PRIVACY POLICY

We, at Soucie Horner, Ltd. understand that you are concerned about your privacy and the security of your personal information. We are committed to protecting the secrecy of your personal information. As a result, we have adopted the following privacy policy. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please see the Opt-Out section below for our contact information.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our web site, you can browse without having to give us any personal information. Your Internet service provider is automatically recognized, but you will not be identified as an individual. We may track use of the web site by our visitors; however, all tracking will be done anonymously. If you choose to provide information in connection with your use of our web site, this information will only be used as described in this policy.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We collect personal information in order to:

  • Personalize your experience so that we can better respond to your individual needs;
  • Improve our web site;
  • Improve our customer service and keep track of how well we are doing;
  • Improve our products and better serve the needs of our customers in the future;
  • Measure our business by keeping demographic and other statistical data;
  • Send periodic e-mails with news about our company and our industry;
  • Respond to inquiries; and
  • Process transactions.

Do We Disclose Any Information to Outside Parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our web site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We are committed to taking reasonable steps to ensure the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put into place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us or information stored on this web site or our servers, will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers and your use of the Site demonstrates your assumption of this risk.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The web site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect any information from children.

Your Consent to this Privacy Policy.

By providing information on our web site, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. You may withdraw your consent at any time by following the procedure described in the Opt-Out provision set forth below.

Do We Use Cookies?

From time to time, for your convenience, our web site might issue you a “cookie” during your visit. A cookie is a small file that contains information and is stored by your computer’s browser. We do not use cookies for any reason other than to provide convenience to the visitors of our web site.

If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most web sites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly.

Links to Other Sites

Our web site may contain links to third party web sites operated by individuals or companies unrelated to Soucie Horner, Ltd. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party web sites. These linked web sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. We recommend that you review the privacy policies posted on such third party web sites prior to utilizing them. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Can I Opt Out of Receiving Information from Soucie Horner?

If you provide us your e-mail address, we may send you e-mail to inform you of new products, services and special offers. If you would prefer not to be contacted about such special offers, products or services, please notify us of such preference using any of the contact information set forth below.

  • E-mail us: info@souciehorner.com
  • Call us: 312-755-0202
  • Write us: Soucie Horner Ltd., 208 West Kinzie, Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL 60654

Please note that, notwithstanding the fact that we may have removed your information from our list of active users, we reserve the right to keep any information submitted or collected for business reasons, such as archiving data.

Will Soucie Horner Update its Privacy Policy?

Occasionally, we may update our Privacy Policy and information security procedures. If our privacy and/or information security procedures change at any time in the future, we will post the new changes on our web site. We will not notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you periodically review this Privacy Policy in order to review any updates.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.