Verdouw & Associates (The "Company") collects personal information from users of its web site. Verdouw & Associates may collect basic contact information such as name, address, e-mail address, demographic data, and telephone and fax numbers. Verdouw & Associates may collect such personal information as part of the registration process for certain areas of its web site. Verdouw & Associates may also collect personal information when users submit comments or other messages to Verdouw & Associates through its web site. Additionally, Verdouw & Associates uses its web site as a recruiting tool, and users of the Verdouw & Associates web site may therefore send résumés containing personal information to Verdouw & Associates via its or a third party's web site.

Additionally, Verdouw & Associates may collect personal information through its web site by using cookies and click trails. All information collected by means of cookies or click trails will be anonymous, aggregated and only used by Verdouw & Associates to develop and track traffic patterns and the volume of use of its web site. If you do not want to receive a cookie from its web site, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie, which you may then refuse upon such notice.

Verdouw & Associates may use personal information submitted by its users for specific purposes, including compiling aggregate statistics of the use of its web site; maintenance and administration of the Verdouw & Associates web site; following up on comments and other messages that users submit to Verdouw & Associates through its web site; direct marketing and promotional efforts by or on behalf of Verdouw & Associates (only if the user opts-in to receive such information) and contacting and recruiting individuals who submit résumés through its or a third party's web site.

If a user's personal information changes or is incorrect, please contact us so that Verdouw & Associates may make any necessary updates or corrections. Additionally, in the event that a user of the Verdouw & Associates web site does provide personal information and later wishes to have Verdouw & Associates remove the personal information, please contact us.

Verdouw & Associates has put in place certain technological and procedural security functions in order to protect the personal information it collects, uses or transfers from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. In addition, Verdouw & Associates will use reasonable efforts to remove a user's personal information when it is no longer required for the purposes set forth above. Verdouw & Associates cannot guarantee that such the loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or retention will never occur, and makes no representations to this effect.

The Verdouw & Associates web site may provide links to third party web sites. Verdouw & Associates does not make any representations or warranties with respect to such third party web sites. Users of the Verdouw & Associates web site should be aware the owners and operators of such third party web sites might collect, use or transfer personal information under different terms and conditions than Verdouw & Associates upon linking to a third party web site, users of the Verdouw & Associates should inform themselves of the privacy policies of such third party web sites.