,
we require that a "secure session" using Secured Socket
Layer (SSL) be established. SSL is a software-based security protocol
that encodes data before it is transmitted over the Internet. The
use of SSL requires that you have a browser that is SSL compatible.
At a minimum, we require the use of a browser equipped with 128-bit
encryption to ensure the privacy of your information and recommend
the use of Netscape™ Navigator 8.08 or later, and Microsoft® Explorer
7.01 or later, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.3 or later, AOL 9.0 or later, and
Safari 5.2 or later (MAC OS users). You can upgrade your browser by
visiting the following websites:
Microsoft products, click
here.
Netscape products, click
here.
Mozilla based products, click
here.
Safari based products, click
here.
AOL based products, click
here.
An icon, such as a lock or key, will be displayed
in the corner of your browser's window to let you know that your browser's
encryption is active.
In addition, we have extensive and sophisticated security measures
in place to protect our servers, databases, and communication lines.
Our systems are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ensure
their continued integrity.
We engage in regular internal and external reviews of our website
processes/updates, security procedures, and technologies. We also
must meet the standards established by regulatory agencies that perform
periodic examinations. This attention to security helps ensure the
safety of your account information.
The best security measures are those that support your privacy without
hindering your access to account information. You can rest assured
that your account information is safe.
You can also ensure the security of your information by following
these steps:
• Never reveal your username and password to anyone.
• Change your password frequently using the "Forgot Password"
function.
• Always select passwords that cannot be easily guessed.
• Always sign out before walking away from your computer.
• Always sign out before accessing other websites.
We reserve the right to change this Online Privacy Addendum and our
information collection activities for this website at any time by
modifying and posting a new Privacy Policy.
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Legal Disclaimers
All information on this website is protected by copyright in the United
States of America and in other countries. Unless otherwise specified,
no one has permission to copy or republish, in any form, any information
found on this website.
The posting of information or other materials to this website does
not constitute a waiver of any proprietary right in such information
and materials (such as, but not limited to, copyright, service marks,
trademarks, trade names, or other intellectual property) and does
not transfer any rights to a user of the website or any other third
party, except as expressly provided herein.
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Controls
All content on AASEC's website is owned by AASEC. Any changes to the
site are made solely through NetBased Studios and or AASEC request
and are completed by AASEC or entities that we have authorized only.
AASEC is not responsible for system errors on your computer that prevent
theartofbidding.com website from loading or operating properly. If
an error is discovered within AASEC's website itself or due to a problem
at theartofbidding.com Internet Service Provider, AASEC and the Internet
Service Provider will correct the error as quickly as possible.
TheArtOfBidding.com is the official website of the AASEC.
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These Privacy Policy Statement were last updated October 20, 2008.
Please check back periodically for updates and changes.
