Messinet Secure Services: Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for Messinet Secure Services. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://messinet.com. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://messinet.com/PrivacyPolicy. Users may go to http://messinet.com/Contact for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us at http://messinet.com/Contact.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms.
If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

Messinet Secure Services and our agents reserve the right to resolve any and all disputes without third-party involvement.

Additional Information

This policy is valid for 1 day from the time that it is loaded by a client.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 4 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Dynamic Data"

We collect the following information:

Click-stream data
HTTP protocol elements
HTTP cookies

At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:

Search terms

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Data collected from all Web users: access logs, and search strings (if entered). Cookies are used to facilitate the login process and allow for user customization.

Group "User Information"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

User's Name
User's Job Title
Preference data
Current location data
Online contact information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.
One-time tailoring.
Historical preservation. The user must opt-in to this usage.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

The general public. The user must opt-in to this data sharing.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
This information is collected only for Messinet Secure Service System members. The information is used to populate their personal addressbooks with contact information.

Group "Third-Party Information"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

Third Party's Name
Third Party's Birth Date
Third Party's Home Contact Information
Name of Third Party's Employer
Third Party's Job Title
Third Party's Business Contact Information
Online contact information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Historical preservation. The user must opt-in to this usage.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
This information is collected only for Messinet Secure Service System members and only at their request and initiation. The information is used to populate their personal addressbooks with contact information.

Group "Business Information"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

Organization Name
Department or division of organization
Contact Information for the Organization
Online contact information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Historical preservation. The user must opt-in to this usage.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Site administration
Completing the user's current activity
Research and development

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

CP="ALL DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa HISi OUR PUBi BUS PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM CNT PRE LOC"

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field	Meaning
CP=	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
ALL	Access to all collected information is available.
DSP	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
COR	Violations of this policy will be corrected.
CURa	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
ADMa	The data is used for site administration.
DEVa	The data is used for research and development.
TAIa	The data is used for tailoring the site.
HISi	The data is used for historical archival purposes, if the user selects it.
OUR	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
PUBi	The data is made public, if the user selects it.
BUS	Our business practices specify how long the data will be kept.
PHY	Physical contact information is collected.
ONL	Online contact information is collected.
UNI	Unique identifiers are collected.
COM	Computer information is collected.
NAV	Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
INT	Interactive data is collected.
DEM	Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected.
CNT	Content data is collected.
PRE	Preference information is collected.
LOC	Current location information is collected.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes.
For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context.
This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.