APLNext is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the APLNext Online
Privacy Statement below for additional details about particular APLNext sites and
services that you may use.
This APLNext Online Privacy Statement applies to data collected by APLNext through
the majority of its Web sites and services, as well as its offline product support
services. It does not apply to those APLNext sites, services and products that do
not display or link to this statement or that have their own privacy statements.
Collection of Your Personal Information
In order to access some APLNext services, you will be asked to sign in with an e-mail
address and password, which we refer to as your credentials. By signing in on one
APLNext site or service, you may be automatically signed into other APLNext sites
and services. As part of creating your credentials, you may also be requested to
provide questions and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity
and assist in resetting your password, as well as an alternate email address. Some
services may require added security, and in these cases, you may be asked to create
an additional security key. Finally, a unique ID number will be assigned to your
credentials which will be used to identify your credentials and associated information.
At some APLNext sites, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your
e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We may also collect
demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests
and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription
service, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number
and billing address, that is used to create a APLNext billing account.
We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links
you click and other actions taken in connection with APLNext sites and services.
We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website
you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and
referring Web site addresses.
When you receive newsletters or promotional e-mail from APLNext, we may use web
beacons (described below), customized links or similar
technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you
click in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information.
In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions
with APLNext, information collected through one APLNext service may be combined
with information obtained through other APLNext services. We may also supplement
the information we collect with information obtained from other companies. For example,
we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic
area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic
area.
Use of Your Personal Information
APLNext collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites
and deliver the services or carry out the transactions you have requested. These
uses may include providing you with more effective customer service; making the
sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter
the same information; performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products,
services and technologies; and displaying content and advertising that are customized
to your interests and preferences.
We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain
mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information
on technical service issues, and security announcements. Some APLNext services may
send periodic member letters that are considered part of the service. We may also
occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other
products or services available from APLNext and its affiliates.
Personal information collected on APLNext sites and services may be stored and processed
in the United States or any other country in which APLNext or its affiliates, subsidiaries
or agents maintain facilities, and by using a APLNext site or service, you consent
to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information
outside of APLNext and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent.
Some APLNext sites allow you to choose to share your personal information with select
APLNext partners so that they can contact you about their products, services or
offers. Other sites do not share your contact information with third parties for
marketing purposes, but instead may give you a choice as to whether you wish to
receive communications from APLNext on behalf of external business partners about
a partner's particular offering (without transferring your personal information
to the third party). See the Communication Preferences
section below for more information.
Some APLNext services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another
company. If you register for or use such services, both APLNext and the other company
may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf,
such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support,
hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of
our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information
they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality
of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
We may access and/or disclose your personal information if we believe such action
is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on APLNext; (b)
protect and defend the rights or property of APLNext (including the enforcement
of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety
of users of APLNext services or members of the public.
Accessing Your Personal Information
You may have the ability to view or edit your personal information online. In order
to help prevent your personal information from being viewed by others, you will
be required to sign in with your credentials (e-mail address and password). The
appropriate method(s) for accessing your personal information will depend on which
sites or services you have used.
Some APLNext sites or services may collect personal information that is not accessible
via the links above. However, in such cases, you may be able to access that information
through alternative means of access described by the service. Or you can write us
by using our Web form
, and we will contact you within 30 days regarding your request.
Communication Preferences
You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from APLNext sites and services
by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive.
You may also have the option of proactively making choices about the communications
you receive from particular APLNext sites or services by visiting and signing into
the following pages:
- The APLNext.com Profile Center allows you
to choose whether you wish to receive marketing communications from APLNext.com,
to select whether APLNext.com may share your contact information with selected third
parties, and to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsletters about our products and services.
These communication choices do not apply to mandatory service communications that
are considered part of certain APLNext services, which you may receive periodically
unless you cancel the service.
Security of Your Personal Information
APLNext is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We
use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store
the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which
are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information
(such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through
the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it
is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information
with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always choose
to log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information
from subsequent users.
Use of Cookies
APLNext Web sites use "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our services and to
help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed
on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later
be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot
be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
APLNext Web sites use cookies to store your preferences and other information on
your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter
the same information and to display your personalized content and appropriate advertising
on your later visits to these sites.
When you sign in to a site using your credentials, the APLNext Network stores your
unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard
disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having
to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from
your computer. The Network also uses cookies to improve the sign in experience.
For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your
computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated,
so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. If you
are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be stored,
you can select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page, and this cookie
will not be used.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in
or use other interactive features of APLNext sites and services that depend on cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
APLNext Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes
called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our
sites and allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. We may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters
in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
APLNext may also employ Web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile
aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
We prohibit Web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect
or access your personal information.
Finally, we may work with other companies that advertise on APLNext sites to place
Web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistics on how often
clicking on an advertisement on a APLNext site results in a purchase or other action
on the advertiser's site.
Use of Third Party Ad Networks
The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on APLNext Web pages are
displayed by APLNext. However, we allow other companies, called third-party ad servers
or ad networks, to display advertisements on APLNext Web pages. Some of these ad
networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer in order to recognize your
computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks
may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer,
saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information
allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be
of most interest to you. APLNext does not have access to the cookies that may be
placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
APLNext maintains relationships with a number of the third-party ad networks currently
operating such as DoubleClick and BurstMedia. Those ad networks that use persistent
cookies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting. You may find more information
at the Web site of either the individual ad network or the
Network Advertising Initiative.
Enforcement of This Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact us by using
our Web form.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services
and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the
"last updated" date at the top of this statement. If there are material changes
to this statement or in how APLNext will use your personal information, we will
notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing
the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically
review this statement to be informed of how APLNext is protecting your information.
Contacting Us
APLNext welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions
about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us
by using our Web form.
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