Privacy Policy

Maxwell-Kates, Inc., an Associa Company, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Maxwell-Kates, Inc.”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. appreciates that you may be concerned about the privacy of personal information that you provide to us through our website www.MaxwellKates.com. Accordingly, we have developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s policy and practice regarding information we collect about you on our websites. If you have additional questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU

Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s website collects certain personal information about you whenever you voluntarily provide it, such as when you send an email to Maxwell-Kates, Inc. to ask a question, to provide feedback, or complete an online form to request information about Maxwell-Kates, Inc. The personal information that you provide can include your name, title, company, email and U.S. mail addresses, and your telephone and fax numbers. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. uses this information provided by you to answer your question, to respond to your feedback and provide the information you request. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. may also provide other information to you that we think may be relevant to your question or request. This information is not sold or provided to third parties for their use. However, if we believe that your question or information request relates to one of our related entities, we may forward your question or information request to such entity for it to respond. We also may disclose personal information to comply with valid legal processes such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or to protect our rights and property. We do not sell or provide this personal information to third parties for their use.

WEBSITE USAGE INFORMATION

Maxwell-Kates, Inc. collects IP addresses and domain names and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s website. We cannot use this technical information to identify you personally. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. uses this website usage information to measure the number of visits to our sites, the average time spent, the number of pages viewed, and to monitor various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our websites, so that we can improve the content we provide.

COOKIES

Maxwell-Kates, Inc. may store some information commonly known as a “cookie” on your computer when you look at Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s website. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. is able to read these cookies for information purposes when you revisit Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s website. The type of information collected includes the IP address, the date and time the PC visited the website, what parts of our website were looked at and whether the web pages requested were delivered successfully. This information is anonymous; it represents a computer rather than a person. Cookie information is used to improve Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s knowledge of Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s website and to enable Maxwell-Kates, Inc. to ascertain whether the website is operating at an optimal level. This allows us to enhance our web offerings to you and to provide an enjoyable and innovative online experience.

SECURITY

Information security is important to Maxwell-Kates, Inc.. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. will take reasonable steps necessary to protect the information that is provided. We continually review our security procedures and mechanisms to ensure that reasonable protections are in place.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s website may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the Maxwell-Kates, Inc. website. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. does not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. The personal data you choose to give to unrelated third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your personal information.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Maxwell-Kates, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. encourages parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 and Maxwell-Kates, Inc. does not target its websites to children under the age of 13.

PRIVACY POLICY MODIFICATIONS

Maxwell-Kates, Inc. reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Maxwell-Kates, Inc. will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically. This Privacy Policy serves as an expression of Maxwell-Kates, Inc.’s commitment to protecting private personal information. This policy was last updated on Oct. 6, 2006.

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

If you have other questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, email us at [email protected].