Scharnett Architects & Associates respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy. Our aim is to provide you a safe and secure experience whenever you visit our website. This Privacy Policy is created in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy.
This privacy notice describes our online information practices to inform you about what information we collect, why we collect such information and how we use the information that we collect from our clients. By visiting scharnettassociates.com, scharnettarchitects.com or scharnett.com you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Scharnett Architects & Associates may amend this policy at any time by posting a revised version on our website. We encourage you to periodically review this page, to be informed of how we are committed to protecting your privacy. You can find the last updated date on the top of this page. If you have any queries or concerns about policy or policy update, you should first contact Scharnett Architects & Associates at office@scharnettassociates.com, or call us 309-828-4055.
You can browse our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. We collect your personal identifiable information at the time you submit the Contact Form on our website. Personal identifiable information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including but not limited to first and last name, physical address, email address, phone number, IP address, credit card number or other contact information that may be used to identify an individual.
In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information: Information you provide us when you complete the contact form, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address, mailing info and phone numbers). You can choose not to give certain information, but it may limit our ability to help you. When you submit your personal information to us, you are giving us your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
scharnettassociates.com, scharnettarchitects.com and scharnett.com use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small pieces of information saved by your browser onto your computer. Cookies are used to remember various aspects of your visit. This information is used by Scharnett Architects & Associates to guarantee a consistent and uninterrupted experience. Cookies will allow you to revisit without losing many of your settings. We do not use cookies to save personal information for outside uses. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file that remains stored on the user's hard drive. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your specific Internet browser instructions. The help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of scharnettassociates.com, scharnettarchitects.com and scharnett.com enhanced features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Like most standard Website servers, our servers also record information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date and time of your request, number of clicks to analyze trends and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. Web log information is not personally identifiable information.
When you send email or other communication to Scharnett Architects & Associates, we may retain those emails and other communications in order to process your inquiries, to respond your requests and to improve our services.
This Privacy Policy applies to scharnettassociates.com, scharnettarchitects.com and scharnett.com only. Our website contains links to other sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware by reading the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
The information, we collect from you is used to process your inquiries, to respond to your requests, and to improve our business and services. The information is solely used for the above-mentioned purposes only. In order to provide our full range of services, we may use your information in the following ways:
Scharnett Architects & Associates reserves the right to use your personally identifiable information internally to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, website content and product offerings. We can also use information gathered through cookies and web log for our internal research. We may use your information to conduct internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, behavior and actions. These internal research reports and findings will not be disclosed to you.
With your consent, we may use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial, marketing or promotional messages. We will request your permission prior to publishing any information publicly on our websites or social media properties. At any time you may request it be removed in part or in full by emailing office@scharnettassociates.com.
Scharnett Architects & Associates does not sell, rent or distribute your personally identifiable information to third parties except for the below mentioned purposes or reasons.
Scharnett Architects & Associates may disclose information, including personally identifiable information, in order to comply with any applicable law, regulation, judicial proceeding, court order or governmental request.
Scharnett Architects & Associates may disclose information, including personally identifiable information, in order to scrutinize, prevent or take action against suspected frauds or illegal activities. We may also exchange information, including personally identifiable information, with other organizations and companies to protect online and credit frauds.
We may employ services of authorized third parties, either companies or individuals, to perform research and other related functions. Scharnett Architects & Associates may give access to your information to such third parties and other companies to perform their research and functions. These third parties or other companies may include customer support companies, web hosting companies, payment gateways, financial institutions, data analysis firms, photography and videography, email service providers etc. These third parties are not authorized to use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose(s) other than the purpose(s) set forth by Scharnett Architects & Associates.
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Scharnett Architects & Associates, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
If you elect to participate in any of our promotions, sweepstakes, surveys, questionnaires or contests during your visit to our website, Scharnett Architects & Associates may share your personally identifiable information with the other organizations participating in the event. These other organizations are not authorized to use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose(s) other than the purpose(s) set forth by Scharnett Architects & Associates.
Scharnett Architects & Associates is committed to protecting your personally identifiable information and uses all precautionary measures to offer a safe and secure online environment. We use very advanced security technologies and procedures to protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We may use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input, for transmission of your credit card information. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign out when finished using a shared computer.
Our employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Scharnett Architects & Associates grants access of your personally identifiable information to very limited employees such as Customer Service, Shipping & Accounting persons for performing their specific jobs. These employees are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
At any given time, you may update or correct your personally identifiable information as well as your preferences by contacting Scharnett Architects & Associates at office@scharnettassociates.com or call us at 309-828-4055. You are requested to update your personally identifiable information in case of any changes in your name, phone number, email address, postal address or zip code.
At any time, you may choose to unsubscribe from any future commercial communications or marketing messages from Scharnett Architects & Associates. For unsubscribing, you may change your preferences by modifying your profile or by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of email or by contacting Scharnett Architects & Associates at 309-828-4055. We may, however, use your personally identifiable information without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major website changes or for customer service purposes).
If you have any queries or suggestions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at:
Scharnett Architects & Associates
118 W Washington St.
Bloomington, IL 61701
309-828-4055
office@scharnettassociates.com
