DNA Testing
Centre, Inc.
Privacy Policy Statement
DNA Testing Centre, Inc values the
privacy of our visitors/customers and takes every known precaution
to safe guard the information we collect from unauthorized use.
The following is a detailed explanation of the privacy
policy for “DNA Testing Centre, Inc.
WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
DNA Testing Centre, Inc believes it is
important for you to know what types of information we collect
when you use our site. We
employ various methods for collecting information.
To begin with, we use “cookies” that are needed to
compile aggregate non-personally identifiable information about
the visitors to our web site. Personally identifiable information
consists of information that is unique to you, such as credit card
numbers, bank accounts, social security numbers, home address,
email address and the like. This
is the type of information that most people consider private and
deem the most important to protect from unauthorized access.
Non-personally identifiable information most often consists
of things such as your search preferences, the types of products
you have bought, how many times you have visited a particular web
site, etc. This type
of information is usually associated with a particular computer or
IP address but not with a particular person.
“Cookies” are pieces of information generated by a Web
server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access.
Each time you access our web site our server does not
record any information about your visit other than the referring
URL and time and date of your visit.
WHY
DO WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?
We use this information in order to serve the
needs of our customers. We
need to know who you are in order to verify the credit card
information you have sent us.
We collect several pieces of personal information from you
in order to complete this verification process.
The non-personal information that we collect from you is
used in order to offer you better service and to make your
experience with our site more enjoyable.
Any information that we may inadvertently collect from you,
that does not serve one of these reasons stated above, is
immediately purged from our system.
HOW
IS YOUR INFORMATION PROTECTED?
We use the latest in encryption technology,
including 128 bit SSL encryption to ensure that any sensitive
information that is sent by you to us via the Internet is
protected from unauthorized interception.
We employ the latest in firewall protection to prevent
unauthorized access into our information storage areas.
We maintain a rigorous hiring process to screen out
potential employees with criminal backgrounds.
All employees that we do hire have to sign a
confidentiality agreement that forbids them from disclosing any
information to which the employee has access, to other individuals
or entities. We also
have back up servers and power supplies to guard against power
outages and other natural occurrences that could pose a threat to
the integrity of your personal information.
Passwords are required in order for you to gain access to
your account. Once an
account has been terminated, measures are taken to remove those
users from the system who no longer need access to our system.
When an employee is terminated or is no longer with the company,
we change the access codes that the employee used to access any
customer accounts. Passwords
must contain at least six characters, one of which is
nonalphanumeric.
WHO
HAS ACCESS TO MY INFORMATION?
Only those employees that are responsible for
handling your account have access to your information.
Additionally, employees in our technical department may
have access to your information in order to conduct routine checks
on the integrity of our system and in order to perform necessary
maintenance work. In
order to process your credit card we have to consult with an out
side credit card processing company.
These processing companies are regulated by the banking
industry and must meet certain security requirements in order to
be in business. The
processing companies will have access to your credit card
information, billing address, name, and possibly your telephone
number. The
processing company will communicate with the issuing bank of your
credit card in order to get final approval to charge your credit
card for the product or services we are providing for you.
Should you choose to receive additional information
regarding one of our services or products, we may pass your email
address to one of our partners who offers similar products or
services that you might be interested in.
Additionally, judicial requests by a duly authorized court
will require us to divulge certain information regarding your
account should that situation arise.
Finally, should our company ever be bought or sold, your
account information would then become the property of the new
owner/entity.
CAN
I CORRECT OR REMOVE INFORMATION FROM YOUR SITE?
You always have the option to view your
account to make sure the information we have collected from you is
indeed correct. You
also have the option of removing any information from your account
that you wish to keep private.
However, please note that removing certain information such
as your email address, contact information, and the like may
greatly hinder our ability to effectively provide the service or
products you have requested.
We recommend, that you contact us first to discuss which
information you may remove without interrupting the quality of
service we intend to provide for you.
CAN
I OPT OUT OF HAVING CERTAIN INFORMATION COLLECTED?
You have the option of disabling your
computer’s ability to accept or transmit cookies.
This will prevent us from gathering certain non-personally
identifiable information from you.
NOTICE
OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this privacy
policy at any time. However,
if any changes do occur, we will publish the changes to our web
site and post a notice on the home page that a new privacy policy
has been implemented. We will also take reasonable steps to contact you personally
to let you know of the new changes.
Should the company be bought or sold to someone else, we
will take reasonable steps to notify you personally.
You will then be given the option to keep your account open
or to terminate.