Legal & Privacy: Privacy Statement
STIX PRIVACY
YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US
You provide important information about yourself to a variety of businesses and organizations. The same is true when you do business with STIX. You're asked to provide us with certain information that helps us give you better service and answer your questions more effectively.
We work diligently to safeguard the information you give to us. STIX respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use STIX's search engine services ("STIX Search Services"). Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission. With this in mind, we developed the following policies to ensure your confidentiality and maintain your confidence in our institution. These policies detail the strict standards we have in place. For this reason we ask that you please read the following information carefully.
NOTICE OF YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean STIX and STIX Associates.
This is our privacy notice for our visitors. When we use the words you and your we mean visitors to this web site:
Our consumer members who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services.
• We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you.
• We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information.
We first define some terms:
Nonpublic personal information means information about you that we collect while interacting with you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.
An associate is an individual or company that is part of STIX.
A nonaffiliated third party is a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or simply, an "other party."
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information about you from the following sources:
• Information you give us in email, on applications, or other forms
• Information about your interactions with us
• Information about your interactions with other parties or public or non-public sources
THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY, AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We restrict access to information about you to those associates who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect this information.
YOUR INFORMATION AND OTHER PARTIES
We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in this policy or as permitted by law.
AUTHORIZED SHARING - OUTSIDE MARKETING SERVICES
We may disclose the following information to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf:
Information you give us on an request for information or other forms, including but not limited to:
• Name
• Address
• Contact information
Types of Businesses
We may disclose information about you to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf to provide you with information about additional products and services.
Limitations on Disclosure
Any disclosure are limited by contractual relationships between STIX and clients.
ABOUT - WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
STIX is committed to protecting the privacy of its members and other users of this Web site. We limit the collection and storage of personal information to that necessary for us to administer our business, provide you with quality service and offer you opportunities we think might be of interest. We do not disclose any personal information collected from our Web site to unaffiliated organizations.
When you visit any Web site, your “IP address” may be recorded. STIX may note and saves information such as time of day, browser type, browser language, and IP address with each query. We may collect IP addresses for the purpose of tracking information to compile statistics to help us improve our site so that its users will find it more helpful and informative. That information is used to verify our records and to provide more relevant services to users. The information is used for these analytical purposes and is not distributed to other parties.
STIX and Cookies
Upon your first visit to STIX, STIX sends a "cookie" to your computer. STIX does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search.
We may also use a technology called “cookies” to customize the site for returning visitors. A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on a visitor’s PC and later retrieved. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies you as a unique user. STIX uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to understand our user base more. STIX will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.
To provide you with greater access of information, STIX’s site also contains links to other sites. While we hope these organizations join us in respecting your privacy, STIX is not responsible for the content, terms of service or privacy practices of these other web sites.
Finally, the above disclosure refers to information collected from you as you browse through or use our site to access information or conduct transactions.
Misuse
If you misuse our website and abuse our policies, then we will not only unleash the forces of darkness to stop you, we will also use lawyers.
Your consent and changes to the Privacy Policy
By using the STIX website, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this policy and to our Terms of Service Policy. STIX may decide to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
For more information on STIX, 281-682-2912.