Last Update Date: December 30th, 2015
At Maple Tech Systems, Inc. (‘MAPLE TECH’), we respect and protect the privacy of our customers and those who visit our website. Your privacy is important to MAPLE TECH. This privacy statement discloses the information collection and/or information handling practices for MAPLE TECH web site: www.Maple Tech.net, including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the collected information is used, and with whom we share the information
Personal Information
In general, you can visit MAPLE TECH on the Internet without telling us who you are and without giving any personal information about yourself. There are times, however, when we or our partners may need information from you. You may choose to give us personal information in a variety of situations. For example, you may want to give us information, such as your name and address or e-mail id, to correspond with you, to process an order, or to provide you with a subscription. You may give us your credit card details to buy something from us or a description of your education and work experience in connection with a job opening at MAPLE TECH that you wish to be considered for. We may supplement this information to complete a transaction or to provide a better service. We intend to let you know how we will use such information before we collect it from you; if you tell us that you do not want us to use this information to make further contact with you beyond fulfilling your requests, we will respect your wishes. You may also turn off cookies in your browser. If you give us personal information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, we will assume that you have their permission to do so.
Information Collection and Use
MAPLE TECH is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. MAPLE TECH collects information from our users at several different points on our website. Our website may offer multiple opportunities for visitors to register for promotional and informational mailings, online webinars and resources, and for assistance in evaluating our services. These registration forms are often linked to MAPLE TECH's mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information about our company and its products and services if requested or necessary. MAPLE TECH intends to protect and secure the personal information that you submit to this Site. MAPLE TECH will not sell, rent, distribute, or give your personal information to any third party without your knowledge and consent. MAPLE TECH shall not be liable for any personal information that you submit to external vendors or to any web site linked to this Site. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time (see the choice/opt-out section below). We use the information for the following purposes:
- To fulfill your requests by us or by others involved in fulfillment.
- To contact you for customer satisfaction surveys, market research or in connection with certain transactions.
- By MAPLE TECH and selected organizations for marketing purposes if you have permitted such use.
- In an non-identifiable format for analysis
- To develop our business relationship if you represent a MAPLE TECH Business Partner or Vendor
Fulfilling your Transaction Request
If you request something from MAPLE TECH Web site, for example, a product or service, a callback, or specific marketing materials, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information, with others, for instance, other parts of MAPLE TECH organization, MAPLE TECH's Business Partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, postal or government authorities (for example, Customs authorities) involved in fulfillment. In connection with a transaction we may also contact you as part of our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
Marketing Use
The information you provide to MAPLE TECH on our Web site may also be used by MAPLE TECH and selected third parties for marketing purposes. Before we use it, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether or not to have your information used in this way.
MAPLE TECH Discussion Forums and Chat Rooms
If you participate in a MAPLE TECH discussion forum or chat room, you should be aware that the information you provide there will be made broadly available to others, potentially inside or outside MAPLE TECH, who have access to that discussion forum or chat room. Also, please recognize that individual forums and chat rooms may have additional rules and conditions. Each participant's opinion on a forum or chat room is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of MAPLE TECH.
Human Resources (including Recruitment) Information
In connection with a job application or inquiry, whether advertised on a MAPLE TECH Web site or otherwise, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as a resume or curriculum vitae. We may use this information throughout MAPLE TECH and its related entities for the purpose of employment consideration or your inquiry. Except when you tell us not to, we may keep your information for future employment consideration.
Supplementing Information
From time to time we may supplement information you give us via MAPLE TECH Web site with information from other sources, such as information validating your address or other available information about businesses. This helps us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect and to help us provide a better service.
Service Quality Monitoring
Certain Web transactions may also involve you calling us or our calling you. Please be aware that it is MAPLE TECH's general practice to monitor and in some cases record such calls for staff training or for quality assurance purposes.
Online Advertising
Certain companies help us deliver interactive on-line advertising such as banner ads. These companies may collect and use information about customers to help us better understand the offers, promotions, and types of advertising that are most appealing to our customers. After it is collected the information is aggregated so it is not identifiable to a specific individual. If, however, you would prefer that these companies not collect such information, please visit www.networkadvertising.org and follow the "opt-out" instructions.
Fulfilling Links to non-MAPLE TECH Web sites
MAPLE TECH Web site may provide links to other third-party web sites. MAPLE TECH is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites. While on these sites, MAPLE TECH or its partners may collect information about you. Because MAPLE TECH does not control the information policies or practices of these third parties, you should review their privacy policies to learn more about how they collect and use personally identifiable information.
Use of Web Technologies
We use a variety of technologies on our sites. Among these are cookies; a piece of information that our websites provide to your browser when you visit our sites. Cookies allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our websites easier by recognizing you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our websites.
