Harte-Hanks Privacy Policy

This is the Web site of Harte-Hanks Market Intelligence Europe B.V. which is a subsidiary of Harte-Hanks Inc., a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company that provides marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers.  The following paragraphs describe components of our corporate "Privacy Policy" which governs this Web site and other "fair information practices" of our company. When working on behalf of our clients, Harte-Hanks operates in accordance with the relevant client’s privacy policies. Thus, this privacy policy does not apply to information collected or stored on behalf of our clients.

• Harte-Hanks Commitment To Privacy Reflects Industry Standards
• Harte-Hanks Collects Different Types of Information
• Information Provided to Harte-Hanks, Stays with Harte-Hanks, Except in Specific Instances
• Harte-Hanks Works To Keep Your Information Secure
• Harte-Hanks Provides You Access To Your Information
• Harte-Hanks Web Sites Are Not Intended for Children
• Harte-Hanks Participates in The European Union Safe Harbor Program
• Conditions of Use, Policies, and Revisions
• A Place To Go for Web Site Privacy Policy Questions or Complaints
• Harte-Hanks Participates in the European Union 'Safe Harbor ' Program

The full text of our policy follows below. First, here are some quick reference items that link to specific parts of the policy, for your convenience.

Harte-Hanks Commitment to Privacy Reflects Industry Standards

Harte-Hanks Collects Different Types of Information

Information Provided to Harte-Hanks, Stays with Harte-Hanks, Except in Specific Instances

Harte-Hanks Works to Keep Your Information Secure

Harte-Hanks Provides You with Access to and Choices Regarding Your Information

Harte-Hanks Web Sites are Not Intended for Children

Conditions of Use, Policies, and Revisions

A Place to Go for Web Site Privacy Policy Questions or Complaints

Harte-Hanks Participates in the European Union 'Safe Harbor' Program

Harte-Hanks Commitment to Privacy Reflects Industry Standard

Harte-Hanks voluntarily complies with and supports the Online Privacy Principles and Guidelines for Ethical Business Practice of the U.S. Direct Marketing Association (www.the-dma.org,) self-regulatory regimes of various direct marketing associations of other nations, and to the U.S. Department of Commerce European Data Protection Directive "Safe Harbor" program.   Our company also adheres to The DMA Privacy Promise to the American Consumer and to various laws and regulations that govern privacy and data security.  

Harte-Hanks Collects Different Types of Information

Any personally identifiable information you provide us – such as your name, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or postal addresses for example – may be used, collected or stored by us or our service providers to process any inquiries that you initiate.   While you can choose not to provide your personal information, you may limit our ability to contact you, or to respond to your inquiry, and you may not be able to take advantage of many services we offer.

We also may obtain information about you from our sister companies and/or business partners and add it to information that you have previously provided to us in order to serve you better.   We also compare our contact lists to lists received from our sister companies and business partners operating in the name of "Harte-Hanks," to try to avoid sending you unwanted, unnecessary or duplicative messages.   Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from third parties, which we use to correct our records, and data obtained from our sister companies to confirm or correct information provided by you or to provide us a more complete picture of who you are.

We may receive, use, and store certain types of non-personal information automatically whenever you interact with our Web site or if you provide it to us upon request or through correspondence with us.   For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes the name of the visitor's Internet domain.   Once a visitor registers at our site, we apply a cookie to the visitor's computer, which the visitor is free to accept or to decline.   A cookie helps both the visitor and Harte-Hanks by storing information from previous visits (from the visitor's computer), such as areas of interest within our Web site, and password prompts.   At this time, no other computer identification tools besides cookies are used.   For more information about the use of cookies and other similar technology, please visit a not-for-profit information site:   http://www.networkadvertising.org.

We also may obtain information from visitors indirectly by analyzing the navigation of our Web site. We collect aggregate information, or non-personally identifiable information across many different visitors, on which pages of our site visitors access or visit.   This information is used to analyze the Web site's utility, and to determine areas within our site that appear to be interest to various users.   This helps Harte-Hanks better serve our Web site community.

Please note that Harte-Hanks does not currently use ad serving companies to place banner ads from other firms on our site, so there is no tracking by these third-party companies from any banner ads, bulletin boards or other interactive venues on this site.

Information Provided to Harte-Hanks, Stays with Harte-Hanks, Except in Specific Instances

The information we collect regarding you, or your company, may be shared with other organizations so that they may contact you regarding products or services that they may be of interest to you.  We also may share your information to process requests initiated by you.  For example, we may forward your do-not-contact requests with sister companies operating as "Harte-Hanks" in order to comply with your request.

