Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.  By using this site, you signify your assent to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use the site.

Copyright © 2004 DesktopStaff.com. All rights reserved. The DesktopStaff.com trademark or any resemblance of our trade name are owned exclusively by DesktopStaff, Inc. All other service marks and/or trademarks used in this web site are properties of their respective owners.

Except where otherwise indicated and except for permissible reproduction under the pertinent provisions of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8293) and its implementing regulations, no information in this web site may be copied, duplicated, or reproduced in any form without the express written consent of DesktopStaff, Inc. If you have questions regarding our legal notices and policies, please contact us at support@DesktopStaff.com.

Privacy Policy Personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on our site, and when you use our services. This policy also applies to DesktopStaff’s treatment of any personally identifiable information that our business partners share with us. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to people that we do not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use We may collect personally identifiable information when you visit or use our pages. We may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page you requested.

We may use this information for three general purposes: to customize the content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain services and information, and to contact you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. We will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
(1) we have your consent to share the information;
(2) we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
(3) we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of DesktopStaff to provide a product or service to you (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us);
(4) we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or
(5) we find that your actions on our web sites violate the above terms of service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS
This site is owned and operated by DesktopStaff, Inc. No material from the site may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your non-commercial use only, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of DesktopStaff’s copyright and other proprietary rights. The use of any such material on any other Web site or networked computer environment is prohibited. Except as otherwise indicated on this site and except for the trademarks, service marks and trade names of other companies that are displayed on this site, all trademarks, service marks and trade names are proprietary to DesktopStaff, Inc.  

DISCLAIMER

DesktopStaff, Inc. has provided the information on this web site for your convenience. Please note that DesktopStaff, Inc. will update this web site periodically.

Except as expressly stated in an agreement between you and DesktopStaff, Inc., all information, services, products and software provided on this web site are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. DesktopStaff, Inc. and its suppliers disclaim all warranties, express or implied including, without limitation, those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Subject to the terms of any agreement between you and DesktopStaff, Inc., its suppliers and licensors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential, or incidental damages, even if DesktopStaff, Inc., its suppliers or licensors have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, DesktopStaff, Inc. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. DesktopStaff, Inc. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. DesktopStaff, Inc. DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall DesktopStaff, Inc. be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this site, even if DesktopStaff, Inc. or a DesktopStaff, Inc. authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall DesktopStaff, Inc. have any liability to you for damages, losses and causes of action (whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence), or otherwise) for accessing this site.

PRIVACY STATEMENT DesktopStaff, Inc., Inc. is committed to providing you with excellent service for all of our products. Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy practices for the DesktopStaff, Inc., Inc. website.

Overview Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We at DesktopStaff, Inc. are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of our subscribers and other visitors to our Web site. Whether you are a customer of our various products and services or a visitor to our site, we assure you that we do not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us. You should also be assured that we do not provide or sell information about our customers or site visitors to vendors that are not involved in the provision of DesktopStaff, Inc., services

Please note that our site contains links to other sites. DesktopStaff, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites.

Information We Gather from You - Personal Information We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

There are two ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information:

E-mail Request for Information - We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to contact us via e-mail to ask questions, request information and materials, or provide comments and suggestions. You may also be offered the opportunity to have one of our representatives contact you personally to provide additional information about our products or services. To do so, we may request additional personal information from you, such as your name and telephone number, to help us satisfy your request.

Enrollment - If you choose to enroll for one of our products or services, we will request certain information from you. Depending on the type of product or service that you request, you may be asked to provide different personal information. For certain products and services, we may require your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number, bank account information, IP address, and social security number. Other products and services may require different or supplemental information from you in order to apply. For a detailed listing of the type of personal information requested for our various products, please refer to the enrollment page for the particular product or service.

All information that we collect and process for the purposes of enrolling you for one of our products or services is designed to be the minimum amount of information we require in order to enroll and service you for such product or service.

Statistical Information About Your Visit  When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors come and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the performance of our Web site.

