How do we use the information that you provide to us?

Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our existing and prospective customers. Your non- aggregated specific personal information will not be sold, rented or made available to anyone other than TNS and/or its third party service providers, unless you have given us expressed permission to do so. TNS reserves the right to cooperate with law enforcement, including any information provided on-line through the website, or reports about customer activities. TNS also reserves the right at any time to disclose any personal information:

• To comply with any applicable law or regulation;
• If such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to the operation of the services of the website; and/or
• To protect the rights or property of TNS and its users, partner, providers, licensors and/or customers.

What are cookies?

Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that web site by the same user, or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related web pages.* (where is the footnote?) This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page over the internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

How do we use information we collect from cookies?

We use web site browser software tools such a cookies and web server’s logs to gather information about our web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our web site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our web site to better meet the needs of our existing and prospective customers.

Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our web site as they move form one page to another. Web severs logs allow us to count how many people visit our web site and evaluate our web site’s visitor capacity.

Evaluation of Information protection practices.

Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate polices and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.

What about other web sites linked to our web site?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web site, nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our web site.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our web site to another web site, our privacy policy is no longer in effect. Browsing and interaction on any other web site, including web sites which have a link on our web site, is subject to that web site’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Note: If you do not wish to have us track your visit and collect such data, you may disable tracking systems by disabling cookies and/or JavaScript. (your browser publisher should provide information on how to disable cookies and JavaScript.) If you choose to disable these tracking systems, your visit to our web site will not be affected. Your failure to disable these tracking systems constitutes your permission for us to track your visit and collect the data noted above.

TNS Smart Network Inc. welcomes your feedback regarding this Privacy Policy. Please direct any comments, suggestion or concerns to tnstechnicalsupport@nrttech.com.