1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you for visiting us and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. This privacy policy sets out how the Web Site uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website. The Web Site is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.
We will collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit the Web Site unless you choose to provide that information. This Privacy Policy does not describe information collection practices on other sites, including those linked to or from the Web Site.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
This website is only intended for use by individuals and companies in the U.S. To that end, it only offers products and services to U.S.-based individuals and companies. Through this website, The Next Step may request certain information from users, as described in this Privacy Policy. Because it is only seeking information from U.S. users, it respectfully requests that visitors from other countries refrain from submitting information through the website. The Next Step data collection is subject to U.S. (and only U.S.) laws.
2. WHAT WE COLLECT
We may collect the following information:
- Name
- Contact information including email address
- Demographic information such as postal code, preferences, and interests
- Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
We use web analytics programs (Adobe Marketing Cloud, Google Analytics) to collect information. We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you through these programs.
3. WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- We may use the information for internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
Your personal information is provided only to The Next Step unless specifically stated otherwise. We will not disclose your personally identifiable information to any person or company except where you have given us permission to do so or if the law requires it.
4. HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets us know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Google AdWords: We may use Google AdWords remarketing cookies to serve relevant ads to our visitors while they are viewing a third party website. To opt out, visit http://www.google.com/settings/ads.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
5. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
6. CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
We reserve the right to change the information, services, features, and policies at any time. We will post changes to this and any other policies on this website in writing.