Privacy Policy

Last Revised 12/4/2007

 

General Information

Raju Associates, Inc. (“Raju Associates Inc”, “we” or “us”) understands and respects your privacy and trust. We take them seriously and as a result, we seek to ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal information online. This privacy policy is an effort to answer your privacy-related questions. If you have questions that are not addressed herein, please submit them to us by sending an email to information@rajuassociates.com

 

The purpose of this privacy policy (the "Policy") is to help you understand what kinds of personally identifiable information we may gather about you when you visit the Raju Associates Inc Website located at http://www.rajuassociates.com and related sub-domains (the “Site”), how we may use that information, whether we will disclose it, and how you can correct or update it. We note that this Policy sets forth our online information collection and use policies under U.S. law. The Site is intended for use by residents of the U.S. who are over the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children (that is, minors younger than thirteen years of age).

 

If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you should not use the Site. We reserve the right to update or modify this Policy from time to time and such changes to the Policy will be effective immediately; therefore please bookmark this page and review it periodically to ensure your familiarity with the most current version of the Policy. You can tell if the Policy has been updated since you last reviewed it by checking the "Last Revised" date at the beginning of the Policy.

 

This Policy is the sole authorized statement of Raju Associates Inc's practices with respect to the online collection of personally identifiable information and the usage of such information. Any summaries of this Policy generated by third party software or otherwise (for example, in connection with the "Platform for Privacy Preferences" or "P3P") shall have no legal effect, are in no way binding upon Raju Associates Inc, shall not be relied upon in substitute for this Policy, and neither supersedes nor modifies this Policy.

 

To assist with your review of our Policy, we have provided answers to questions that you may find important :

 

What Personal Information We Collect

 

Raju Associates Inc collects personally identifiable information that you specifically and voluntarily provide on the Site or by email to Raju Associates Inc. Personally identifiable information (“PII”) is information that identifies you as a specific individual, for example, your name, company name, account number, physical or email address, and phone number plus other information that personally identifies you including your industry, the number of employees at your company, and account history. The Site includes both public areas, open to all visitors, and private areas that are open only to those visitors who choose to register. In addition, visitors can sign up on the Site to request email newsletters and other information from Raju Associates Inc. Raju Associates Inc essentially collects PII from you when you:


  1. Create an account.
  2. Contact a representative.
  3. Are contacted by a representative.
  4. Subscribe to our newsletter.
  5. Request more information.
  6. Participate in a survey.
  7. Register at our website.

How We Use the Personal Information We Collect

 

We use the PII that you provide to us in order to:


  1. Fulfill requests for products, services and/or information,
  2. Provide customer service,
  3. Offer new products or services,
  4. Measure and improve the effectiveness of our Site and our marketing endeavors,
  5. Tailor our online offers to your preferences,
  6. Administer promotions or surveys, and
  7. Execute other business purposes as permitted under applicable law.

Raju Associates Inc may disclose PII to consultants, professional advisors and contractors who perform services on our behalf, but only to the extent necessary for them to perform such services. At times, Raju Associates Inc may seek to validate the PII we have collected via an audit by a third party designated to determine the accuracy of and/or to update the information collected. We may also combine data that we collect online with data collected offline (such as through inquiries made over the telephone) or with data provided by other parties.

 

Raju Associates Inc shares PII collected from our visitors and customers with our affiliated or related companies, including its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries or its parent company’s other subsidiaries. Raju Associates Inc reserves the right to release PII concerning any visitor when that visitor is believed by Raju Associates Inc to be in violation of any published guidelines for the use of the Site, or participates (or is suspected of participating) in any illegal or potentially illegal activity. Raju Associates Inc also reserves the right to disclose PII to comply with applicable law, in response to civil subpoenas or discovery requests or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required to protect the rights, property, safety and security of Raju Associates Inc, our visitors or the public or to respond to an emergency.

 

In the event that we sell or otherwise transfer to a third party, assets related either:


  1. To the Site or
  2. To one or more of our businesses, divisions or affiliated companies,

We reserve the right to also transfer any and all information (including any PII) associated with the Site and/or any business, division or affiliated company to such third party. However, all PII transferred to such third party shall be transferred subject to the usage restrictions contained in Raju Associates Inc’s privacy policy. Please note that we are not responsible for retracting your PII from any third parties with whom we have shared your information pursuant to the terms of this Policy.

 

Marketing Communications: Opting Out

 

When you provide PII to us, Raju Associates Inc provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of having your information used for marketing communications. Unless you have opted out of receiving such communications, Raju Associates Inc may use your PII to forward you, via email or mail, advertisements concerning Raju Associates Inc products, services, special promotions, surveys or other opportunities from Raju Associates Inc that we think may be of interest to you. Such email advertisements may also concern third party companies’ products and services.

 

Other than as set forth herein, we will not sell or lease your email address to third party advertisers to solicit you directly. Should you wish to change your preferences regarding the information that you receive from Raju Associates Inc or its affiliates, or would prefer that we not share PII with our marketing partners, please contact Raju Associates Inc at 1.626.792.2700.

 

Cookies

 

Upon visiting our Site, we will assign you a unique ID in the form of a "cookie". A cookie is a piece of information that our server places on your computer’s hard drive, which Raju Associates Inc may associate with your PII when you log on to the site. Cookies are used for such purposes as facilitating and personalizing your experience on our Site, helping diagnose problems with our server and administering our Site. NOTE: You can control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser and you may remove them from your computer, at any time, based on your discretion.

 

How We Protect Your Personal Information

 

To help ensure the confidentiality of your PII, Raju Associates Inc seeks to use security enhanced technology and procedures, which are reviewed periodically. We use encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”) in all areas where your personal and account information is required. This means that the personal information you submit to us via our Site is encrypted by your computer and then decrypted again on our side, thus discouraging others from accessing your private information during transmission. If your browser does not support SSL, or if you are unable to establish a secure connection due to a company firewall, please call us at 1.626.792.2700 for assistance.

 

In addition, your personal and account information are kept behind our firewall

 

Online versus Offline Practices

 

Please note that this Policy applies solely to our online information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with the Site and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline other than as expressly set forth in this Policy.

 

Contacting Raju Associates Inc

 

Should you have any questions, please e-mail us at information@rajuassociates.com. You may also call us at 1.626.792.2700 from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. US Pacific Standard Time.

 

 

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