Frequently Asked Questions: Our Privacy Policy

This website and opt-in e-mail newsletter(s) are published by The Montage Communications Group, 5250 Grand Avenue, 14/111 Gurnee, Illinois, 60031 USA (www.connectbrazil.com).

To report any suspected abuse or violations of this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to the Publisher, via our 'Contact Us' page; if it's an e-mail issue, please include an unedited copy of the e-mail message that you feel was sent to you in error or without your permission. We ask that you also include all header information so that we can trace the origin of the message, along with any notes or other information that you feel are pertinent.

E-mail List Information Collection

For each visitor that signs up for our e-mail list, we collect only the information that is requested on the list signup form. Our Web servers may collect the domain name or IP address of visitors to our Web page(s). Unless otherwise stated on our Web site, we collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail and information volunteered by you such as but not limited to list signup information, survey information, and/or site registrations.

Our e-mail messages to you may include promotional information from clients for products and services. In all cases, the privacy policies of any third-party provider will be superceded by our own policies to insure your privacy as our valued guest. Under no circumstance will we sell or trade your contact information. Period.

Use of Web Site Information Collected

The information we collect may be used to create an aggregate demographic profile of our user base so that we can improve our content and services and provide aggregate information to potential advertisers. To clarify: No individual information is provided to any third-party at any time without your consent as a result of your personal choice.

Information may be used to customize the content or layout of our e-mail messages or pages for each individual visitor, to notify you about updates to our website and services, to send you our opt-in e-mail newsletter(s), to provide you with the products and/or services for which you signed-up or registered, which may include sending service disruption notices or other service- or product-related information via e-mail, and is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes without your consent.

Upon request, we will provide you with the information (e.g., e-mail address, name, etc.) that we maintain about you.

E-mail and Direct Response Contact

If you subscribed to our e-mail newsletter(s) but do not want to receive it in the future, please follow the "unsubscribe" instructions contained in the newsletter(s).

Cookies

We, and some of our partners who provide some of the services and products on our site, may use cookies necessary to record session information, such as items that you add to your shopping cart, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when you return to our site, and customize Web page or e-mail message content based on your browser type or other information.

Ad Servers and Other Partners

To try and bring you offers and information that may be of interest to you, we may have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads or provide other services or products in our e-mail newsletter(s). As a result of your visit to our site, these companies may collect non-personally-identifiable information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.

Security

We strive to maintain appropriate security measures in our respective physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you for being part of our e-mail list. Our e-store collects information in two separate forms: We internally track the contents of your shopping cart for purchases and our use of an Industry-leading credit verification service insures that your contact and payment information are safeguarded to the highest level via SSL and 128 bit encryption layers.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Policy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to this page to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of our list. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at this Privacy Policy page periodically.

Last Updated: May 17, 2005