Privacy Notice
Your Privacy is Important to Us
Effective February 26, 2004
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") web site Banko.com. Other LNG
web sites may operate under their own privacy notices.
Banko.com® 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 Banko.com. It does not apply to information collected
by LNG in any other way, including offline.
The Information We Collect
Banko.com is not set up to automatically collect personally identifiable information from each visitor. 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 site. This
information is used only for internal purposes by our technical support staff.
Banko.com does track certain information about the visits to our site. For example, we compile statistics that show the numbers
and frequency of visitors to our site and its individual pages. These aggregated statistics are used internally to improve our site
and for product development purposes.
In a few areas on our 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 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:
- Log-on to certain areas of our site, such as the various searches, where you may be prompted to provide us with your Banko®
login and password as a condition to gaining access to certain information, materials or services.
- Place an order.
- Provide feedback in an online survey.
- Send an e-mail with feedback or requesting additional information.
In each of the instances above, we typically ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, address, company information,
product preference information, Banko login 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.
How We Use Information:
LNG only uses your personal information for specific purposes.
The personal information you provide to us when using Banko.com, 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.
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.
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 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:
Brian Worley, Manager Batch Services, LexisNexis,
100 S. 5th Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55402 or at
Brian.Worley@LexisNexis.com.
