At HABCO, customers are our most valuable assets. We recognize that building a long-term business relationship with you depends a great deal on trust. This trust begins with our commitment to respecting as well as protecting your privacy.

    An integral part of this HABCO privacy practices are certified to the Philippines Goverment

    We've structured our web sites so that, in general, you can visit HABCO on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (name, address, e-mail address, phone number, etc.) you can be assured that it will only be used to support your customer relationship with HABCO.

    Our privacy statement covers six main areas: Notice, Choice, Access & Accuracy, Onward Transfer, Security, and Oversight/Enforcement. Please keep in mind that HABCO' privacy practices may vary as required by local laws and policies.

    1. Notice

    HABCO provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and from every HABCO and its subsidiaries' web pages.

    What information we collect

    On some HABCO web pages, you can quote or order products or services, download software updates, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are name, contact and billing information, transaction, and credit card information. In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously improve our products and services (including registration), we may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with our services or products, and contact preferences.

    How we use the information

    HABCO uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on service and benefits, and to personalize our web sites for you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for other purposes.

    From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such contact. Please follow the opt-out directions given below in the "Choice" section of this document. In addition, we will also follow local requirements, such as allowing you to opt-in before receiving unsolicited contact, where applicable.

    Whom we share the information with

    HABCO will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other HABCO entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the uses described above. Such HABCO entities and/or business partners are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.

    2. Choice

    HABCO will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. We will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you wish to opt-out of partial or all contact from HABCO and we will do everything we can to honor such requests. This choice may be offered at the bottom of on-line or off-line communications from us as well as on many of our web registration pages. If you have any difficulty exercising your choices, please send your request to service@habcotest.com

    Your permission will always be secured first, should we ever decide to share your information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed by our privacy policy.

    3. Onward Transfer

    The personal information that you provide to us may be transferred within HABCO across state or country borders.  This may be done to consolidate data storage and simplify the management of customer information.  Please read the information in the Choice and Security sections regarding the practices that cover such transfers.

    4. Access & Accuracy

    HABCO strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. We will provide you with access to your information. To protect your privacy and security, all your data submitted to our web pages will be destroyed after one year and unless you or your Company become a regular customer no further records will be kept. If for some reason you are unhappy for us to keep your information on file for one year, you can send your request to service@habcotest.com and we will deal with your request as soon as possible.

    5. Security

    HABCO is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We will use encryption if or when we decide to collect or transfer sensitive data such as credit card information on the Web. We currently use only credit card processing machines through the banking networks.

    6. Oversight/Enforcement

    HABCO privacy practices are also self-certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program. For more information please go to Safe Harbor Program.

    In addition, HABCO Technologies has an internal Customer Privacy Program. It is the charter of this program to ensure appropriate privacy processes are in place in order to meet the practices outlined above. This is combined with our customer satisfaction section of our ISO 17025 Quality Assurance Manual.

    Additional Information

    Links to Third Party Web Sites

    Links to third party web sites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the HABCO site. HABCO has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their privacy policies. Thus, HABCO does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk.

    Contact Information

    If you have any questions or comments regarding our online privacy practices, please send them to this e-mail address: service@habco.biz

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