PRIVACY POLICY
iBridge Group Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the iBridge Group website. iBridge Group operates in the United States. Information contained on this site may refer generally to all iBridge Group activities. By using the iBridge Group website, you represent that you agree with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, please do not use the site. We will provide individuals from whom we collect personal information with a copy of our Privacy Policy upon request.
How We Protect Personal Information
We take what we believe to be reasonable efforts that are customarily used in our industry to maintain security and confidentiality by administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration or destruction of any personal information you provide on this website, which includes limiting access to authorized individuals and destroying personal information that we decide not to retain in a manner designed to make it unreadable or undecipherable. Agents, contractors or partners of iBridge who have access to our personal information in connection with providing services for iBridge are required to keep the information confidential and are not permitted to use such personal information for any other purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for iBridge. We use secure socket layer technology to help keep the personal information you provide on this site secure. Even though we make every reasonable effort with existing proven technology to keep our site secure, we can not guaranty at any given moment that our site is secure. We strongly encourage you to keep your user ID and password confidential. When even the CIA, Pentagon and Fortune 100 companies, despite all their resources, have periodic security breaches we can only make reasonable ongoing efforts using industry methods and available technology to try to maintain site security. If such efforts by us do not meet your requirements, do not use our site. If for any reason whatsoever you feel your user ID and password have become compromised, please contact us immediately.
How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information and Why We Collect It
If you choose to supply us with your personal information, we will only use such information consistent with our policies regarding the establishment of service accounts, our Terms of Use and as may be described in this iBridge Privacy policy. In connection with our efforts to better serve you, we may also share your personal information with our affiliates unless you direct us in writing not to do so. Please note that certain personal information must be supplied in order to establish an account. We collect personal information in a number of ways, including via input into our Site, and via telephone. We may ask you to provide information including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, social security number, government issued identification number, and credit card number. We use this information to provide service to you and to invoice you for services provided. You may also be required to provide certain information when signing up for an account on our site. We also collect certain other information when you visit the iBridge site. This other information tells us such things as how many users visit our site and which pages they have chosen to access. This information also assists us with maintaining and designing a user-friendly web site for you to enjoy. We collect this information through “cookie” technology as explained below. This other information includes:
Click-stream data
HITP protocol elements
Search terms
HITP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:
Completion and support of the current activity
Website and system administration and
Research and development
To assist customers with technical problems, we also may collect local Web configuration information, including:
Browser type
Operating system
Browser settings
In addition, our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer when you visit our website. This information may include the type of browser software you use, the operating system you’re running, the IP address assigned to your computer or Internet connection, and the IP address of the website, if any, that referred you to our site. Our technical staff may also use this information to assist customers with technical problems. From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this iBridge Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically.
Cookies
We use browser cookies to enhance your online experience and make your use of the iBridge Site more efficient. Browser cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. We utilize browser cookies to tell us, for example, whether you’ve visited any of our sites before or if you’re a new visitor. Browser cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site. You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences at the following websites:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
We may also use various other types of cookies on our web site to enhance your online experience. Similar to browser cookies, such cookies can store more complex data. Certain online service processes are available to residential and business customers. These processes require the use of cookies to be fully operational. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use our online applications that require you to log in. Other information on the website, however, still may be accessed.
Confidentiality
We do not knowingly reveal any personal information that is provided by our customers through our iBridge Site to any third parties except as provided in this iBridge Privacy Policy or, when compelled to do so by a governmental agency having jurisdiction, by a court of competent jurisdiction or other operation of valid law, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual wrongful or Illegal activity. All information provided by customers using our online forms is kept strictly confidential and secure to prevent unauthorized use of personal information subject to the foregoing in this paragraph. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use the personal information you have provided through this web site in a manner that is consistent with this iBridge Privacy Policy.
Questionnaires and Surveys
On some occasions upon entering the iBridge Site you may be asked to complete either an online surveyor questionnaire. These surveys and questionnaires will deal with your opinions, attitudes, interests, and more generally about your activities online. It is important that you answer these surveys and questionnaires accurately for they represent our only means to improve our services offered through our site. Any personal information gathered from your questionnaires or surveys through our site may be kept for business purposes.
Review of and Changes to Your Personal Information
You may review or change some of the personal information you have provided to us. Please also note that some account information, including without limitation the service address and the account holder name, may not be changed. If you need to correct or update your personal information provided to us, contact us officeadmin@ibridgegroup.com.
Sending iBridge Group Advertisements
We may send out periodic e-mails informing customers of offers related to a service they requested. Customers may not be able to choose to unsubscribe to certain mailings, to the extent the mailings are considered an essential service or required communication. Individuals who do not wish to receive iBridge promotional e-mails on new services may contact iBridge at officeadmin@ibridgegroup.com and unsubscribe from any non-essential or not required communication.
A Warning About E-mail That We Send; A Warning About “Phishing”
We may send you e-mails from time to time to provide you with useful information, updates regarding our services, and special offers (whether available directly from iBridge or from one or more of our business partners). Likewise, we may from time to time call the phone number associated with your account. We will not send you an e-mail asking you to reply by sending personal or account information, or threatening to disconnect or close your account if you do not take the immediate action of providing personal or account information. If you receive such an email it is likely that you have received an attempted theft of your identity commonly called “phishing”. If you are concerned about clicking links provided within an e-mail sent by iBridge, we strongly recommend that you open your web browser and manually input the address for our website. Doing so will ensure that you do not open some third-party web site disguised to look like our website. For more information about “phishing,” you should visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website ftc.gov.
Effective Date of the iBridge Privacy Policy and Changes in Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to alter or amend this iBridge Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice to you in order to reflect changes in our online information practices. We also recommend that you check back with this Site periodically so that you may be kept informed regarding any changes to the iBridge Privacy Policy. You should also visit our Terms of Use in addition to this Privacy Policy each time you visit the iBridge Site.
Third Party Links
The iBridge Site may contain links to third party websites that are not subject to the iBridge Privacy Policy. If you visit these websites, we encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing them with any personal information.
Other Applicable Federal and State Privacy Laws
You may have privacy rights under applicable federal and state law in addition to those outlined in this privacy policy. Please consult those or consult legal counsel of your choice to learn about them.
Contact Us
If you choose to contact us through the this link on this site, you will be asked to provide information such as your name and e-mail address so that one our team members can respond to your questions and comments.