Privacy Statement For Welcome Centers

In this policy we explain how and why Welcome Centers collects your information, what we do with it and what controls you have over our use of it.

From time to time, we add or change functions, features or products to our Web Sites or add or change Services. This may result in periodic changes to this Privacy Policy. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to privacy@welcomecenters.com.

Your acceptance of these Privacy Statement terms

By using any of the sites within our web site network (“Web Sites”) or our Services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

What data do we collect and how do we use it?

Welcome Centers collects and processes information about you in order to:

(i) identify you when you visit a Web Site or wish to have a Service provided;
(ii) process orders or applications submitted by you;
(iii) improve our Services and Web Sites
(iv) Customise your experience, for example, provide advertisements or services that we think are relevant to you and which support any specific requests for information you may make through keyword searches;
(v) carry out research on the demographics, interests and behaviour of all of our customers/users; and
(vi) send you information we think you may find useful, including information about new Welcome Centers products and services.

You may be asked, either when you submit your site with us, or at other times, for information about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number. You may also be asked to share with us your interests, hobbies and preferences. In addition, when you order services from our Web Sites, we will need to know your credit/payment card number and expiration date.

You are under no obligation to provide this information, but if you don’t then we may not be able to provide you with certain services or personalise your experience and tailor our Services for you (for example, tell you about special offers on things you’re interested in).

Log files/IP addresses

When you visit our Web Sites, we automatically log your IP address (the unique address which identifies your computer on the internet) which is automatically recognised by our web server. We use IP addresses to help us administer our Web Sites and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.

Non personal information

We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the site from which you linked to our Web Sites. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our Web Sites. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third party sites from which it is possible to link to our Web Sites with information relating to the number of users linking to our Web Sites from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a Web Site transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a Web Site if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify customers or passwords. Credit card information is not stored in cookies.

We may use cookies for the following reasons:

(i) To identify who you are and to access your account information;
(ii) To estimate our audience size and patterns;
(iii) To ensure that you are not asked to register twice;
(iv) To control how often visitors see similar promotions;
(v) To track preferences and to improve and update our Web Site; and
(vi) To track the progress and number of entries in some of our promotions and contests.

With whom is the information shared?

Welcome Centers may disclose statistics about our sales, our Web Site visitors and customers in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes. Welcome Centers does not currently distribute, sell or rent your name, email address, or other personal information to any third party without your consent. We may choose to do so in the future with trustworthy third parties that we believe you will benefit from. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us or our partners you may opt-out at any time. Please contact privacy@welcomecenters.com for more information.
Welcome Centers may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of Welcome Centers and its Web Sites, visitors to the Web Sites and customers of our Services.

Our Web Site contains links to the sites of third parties. When you visit these sites, we suggest that you read their privacy policies. Welcome Centers is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.

Information about products and services

It is very important to us that we provide you with the highest level of service. In order to help us do this, from time to time Welcome Centers may send you details of our products and services which we think may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive these details then you may opt-out at any time. Please contact privacy@welcomecenters.com for more information.

Security
Welcome Centers places a great importance on the security of all information associated with our customers. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control. For example, our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorised personnel have access to user information. With regard to our Web Sites, we use secure server software (SSL) to encrypt financial information you input before it is sent to us. While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this.

Opening an Account

If you wish to open an account with Welcome Centers, you will be asked to submit information such as your name, address and credit card details. This information will be held by us in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Please e-mail any questions, concerns or comments you have about our Privacy Policy to privacy@welcomecenters.com or write to us at:
PO Box 5645
Hilton Head Island
SC 29938