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Privacy Policy

This Premier Internet Communications, Inc. Privacy Policy (our "Policy") was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our valued customers and the companies, businesses and organizations they represent (collectively, "you"). If you do not agree to the Policy, you should not use this Internet Web site (our "Site"). We may modify the Policy from time to time and post those modifications here. Your continued use of the Site after any such modification constitutes your acceptance of the modified Agreement. If you wish to be notified of any modifications to the Policy by email, please click here and provide a valid email address. You understand and agree that you will be bound by all such modifications, if any, regardless of whether or not you provide such email address.

1. Information.
Premier Internet Communications, Inc. obtains information from and about you in number of different ways, including:

A. General Information. Some information ("General Information") is gathered automatically when you access the Site. This General Information (which includes Site pages visited, type of Web browser used, type of operating system, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar information) does not identify you personally.
B. Personal Information. Some information that may be identifiable as yours (your "Personal Information") is not gathered automatically at the Site. If you wish to provide Personal Information, you must do so voluntarily, and you may do so in a number of different ways. The following are some of the kinds of Personal Information Premier Internet Communications, Inc. gathers:

(i) Registration Information. When you register at the Site, you will be asked for certain Personal Information, such as your name, your street mailing address, your email address and other information;
(ii) Third Party Information. When you register at a third party Web site and provide Personal Information to such third parties, Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may (pursuant to agreements between Premier Internet Communications, Inc. and those third parties) obtain such information to populate Premier Internet Communications, Inc. Site registration forms for use when you hyperlink to the Site;
(iii) Credit Card Information. If you purchase goods or services at the Site, you will be asked for credit card information, including your name, account number and expiration date; and
(iv) Email Information. When you send us email messages, we may retain the content of your email messages, together with your email address and our response to you.

C. Cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser on the hard drive of a user's computer. Cookies can "remember" what information ("Cookie Information") a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user, or can use that information to streamline the user's transactions on related Web sites. The Cookies Premier Internet Communications, Inc. uses do not capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information, but do permit Premier Internet Communications, Inc. to send focused advertising, online banner advertisements, new services, promotions and other such responses to you or assist your use of the Site. Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may also set Cookies when you register or when you acquire goods or services from the Site, and may do so without notice to or permission from you or any third party. Third party Web sites which are accessible from the Site via links, banner ads or clickthroughs may also use Cookies, and Premier Internet Communications, Inc. shall have no responsibility whatsoever for such Cookies.

2. General Use and Disclosure of Information.
Premier Internet Communications, Inc. uses and discloses your information as follows:

A. General Information. Premier Internet Communications, Inc. uses and discloses General Information to understand Site demographics and content preferences, and shall do so without notice to or permission from you or any third party. In particular, Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, Site traffic patterns and related information to our affiliates or third parties.
B. Personal Information. As further provided in Section 3 ("Other Use and Disclosure of Personal Information"), Premier Internet Communications, Inc. uses and discloses to our business partners and affiliates Personal Information for purposes of administering Premier Internet Communications, Inc. business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to you and other Premier Internet Communications, Inc. customers and prospective customers from Premier Internet Communications, Inc. and those business partners and affiliates. This may include focused advertising, online banner advertisements, new services, promotions and other responses to you. Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may also use and disclose Personal Information to notify you about important changes to the Site or our business, new Premier Internet Communications, Inc. services and special offers you may find valuable; and
C. Cookie Information. Premier Internet Communications, Inc. uses and discloses Cookie Information to improve our Site and better serve you and our other customers, and may do so without notice to or permission from you or any third party.

3. Other Use and Disclosure of Personal Information.
Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may enter into agreements with third parties who may be given access to Personal Information for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. We may also disclose any of your information when legally compelled to do so, or when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it, or for the protection of our legal rights. The following are some of the ways in which we may use or disclose your Personal Information to third parties:

A. Registration Information. Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may transfer the Personal Information you provide Premier Internet Communications, Inc. during the Site registration process to third parties for those parties to use to populate their own Web site registration forms when you hyperlink from the Site to their Web sites, in order to save you time in filling out their registration forms. Such third party Web sites may include Web sites that are owned by third parties or that are "co-branded" sites of Premier Internet Communications, Inc.;
B. Prepopulation Information. When you come to the Site from a third party Web site, or when you hyperlink from the Site to a third party Web site, and in either case provide Personal Information at that third party Web site, Premier Internet Communications, Inc. may obtain that Personal Information (pursuant to an agreement between Premier Internet Communications, Inc. and that third party) and use that Personal Information to populate Site registration forms in order to save you time filing out Site registration forms; and
C. Shared Registration Information. When you register at the Site, you may be given the opportunity to register simultaneously at the Web sites of certain third parties. Unless you opt out of this opportunity by checking or clicking on the icon indicated on the Site, you will be deemed to have consented to such simultaneous registration, and shall therefore be subject to the privacy policies, if any, of such third party Web site.

