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Privacy
Policy
At Home Independent Living, Inc.
is committed to respecting the privacy of our
users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user
experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth
the online data collection and usage policies
and practices that apply to the At Home Independent
Living Web Site (sometimes referred to herein
as the "At Home Site") and does not apply to information
we collect in any other fashion.
Your data will be stored and processed in whole
or in part in the United States. The information
we gather on the At Home Site may be shared within
the At Home Independent Living Company.
The At Home Site contain links to other Web sites
over which we have no control. We are not responsible
for the privacy policies or practices of other
Web sites to which you choose to link from our
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.
Collection and Use of
Information by At Home Independent Living
In some areas of the At Home Site, we request
or may request that you provide personal information,
including your name, address, e-mail address,
telephone number credit card number, social security
number, contact information, billing information
and any other information from which your identity
is discernible. In other areas, we collect or
may collect demographic information that is not
unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences,
gender, interests and favorites. 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 the At Home 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 us. This information can include without limitation
your IP address, browser type, domain names, access
times and referring Web site addresses, but is
not linked to your personal information.
We 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 Statement.
For example, such information may be used for
the purpose of determining your potential interest
in receiving e-mail or other communications about
particular products or services.
Our Use of Your Information
We use the information we gather on At Home Site,
whether personal, demographic, collective or technical,
for the purpose of operating and improving the
At Home Site, fostering a positive user experience,
and delivering the products and services that
we offer.
If you have provided consent for us to do so,
we may also use the information we gather to inform
you of other products or services available from
us or our affiliated companies.
We may use your contact information in order to
send you e-mail or other communications regarding
updates at the At Home Site, to contact you about
your opinion of current products and services
or potential new products and services that may
be offered. We may also provide additional communications,
promotions and information on new At Home opportunities
and additional job postings which may be of interest
to you. The nature and frequency of these messages
will vary depending upon the information we have
about you.
In addition, you may receive free informational
newsletters from us relating to topics that may
be of special interest to you, such as career
management advice.
We have areas on the At Home Site where you can
submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these
areas becomes our property, and we can use such
feedback (such as success stories) for marketing
purposes or to contact you for further information.
Choices Regarding the
Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
We do not disclose your personal information to
third parties, or your combined personal and demographic
information or information about your use of At
Home Site (such as the areas you visit or the
services you access), except as set forth below.
- We disclose
information to third parties if you consent
to such disclosure. For example, if you indicate
that you would like to receive information about
the opportunities, products or services of third
parties, we supply your contact information
to third parties such as employers, recruiters,
data aggregators, marketers or others for the
purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating
with you. We use data we have about you (such
as the interests and preferences you have expressed)
to determine whether you might be interested
in the opportunities, products or services of
a particular third-party.
- We disclose
information to companies and individuals we
employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples
include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data,
providing marketing assistance, processing credit
card payments, and providing customer service.
These companies and individuals will have access
to your personal information as necessary to
perform their functions, but they may not share
that information with any other third party.
- We disclose
information if legally required to do so, if
requested to do so by a governmental entity
or if we believe in good faith that such action
is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements
or comply with legal process; (b) protect our
rights or property or our affiliated companies;
(c) prevent a crime or protect national security;
or (d) protect the personal safety of users
or the public.
- We disclose
and transfer information to a third party who
acquires all or a substantial portion of our
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 we become the subject of a bankruptcy
proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary,
we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license
or otherwise dispose of such information in
a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court.
You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial
portion of our business to a third party via
email or through a prominent notice posted on
the At Home Site.
Other
Uses of Information
We also share aggregated anonymous information
about visitors to the At Home Site (for example,
the number of visitors to the At Home Site Diversity
& Inclusion area) with its clients, partners and
other third parties so that they can understand
the kinds of visitors to the At Home Site and
how those visitors use the At Home Site.
Use of Cookies
We use "cookies" to help personalize and maximize
your online experience and time online. 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 viruses 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 provide a convenience
feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie
is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. Because of our use of cookies,
we can deliver faster and more accurate results
and a more personalized site experience. When
you return to the At Home 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 click 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 At Home Site.
Use of Web Beacons
The At Home Site Web pages may contain electronic
images known as Web beacons (sometimes called
single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users
who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. Web beacons are not used to access your
personally identifiable information; they are
a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics
about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect
only a limited set of information including a
cookie number, time and date of a page view, and
a description of the page on which the Web beacon
resides.
You may not decline web beacons, however, they
can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies
or modifying your browser setting to notify you
each time a cookie is tendered and permit you
to accept or decline cookies on an individual
basis.
Security of the Personal
Information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical
and organizational measures designed to secure
your personal information from accidental loss
and from unauthorized access, use, alteration
or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that
unauthorized third parties will never be able
to defeat those measures or use your personal
information for improper purposes.
Children
The At Home Site is not intended for children
under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect
personal information from children under 13. Changes
to Privacy Statement If we decide to materially
change our Privacy Statement for the At Home Site,
we will post those changes through a prominent
notice on the web site so that you will always
know what information we gather, how we might
use that information, and to whom we will disclose
it.
Contact Information
At Home Independent Living, Inc.
315-849-4686
deanb@athomeil.com
14 Fennell Street
Skaneateles, New York 13152
Skaneateles Office 315-685-8951
Syracuse Office 315-422-4222
Fax 315-685-3888
Update effective August, 2008.
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