Use of Cookies We only use "cookies" as described in this Section. A "cookie" is a piece of information that our Web site sends to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. If a cookie is used, our Web site will be able to "remember" information about you and your preferences either until you exit your current browser window (if the cookie is temporary) or until you disable or delete the cookie. Many users prefer to use cookies in order to help them navigate a Web site as seamlessly as possible. You should be aware that cookies contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to "invade" your hard drive and return to the sender with personal or other information from your computer. If you choose not to accept a cookie, you will still be able to use our Web site.

Our uses of "cookies" are limited to the following specific situations. The first situation is with respect to temporary cookies.  Our Web server may automatically send your browser a temporary cookie, which is used to help your browser navigate our site. The only information contained in these temporary cookies is a direction value that lets our software determine which page to show when you hit the back button in your browser. This bit of information is erased when you close your current browser window. If you come to our site from one of our business partners, our Web server may also send your browser a temporary cookie that reflects an "origination code" for that business partner. We use this information for statistical and marketing purposes.

The second situation in which we may use cookies is when you visit our Web site and request documentation or a response from us. When you are filling out a form you may be given the option of having our Web site deliver a cookie to your local hard drive. This type of cookie is not temporary, although you can always delete or disable it through your browser preferences. You might choose to receive this type of cookie in order to save time in filling out forms and/or revisiting our Web site. We only send this type of cookie to your browser when you have clicked on the box labeled "Please remember my profile information" when submitting information or communicating with us. Even if you choose to receive this type of cookie, you can always set your browser to notify you when you receive any cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it in each situation in which one is sent. To find more information about cookies, if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer® as your browser, go to the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.html or if you are using Netscape Navigator® as your browser, go to the Netscape Web site at http://home.netscape.com/security/basics/index.html

How We Use and With Whom We Share the Information We Gather

We assure you that the information we gather from you is used by us only as explained below.

Sending you responses and updates We generally respond to any e-mail questions, requests for product or service information, and other inquiries that we receive. We may also retain this correspondence to improve our products, services, and Web site, and for other disclosed purposes. Frequently, we retain contact information so that we can send individuals updates or other important information about our services and products. Occasionally, these updates or other important information may be sent out by third parties on our behalf. Please be assured that any third party who contacts you in this capacity has executed a confidentiality agreement with us that contains a provision ensuring the privacy and security of any transferred information and limits the third party's use of the shared information to sending updates or providing services on our behalf.

Facilitating the support, renewal, and purchase of our products and services We may use the information you submit to contact you to discuss the support, renewal, and purchase of our products and services. We may also provide the information you have submitted to us to a DesktopStaff, Inc. subsidiary, business partner, representative so that the subsidiary, business partner or representative can contact you and facilitate the support, renewal, and purchase of DesktopStaff, Inc. products and services. You may receive a communication directly from one of our subsidiaries, business partners or representatives. Please be assured that any subsidiary, business partner or representative who contacts you for one of these purposes has agreed to use the information we supply only in accordance with a confidentiality agreement. 

Processing payments (if you are using our payment services)  If you use the DesktopStaff, Inc. payment Services for online transactions, we may provide your personal information to appropriate financial institutions, processors, and third parties under contract with DesktopStaff, Inc. for providing a subset of the payment services (for example, tax calculation and fraud screening). In each case, the use and distribution of your personal information will be used by such entity for its internal use related to fulfilling the transaction services for DesktopStaff, Inc., will be treated as confidential by this entity, and will be transferred between DesktopStaff, Inc. and this entity only via encrypted means.

If we are required to disclose by law or order If we are required by law or valid order of a competent court or tribunal to disclose certain information to such court or tribunal or to any national or international government or law enforcement authorities, we will do so.

Surveys From time to time, we may request information from customers via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this website.

Your Ability to Opt-Out of Further Notifications From time to time, we notify our subscribers of new products, announcements, upgrades and updates. If you would like to opt-out of being notified, please contact us at support@desktopstaff.com

Our Security Procedures We consider the protection of all personally identifiable information we receive from our website visitors and subscribers as critical to our corporate mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information. However, we have done everything possible to minimize this risk.

Changes to this Privacy Statement  If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use our customers' personally identifiable information, we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Statement.

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All claims, disputes or disagreements which may arise out of the interpretation, performance or in any way relating to your use of this site and any and all other DesktopStaff, Inc. site(s), shall be submitted exclusively in the jurisdiction of the Republic of the Philippines.

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