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Privacy Policy

 

Scope of This Notice


This Privacy Statement is intended to describe Pasco’s privacy practices and provide information about the choices you have regarding the ways in which information collected by Pasco is used and disclosed.

Please note that our co-branded web sites (web sites where Pasco has presented content together with one or more of our business partners) may be governed by additional or different privacy provisions.

Our Commitment to Privacy


At Pasco, your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we have provided this Statement explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information is collected, used and disclosed. To make this Statement easy to find, we have made it available on our homepage and at every location where personally-identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect


This Privacy Statement applies to all information collected by or submitted to Pasco, including personal information. “Personal information” is data that reasonably can be used to identify or describe an individual.

Pasco collects personal information when:

  • you request support for a Pasco product;
  • you register for web services;
  • you request information or materials (e.g., whitepapers);
  • you participate in surveys and evaluations;
  • you submit questions or comments to us.

Pasco also collects personal information from individuals (with their consent) at conventions, trade shows and expositions.

The types of personal information collected may include (but are not limited to):

  • your first and last name;
  • your title and your company’s name;
  • your home, billing, or other physical address (including street name, name of a city or town, state/province);
  • your e-mail address;
  • your telephone number;
  • any other identifier that permits Pasco to make physical or online contact with you;

Using Your Personal Information


Pasco uses the personal information you provide to:

  • create and maintain your accounts;
  • process, fulfill, and follow-up on your orders;
  • answer your questions;
  • register you in programs (per your request);
  • send you information;
  • send you surveys.

We also use this personal information to provide you with information related to your account and the products or services you purchased from us, to better understand your needs and interests, to improve our service, and to personalize communications.


Sharing Your Personal Information


Unless you agree, Pasco will never share the personal information you provide to us except as described below.

Pasco may disclose your personal information to third parties under any of the following circumstances:

  • As may be required to fulfill orders, to provide service, and for e-mail housing (as a consequence of uses already described in this Privacy Statement).
  • As required by law (such as responding to a valid subpoena, warrant, audit, or agency action, or to prevent fraud). For research activities, including the production of statistical reports (such aggregated information is used to describe our services to current and prospective partners and other third parties, and is not used to contact the subjects of the report).
  • In the context of a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, consolidation, or divestiture (pursuant to a pledge of confidentiality under which the recipient agrees to use the information for no purpose other than carrying out the transaction).

Your Choices About Receiving E-Mail


Pasco makes every effort to provide you with the ability to opt-in and opt-out of receiving communications from Pasco and/or its partners.
Pasco may send you e-mail about your account, about a service you have purchased, or in response to your questions. For your protection, Pasco may contact you in the event that we find an issue with a product or service you have purchased that requires your immediate attention.

Cookies and Other Browser Information


Our web site automatically captures IP addresses. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our web site, and to help ensure the security of your interaction with the web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you.

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Pasco uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. All sections of pascorisk.com where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable require your browser to accept cookies.

If you do not want your personal information to be stored by cookies, you can configure your browser so that it always rejects these cookies or asks you each time if you accept them or not. However, you must understand that the use of cookies may be necessary to provide certain products or services, and choosing to reject cookies will reduce the performance and functionality of the site. Your browser documentation includes precise instructions explaining how to define the acceptance of cookies.

Our Commitment to Data Security


Pasco trains its employees on our privacy policy guidelines and makes our privacy policy available to our business partners. Our web site uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, which encrypts your personal information when you send your personal information on our web site. In addition, Pasco and its business partners enter into confidentiality agreements which require that care and precautions be taken to prevent loss, misuse, or disclosure of your personal information.

About Links to Other Sites


This site contains links to other sites. Pasco does not control the information collection of sites that can be reached through links from pascorisk.com. If you have questions about the data collection procedures of linked sites, please contact those companies directly.

How to Contact Us


If you have any questions about any of these practices or Pasco’s use of your personal information, please feel free to contact us by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or mail at:

Pasco Risk Holdings (Proprietary) Limited
Legal & Corporate Affairs
P.O. Box 789
Douglasdale 2165
South Africa


Pasco will work with you to resolve any concerns you may have about this Statement.

Changes to this Privacy Statement


Pasco reserves the right to change this policy from time to time. If we do make changes, the revised Privacy Statement will be posted on this site. A notice will be posted on our homepage for 30 days whenever this privacy statement is changed in a material way.

This Privacy Statement was last amended on May 18th, 2008