Privacy Policy
Parker Meridian ("PM") respects the privacy
of visitors to our website. Please read this Privacy
Statement carefully so that you understand what information
we collect through our website and what we do with that
information. If you have questions about this Privacy
Statement, please contact Customer Service.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
In general, you can visit this Web site without telling
us who you are or revealing any information about yourself.
Our web servers collect the domain names, not the e-mail
addresses, of visitors. In addition, there are portions
of this Web site where we may need to collect personal
information from you for a specific purpose, such as
to provide you with certain information you request.
The information collected from you may include your
name, address, telephone, fax number, or e-mail address.
For service to be performed or request information about
product or a service, we collect your information to
verify request for our products and services.
REGISTRATION AND CONTRACTOR ENROLLMENT
In order to complete a service request or to enroll
as a prospective contractor, a user must first complete
a registration form. During registration a user is required
to give contact information (such as name and email
address). We use this information to contact the user
about services on our site for which they have expressed
interest, to inform contractors of leads, and/or inform
customers about contractors they matched to. By providing
this information to us, or by submitting a service request,
you expressly consent to being contacted by us and by
our contractors via phone, fax, email, mail or other
reasonable means, at any of your contact numbers or
addresses, in order that we may provide the services
set forth on our Web site, service your account, reasonably
address matters pertaining to your account or for other
reasonable purposes related to our business. Unique
identifiers (such as username and password) are required.
We also require a contractors social security number
or federal tax id number to complete a background check
(credit is not checked), so a contractor can remain
being approved.
The information we gather falls into two categories:
(1) information supplied by visitors to the site when
they want a service to be perform from real estate appraisals,
buying a car, carpet cleaning, lawn care, data service,
fleet management, and power washing to initiate a transaction,
and (2) tracking information gathered as contractors
visit and navigate through our website and review services
jobs in their local area. Third-party providers featured
on or linked to by our website, such as contractors
of products and services offered through our site by
third parties, may be gathering information, as well,
through processes we don't control.
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
Children should always get permission from their parents
before sending any information about themselves (such
as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers)
over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. Our website
is not directed at children under 13 and we won't knowingly
allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personally identifying
information; if you're under 13, please don't provide
any information about yourself on this website.
LINKS AND FEATURES OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION
WITH OTHER PROVIDERS
To make our website more valuable to our visitors, we
feature some products and services that come from other
providers. Our finance, insurance, warranty, and inspection
services, for example, are made available through cooperative
arrangements with companies that specialize in providing
such services. We share with these third parties such
information as is necessary for them to provide the
products or services. Of course, our site includes links
to other websites, and provides access to products and
services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies
we don't control. When you access another website or
purchase products or services or conduct other transactions
through our website, use of any information you provide
is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of
the site you're visiting or the provider of such products
or services. When you provide information in the course
of obtaining products or services through our site,
use of any information you provide may be governed by
the privacy policy of the provider of those products
or services. The provider's privacy policy may differ
from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any
of our provider partners via a link either from their
site's homepage or from the pages on which the products
or services are offered, you should contact the provider
directly for more information.
SHARING INFORMATION TO PROVIDE SERVICES
When you submit information to PM, you authorize us
to share this information with our network of contractors
in order to try to provide the services you request.
For example, when an approved a contractor accepts a
lead from a paid user, and that user indicates what
personal information they are willing to share so the
contractor can contact the user, such as telephone numbers,
physical addresses and email addresses, that information
is shared with our contractors who have accepted a service
request lead. In addition, we have other approved contractual
partners that fulfill services requests, or that utilize
their own contractors to supplement our network, and
we share your information with them under contractual
restrictions in order to attempt to provide the services
requested. PM may also release information to collection
and/or credit agencies for past due accounts.
BACKGROUND CHECKS
To determine if a contractor qualify for services render
and participation on the site. PM use their name, company
name and/or social security number or federal tax id
number to request a background check. This information
is viewable only by the appropriate personnel. PM may
check for bankruptcies, liens, civil judgments and/or
criminal activity for the individuals listed with an
account, as well as for the company or business entity
requesting membership. In addition, PM will verify that
a service professional has the proper certifications
and licenses mandated by the state(s) the contractor
operates in by utilizing one or more third party verifications
systems. We also may verify and validate the existence
of certain business insurance policies as we require
for membership via your insurance provider or broker.
CHANGING OR DEACTIVATING INFORMATION
If a user's or contractor personally identifiable information
changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address),
or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide
a means to correct, update or delete/deactivate users'
personally identifiable information. This can be done
by emailing our Customer Support at info@pmincorp.com
. Or, contact us by telephone or postal mail at the
contact information listed below.
OTHER DISCLOSURES
We may occasionally release information about our visitors
when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce
our Visitor Agreement, or to protect the rights, property
or safety of visitors to our site, our customers, the
public or PM. As our business grows, we may buy or sell
various assets. In the unlikely event that PM, one of
its business units, or substantially all of its assets
is acquired by another company, information on our visitors
would be among the transferred assets. We also may allow
others to search some of our databases (our listings
database, for example) and to analyze the data they
find there or aggregate it with other data, either for
their business purposes, or ours. Though some of the
information in our databases may be personally identifying
(such as the contact information included in a vehicle
listing), we'll only allow searches of the portions
of our database that contain information that is otherwise
publicly available on our website.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change
our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll
post the changes to this Privacy Statement before they
take effect. By visiting PM, you agree that your visit,
and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy
Statement and our Terms of Conditions.
SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION:
Although Parker Meridian provides certain encryption
in an effort to protect the electronic transmission
of credit card numbers or social security numbers ("Financial
Information") that you submit to Parker Meridian
through the Site, Parker Meridian does not guarantee
the security of any information transmitted to or from
the Site. You understand and agree to assume the security
risk for any information you provide using the Site.
Other than the Financial Information, do not send
any confidential or proprietary information to Parker
Meridian through the Site. Except for the Financial
Information or personally identifiable information relative
to you, any information you do send to Parker Meridian
through the Site will be deemed NOT to be confidential
("Non-Confidential Information"). For any
Non-Confidential Information you do send, you hereby
grant Parker Meridian an unrestricted, royalty-free,
irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform,
modify, transmit and distribute the Non-Confidential
Information, and agree that Parker Meridian is free
to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that
you send Parker Meridian for any purpose whatsoever
without compensation to you or any other person sending
the Non-Confidential Information. Your personally identifiable
information you submit to us shall be treated in accordance
with our Legal Disclaimer.
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to
or from the Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous,
defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic,
or profane material, or any other material that could
give rise to any civil or criminal liability under the
law.
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