This document sets forth the SFA Online Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy")
for this Web site, www.archsfa.com (the "Site"). If you have objections to the
Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this Site. This Privacy Policy does
not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities or other SFA web
sites.
Changes in Privacy Policy
All "personal information" ("personal
information" is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to
identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that
we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in
effect at the time of such collection. SFA reserves the right to change the
Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion, and will provide notice
of material changes on the home page of the Site. If as the result of such
changes, you want to alter the ways in which SFA is allowed to use your personal
information, you can do so by following the procedure described below in the
section titled "Updating your personal information and privacy preferences." You
will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes
to the Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after such notice has
been posted for thirty (30) days with the following exception: If at the time
you provide personal information to SFA you are given the opportunity (as you
currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with
you, either by SFA or by third parties, SFA will not change your preference in
this regard without your express consent. However, if SFA sells assets (or the
assets of a division or subsidiary) to another entity, or SFA (or a division or
subsidiary) is acquired by, or merged with, another entity, SFA may provide to
such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business
that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent.
Entities collecting personal information
Personal information on
this Site is collected by Sabu Francis & Associates. SFA's address is
B4-4-4, Shiv Parvati Housing Society, Sector 21, Nerul, Navi Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India PIN: 400706.
The Site contains links to other sites at which personal information is
collected. In such instances, unless expressly provided to the contrary, the
collection and use of your personal information will be governed by the privacy
policy applicable to that site. That privacy policy should identify the entity
that is collecting your personal information.
Collection of personal information
As a visitor to this Site, you
can engage in many activities without providing any personal information. In
connection with other activities, such as subscribing to the collaboration
services offered on the Site or utilizing online software applications, SFA may
ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and
submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these
activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, SFA may ask
that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name,
e-mail address, and other personal information. When ordering products or
services on the Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number.
Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide
is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the
mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to
engage in that activity.
When you use the Site, SFA or third parties authorized by SFA may also
collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to
facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may log
environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and
the Internet Protocol ("IP") address of your computer. We use these
environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its
services. SFA also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns
on the Site. Without expressly informing you in each particular circumstance, we
do not match such information with any of your personal information.
When you submit personal information to SFA through this Site, you understand
and agree that this information may be transferred across national boundaries
and may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which SFA and its
affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including, without limitation,
India. You also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to certain
activities, the collection, transferring, storage, and processing of your
information may be undertaken by trusted vendors of SFA. Such vendors are bound
by contract not to use your personal information for their own purposes or
provide it to any third parties. One instance where this could occur is in
conjunction with framed pages in which the URL for the pages is not visible and
the pages are being hosted by a vendor of SFA.
SFA has established relationships with various service providers whose
services are available to you from this Site or from Web sites that are linked
to this Site. Typically, these providers offer services that SFA customers might
find useful, such as those that can be used in conjunction with SFA services and
products. In order to use those services, you may be required to provide
personal information to the providers. Unless expressly provided to the
contrary, personal information that you provide while you are visiting a
provider's Web site will be subject to the privacy policy posted on such site,
and personal information that you provide while on this Site in conjunction with
a provider's service will be subject to this Privacy Policy. You should be aware
that our agreements with these service providers often provide that they will
share with SFA personal information collected from you. In such instances, SFA
may use this information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. In the
situation where sites have an SFA "look and feel," and you reasonably believe
you are on an SFA site, the site is collecting information in a solely
intermediary capacity and does not use personal information for secondary
purposes.
How your personal information is used
SFA collects your information
in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select.
If you subscribe to a service or register a product, for example, the
information is used to register your rights, if any, to technical support or
other benefits that may be made available to registered users. As another
example, if you enter a contest, information is collected to qualify the entry
and contact you regarding the contest or prize awards. Your personal information
is also used to keep you informed about product upgrades, special offers, and
other products and services of SFA and selected third parties if you have so
opted to receive such communications.
SFA may collect information about the use of the Site, such as the types of
services used and how many users we receive daily. This information is collected
in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually. SFA may use this
aggregate, non-identifying statistical data for statistical analysis, marketing,
or similar promotional purposes.
