At RFP Connexion™ we are committed to protecting your privacy.We
strive to provide a safe, secure user experience.This Privacy Policy explains the data collection and use practices of the RFP Connexion™web site located at www.rfpconnexion.com.For
purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms “web site” and “site” shall include
associated software, services, and interactive content which is or may be
accessible to either users of the public areas of the site or to subscribers to
the private areas of the site.By
using the RFP Connexion™web site, you are consenting to the information
collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Please be aware that the RFP Connexion™ web site contains a
Terms of Use page that is applicable to all users and a Subscription Agreement
that is applicable to our registered subscribers.These
documents contain provisions regarding limitations of liability, disclaimers of
warranty, and general terms applicable to use of the RFP Connexion™ site,
software, and services, and to various information used and provided through
the RFP Connexion™ site.By using the RFP Connexion™ web site, you are consenting to those provisions, as
applicable to your user and/or subscriber status.
RFP Connexion™ understands the importance of protecting the
privacy of
RFP Connexion™
users and subscribers.As more
fully described below, the information collected is used to market and improve
the services we, our subsidiaries, and affiliates offer; to improve the
RFP Connexion™
web site content, software, and services; to contact you with updates to the
web site; to carry out the transactions for which this site is provided; and,
for other marketing purposes.
Certain areas of the RFP Connexion™ site require registration
via a username and/or a password for access.Information
obtained from registered users of these areas may also be used for RFP Connexion™ marketing purposes, and cookies may be used in those and other areas,
as is described in this Privacy Policy.Information
obtained in these areas may also be used in accordance with agreements
governing access to and use of the specific site areas.Log file data and other information may be gathered from registered users of the RFP Connexion™ site and may be used to improve the RFP Connexion™ customer
experience.
Upon receipt of all communications from
RFP Connexion™,
you will have the opt-out option to decline to receive additional
communications, information and promotions including without limitation free
informational newsletters from
RFP Connexion™
relating to topics that may be of special interest to you.Each
mailing list will maintain separate records to allow you to receive only those
items that you prefer.
We will not, without permission, give or sell confidential or
personal information about our users to any third party not affiliated with an
RFP Connexion™ transaction, except as required by law or as necessary to provide
RFP Connexion™ services to our users.As
we collect and use information about our users, however, we may contract with
third party vendors to assist us in processing that information.These
vendors are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are
restricted from using the information for any purpose other than helping to
provide RFP Connexion™ services to our users.
We reserve the right to collect and store information regarding
each transaction processed on this site.We
do so in order that we can efficiently provide the services demanded by our
users.We use information about
our users, their transactions, and their site-related activity to provide or
enhance the services we make available to our users, to enhance our ability to
communicate with our users about additional services they may find of value, to
satisfy our legitimate business interests (including performing trend analysis
and market studies), to set prices, to fulfill our Subscription Agreement, to
accomplish our periodic billing activities, to resolve and respond to a user
question, and to comply with applicable government laws, court orders, and
regulations.
Some of the information collected by RFP Connexion™ is personal
data or data which relates to an identifiable person or business entity.Examples of personal data are names, addresses, e-mail addresses, credit card
numbers, and telephone numbers.We
will not sell information to third parties that could be used to specifically
identify an individual user or group of users.Anonymous data, with all names, addresses and other personally identifiable
information removed, may be shared with third parties.We
shall provide personal data to government agencies as required by law or
regulation.
Your data will be stored and processed in whole or in part in
the
United
States.If you access the
RFP Connexion™
site outside the
United
States, your usage of the site constitutes consent to the transfer of
your data out of your country and to the
United States.
2.Collection
and Retention of Business and Personal Information
In some areas of the RFP Connexion™ web site, we request or may
request that you provide personal information, including your name, address,
e-mail address, telephone number, facsimile number, credit card number, social
security number, tax classification, contact information, billing information,
company name, job title, information about your company, as well as information
about the nature of your usage of our service, and any other information from
which your identity is discernible.We
will use the email address that you provide to us to contact you regarding the
status of your account and related services.
RFP Connexion™ may sometimes afford you the opportunity to
provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, preferential, and/or life style
information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such
information.If you do provide
such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in
accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy.For
example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your
potential interest in receiving email or other communications about particular
products or services.
In other areas, RFP Connexion™ may collect demographic
information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences,
gender, and the like.Sometimes we
collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information.
