We know how important privacy is to your business. Because of our interest in protecting your private information, we have adopted the following privacy principles:

1 - Recognition of Your Expectation of Privacy. We recognize that you expect privacy and security. We understand the need to safeguard sensitive information about your business that you have entrusted to us. We maintain standards and procedures designed to prevent misuse of this information. 

2 - Our Collection, Retention, and Use of Information about Your Business. We collect, retain and use information about your business only when we have received this information from you with the express intention to provide a service that you have requested. We collect and retain information about your business only for specific business purposes. We will tell you why we are collecting and retaining it upon your request.

3 - Limiting Employees Access to Information. We have procedures in place limiting access to your business information to those employees with a business reason to know such information. We enforce this through standard operating procedures and our policies on ethics. We take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce privacy responsibilities.

4 - Security Procedures to Protect Information. We maintain security standards and procedures to help prevent unauthorized access to confidential information about your business. We update and test our technology to improve the protection of your information and to assure the integrity of our information.

5 - Restrictions on Disclosing Information to Third Parties.  We do not disclose to third parties or affiliates any information about your business unless (1) you request or authorize it, or (2) the disclosure is lawfully required.