Your choices with respect to personal information
SFA recognizes
and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on
this Site. Without your consent, SFA will not communicate any information to you
regarding products, services, and special offers available from SFA, although we
may find it necessary to communicate with you regarding your use of the services
on this Site. Except in the particular circumstances described in this Privacy
Policy, SFA will also not provide your name to other companies or organizations
without your consent.
There are other instances in which SFA may divulge your personal information.
SFA may provide your personal information if necessary, in SFA's good faith
judgment, to comply with laws or regulations of a governmental or regulatory
body or in response to a valid subpoena, warrant, or order or to protect the
rights of SFA or others.
Protection of your personal information
The personal information
that you provide in connection with registering yourself as a user of SFA
products or services or registering an SFA product is classified as Registration
Information. Registration Information is protected in several ways. Access by
you to your Registration Information is available through a password and unique
customer ID selected by you. This password is encrypted. We recommend that you
do not divulge your password to anyone. In addition, your Registration
Information resides on a secure server that only selected SFA personnel and
contractors have access to via password. SFA encrypts your personal information
and thereby strives to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such
information when it is transmitted to SFA.
Personal information that you provide that does not constitute Registration
Information also resides on a secure server and is only accessible to selected
SFA personnel and contractors via password. Since this information is not
accessible by you, you will not be asked to select a password in order to view
or modify such information.
Please note that any information you post to a public bulletin board or chat
room, such as the SFA Forums (the "Forums"), is available to all persons
accessing that location. Your e-mail address will not automatically be posted on
the Forums unless you modify the default setting to permit that. Your e-mail
address would then be available to all persons accessing the Forums. In
addition, you should be aware that the Forums offers a service in which
subscribers are e-mailed a copy of all messages posted to the Forums on a
particular topic. Consequently, if you post a message to the Forums, your e-mail
address will be sent to those subscribers that have indicated an interest in the
topic of your message.
Use of cookies
When you visit this Site, you can browse the Site
and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to
improve our Site, we use "cookies" to track your visit. A cookie is a small
amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only
be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your identification
card, and enables SFA to record your passwords, purchases, and preferences. It
cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser
to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether
to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not
optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to
access those pages.)
While SFA uses cookies to track your visit to SFA.com, and our Web servers
automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, SFA does not
generally use this information to identify you personally. However, if you
expressly provide consent for SFA.com to "remember" the unique identifier that
you select when you register for various activities on the site, that unique
identifier will be stored on a cookie on your computer, linked to your
registration information, and your navigation path around the site will be
tracked. We associate this data to understand how our site and services are
being used so we can understand our customers and offer appropriate products and
services.
Updating your personal information and privacy preferences
You have
the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy
preferences at any time. With respect to Registration Information, this may be
accomplished by the <Options link in the Users section, where you can
view and make changes to your personal information. You may also access and
correct your personal information and privacy preferences (such as whether you
wish to receive promotional communications from SFA or third parties) by writing
to SFA at webmaster@archsfa.com.
Please include your name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us.
Personal information submitted through this Site that is not Registration
Information is not accessible online. To access and/or correct such information,
you may write SFA at
your name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us.
In your correspondence, please indicate with as much detail as possible the
location on this Site where you provided your personal information.
Privacy-related inquiries and complaints
SFA takes its users'
privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that SFA has not complied with this
Online Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information or you have
other related inquiries or concerns, you may write to the SFA at the address
indicated above.
In your letter, please describe in as much detail as possible the nature of
your inquiry or the ways in which you believe that the SFA Online Privacy Policy
has not been complied with. We will investigate your inquiry or complaint
promptly.
Please note that if you provide SFA with inconsistent privacy preferences
(for example, by indicating on one occasion that third parties may contact you
with marketing offers and indicating on another occasion that they may not), SFA
cannot guarantee that your most recent privacy preference will be honored.
Also, please note that SFA is not responsible for the content or privacy
practices of non-SFA Web sites to which this Site or any other SFA Web site may
link. You should review the privacy policy of such sites before using the
sites.
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