We Care About Your Privacy C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc. is strongly committed to your right to privacy and to taking steps designed to secure your personal information. You do not have to give us personal information to visit our web site. By personal information we mean data that is unique to an individual such as name, address, or telephone number. We request personal information from you at our site in order to deliver requested materials to you and to deliver a service. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others under any circumstances. By using our web site you agree to the uses of your personal information described in this notice. At C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc., we support the concept of total confidentiality. All personal information or other confidential information must be used and disclosed in a manner consistent with applicable federal and state statutes and regulations, contractual obligations, and C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc. policies and procedures. Confidential information includes but is not limited to, protected health information and non-public financial information. Employees of C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc. are trained to understand the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy. In addition, C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc. maintains appropriate security standards and procedures regarding access to customer information. We restrict access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information for business reasons such as to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information. Use of Email When you provide information to C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc. we email this information to an appropriate representative in our company and do not store this information in a database. We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable, including (without limitation) when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities. E-mail messages sent in clear text over the public Internet can be observed by an unintended third party. Non-encrypted Internet email communications may be accessed and viewed by other internet users without your knowledge and permission while in transit to us. If you wish to keep your information private, please do not use email to communicate information to us or request information from us that you consider confidential. If you wish, you may contact us instead via telephone at the phone number provided elsewhere in this web site. IP Addresses When you enter C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc.’s Internet site, you pass through a "firewall" we use for security purposes. As you pass through it, we identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the device you're using, such as a personal computer or handheld device. The IP address does not identify you personally, but it does allow C.T. Hellmuth & Associates, Inc. to identify the device you're using. We store IP addresses in case we ever need to track a connection to its point of origin for security reasons. Cookies Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies cannot and will not be used by us to retrieve any personal information about you from your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. However, some of our features will not function if you do not accept cookies. Additional Information Please be aware that on our site we have links to other websites that may collect personal information about you. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices or policies of such web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all such sites, as their policies may be materially different from our Privacy Policy. Changes To Our Privacy Policy We reserve the right to make changes to our privacy policy. We encourage you to review the web site and these terms periodically for any updates or changes. Your continued access or use of this web site shall be deemed your acceptance of this privacy policy.