ICI Privacy Statement - Website Usage
Privacy Statement
ICI Innovative Creations, Inc. knows that you care about how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate the trust that you place in us. Simply stated, we do not proactively or covertly collect personal information through this website. No additional information is collected by other means. You may submit personal information by contacting us via email at the address listed on our contact page. The information you do provide us is absolutely private. We will not share or resell that data without your permission, period.
Website Usage
Responsibility for Content.
ICI Innovative Creations and/or it's assigns, takes no responsibility for any material created or accessible on or through the ICI Innovative Creations website. Obviously it is in our best interests to maintain this information accurately, however you should refer to ICI Innovative Creations for the most up-to-date information possible.
Intellectual Property.
Material accessible through the ICI Innovative Creations may be subject to protection under privacy, publicity, or other personal rights and Intellectual Property rights, including but not limited to, copyrights and laws protecting patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other proprietary information. Users shall not use the ICI Innovative Creations in any manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights. If you use this information in connection with any of the ICI Innovative Creations Products or Services, you must not use that information in violation of the trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party or ICI Innovative Creations.
Understanding Internet Security and Privacy Features
The following information is provided to you as a courtesy from ICI Innovative Creations. This is meant to help you understand and use some of the security options and features afforded you on the Internet. This is not meant to be the final word on the subject, Do Not rely on this as such. This information is believed to be reliable at the time it was posted to our website, but as you should know, things do change rapidly on the Internet. If you have a pending Internet transaction involving highly sensitive personal information or significant dollar values, please consult the numerous resources online or your own attorney for the most current, accurate guidence possible. Having said that, We do hope this information if useful to you.
Thank you for your interest in ICI Innovative Creations.
Your Web-Browser
Your web-browser is the software which enables you to view or browse the Internet.
Here are a few software title names which are web-browsers:
Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera.
Web-Browsers typically provide a number of features that help to protect your privacy and make your computer and your personally identifiable information more secure. Privacy features allow you to protect your personally identifiable information by helping you to understand how Web sites you view may be using this information and by allowing you to specify privacy settings that determine whether or not you want to allow Web sites to save cookies on your computer. Privacy features in Your web-browser include:
- Privacy settings that specify how your computer deals with cookies. Cookies are files created by a Web site that store information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site. Cookies may also store personally identifiable information, such as your name or e-mail address.
- Privacy alerts that let you know when you try to gain access to a site that doesn't meet the criteria in your privacy settings.
- The ability to view a Web site's P3P privacy policy.
Security features help to prevent people from gaining access to information that you have not given them permission to access, such as credit card information you enter when shopping on the Internet. Security features can also protect your computer from unsafe software. Security features in Your web-browser may include:
- Certificates, which verify the identity of a person or the security of a Web site.
- 128-bit secure connection for using secure Web sites.
- Microsoft Authenticode technology, which verifies the identity of programs you download.
For more information on the security and privacy features in Your web-browser, click
Help and About your browser.
Review the documentation there and on the software company's website.
Using secure Internet sites for transactions
Many Internet sites are set up to prevent unauthorized people from seeing the information that is sent to or from those sites. These are called secure sites. Because Your web-browser supports the security protocols used by secure sites, you can send information to a secure site with safety and confidence. (A protocol is a set of rules and standards that enable computers to exchange information.) When you visit a secure Web site, it automatically sends you its certificate, and Your web-browser displays a lock icon on the status bar. (A certificate is a statement verifying the identity of a person or the security of a Web site. For more information, click
Related Topics below.) If you are about to send information (such as your credit card number) to an insecure site, Your web-browser can warn you that the site is not secure. If the site claims to be secure but its security credentials are suspect, Your web-browser can warn you that the site might have been tampered with or might be misrepresenting itself.
Using certificates for privacy and security
You can use certificates to protect your personally identifiable information on the Internet, and to protect your computer from unsafe software. A certificate is a statement verifying the identity of a person or the security of a Web site. Your web-browser uses two different types of certificates:
- A personal certificate is a verification that you are who you say you are. This information is used when you send personal information over the Internet to a Web site that requires a certificate verifying your identity. You can control the use of your own identity by having a private key that only you know on your own computer. When used with e-mail programs, security certificates with private keys are also known as digital IDs.