We also gather or may gather certain information about your use
of our site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access.Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or
may be collected by RFP Connexion™This
information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type,
domain name, access times, pages accessed and order of access, length of time
of your visit, and referring web site addresses.RFP Connexion™ automatically collects such information to tailor the presentation of
the services to your platform and to maintain a record of your activity on the
site.We use cookies to enable users to specify unique preferences and to track user
trends and patterns.Users always
have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences.If
you disable cookies on your browser, please note that some parts of our site
may not function as effectively or may be considerably slower.While
we collect IP address information, we do not ordinarily link IP addresses to
your personally identifiable information.We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we, in our sole discretion,
determine that it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, our
Subscriber Agreement, or to protect our service, site, customers, or other
users, or to comply with a law, court order, or governmental regulation.
We may use gathered information for the purpose of service
capacity planning; anticipating, diagnosing, supporting or resolving any
problems that might limit or disrupt the RFP Connexion™ services; and, for
improving the quality of the services.
RFP Connexion™ offers a payment system that allows subscribers
to pay with a credit card, wire transfer, national Automated Clearing House
system transaction, debit card, or check.If
you make use of this service, RFP Connexion™ will collect your credit card
number and/or other entered financial institution information and will use that
information to bill your subscriber membership fee and/or to perform the
billing operation, including but not limited to the use and disclosure of such
credit card number and information to third parties as necessary to complete
such billing transaction.Please note that subscriber credit card information is transmitted via SSL
encryption for your protection.
If you unsubscribe from our online database or close your RFP Connexion™ account at any time, we will remove all account and profile
information, except for an archival copy that is not accessible on the
Internet.We retain information
about subscribers as necessary for legitimate business purposes and as required
by government regulation or law.We
carefully dispose of such records and delete information when retention periods
expire.Notwithstanding the above, we will maintain information on users who have been
removed for violating our Subscription Agreement.
The information collected through this site helps us identify
the type of web site content that our users value most.We
use this information to market and improve the web site and our related
services.We also use this
information to send you email notifications about updates to the web site, and
to contact you by other means for marketing, customer service, technical
support, and other purposes.Our
policy is to not give, sell or otherwise distribute the information collected
through this site to third parties outside of RFP Connexion™ and its
subsidiaries (unless required by law); provided, however, in some cases we may
use suppliers to assist us in collecting, using, or otherwise processing for
our benefit the information obtained through this site, including activities
such as processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, or
performing statistical analysis of our services.Our
practice is to require our suppliers to conduct such activities consistent with
this policy and our requirements.In
some instances, with your permission, we may share your registration
information and aggregate usage data with our business partners, who may
occasionally use your email address to notify you or changes or additions to
their services.
We may access and/or disclose personal information if required
to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
(a) conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process
served on RFP Connexion™ or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights of
property of RFP Connexion™ or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of RFP RFP Connexion™ employees, users of RFP Connexion™
products or services, or members of the public.RFP Connexion™ cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third
parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud, theft,
harassment, and other rights.We
can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law
enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion,
believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud,
intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may
expose us or you to legal liability.Additionally, RFP Connexion™ reserves the right (and you authorize us) to
communicate any information about you (including, but not limited to your
policy violations, transactions, and contact information) to other users and
law enforcement as we in our sole discretion determine necessary or appropriate
to maintain a level of trust and safety on our site and to enforce our Terms of
Use, Privacy Policy, Subscription Agreement, and any posted policies or rules
applicable to services you use through our site.
We have provided links where you can submit feedback.Any
feedback you submit to RFP Connexion™ becomes our property, and we can use such
feedback (including, but not limited to, success stories and quotes) for
marketing purposes or contact you for further information.
We use an outside credit card processing company to bill users
for goods and services.These
companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable
information for any secondary purposes.
Some transactions on RFP RFP Connexion™ are completed by
registered third-party Solution Providers.We
may share the email addresses of our registered Business Client users with our
registered Solution Providers regarding a project on our site to enable work on
the project to be completed.In addition, users involved in a transaction may request contact information of the
other party, limited to contact name, company name, company phone number, and
company mailing address.If you
request the contact information of another user, your contact information will
also be released to that party.No
parties are authorized to use personally identifiable information except for
the purpose of providing the project services or pursuing legal action.
We may disclose and transfer your personally identifiable
information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of RFP Connexion™s business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger,
consolidation, or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets.In
addition, in the event RFP Connexion™ becomes the subject of a bankruptcy
proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, RFP Connexion™ or its trustee in
bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a
transaction approved by the bankruptcy court.
