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1. Personal Information
In general, you can visit the Major & Minor Group 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 the Major & Minor Group that you wish to be considered for. 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. 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.
2. Fulfilling your transaction request
If you request something from the Major & Minor Group Website, 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 the Major & Minor Group, the Major & Minor Group'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.
3. Marketing Use
The information you provide to the Major & Minor Group may also be used by the Major & Minor Group and selected third parties
for marketing purposes. Before we use it, however, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether or not to have your
information used in this way.
4. Major & Minor Human Resources (including Recruitment)
In connection with a job application or inquiry, whether advertised on the Major & Minor Group Website or otherwise, you
may provide us with information about yourself, such as a resume or curriculum vitae. We may use this information throughout
the Major & Minor Group and its related entities for the purpose of employment consideration or your inquiry. Except where you
tell us not to, we will keep the information for future consideration.
5. Information for Business Partners
If you represent a Major & Minor Group Business Partner, you may visit the Major & Minor Group Website intended specifically for
Major & Minor Group Business Partners. We may use information provided on that site to administer and develop our business
relationship with you, the Business Partner you represent and the Major & Minor Group Business Partners generally. For instance,
this may involve using your information to send you details of the Major & Minor Group Business Partner programs. It may also
include sharing certain information with other Business Partners (subject to any confidentiality obligations that may exist),
or the Major & Minor Group customers or prospects. In connection with a particular transaction or program, we may also contact
you as part of customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
6. Major & Minor Group Discussion Forums and Chat Rooms
If you participate in a Major & Minor Group 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 the Major & Minor Group, 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 the Major & Minor Group.
7. Information Security and Quality
We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its quality. We implement appropriate measures and processes,
such as using encryption when transmitting certain sensitive information, to help us to keep your information secure and to
maintain its quality.
8. Supplementing Information
From time to time we may supplement information you give us via the Major & Minor Group Website with information from
other sources, such as information validating your address or other available information about businesses. This is to help
us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect and to help us provide a better service.
9. Use of Suppliers
In some cases the Major & Minor Group uses suppliers to collect, use, analyze and otherwise process information on its behalf.
It is the Major & Minor Group's practice to require such suppliers to handle information in a manner consistent with Major & Minor
Group's policies
10. Mergers and Acquisitions
Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, the Major & Minor Group decides to sell,
buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective
or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. It is the Major & Minor Group's practice to seek appropriate protection for
information in these types of transactions.
11. Cookies
We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our Websites 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 the Major & Minor
Group Websites, but we do so in ways that keep the information non-identifiable. This information is sometimes known as
"clickstream data." the Major & Minor Group or others on the Major & Minor Group'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 "cookies". A cookie is a piece of
data that a Website 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 Major & Minor Group pages use cookies, sent by the Major & Minor Group or its third party vendors,
to better serve you when you return to the Website. 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
pages sites may not work properly.
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, we can still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be
associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
12. Service Quality Monitoring
Certain Web transactions may also involve you calling us or our calling you. Please be aware that it is the Major & Minor Group's
general practice to monitor and in some cases record such calls for quality assurance purposes.
13. 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.
14. Disclosures Required By Law
Please be aware that in certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant
to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders.
15. 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, the Major & Minor Group 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.
16. Links to non-Major & Minor Group Websites
The Major & Minor Group Web sits may contain links to other Websites. The Major & Minor Group is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of those other Websites.
17. Notification of Changes
This privacy statement was last updated on Tuesday, September 20, 2005. Due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, the Major &
Minor Group reserves the right to change this policy with or without notification.
18. Privacy Questions and Access
If you have a question about this statement, you can send an email to the Major & Minor Website coordinator.
The address for this is privacy@majornminor.com. You can also contact us at this address if you have a question about
the Major & Minor Group's handling of your information, if you wish to obtain a copy of particular information you provided
to the Major & Minor Group, or if you become aware the information is incorrect and you would like us to correct it. Before
the Major & Minor Group is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, however, we may ask you
to verify your identity and for other details to help us to respond to your request. We will endeavor to respond within an
appropriate timeframe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding the site's privacy statement, you should first contact the Major & Minor
Group directly.
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