ARCOS, Inc.
Community Corporate Center
445 Hutchinson Ave., Suite 700
Columbus, OH 43235
614-396-5500
Welcome to the ARCOS, Inc. Web site. You are encouraged to
browse at your leisure and you need not disclose specific personal data if you
feel reluctant to do so. However, our site is intentionally made interactive
and allows you to identify your specific area of interest or inquiry so that
your visit may be more productive. In order to respond to your needs
effectively, we must ask you to reveal certain personal information and
naturally, we would like to consider you a prospective client. Accordingly, we
wanted to advise you of the Privacy Policy observed by ARCOS, Inc. concerning
the information collected. For those of you who are already customers of ARCOS,
Inc., the use of your personal or confidential information is governed by the
applicable customer agreement and not this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection
For your protection and ours, ARCOS, Inc. is and shall remain
the sole owner of the information disclosed or collected on arcos-inc.com.
ARCOS may request and collect personal information from our site visitors at
several different points on our Web site to enable us to respond to your
specific inquiry.
Request for Information
Specific
requests for information may be made by e-mail or by using ARCOS, Inc. online
forms. In order to answer such requests, user information, such as your name
and e-mail address, is required.
Contact Information
Requests by viewers for contact information may also be made by e-mail or by
using our online forms. In order to fulfill such requests, user information
such as name, address, phone number and e-mail address is requested.
Passive Information
The Web site collects certain information passively, such as by using “cookies”.
Cookies help ARCOS, Inc. save you time and improve your experience on the Web
site.
Information Sharing
Legal Disclaimer
ARCOS, Inc. undertakes commercially reasonable efforts to preserve user privacy and
employ safeguards to prevent personal data disclosed upon our request from
being disclosed to third parties. However, ARCOS, Inc. may disclose such
personal information if (a) required to do so by law, or if we have a
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a court order or
legal process served on our Company or Web site, (b) that it is necessary to
protect or defend the property or rights of the Company and/or the Web site, or
to protect the personal safety of our employees, other users or the general
public, or (c) perform obligations pursuant to a
merger, acquisition of assets or other change of control.
Third Parties
ARCOS, Inc. does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists
to third parties. ARCOS, Inc. may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of
external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest
to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information
(e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third
party. In addition, ARCOS, Inc. may share data with trusted service providers
to help us host and operate the Web site, perform statistical analysis, send
you email, provide customer support, or otherwise assist ARCOS, Inc. in
providing our services and products to you. All such third parties are
prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services
to ARCOS, Inc, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your
information.
Business Reorganizations
In the
event the Company should undergo a business reorganization, merger, or sale of
some or all of its assets, this Web site and all personal information of users/subscribers
may be considered part of the business and assets included in the reorganization.
Communications from the Site
Direct communications from this site will occur in response to
specific inquiries or requests for information, or to subscriptions for
newsletters or service.
Users who no longer wish to receive communications from ARCOS,
Inc. may opt-out of receiving such communications by contacting us and/or clicking
on an opt-out link in such e-mails. Users may also unsubscribe from these
services, and/or be removed from our database completely, by sending a request
by postal mail to the address provided above.
Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that we, ARCOS, Inc., are not responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our users to take note of that when they visit other
sites and to read the privacy statements of each and every other Web site that
collects personal information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to
information collected by this Web site, and ARCOS, INC. SHALL BE IN NO WAY
RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY BREACH OF PRIVACY BY SUCH LINKED SITES.
Security
ARCOS, Inc. takes measures to secure
your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. ARCOS,
Inc. (or its service provider) secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, with
protections against unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal
information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it
is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) protocol.
Access to Personal Information
If you are one of our many Web site users, we will allow you,
upon specific request, to verify the accuracy of personal information we have
on record about you. On such request, we permit access to all of your personal
information, including contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number),
that we maintain which is specific to you. You may obtain this information by
writing to us at the above address.
Should you find any inaccuracies in the personal data we have on
record, you may request that we correct the information, pointing out the inaccuracy,
by writing to us at the above address, and appropriate revisions will be
entered.
Notification of Changes
If this Privacy Policy or our information practices change at
any time, ARCOS, Inc. will contact users (such as by posting a notice on our
Web site) whose personal information we maintain before we use such data for
any new purposes. All such users will be notified of the policy change and
provided an opportunity to opt out of the new practices. The personal
information of users who do not opt out of the new practices will be subject to
the new practices.
Contact Information
If users have any
questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at the
postal address listed at the top of this page.
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