Privacy Policy
Overview
Perimeter E-Security, a Perimeter Internetworking company, offers customers complete, affordable, on demand network security solutions to companies of all sizes. By virtue of our business - Network Security, online privacy is something we take very seriously. This privacy policy is designed to inform our customers and visitors to our website how we collect and use the personal information you elect to provide to us. Further, Perimeter complies with the principles set forth by the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as mandated by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from the European Union member countries and Switzerland. Perimeter certifies that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor Framework and to view Perimeter's certification, please visit http://export.gov/safeharbor/.
If you are a visitor to our website and you choose to register for our services or provide us with personal information, you authorize us to use such information as set forth in this privacy policy.
PERIMETER E-SECURITY collects only the information necessary to serve our customers
When you visit our website, www.perimeterusa.com, you may provide us with two general types of information - personal information that you consciously choose to disclose to us on an individual basis, and website use information that we collect on an aggregate basis as visitors browse our website. You may also provide us with the personal information required for us to provide the services that you purchase from Perimeter. Only personal information that is relevant to the requested service will be collected and all such data will be checked to make sure it is reliable, accurate, current and complete. This may include, depending on the service purchased:
- Full name
- Company name
- Full Postal address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Password
- Credit card account information for billing purposes
Perimeter may also collect information such as industry classification, total number of employees, annual revenue and job title. This information is used in the aggregate only and not on an individual basis, solely to determine the demographic statistics of those using our website or our services.
You may also choose to provide us with a resume in response to available employment opportunities that we post on our web site. We only use the information included on your resume to evaluate you as a candidate for employment.
From time to time, we may use the personal information that you provide to us to notify you about important changes to our web site, our services or special offers that we think you will appreciate. If we co-sponsor a special offer with another company and if you choose to provide personal information relative to the offer, then the information you provide may be used by both us and the co-sponsor. If you do not want to receive emails with this type of content, you may opt out by notifying us at privacypolicy@perimeterusa.com or by clicking on the opt-out link within the body of the email message.
Visitors to our web site are not required to register or purchase our services in order to use our web site.
Use of cookies
A cookie is a small text document that a web server can store temporarily with your web browser. Each time you visit a web site, that web site's server asks your computer's browser for permission to store a cookie on your hard drive in an area specifically designated for cookies. Cookies are useful for having your computer remember specific information from a particular web site's server to be reloaded the next time you surf that server's web site. Cookies help us gather feedback on our web site to better serve our customers.
A cookie file is not a secret way for a web server to gain access to personal information about you or your computer. Each cookie is marked with information about its destination web site server-your computer will not send cookies to any other web site server. You may elect to be notified each time a web site's server asks permission to store a cookie by amending certain settings in your web browser so that you have the ability to refuse a cookie when it is being served.
Our use of cookies is limited to the following:
- To learn more about how our visitors use our web site by analyzing usage patterns in the aggregate. We never use information collected from cookies to profile individual visitor behavior.
- To collect information about how advertisements prompt visits to our web site. In cases where a visitor views an advertisement which leads to our web site, and subsequently fills out our visitor profile requesting information about our services, we combine information about that advertisement collected from cookies with the visitor profile in order to gauge the effectiveness of various advertising campaigns.
We may require that you accept cookies in order to access certain of our services or features available through our services. We do not however, require you to accept cookies while visiting our web site. If you set your browser to refuse all cookies, you can still enjoy complete access to all areas of our web site.
Perimeterusa.com tracks Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses for your protection
An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer each time you log onto the Internet. If you purchase our services, the email messages that you send through our services typically contain your IP address in the header information of the email message. IP addresses provide the recipient of your email message with the ability to track your IP address to your Internet service provider or the location of the computer from which you sent the email message.
Disclosure of your information
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with any unaffiliated third party, except as necessary to provide our services. We have in the past and may in the future, enter into strategic partnerships, alliances or other business arrangements with third parties in order to provide and enhance our services. Certain of these third parties may have access to your personal information, however have committed to restrict access as necessary to provide their services to us or to you. Further, Perimeter will exercise due diligence in ensuring that the third party subscribes to all applicable privacy principles and fair information practices.
We have chosen a third party to process our credit card transactions in order to provide enhanced security, reliability and fraud protection mechanisms for your purchases. The credit card information that you choose to provide during your purchase is maintained in our credit card processing company's database for accounting and billing purposes. We do not maintain a copy of your credit card information on our servers.
Under certain situations, we may release your personal information if required by law, or if we believe the disclosure is necessary to abide by law or to protect our web site or users of our services, or to defend our property. We will only disclose the minimum information that we are required to disclose.
Perimeterusa.com is a strong advocate of children's privacy
We believe, as a core principle, that it is of utmost importance to protect the privacy of children online. Our services are not intended to be used by, nor do we intentionally collect personal information from, children under the age of 18. We comply with all federal laws and regulations regarding the privacy of children, including the Children's' Online Privacy Protection Act.
Perimeterusa.com is committed to data security
We understand the increasing need and desire of our customers to secure their email messages over the Internet. To prevent unauthorized access and maintain data security of our customer's personal information and email messages, we have in place commercially accepted physical, electronic, and managerial security and enforcement procedures to safeguard against the loss, misuse, corruption and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of our customers' information or email messages, including the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for the transmission of credit card and personal information.
We keep the personal information that you provide to us during the registration process on our servers for the period of time that your account is active and for up to one year after your account is terminated or cancelled, at which time the information is deleted from our servers.
Updating your personal information
Changes to your personal information must be made through your designated administrator or postmaster.
You may also request changes to your personally identifiable information by emailing privacypolicy@perimeterusa.com.
Perimeterusa.com may make changes to this policy
We review this privacy policy at regular intervals and at least annually for compliance with internal procedures and industry standards. We reserve the right to change to this privacy policy at any time and may not notify you of such changes. If we change this privacy policy, we will post the changes on the Privacy Policy link on our web site located at http://www.perimeterusa.com/privacy-policy so that you will always know what information we collect from you and how we use it. We encourage you to check our website frequently for updates.
If you have other questions, concerns or comments about our privacy policy, please send us an email at privacypolicy@perimeterusa.com. If you feel that your concern was not acknowledged or satisfactorily addressed, you may contact European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) which will serve as an unbiased liaison to resolve your concerns. If European DPA finds Perimeter to be in violation of Safe Harbor principles we will take immediate action to remedy the deficiencies. When requested, in the context of an investigation or complaint, Perimeter will provide a current and certified self-assessment letter indicating that Perimeter's privacy practices are in effect and that we are in compliance with the Safe Harbor privacy principles.