4. Security.
You understand and agree that "perfect" security does not exist anywhere, including the Internet. When you send credit card information to us at the Site, we use a technology called Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) to encrypt this information between your computer and our server. Other personal information you send to us at the Site, however, including any email messages, will not be encrypted unless we advise you otherwise.

5. Merchant Services.
You may be able to access certain information related to third parties at the Site, or via links, banner ads or clickthroughs from the Site, regarding the goods or services of third parties (collectively, "Merchant Services"). You understand and agree that your access to or use of Merchant Services is a matter entirely between you and the associated third parties, and Premier Internet Communications, Inc. shall have no liability whatsoever for any such access or use.

6. Community.
Premier Internet Communications, Inc. urges you to use discretion when sharing Personal Information in community areas on the Site such as message boards, mailing lists and directories. If you disclose Personal Information in such areas, you understand and agree that such Personal Information may be used and disclosed by others without restriction.

Security Policy

When it comes to customer security, no one is more serious than Premier Internet Communications, Inc. We have designed one of the safest and most error-free systems in use today. Our policy is to conduct regular third-party audits of our security to ensure that our standards are always maintained. We’ll walk you through our security, section by section, to let you know how we’re protecting you. Premier Internet Communications, Inc. ensures that you are:

Protected against theft of your personal data
Protected against electronic eavesdropping
Protected against hackers stealing you credit card numbers
Protected against failed security

Your private account information is stored on an isolated Premier Internet Communications, Inc. computer called the Internet Filing Cabinet. This server is carefully protected both physically and electronically. Physically, the server is stored in a highly secure building maintained by Betrusted, Inc., whose mission is to provide the highest degree of security for Internet applications.

Key features of Betrusted, Inc. Security:
Fire Suppression System - State-of-the-art gas-based fire protection system, separate fire zones below the floor and above the ceiling, specialized heat/smoke sensors, and automatic local fire department notification
Facility Security System - Motion sensors, secured access, video camera surveillance, security breach alarm, and 24 X 7 automatic local police department notification
Personal Security System - 24 X 7 card key customer access to Internet Data Centers, monitoring, and 24 X 7 on-site personnel
Server Cage - Our server is locked in a steel wire cage inside the secured Betrusted building Electronically, your private account information is NOT directly connected to the Internet. It sits behind a firewall. The firewall ensures that the sensitive information stored on the customer server is not available to unauthorized computers. It only allows certain messages from authorized computers through. The firewall we are using is a recognized industry standard, and exceeds the standards set by the International Computer Security Association (ICSA), a leading industry authority on the issue of Internet security.

You communicate with Premier Internet Communications, Inc. through your computer’s web browser. Your browser is a critical piece of our security infrastructure. We only support browsers that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 or higher. Your browser will handle these interactions automatically, so you do not have to take any extra steps to be protected. In fact, before you login or fill out an application, our server checks to make sure you’re using one of the approved browsers. SSL 3.0 provides protection against electronic eavesdropping through:

Server Authentication - Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 provides a way for you to verify that you are in fact logging on to the Premier Internet Communications, Inc. server and not a site that is impersonating our server. Before you logon to Premier Internet Communications, Inc., our server sends Premier Internet Communications, Inc.’s public key to your browser program. SSL 3.0, lets you verify the identity of a server by viewing the site’s Certificate. A Certificate is a way of associating a public key to a name. You can be sure that you are logged on to the Premier Internet Communications, Inc. server by viewing our Certificate through your browser program when you’re on the first page of the online application or login screen.
Data Encryption - Once SSL has authenticated the server, your browser and our server will establish a secret symmetric key. The symmetric key allows your browser and our server to exchange encrypted data. The symmetric key is valid for a single session only. If you log out and later come back to Premier Internet Communications, Inc., your browser and our server will negotiate a different symmetric key automatically. The symmetric key protects all of your communications with Premier Internet Communications, Inc.
Message Authentication Code - With data encryption in place, no outside party can understand our communications, but they could still intercept a message and scramble it. To detect message tampering, SSL uses a message authentication code (MAC). A MAC is a piece of data that is computed, using pieces of the symmetric key and the message itself. Your browser always checks the MAC before interpreting a message from our server. If the message was scrambled by a hacker, the MAC would not correctly compute and your browser will alert you of possible security hazards. The chances of someone scrambling a message and then guessing the correct MAC are negligible: about 1 in 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 under 128-bit encryption. Technology moves forward at a rapid pace. Thieves get smarter, and so do the security systems. No matter what happens, you are always protected against security breaches with our 100% Safe Internet Pledge.