- A Web site certificate states that a specific Web site is secure and genuine. It ensures that no other Web site can assume the identity of the original secure site. When you are sending personal information over the Internet, it is a good idea to check the certificate of the Web site you are using to ensure that it will protect your personally identifiable information. When you are downloading software from a Web site, you can use certificates to verify that the software is coming from a known, reliable source.
How do security certificates work?
A security certificate, whether it is a personal certificate or a Web site certificate, associates an identity with a public key. Only the owner of the certificate knows the corresponding private key. The private key allows the owner to make a digital signature or decrypt information encrypted with the corresponding public key. When you send your certificate to other people, you are actually giving them your public key, so they can send you encrypted information that only you can decrypt and read with your private key. The digital signature component of a security certificate is your electronic identity card. The digital signature tells the recipient that the information actually came from you and has not been forged or tampered with. Before you can start sending encrypted or digitally signed information, you must obtain a certificate and set up Your web-browser to use it. When you visit a secure Web site (one whose address starts with https), the site automatically sends you its certificate.
Where do you get your own security certificates?
Security certificates are issued by independent certification authorities. There are different classes of security certificates, each one providing a different level of credibility. You obtain your personal security certificate from certification authorities.
Securely sharing personal information
Programs like Profile Assistant can save you from having to enter the same information, such as your address or e-mail name, every time you visit a new Web site that requests such information. It does this by storing the information on your computer. None of this information can be viewed on your computer, or shared with others, without your permission.When a Web site requests information from Profile Assistant, the request will tell you:
- The Internet address of the site requesting the information.
- What information the site is requesting from Profile Assistant, so you can choose to exclude information.
- How this information will be used.
- Whether this site has a secure connection (Secure Sockets Layer or SSL). If it does, you can verify the site's certificate.
You can encrypt your personal information when it is transmitted and as it is stored on your computer.
Understanding cookies
Some Web sites store information in a small text file on your computer. This file is called a cookie. There are several types of cookies, and you can choose whether to allow some, none, or all of them to be saved on your computer. If you do not allow cookies at all, you may not be able to view some Web sites or take advantage of customization features (such as local news and weather, or stock quotes).
How cookies are used
A cookie is a file created by an Internet site to store information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site. For example, if you inquire about a flight schedule at an airline's Web site, the site might create a cookie that contains your itinerary. Or it might only contain a record of the pages you looked at within the site you visited, to help the site customize the view for you the next time you visit. Cookies can also store personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name, e-mail address, home or work address, or telephone number. However, a Web site only has access to the personally identifiable information that you provide. For example, a Web site cannot determine your e-mail name unless you provide it. Also, a Web site cannot gain access to other information on your computer. Once a cookie is saved on your computer, only the Web site that created the cookie can read it.
Persistent cookies
A persistent cookie is one stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close Your web-browser. The cookie can be read by the Web site that created it when you visit that site again.
Temporary cookies
A temporary or session cookie is stored only for your current browsing session, and is deleted from your computer when you close Your web-browser.
First-Party vs. Third-Party cookies
A first-party cookie either originates on or is sent to the Web site you are currently viewing. These cookies are commonly used to store information, such as your preferences when visiting that site. A third-party cookie either originates on or is sent to a Web site different from the one you are currently viewing. Third-party Web sites usually provide some content on the Web site you are viewing. For example, many sites use advertising from third-party Web sites and those third-party Web sites may use cookies. A common use for this type of cookie is to track your Web page use for advertising or other marketing purposes. Third-party cookies can either be persistent or temporary.
Unsatisfactory cookies
Unsatisfactory cookies are cookies that might allow access to personally identifiable information that could be used for a secondary purpose without your consent.
Your choices in working with cookies
Your web-browser allows the use of cookies; however, you can change your privacy settings to specify that Your web-browser prompt you before placing a cookie on your computer (this enables you to allow or block the cookie); or you can prevent Your web-browser from accepting any cookies. You can use the Your web-browser privacy settings to specify how you want Your web-browser to handle cookies from individual Web sites or all Web sites. You can also customize your privacy settings by importing a file containing custom privacy settings, or by specifying custom privacy settings for all Web sites or individual Web sites. Privacy settings only apply to Web sites in the Internet zone.
