Collection and Use of Information
William O'Neil + Company will only collect your personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) if you provide it voluntarily. If you do not want this information to be collected by us, please do not submit it. William O'Neil + Company will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it is collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.
In addition, in the course of using our site we automatically track certain information about you. This information includes but is not limited to the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you go to next (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, if you are a new or returning visitor, and your IP address. Many sites automatically collect this information.
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Our employees, agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect the information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement.
We also employ the use of cookies to assist us in this process. A cookie is a small piece of computer code that enables web servers to identify users. Cookies do not store any information that you have provided to our site. They are simply identifiers. You have the ability to delete cookie files from your hard drive at any time or avoid cookies by configuring your browser to reject them or to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your hard drive.
We may provide access to your personally identifiable information when legally required to do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Web site, to limit our legal liability and protect our rights, or to protect the rights and safety of visitors to this Web site or the public. In those instances, the information is provided only for that limited purpose.
We only use the information which is provided through our site to help us improve our services to you, to provide you with the products you have requested, to inform you about additional products or services that may be of interest to you, for marketing purposes and for other internal purposes. We may share information with our affiliates for joint marketing purposes.
At any time, while accessing our site, any user, while online, may decline participation in any activity that asks for information (i.e. survey email, or ecommerce). Your choice not to participate will in no way affect your ability to use any other feature on our site.
Security
We take reasonable steps to maintain the security of the personally identifiable information that we collect, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as installing electronic security systems that guard against unauthorized access. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us, so you do so at your own risk and William O'Neil + Company has no responsibility or liability for the security of information transmitted via the Internet.
External Web Sites
To the extent hyperlinks or banner advertisements incorporating hyperlinks are utilized to access third party sites, you should be aware that these third party Web sites are not controlled by William O'Neil + Company and, therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Statement. You should check the privacy policies of these individual sites to see how your personal information will be utilized by the operators of those third party Web sites.