We may access and set cookies using web beacons, also known as single-pixel GIFs which are invisible graphical images. These web beacons provide us useful information regarding our site such as which pages users access. When we send you emails, we may include a single-pixel GIF to allow us to determine the number of people who open our emails. When you click on a link in an email, we record this individual response to allow us to customize our offerings to you.
We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view. We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links you click on to leave our site. Once you leave our site, we do not track you. We use your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience, assist you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server, administer our websites and to tailor our product and service offerings to you.
Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Technologies
We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our Web site to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit, and we also measure visitor activity on MAPLE TECH Web site, but we do so in ways that keep the information non-identifiable. This information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." MAPLE TECH or others on MAPLE TECH's behalf may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service.
Also, when we collect personal data from you in a transaction, we may extract some information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner you can disable your cookies.
We collect the information we mentioned in the previous paragraphs through the use of various technologies, including one called "cookies". A cookie is a piece of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer but not you. Some MAPLE TECH pages use cookies, sent by MAPLE TECH or its third party vendors, or other technologies to better serve you when you return to the Web site. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, some Web sites may not work properly.
Our Web site may also use Web beacon or other technologies to better tailor our site to provide better customer service. These technologies may be in use on a number of pages across MAPLE TECH's Web site. When a visitor accesses these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers. These Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you don't want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off cookies. If you turn off cookies, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
Collection of IP addresses
When you visit our Site, some information such as your Internet protocol address, Internet service provider, operating system, the Site from which you arrived, and the time and date of your visit may be collected automatically as part of the software operation of this Site. This intake of information is not personally identifiable. MAPLE TECH uses this information solely for internal marketing purposes, for example, to see what pages are most frequently visited in order to improve the Site. After it is used for internal marketing purposes, this information is discarded.
Privacy Technology
Technology will increasingly help give you more control over your personal information. It will also help organizations to manage their privacy practices and policies. As an information technology provider, MAPLE TECH actively supports the development of privacy technologies to help achieve these goals and to help create greater trust and confidence in the way personal information is handled.
Information Security and Quality
We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. When we ask for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it through the use of encryption during transmission, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
MAPLE TECH takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors' security and privacy among our employees. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information and, using physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for business purposes only. Additionally, we use internal and external resources to review the adequacy of our security procedures.
Fulfilling Our Worldwide Practices
MAPLE TECH is a global organization, with legal entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems that cross borders. Our privacy practices are designed to provide protection for your personal information, all over the world.We may share your personal information within MAPLE TECH and transfer it to countries in the world where we do business. Some countries may provide less legal protection for your information. In such countries MAPLE TECH will still handle information in the manner we describe here
Fulfilling Resume Collection
The Site provides a capability for users to submit their resumes to MAPLE TECH via email. Any resume so received by MAPLE TECH will be held in confidence and used only for the purpose of considering the submitting party for employment. Such information is not shared with third parties external to MAPLE TECH.
Disclosure Required By Law
Please be aware that in certain circumstances, we may disclose or report personal information where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with the regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search warrant or a law enforcement request.
Contact Privacy Questions and Access
If you have a question about this statement, you can send us an email to the MAPLE TECH web site coordinator at ppolicy@mapletechs.com. You can also contact us at this address if you have a question about our handling of your personal information. If you wish to obtain a copy of a particular information you have provided to MAPLE TECH, or if you become aware that your information with us is not correct and you would like us to correct it, contact us at ppolicy@mapletechs.com. Before MAPLE TECH is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, MAPLE TECH may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us respond to your request.
Nature of Data on the Internet
It is MAPLE TECH's intent to guard any personal information that you submit to us, and MAPLE TECH will continue to take steps to maintain the security of this Site. However, as a member of multi-national business community, the data we collect from you may be distributed by MAPLE TECH internationally and the open nature of the Internet is such that data may flow over networks without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended. Therefore, in submitting personal information to our Site or sites, you assume the risk of a third party obtaining your information.
Choice/Opt-Out
MAPLE TECH provides users the opportunity to opt-in, opt-out or change preferences via a link in the footer of most of our email messages. These options are made available when you sign-up for our email lists and in email messages delivered to you from MAPLE TECH. Alternatively you may email us at admin@mapletechs.com
Children's usage of the Site
This site is intended for use by adults only. It is not intended for any usage or purpose by minors and we ask that minors not submit any personal information to MAPLE TECH.
Notification of Changes
This privacy statement was last updated on December 30, 2015. If we decide to change our Privacy policy in a material way, we shall post a notice on our web site home page for 30 days to inform you that our privacy policy has been updated.