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At Commodities Consulting and its affiliates, maintaining client trust and confidence is a high priority. We understand that you are concerned with how we treat nonpublic personal information ('Client Information') that we obtain from you or from other sources about you in the course of providing you with our products and services. For this reason, we want you to understand how we work to protect your privacy when we collect and use information about you, and the steps we take to safeguard that information.
General Information About Browsing Commodities Consulting's Websites
At Commodities Consulting, no account or personal information is retrieved from Commodities Consulting's servers when a client or visitor browses the public (pre-login) areas of our websites. Although Commodities Consulting uses website data to improve the content and services offered to its website visitors, such data is reported on an aggregate, anonymous basis, and we associate no personal information with such gathering of data. Such data may include: how many people visit our websites; the pages they visit; how long they stay on our websites; and the domain name of the site visitors connect from (e.g., yahoo.com).
A Word About Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website transfers to your hard drive or browser to help you move faster through that particular website, or for tracking your website usage. Commodities Consulting does not use cookies to gather personal information such as a person's name or e-mail address. We do, however, use cookies to identify repeat visitors to our websites, to determine the path visitors take to our websites, and to identify visitors who came to Commodities Consulting's websites as a result of a banner ad on a third party website. Please be assured that any information we gather by the use of a cookie is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis. Although your browser might allow you to 'reject' cookies, we require that you accept all cookies in order for our websites' features and security mechanisms to function fully.
Third parties might also create cookies when you access their sites through links posted on our sites. We do not have access to these cookies or any information that these cookies may contain. Please contact the third party site for more information on their policies regarding cookies. Although we expect third parties to adhere to our privacy policies and terms and conditions of use, we are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties.
Commodities Consulting's Security Technology
Whether you are a Commodities Consulting client or a visitor browsing our websites, and you submit information in one of our online forms, please note that we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect the information you submit. This technology protects you from having your information intercepted by anyone other than Commodities Consulting while it is being transmitted to us. We work hard to ensure that our websites are secure and that they meet industry standards. In addition to encryption technology, we use other safeguards such as firewalls, authentication systems (e.g., passwords and personal identification numbers) and access control mechanisms to control unauthorized access to systems and data.
A Word About Hyperlinks
Commodities Consulting's websites may contain hyperlinks or 'links' to other sites, and other sites may 'link' to our sites. Websites linking to and from our sites may have privacy practices different from Commodities Consulting's. This Website Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by our websites. Commodities Consulting is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of sites you link to, and we have no control over the use or protection of information provided by you or collected by those sites.
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