Typical Ways We Collect and Use Information
Login information – When you access CSII services via a browser, application or other client our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.
User communications – When you send email or other communications to CSII, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Technology - We collect information through technology to make our sites more useful to you and for various purposes related to our business. For instance, when you come to one of our sites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our visitors visit various parts of our sites, and we may combine IP addresses with personally identifiable information.
Our website collects information through a variety of technical methods, including cookies and web beacons. Cookies are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites. Cookies, web beacons and other technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to a third party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We use this information to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search. CSII may also use cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web and on the CSII website.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
CSII may use the information collected through these technical methods for many purposes, including delivering content, tracking and enhancing a visitor’s experience on our website. For example, when you return to one of our websites after logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. We also use technical methods to analyze the traffic patterns on our website, such as the frequency with which users visit parts of our website. In HTML e-mails, we may use technical methods for a number of purposes, including: to determine whether our visitors have opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails, to customize the display of banner advertisements and other messages after a guest has closed the e-mail, and to determine whether a guest has made an inquiry or purchase in response to a particular e-mail. These methods may enable us to collect and use information in a form that is personally identifiable.
Information from Others - We may update and supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from our visitors with other information that we obtain from third parties. We may obtain personally identifiable information about individuals who are not yet users of our website. In addition, when we associate information that we obtain from third parties, we will treat the acquired information like the information that we collected ourselves and, except as permitted by this Privacy Policy, the information will not be shared with third parties.
CSII may use your personally identifiable information in many ways, including sending you promotional materials. (By "promotional materials," we mean communications that directly promote the use of our website, or the purchase of products or services.) Before we use your information in a manner different than the purposes we’ve described, we will ask for your consent.