As our business develops over time, we may sell or buy subsidiaries, or specific business units.   In such transactions, personal information of prospects, customers and Web site visitors generally is one of the transferred assets, but remains subject to any pre-existing Privacy Policy, and to any "do-not-contact" list of Harte-Hanks to which you have participated.   Also, in the unlikely event that we, or substantially all of our assets are acquired, personal information will part of our transferred assets.

We also will transfer personal information when we believe the transfer is necessary to comply with the law; or to protect our rights or safety, or the rights or safety of our users, or others.

Please note that if you, as a visitor, have provided us with a postal address, an e-mail address, or a telephone number, a Harte-Hanks representative may contact you.   This will result when you have expressed an interest or a query in a particular product(s) or service need(s).

Harte-Hanks Works to Keep Your Information Secure

Harte-Hanks works, in accordance with industry best-practices and applicable law, to keep your information secure. We train our employees to safeguard information in our possession.   We maintain policies and procedures covering the proper logical and physical security of workplaces, records, and various other types of information in our systems and on our premises.   We require independent contractors and outside companies who work with us to adhere to privacy obligations through their contracts with us.   We also use technological means (such as backup files, virus detection and eradication software, firewalls, and other computer software and hardware safeguards) to protect against unauthorized access or alterations to information.  

Unfortunately, no data security methodology is 100% safe.  Hence, it is just as important for you to protect yourself against unauthorized access to your information.   You should be se sure to take such simple steps as signing off and logging out when finished using a shared computer, keeping your passwords in a secure location, and not sharing your passwords with any third parties.

Harte-Hanks Provides You with Access to and Choices Regarding Your Information

If you believe we have information about you that you wish to access as a consumer or business individual, please contact us as noted as directed at the foot of this policy.   Please note that if we, as "Harte-Hanks," do not have any personal information about you, we cannot tell you about any non-personal information that we might have about you.   In addition, as a service provider to various Harte-Hanks clients, we may hold information about you on behalf of another company.  In such cases, we may not provide you requested access to information directly, but you may contact those clients directly for information they may contain about you, or to obtain information regarding their respective privacy policies.   In some cases, Harte-Hanks can refer you to the proper client contact (if the client allows us).

Site visitors can receive a copy of all the information that we maintain about them (for example, name, address, phone number).  To have a copy sent to them via e-mail or postal mail, visitors should contact us via the information in the shaded box within this policy.

If you wish to have this information changed, would like to express your preferences on how we communicate with you, or to be removed from our database, please let us know by contacting us with your exact name and address using the contact information within this policy.

Harte-Hanks Web Sites are Not Intended to Children

Our Web site, and those of our sister companies, are not intended for children.   If you are under 18, you may use our Web site(s) only with the permission of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Policies, and Revisions

If you choose to visit our Web sites, your online visit is subject to this Privacy Policy and to our Terms and Conditions.   Our business constantly evolves, and our Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions also may change.   You should check our Web site(s) frequently to see recent changes to our Privacy Policies.   Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your relationship with our company.   If you have any concern about our privacy practices, please contact us.

A Place to Go for Web Site Privacy Policy Questions or Complaints

For all questions and requests regarding this privacy policy and the use of the information we collect, please use the contact information below to reach us:

Harte-Hanks Participates in the European Union 'Safe Harbor' Program

Since Harte-Hanks collects and processes personal information in the United States , we are participants through our parent company, Harte Hanks, Inc., in the Safe Harbor program developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union.   We have certified that we adhere to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles agreed upon by the American and European regulators.   For more information about the Safe Harbor and to view the certification of Harte-Hanks, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Web site.

If you believe that we are not in compliance with the Safe Harbor principles, first contact our company by mail, e-mail, or telephone as noted in this policy.   If you do not receive a prompt acknowledgment of your inquiry, or if your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you can then contact the [U.S. ] Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Safe Harbor Dispute Resolution Program.   The DMA will then serve as a liaison to us to resolve your concerns in a timely manner.   You can reach the DMA Safe Harbor Program at:

Safe Harbor Line

Direct Marketing Association

1615 L Street, NW, Suite 1100

Washington , DC   20036-5624

Telephone: USA (202) 861-2445

Last Revised:  January 2007

Harte-Hanks Fair Information Policy