BritishAmerican.com Privacy Policy

British American is a leading financial company. As such, we are committed to protecting the personal information that you submit to us on our Web site (britishamerican.com). We are committed to customer relations and integrity, and we guarantee never to deliberately disclose individually identifiable information about you to any outside source without your express consent.

You can visit any part of the British American Web site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. However, if you want to purchase a product, register a new product, sign up for a mailing list, enter a sweepstakes, or sign onto a page that requires authorization, you will be asked for basic information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, and other related information.

Britishamerican.com collects personal information via order forms, feedback forms, on-line surveys, sweepstakes, unsolicited e-mails and other communications. We also gather general information about site usage, including unique visits, statistics for hits, repeat visits, and page views.

When British American receives information about you or about your session, we may use it for research or to improve our site and the services we offer you. We may also ask if we may later contact you via e-mail or postal mail (for example, to send you information or special offers) or if we may share your personal information with other companies that offer related services.

Information we receive enables us to make improvements to the site for the benefit of all users, and also keeps advertisers and potential advertisers informed about overall demographic trends on the site. Information can be used for a number of reasons, including, the fulfillment of orders, the fulfillment of subscriptions, registration for conferences/seminars, delivery of customer-requested email services, and other customer service-related activities. Advertisers are never provided with individual preferences or contact information unless users grant their permission beforehand.

Email

We will only add you to one of our e-mail lists if you have requested it. In addition, all of British American's e-mail activities are accompanied by a simple-to-use facility for unsubscribing (opt-out).

Cookies

British American may use "cookies" to learn about you and to remember you the next time you visit our Web site. That way, subsequent visits will be simpler and more seamless for you. If you want to manually control whether or not a cookie is used, you may be able to set your browser to do so. For Web pages requiring authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will likely not be able to access those pages.

Purchasing Online Products

When you purchase products from our online store we establish a "secure session" using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. This protocol lets you securely pass information between systems by creating a private conversation that only your computer and British American can understand (called "public key cryptography").

To benefit from the SSL technology, you will need an SSL-capable browser. Examples of browsers that support the SSL technology are Netscape® Navigator 2.0 and later, Microsoft® Internet Explorer 2.0 and later, and the 3.0 browser (and later) in America Online® for Windows. For more details, see the documentation that came with your Web browser.