NOTICE OF PRIVACY POLICY
Effective 09/01/01
WINPARK
is highly sensitive to the confidentiality of your personal information and has created this privacy notice in order to demonstrate
WINPARK's commitment to on-line privacy. This notice applies to all information you provide to
WINPARK or WINPARK obtains from you through
WINPARK's web site.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
Hines collects information about the visitors to its Web site. For example, when you visit Hines' Web site, Hines may collect your domain name and IP address, your browser version, the URL you arrived at the Web site from, and the URL to which you go upon leaving the site, as well as the pages you visit while viewing the Web site. IP addresses are numbers that are automatically assigned to your computer, and, if associated with other individually identifiable information, could be considered personal information.
Hines uses your IP Address to help diagnose problems with its server, and to administer and improve Hines' Web site. Your IP Address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information, some of which Hines aggregates and might share with affiliated and unaffiliated companies. Hines also uses your IP address to keep track of the information you have seen on Hines' site.
Hines may use "cookies" as part of its interaction with your browser. Cookies consist of files of information that a Web site transfers to a site visitor's hard drive to track site and user activity. Cookies can make your use of Hines' Web site more pleasing and efficient by, for example, "personalizing" your user interface or identifying which parts of a site you have previously visited. Cookies cannot harm your computer in any way. Many Web sites use cookies; however, most browsers enable you to refuse cookies or to determine if and how cookies will be accepted by your hard drive. If you stop or restrict placement of cookies, you may still use the Hines' Web site.
INFORMATION SHARING AND USE
If you choose to submit additional personal information on Hines' "Get in touch with Hines" page (for example, your street or e-mail address or your telephone number so that Hines can send you marketing information about various properties and projects), Hines may collect that information as well. Hines may also use information it collects to monitor Web site performance, use of features and traffic patterns, and browser version, but only in aggregated or demographic form.
Hines may use the information you provide to provide information about Hines to you and information about Hines' projects and services, as well as the projects and services of others. Moreover, Hines may share your information among Hines' affiliates and with unaffiliated companies Hines believes may provide services of interest to you. Some of these companies may reside in countries other than your own. As a result, your personal information may be transferred out of the country in which you reside. In addition, Hines may from time to time transfer information to third parties who analyze such information on behalf of Hines. Such third parties are or will be required to hold all such information in confidence, and do not share such information with any parties other than Hines.
Hines trains all Hines employees about the importance of privacy. It is Hines' policy to give access to your information only to those employees who require it to carry out the responsibilities of their jobs.
YOU MAY REQUEST THAT HINES LIMIT ITS USE OF YOUR INFORMATION;
YOU MAY ALSO UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
If you do not wish to receive communications from Hines regarding offers or other third party products and services, you may opt out of receiving such communications by calling or writing
WINPARK; or in the event that you receive an e-mail from WINPARK
regarding such matters, you may simply reply to the e-mail in question and request that you receive no further correspondence from
WINPARK regarding such matters. You may also follow this procedure to change or update information you have previously provided to
WINPARK.
SECURITY MEASURES
WINPARK makes access to your personally-identifiable information subject to certain security measures, including technological controls such as "firewalls" and other security technologies, in accordance with industry standards. When the use of
WINPARK's Web site involves the transmission of confidential information,
WINPARK uses 40-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to establish a secure connection between your personal computer and
WINPARK's server. SSL allows the transmission of encrypted information from your personal computer to
WINPARK's server and back again, and is the industry standard for Internet platform security. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while
WINPARK strives to protect your personal information, WINPARK
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to
WINPARK.
DISCLAIMER OF
RESPONSIBILITY FOR PRIVACY POLICY AND CONTENT AT LINKED SITES
WINPARK's Web site may provide you with links to other Web sites. This policy does not apply to any information that you may provide to third parties, such as through other sites linked to
WINPARK's Web site. WINPARK is not responsible for those sites and cannot control the content of what is offered on those sites or on links from those sites or the privacy policy or data security, if any, of those sites.
THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S WEBSITE
WINPARK does not knowingly solicit data from children, and
WINPARK does not knowingly market to children.
CHANGES IN PRIVATE POLICY AND PRACTICES
By using WINPARK's Web site, you consent to and accept this Privacy Policy notice.
WINPARK reserves the right to change its privacy policies and practices periodically, without providing individual notice, by updating this Privacy Policy notice. This Privacy Policy was last updated May 2001. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor such updates and that your continued use of
WINPARK's Web site after such revisions have been made constitutes your full acceptance of such revised terms and conditions.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this notice, please write to:
WINPARK
600 Travis, Suite6700
Houston, Texas 77002
Email: Webmaster@WINPARK.com
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