Privacy Policy
Liberty Diversified International
Internet Privacy Policy
LDI respects your right to privacy. This policy summarizes what personally identifiable information we may collect, and how we might use this information. This policy also describes other important topics relating to your privacy.
LDI Internet Privacy Policy
It is LDI's policy to comply with all applicable privacy and data protection laws. This commitment reflects the value we place on earning and keeping the trust of our employees, customers, business partners and others who share their personal information with us.
This Internet Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes how LDI protects your privacy when we collect personal information on LDI Internet sites. As used in this Policy, the term “personal information” means information that identifies you personally, alone or in combination with other information available to us.
This Policy applies, in general, to all Internet sites operated by or on behalf of LDI and its business units worldwide.
Web Site Privacy Statements
Although this Policy applies to all LDI Internet Sites generally, each LDI Internet Site has a different purpose and different features. If additional or different disclosures are required with respect to a specific LDI Internet Site, we will provide those disclosures on the site itself or in a separate web site privacy statement. Each individual disclosure or Web Site Privacy Statement supplements and amends this Policy, but only with respect to the LDI Internet Site on which it is posted.
Your Consent
By using a LDI Internet Site or providing personal information to us, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy and any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements.
If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy (and any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements), do not use LDI Internet Sites or Contact LDI/Contact Us forms.
Limitations on the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
To the extent required by applicable law, whenever LDI collects personal information on a LDI Internet Site, LDI will:
• collect, use, disclose and transfer your personal information only with your consent, which may be express or implied, depending on the sensitivity of the personal information, legal requirements, and other factors;
• collect your personal information only for specific, limited purposes. The information we collect will be relevant, adequate and not excessive for the purposes for which it is collected;
• process your personal information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected or to which you have subsequently consented;
• take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and, where necessary, kept up-to-date;
• not use your personal information for direct marketing purposes without giving you an opportunity to “opt-out”; and
• take appropriate measures, by contract or otherwise, to provide adequate protection for personal information that is disclosed to a third party or transferred to another country, including transfers within LDI.
Information Collected on LDI Internet Sites and How It May Be Used
When you access and use a LDI Internet Site, there are 3 ways we may collect information about you:
1. Information Sent to Us by Your Web Browser
LDI collects information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser. This information typically includes the IP address of your Internet service provider, the name of your operating system (such as Macintosh® or Windows®) and the name and version of your browser (such as Internet Explorer® or Netscape®). The information we receive depends on the settings on your web browser. Please check your browser if you want to learn what information your browser sends or how to change your settings.
The information provided by your browser does not identify you personally. We use this information to create statistics that help us improve our sites and make them more compatible with the technology used by our Internet visitors.
2. Information Collected By Placing a “Cookie” On Your Computer
LDI may obtain information about you by installing a “tag” on your computer’s hard drive. This tag is known as a “cookie.”
All of our LDI Internet Sites use “session cookies.” A session cookie is used to tag your computer with a computer-generated, unique identifier when you access our site. A session cookie does not identify you personally and expires after you close your browser. We use session cookies to collect statistical information about the ways visitors use our sites – which pages they visit, which links they use, and how long they stay on each page. We analyze this information (known as “click stream data”) in statistical form to better understand our visitors’ interests and needs to improve the content and functionality of our sites.
Some LDI Internet sites also use “persistent cookies.” These cookies do not expire when you close your browser; they stay on your computer until you delete them. By assigning your computer a unique identifier, we are able to create a database of your previous choices and preferences, and in situations where these choices or preferences need to be collected again, they can be provided by us automatically, saving you time and effort. For example, after you make a purchase, if you decide to make another purchase, your shipping address will have been retained and will only need to be confirmed.
If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. Although you are not required to accept cookies when you visit a LDI Internet Site, you may be unable to use all of the functionality of the site if your browser rejects our cookies.
3. Information You Knowingly and Voluntarily Provide
LDI collects the information you knowingly and voluntarily provide when you use a LDI Internet Site, for example, the information you provide when you sign up to receive email alerts, when you complete a survey, or when you ask us a question or email us with feedback. In many cases this information will be personal information.
LDI uses this information for the purposes for which you provide it. We may also use the information we collect on LDI Internet Sites for various business purposes such as customer service, fraud prevention, market research, improving our products and services, and providing you and your company with information and offers we believe may be of interest to you. We may also remove all the personally identifiable information and use the rest for historical, statistical or scientific purposes.
Many of the LDI Internet Sites permit you to make choices about the use of your personal information. In most cases, we ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your personal information.
Sharing Personal Information
LDI will not sell personal information collected from its Internet sites to mailing list brokers without your express consent.
LDI may share your personal information with other LDI business units. When we do so, these other LDI business units will use your information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you subsequently consented) and only as permitted under this Policy, any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements, and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
LDI may also share your personal information with third parties we hire to perform support services for us. These third parties are required to use the personal information we share with them only to perform services on our behalf and to treat your personal information as strictly confidential.
In some cases, LDI may share your personal information with third parties who partner with us to provide products and services to our customers. When we do so, we will require our business partners to use the personal information we share with them in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you subsequently consented) and only as permitted under this Policy, any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements, and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
In certain, limited circumstances we may share or transfer personal information to unrelated third parties. For example, we may provide personal information to a third party (i) at your request; (ii) to comply with a legal requirement or court order; (iii) to investigate a possible crime, such as identity theft; (iv) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of LDI or a LDI business unit; or (v) under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal information.
Many of our LDI Internet Sites permit you to make choices about the disclosure and/or transfer of your personal information. In most cases, we ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your personal information.
Security of Personal Information
Your personal information will generally be stored in LDI databases or databases maintained by our service providers.
LDI maintains reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information. Although we use security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, misuse or alteration, as is the case with all computer networks linked to the Internet, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the Internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control.
Links to Third Party Internet Sites
LDI Internet Sites may contain links to Internet sites that are not operated by LDI. These links are provided as a service and do not imply any endorsement of the activities or content of these sites, nor any association with their operators. LDI does not control these Internet sites and is not responsible for their content, security, or privacy practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on web sites you visit before using the site or providing personal information.
Retention of Personal Information
LDI retains the personal information collected on LDI Internet Sites as long as necessary to provide the services, products and information you request or as permitted by applicable law.
LDI Internet Sites are generally not intended for persons under 15 years of age. LDI does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children on its Internet Sites except as permitted under applicable law. .
Changes to this policy and statement
LDI reserves the right to update or modify this Policy, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version of this Policy on our LDI Internet Sites. We also reserve the right to update or modify our Country or Web Site Privacy Statements, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised Privacy Statement on the applicable LDI Internet Site. If we modify this Policy or any Privacy Statement, the modifications will only apply to the personal information we collect after we have posted the revised Policy or Privacy Statement on the applicable LDI Internet site.
This Policy was last revised on June 26, 2008.