We are committed to protecting your privacy and earning your trust. This notice describes the information we collect about you and how we use and protect it. It applies to our current and former customers who live in your state, and replaces earlier versions that we may have given to you.
Disclosures may include those that we feel are required to provide service, prevent fraud, perform research or comply with the law. Recipients may include, for example, the VERTX SYSTEMS, LLC family of companies, strategic partners, law enforcement, courts and government agencies.
Where permitted by law, we may also disclose Application or Transaction Information to service providers that help us market our products. These service providers may include financial institutions and outsourced marketing/PR firms with which we have joint marketing agreements.
Web Site Information helps us understand what you want so that during your next visit to our Web site, your experience will be even better. For example, if you start using the FileOn.Net service, we track the information which is provided to you in the your personal dashboard. We track this information for audit purposes and to provide you with a better user interface over time.
At your request, we will also use your e-mail address to provide occasional updates about our products and services. You can stop receiving these updates at any time. You can go to your account management module and change your e-mail preferences.
To ensure you get our e-mails, our service provider or we may receive confirmations when you open them or click through e-mail links. These confirmations may also show whether your e-mail application supports graphics, so we can tailor our messages to you. We will not share this information or your e-mail address with other companies for their marketing purposes without your consent.
We use a secure server and security protocol to safeguard information. Our secure server uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to interact with you when you use the FileOn.Net service using the secure connection radio button during the login process. We handle your information via 128 bit encryption. Every secure page on FileOn.Net has a digital certificate by RSA Data Security/Secure Server CA. This is shown via the site certificate that resides on all secure pages. To view this certificate, click on the image of the "closed lock" or the "solid key" on the bottom of your browser window. A small frame displaying site security information will appear. Click on "subject" to verify that you are on a fileon.com site. Click on "Issuer" to verify the site certification authority.
Digital certificate: A small file that can be transferred to your computer over the Internet and used for authentication. Once installed, a digital certificate can be automatically detected and used as needed.
Internet protocol (IP) address: The numbers that are translated into a domain name, like "fileon.com". The address is a string of four numbers separated by periods (such as 196.22.43.126) used to represent a computer or other device on the Internet.
Operating system: The program responsible for overseeing the basic hardware resources of a computer such as disk drives, memory, keyboard, screen, and CPU. UNIX, DOS, Windows, and Macintosh System 7 are examples of operating systems.
Secure server: A computer system set up to provide privacy, integrity, and authentication in communications, such as a connection on the Internet between a Web browser and a Web server. (See SSL).
Security protocol: A specification that describes how computers will talk securely to each other on a computer network.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): A protocol that delivers server authentication, data encryption, and message integrity. Using SSL, Internet communications are transmitted in an encrypted manner.
Session ID: The code used to keep track of a person as they interact with a server. Since the server may interact with many people simultaneously, a session ID is needed to keep track of each person individually.
Site certificate: This is the same as a digital certificate, but it is used on the server rather than at the browser.
128-bit encryption: A way of making data unreadable to everyone except the receiver. It's a common way of sending credit card numbers and data over the Internet when conducting commercial transactions. It is used by SSL.