www.thekarateguy.com has security measures in place
to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information
under our control. Firewalls are in place to prevent
unauthorized access to equipment and servers. All systems
are monitored for suspicious activity to prevent any
breaches in security.
Your IP Address
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with
our server, derive usage statistics, and to administer
our Website. All usage statistics are only used as aggregated
data to derive statistics and not to identify individuals
accessing the Web site.
Session Tracking
Our sites uses session information to identify specific
user's shopping cart for our online e-commerce system.
Session information is also used to prevent users from
duplicating responses in any Web site events. Paterson's
Karate Works information is not held in session variables
for your privacy and protection.
Financial and Customer Information
Our site uses order forms that allow customers to purchase
products and services. We collect a visitor's contact
information (address, phone, e-mail address, etc.),
transaction data (items purchased), and financial information
(credit card numbers). Financial information is used
to collect payment from the user for billable products
and services. Credit Card information is never stored
on our servers. Your Paterson's Karate Works personal
information is never used by any party other than The
Paterson's Karate Works to track online sales activity.
Your contact information will be used to contact you
as needed. If you do not wish to be contacted for reasons
other than relating to your purchase, you can contact
Paterson's Karate Works to inform them of such.
Links
Our site contains links to other sites. The Paterson's
Karate Works is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of Web sites linked from Paterson's Karate
Work's Website, nor does linking to other Web sites
indicate any endorsement of the site or the products
or information provided on such sites.
Public Forums
The Paterson's Karate Works makes available discussion
and password based entry forums available to its users,
the following will apply. Discussion forums are made
available to the general public so, please remember
that any information disclosed in these areas becomes
public information, and you should exercise caution
when deciding to disclose any personal information.
Private Forms
Patersons's have also made available a members only
section thereby members must apply and go through an
approval process to gain entry. Although we take great
lengths to ensure privacy, in no way can we control
members giving out passwords or login ID's to third
parties.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy/security
statements, Paterson's Karate Work's Web site practices,
or your dealings with our website, please use the contact
information at the top of this page
Security
The Paterson's Karate Works and Karate Guy websites
also employ a secure socket layers (SSL) security protocol,
which is a standard industry tool used to provide data
encryption on pages and areas where Paterson's Karate
Works data are collected. SSL protects the Paterson's
Karate Works information transmitted from a user's computer
to The Paterson's Karate Works, allowing for safe transmission
of financial information over the Internet. The Paterson's
Karate Works also uses digital certificate authentication
to ensure secure transactions.
