Privacy Policy

Summary Statement

My Company Shield™ respects and is committed to protecting your company's privacy. To this end, we have created this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy discloses what information is gathered by this website and how that information will be used. This Privacy Policy applies to all services that are hosted on the My Company Shield™ web site, whether the services are offered by My Company Shield™ or by its subsidiaries.

Our Commitment to Your Personal Privacy

• In order to operate our system, My Company Shield™ must ask for and store information about your company, its shareholders/members, directors and officers. This information may include such identifiable information as your company's name, address, e-mail address, phone numbers, credit, debit, or bank card numbers, and other details not otherwise publicly available.
• My Company Shield™ understands that the most vital relationship we have is with our customers. We also understand that much of the information gathered and stored by My Company Shield™ will be information not publicly available. To protect your company's information, My Company Shield™ has built redundant safeguards in its system. In addition, My Company Shield™ will not sell, rent, lease or share your company's information with any other person or third party except to provide products, services, and information you have specifically requested or unless required by state or federal law.

Information Collection and Use

• My Company Shield™ does not gather any information from you or your company (such as your name, your business name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or billing information) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. Our website invites visitors to submit their names or e-mail addresses in order to receive promotional items, product updates, membership discounts, important notices and newsletters.
• My Company Shield™ is committed to keeping secure any information that your company provides to us, both directly and indirectly. To ensure the security of the e-commerce transactions, all data is transferred using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 64-bit encryption provided through a Verisign digital certificate. When you are in a secured section, you will notice the closed lock at the bottom of your Microsoft or Netscape browser window.
• We have a temporary "cookie" or digital signature that resides on your computer and allows us to recognize you as a My Company Shield™ customer when you return to our web site using the same computer and browser. We send a “session cookie” to your computer if and when you log in to your My Company Shield™ account by entering your username and password. These cookies allow us to recognize you if you visit multiple pages in our sight during the same session, so that you do not need to reenter your password multiple times. Once you log out or close your browser, the session cookies expire and no longer have any affect.
• My Company Shield™ may also use cookies to supply your browser with identifiers used to better understand web site usage in the aggregate so that we know what areas of our site users prefer. Third party tracking systems in use in connection with this web site may assign different cookies to you. These cookies may be used to track your involvement with certain links on our site and help us to better understand and improve our site. These cookies are not linked to your company's information. You do not need to accept cookies from our site to use our services. Most browsers are defaulted to accept and maintain cookies.
• My Company Shield™ uses your company's personal information for the following general purposes: to fulfill your requests for our products, services, and information; enhance your experience; customize the content you see on our web site; contact you when needed; improve our services; and, provide anonymous reporting for internal purposes.

Personal Access to Personal Information

• My Company Shield™ give you access to your company's information in our system twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. By logging in at http://www.mycompanyshield.com, you may view, modify, or update your company's information.
• When you register with My Company Shield™, or purchase our products and services, you were asked to supply a login and a password. This login and password are used to secure access to any information that My Company Shield™ has received from you.

Confidentiality and Security

• My Company Shield™ restricts access to your company's information to those employees of My Company Shield™ who need to know that information to provide products and services to you and in the maintenance and service of your account.
• We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that apply with federal standards to guard your company's information. Whether you are a current or a former customer, you have our assurance that your company's information will be duly protected.
• All of your company's information is password-protected and secured by industry-standard SSL encryption, protecting the integrity of your information and the security of data transmissions.

Data Collection from Children

My Company Shield™ does not provide services or products designed to appeal to children. Our services and products are designed for businesses. My Company Shield™ does not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from minors (children under the age of 18) and ask that they not submit any personal information to us or use our service.

Legal Disclosure

My Company Shield™ may be required by state or federal law to disclose certain information. In such an event, My Company Shield™ will fully comply with the law and disclose the requested information.

Tell-a-Friend

• My Company Shield™ allows you to quickly, easily, and confidentially share your My Company Shield™ experience with a friend or business associate. If you desire, we will send a customized, confidential e-mail to anyone you would like by giving us that person's name, e-mail address, and, if desired, a customized message from you.
• We will protect your friend or business associate's personal information and privacy with the same high standards as identified above. My Company Shield™ will not send additional correspondence, marketing, or product information to your friend or business associate without receiving direct permission from your friend or business associate to do so.
• To learn more about the Tell-a-Friend services, click here.

Your Consent to This Agreement & Notification of Change

• By using My Company Shield™, you consent to the collection and use of your company's information by My Company Shield™ as specified above.
• My Company Shield™ may make any changes and additions to this policy as it seems necessary. All such changes will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 15, 2005.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the personal information practices of this sight, you may complete a feedback form or contact us at:

• My Company Shield™
• Attention: Customer Care—Privacy Policy Issues
• P.O. Box 712354
• Salt Lake City, UT 84171-2354

Or, you may visit our "Contact Us" section.