Users who no longer wish to receive communications may opt-out
or unsubscribe from receiving these communications.Each communication will have a way to unsubscribe from that list.If
you encounter any difficulty, please email us at
support@rfpconnexion.com.
If a users?personally identifiable information changes, we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct or update your personal data.Subscribers to RRFP Connexion™ can log in, review your account information and, if
you wish, edit it with the options provided.
We treat our data as assets that must be protected against loss
and unauthorized access.We employ
information security techniques to appropriately protect confidential
information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company.Access
to user information is limited to those employees who have a legitimate
business need for that information.
RFP Connexion™ sites are currently located in the
United States. RRFP Connexion™ sites, and their supporting systems, employ
generally accepted information security techniques such as firewalls, access
control procedures, and cryptography to appropriately protect confidential
information from unauthorized access.
Although RFP Connexion™ has implemented reasonable technical
and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from
accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure, we
cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat
those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
When you initiate a subscription-based transaction online at
RFP Connexion™ your credit card information is protected through the use of
encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol.SSL
makes it difficult for your credit card information to be intercepted or stolen
while being transmitted. RFP Connexion™ uses a service company to process its
credit card transactions.Please
note that with current technology, we cannot guarantee the security of your
data as it travels over the Internet.
We do not disclose your private, online communications.However, what you publish to your RFP Connexion™ service is available to those whom
are authorized to see the information.
RFP Connexion™ provides links to external sites as a
convenience to our users.The
inclusion of any link does not imply RFP Connexion™ endorsement of the external
site company, its web site, or the products and services it promotes and sells.RFP Connexion™ is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such
web sites.We encourage you to
review the privacy policies of those other web sites, so you can understand how
they collect, use, and share your information.This
Privacy Policy applies solely to the information we collect on this site.By
clicking on a link, logo, or other item, please note that you may no longer be
on the RFP Connexion™ site.To
check what Internet location you are on, note the URL at the top and/or bottom
of your browser.
RFP Connexion™ uses cookies to help personalize and maximize
your experience and use of the RFP Connexion™ site.A
cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server.Cookies
are not used to run programs or deliver harmful code to your computer.Cookies
are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a web server in
the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to enhance the site
convenience and operation for the benefit of our users.The
purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a
specific page.For example, if you
personalize RFP Connexion™ pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us
to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and
preferences).Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results, and
a more personalized RFP Connexion™ experience.
When you return to the RFP Connexion™ site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so
you can easily use the features that you customized.We
also use cookies to track usage data streams and for load balancing.
You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies.Most
web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your
browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer.Alternatively,
you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie
is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.If
you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and
negatively impact your experience on the RFP Connexion™ web site.
These areas of the site are for the benefit of our subscription
users.The private and shared
subscriber areas of the site help to facilitate communication and the exchange
and sharing of information between Business Clients and Solution Providers.The
information contained in private subscriber areas shared between Business
Clients and Solution Providers is not used for any purposes other than to
facilitate communication and the exchange of information between the parties
involved. RFP Connexion™ reserves the right to monitor communications in the
subscriber areas if we, in good faith, believe that a user is violating our
Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Subscription Agreement, international, federal or
state laws; and/or our stated policies.
We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy for RFP Connexion™ at any time.If we do
make any changes, we will post those changes here so that you will always know
what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we
will disclose it.Your continued
use of this site signifies your assent to the RFP Connexion™ Privacy Policy in
effect at the time of each such use.If
at any time, you have questions or concerns about this RFP Connexion™ Privacy
Policy, please feel free to email us at support@rfpconnexion.com
or contact us by phone at 678-935-9555 or at the appropriate numbers listed in
our contact information areas.
RFP Connexion™ is a registered trade name under which
JonMartico, LLC, a
Georgia
limited liability company with its principal place of business at
2362 Crimson King Dr.
, Suite 120,
Braselton
, Georgia
30517, does business.JonMartico,
LLC is the legal entity that determines the purposes and means of processing
the information gathered at the RFP Connexion™ web site.The
information we gather on any RFP Connexion™ web site may be shared within
JonMartico, LLC and its affiliated companies.
We welcome your comments concerning this Privacy Policy.If
you believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact us
by e-mail at support@rfpconnexion.com
or contact us by phone at 678-935-9555or at the appropriate numbers listed in
our contact information areas.We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.
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