MarineALERT™ USA

Collecting Information: We gather information about how visitors use our websites.  In general, you can visit many of our web pages without telling us who your are or revealing any personal information about yourself.  We may track your Internet domain address for trends and statistics, but you will remain anonymous unless you tell us who you are.

We request information from you (which may include name, address, telephone number, email address, gender and when necessary, credit card information) when you register, make a purchase, request a catalog, ask to receive communications, or participate in a promotion or other website feature.  In order to better understand your preferences and better serve you, we may combine information you give us online with other information that is publicly available or that we receive from other reputable sources.

Using Information:  We may use the information we collect to:
•    Customize and/or personalize your communications and shopping experience
•    Better respond to your customer service inquiries
•    Communicate with you about your purchases, account information, or customer service needs
•    Communicate with you about our products and events, and for other promotional purposes
•    Improve our business
•    Administer contests, promotions, surveys or other website features

Sharing Information:  We do not sell or rent your information to any outside parties.  We may transfer information between Trinautica Ventures and our preferred service providers who use that information only to conduct Trinautica Ventures business.  For example, they may handle Trinautuca Ventures' credit card processing, shipping, data management, email distribution, market research, information analysis, or promotions management.  We provide our preferred service providers with the information they need to perform their services and work with them to respect and protect your information.

We may disclose specific information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when required by law, to enforce our website policies, or to protect our or other's rights, property, or safety.  We may also share information with companies assisting in fraud protection or investigation. 

Protecting Your Information:  We use a variety of security measures, including sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to maintain the safety of your personal information.  Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.  When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server.  All credit card information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.  Regardless of these efforts, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

You can shop at www.marinealertsystem.com with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net [link to http://www.authorize.net], a leading payment gateway provider since 1996, to accept credit cards and electronic check payments safely and securely for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. See an online payments diagram [link to http://www.authorize.net/resources/howitworksdiagram/] to see how it works.

The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:
*      128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
*      Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
*      Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy [link to http://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/].

www.marinealertsystem.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.