Security and Privacy

At Geocomm Mapping we respect your right to privacy and we understand that, as a visitor to geocommapping.com, you prefer to control your own personal information and preferences. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide your company information and preferences when you visit certain areas of geocommapping.com.

We will guard the personal information you share with us to ensure the content, services, and advertising that we provide on geocommapping.com are always tailored to your current, designated preferences.

When you provide Geocomm Mapping with your name (or alias), e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number, and you do not “opt out,” Geocomm Mapping and Geocomm Mapping representatives and affiliates may use the provided information to alert you to special offers, updated information, new services, and other Geocomm Mapping information. Representatives and affiliates may include value-added resellers and authorized training partners. Beyond its representatives and affiliates, Geocomm Mapping does not offer or allow the selling of any user-provided information to third parties.

Geocomm Mapping respects the rights users give us when opting to receive e-mail communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to retain the long-term ability to continue to communicate with our users.

If you do not want Geocomm Mapping or Geocomm Mapping representatives to contact you, you may "opt out" of this preference at any time, whether you're online or contacting Geocomm Mapping directly. As part of your preference flexibility, you'll always have the option to opt back in and have Geocomm Mapping contact you based on your previous or new preferences. For instructions, please see the section "Contact Us," below.

If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still visit most areas at the Geocomm Mapping website; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification.

If a user elects to use our "Tell A Colleague" application for forwarding a Geocomm Mapping e-mail to their colleague or informing a colleague about our website, we ask them for the colleague’s name and e-mail address. Geocomm Mapping will automatically send the colleague the specified e-mail or the specified website information. Geocomm Mapping will not use the colleague's information to contact them in the future.

Use of log files (session cookies)

Geocomm Mapping uses session management (session cookies) to authenticate and direct users to the appropriate pages on our site. Your company information or preferences are not stored or transmitted in cookies. The only information transmitted across the internet is a random session ID number generated on the server.

How session cookies work

In order to customize a site’s content for an individual user, the user must first be identified. If multiple customized pages will be displayed, a way to keep track of which users are logged in is necessary, as most users would find it unacceptable to provide their user name and password for each of the site’s pages. Geocomm Mapping uses session management to accomplish this task. Session management allows a user’s requests for web pages during a given time period to be viewed as part of the same interactive session.

Geocomm Mapping will not store persistent cookies on your computer. Session variables store information for the life of the user’s session and are deleted at the end of the session. The user’s session begins when he or she first opens a page within the application. The session ends when the user does not open another page in the application for a certain period of time, or when the user explicitly terminates the session (typically by clicking a "log-off" link). While it exists, the session is specific to an individual user, and every user has a separate session.

Session variables can only function if the user’s browser is configured to accept cookies. The server creates a random session ID number that uniquely identifies the user when the session is first initiated, then sends a cookie containing the random session ID number to the user’s browser. When the user requests another page on the server, the server reads the cookie in the browser to identify the user and to retrieve the user’s session variables stored in the server’s memory. Personally identifiable information or preferences are not stored or transmitted in cookies.

How Geocomm Mapping will protect your personal information

Geocomm Mapping will always protect the personal information that you share with us. Geocomm Mapping stores information internally in a controlled, secure environment.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

If Geocomm Mapping requests general demographic information, this information is limited to reporting purposes only; members remain anonymous. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses are never shared for demographic reports with outside entities.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.

Contact us

You can help Geocomm Mapping maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your name, address, title, phone number, e-mail address, or your content preferences. If at any time you wish to update your information or preferences, or you prefer to stop receiving communication from Geocomm Mapping, feel free to contact us at any time:

If you change your e-mail or postal address, please contact Geocomm Mapping. In order to make the appropriate corrections, please include both your old and new address.

Geocomm Mapping would like to receive your comments and questions about this Privacy Policy: Please address comments or questions regarding the Geocomm Mapping Privacy Policy to one of the addresses listed above (online, e-mail, or postal mail). Geocomm Mapping may occasionally update, amend, or change this Privacy Policy based on user feedback and as needed or appropriate. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and will e-mail the information to our users so that they are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Users will always have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in accordance with, and in respect to, the posted privacy policy. If users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted.

Links

Geocomm Mapping websites may contain links to other sites. Geocomm Mapping assumes no responsibility for the content or the privacy policies and practices of such websites. Geocomm Mapping encourages you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites; their privacy practices may differ from ours.