Effective January 15, 2005
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we
provide this Notice explaining our online information practices and the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this
notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point
where personally identifiable information may be requested.
This Notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to the LexisNexis Group (“LNG”) website www.lexiscn.com (“Web Site”).
Our Web Site contains links to other web sites operated by third parties. LNG is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third party web sites and this Notice does not apply to those web sites.
Application of This Notice
This Notice applies only to the information collected by LNG from the users of our Web Site. It does not apply to information collected by LNG in any other way, including offline.
The Information We Collect
Our Web Site is not set up to automatically collect personally
identifiable information from each visitor to our Web Site. It does recognize
the home server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell
which Internet Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses
or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the
particular visitors to our Web Site. This information is used only for internal
purposes by our technical support staff.
Our Web Site does track certain information about the visits to
our Web Site. For example, we compile statistics that show the numbers and
frequency of visitors to our Web Site and its individual pages. These
aggregated statistics are used internally to improve our Web Site and for
product development and marketing purposes generally. Those aggregated
statistics may also be provided to advertisers and other third parties, but
again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to
gather such information.
In a few areas on our Web Site, we ask you to provide information
that will enable us to verify whether you are entitled to access and use
certain information, materials and services available from our Web Site, or to
enable us to enhance your site visit, to assist you with customer service or
technical support issues, or to follow up with you after your visit, or to
otherwise support your customer relationship with LNG. It is completely
optional for you to participate. However, failure to participate may mean that
you cannot access and use certain information, materials and services.
For example, we request information from you when you:
1. Log-on to certain areas of our Web Site, such as the lexisnexis.com.cn Research System, where you may be prompted to provide us with your LexisNexis ID number and password as a condition to gaining access to certain information, materials or services
2. Register or sign-up to use a specialized service for which such information is necessary
3. Subscribe to a newsletter or desire to be added to our mailing lists for other products or services
4. Place an order
5. Participate in a sweepstakes or other promotional offer
6. Provide feedback in an online survey.
In each of the instances above, we typically ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, address, law practice information, product preference information, LexisNexis ID number and password, as well as other similar personal information that is needed to register or subscribe you to services or offers. On occasion, we may ask for additional information to enable us to provide you with access to and use of certain information, materials and services. In the case of newsletters or mailing lists, you will be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.
How We Use Information:
LNG only uses your personal information for specific purposes.
The personal information you provide to us when using our Web
Site, such as your name, postal or e-mail address or telephone number will be
kept confidential and used to support your customer relationship with LNG, and
to notify you of special offers, updated information and new products and
services from LNG, offers from third parties that we think may be of interest
to you, or used by LNG or third parties for the purpose of conducting market
research or surveys on behalf of LNG. Agents or contractors of LNG who are
given access to your personal information will be required to keep the
information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out
the services they are performing for LNG.
LNG may enhance or merge your information collected at its Web
Site with data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or
services to you.
With respect to network advertising companies (companies that
manage and provide advertising for numerous unrelated companies), to the extent
that LNG utilizes such advertising companies to provide advertisements on our
Web Site, LNG may provide them with your log-in name and any demographic
information about you that we collect. Those advertising companies may combine
that data with non-personally identifiable data collected by the advertising
company from your computer solely for the purpose of delivering on our Web Site
advertisements that are targeted to you.
Circumstances may arise where we are required to disclose your personal information to third parties for purposes other than to support your customer relationship with LNG, such as in connection with a corporate divestiture or dissolution where we sell all or a portion of our business or assets (including our associated customer lists containing your personal information), or if disclosure is required by law or is pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations or proceedings.
You can opt out of receiving further marketing from LNG at any
time.
We will send you information about our various products and services, or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you. Only LNG (or agents or contractors working on behalf of LNG and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily opt out of receiving further marketing from LNG by emailing us at legalnotices@LexisNexis.com.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
You can request a copy of the personally-identifiable information that LNG has collected about you via the Internet by contacting our Privacy Information Manager at the address below. You can also have factual inaccuracies in this information corrected by contacting this same person.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Notice is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio of the United States of America and any action arising out of or relating to these terms shall be filed only in state or federal courts located in Ohio, USA and you hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such action.
How to Contact Us
If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices, please write or e-mail us at the following address:
Sophie Olt, Privacy Information Manager, c/o LexisNexis Group, P.O. Box 933 Dayton, OH 45401, or at 1-800-831-2578.