Modified September 1, 2018
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.sozofirm.com. Our website is operated and owned by Sozo Firm, Inc, a U.S. based corporation located in New Freedom, Pennsylvania.
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available through a footer link on our website homepages and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us through completing our online contact form.
At www.sozofirm.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information which is received and collected by www.sozofirm.com and how it is used.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on all Sozo Firm Inc owned web properties. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information typically collected at these pages are:
Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient’s address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
Name
Address
Phone Number
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 (for Sozo Firm websites where we permit profile pictures to be visible).
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.
The Way We Use Information
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with or sold to outside parties.
You can register with our websites if you would like to receive updates on our products and services. Information you submit on our websites will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the registration form. Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
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.
Analytics
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Website Tracking
www.sozofirm.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
Like many other Web sites, www.sozofirm.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Sozo Firm Inc uses Google Analytics and Clicky Analytics to collect the following information when users access or interact with our Website: This information may include, among other information, the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement that referred you to our Website, the search terms you entered into a search engine that led you to our Website, areas within our Website that you visited, and other information commonly shared when browsers communicate with websites. This information may also include x/y coordinates of mouse events, unique ID tracking cookie, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (anonymized for residents of the European Economic Area), unique device identifier (“Device Identifier”) for any device (computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc.). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned or connected to the device you use to access the Service, and our servers identify your device by its Device Identifier. Some mobile service providers may also provide us or our third party service providers with information regarding the physical location of the device used to access the Service.
Sozo Firm Inc uses the information from Google Analytics and Clicky Analytics in order to assemble statistics regarding usage of our Website as well as to help us understand how users engage with our Website on an individual and aggregate basis in order to improve it; to help with customer service needs (such as troubleshooting issues that users report to us); and for research and analytical purposes such as service performance; customer behavior and common navigation through the Sozo Firm Inc website. Google Analytics data is then fed into our Google AdWords account in order to help us monitor how our internet advertising is performing.
Sozo Firm Inc doesn’t share your Website traffic data with any third party for any purpose unless required for legal reasons such as meeting applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests; enforcing applicable terms of service; detecting, preventing, or otherwise addressing fraud, security, or technical issues; protecting against harm to the rights, property or safety of our Company, our Customers, or the public as required or permitted by law.
Internet Advertising
Sozo Firm Inc uses Google Ads to advertise our website across the Internet. Google places cookies on your device. These cookies do not identify you or give Google or us access to your computer. Learn more about Google’s use of cookies at https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
Opting Out of Remarketing, Advertising and Website Tracking
If you do not wish to participate in Google AdWords Remarketing, you can opt out by visiting Google’s Ads Preferences Manager at https://adssettings.google.com/. You can also opt out of any third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. View the Clicky Analytics privacy policy page which provides additional details including the ability to opt of their analytics tracking: https://clicky.com/terms/privacy. View the Google Analytics browser add on to opt out of their analytics tracking: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners may include the following:
Google Adsense
Commission Junction
Clickbank
Chitika
Amazon
Kontera
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.sozofirm.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.sozofirm.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.sozofirm.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our websites from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our general website network is structured to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by contacting us. EEA citizens have the legal right to access, correct and/or delete their personal data by contacting us directly. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.
If you have left a publicly visible comment on one of our websites and would like that removed, please contact us, providing the details (page URL, the username you used, the comment text), and we will gladly remove that comment. If you would like any website browsing activity recorded by Clicky Analytics removed, please contact us, providing the IP address from which you visited, and the days/approximate times you visited a Sozo Firm property, and we will gladly remove any record of your website browsing from our database.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 717.885.2312 or write us at Sozo Firm Inc, 117 S Broad St, New Freedom, PA 17349-9670. Emails can be sent through the online contact forms found on Sozo Firm owned websites (typically on the Contact page).