CHILDREN:
If you are under the age of 14, please do not provide any information through our website.  If you would like to nominate a website for our award program or need to request investigative assistance, you must have an adult (parent or legal guardian) accomplish this on your behalf.

Parents/Guardians: The Children's Online Protection Act (COPPA) applies to the collection of information from children under the age of 13.  We make every effort not to solicit or collect information from underage children.  However, if a child does apply for our website award or asks us a question without acknowledging their age, there would be no intention on our behalf of violating the polices or spirit of the COPPA
Requesting Private Investigative Assistance All information submitted to us for Investigative Assistance, Advice, Consultation, etc., is treated with the utmost of confidentiality. After all, maintaining confidential information is the cornerstone of our industry! The information will only be used to make an initial evaluation of the request and is not held within our company's electronic, written, or other filing system any longer than absolutely necessary.  We have also provided an encrypted way to transmit sensitive information through our Ask Detective message page.

External Links: This site contains links to other sites. Michael Binns Private Investigator Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security: This site has extensive security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

Michael Binns Private Investigator Inc. Privacy Policy - Updated - 01-15-2003
Protecting privacy is always a Michael Binns Private Investigator Inc. priority. To underscore our fundamental commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business, we have adopted a online privacy policy for each of our web sites: www.mikepi.com, privateinvestigator510.com. This policy reflects and implements---in an online setting---our corporate privacy principles and Fair Information Practice Principles of notice, choice, access, security, and accountability. This online privacy policy applies to mikepi.com, which are operated by Fraud Claims Investigations Inc., 850 Ives Dairy Road, Building T-57 Suite 717, Miami, FL 33179, privacy@mikepi.com, (954) 894-3490. This site is not directed at children.

Michael Binns Private Investigator Inc. Office of Privacy Compliance 850 Ives Dairy Road Building T-57 Suite 717 Miami, FL 33179 Telephone: (954) 894-3490 Fax: (954) 893-9040 Email: privacy@mikepi.com

INFORMATION COLLECTION
I. Personally-identifiable information.
This site only collects personally-identifiable information from you if you chose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, name, e-mail address, resume information, or any inquires you may make through our web site. Fraud Claims does not provide personally-identifiable information to unaffiliated third-parties in its normal course of business. However, we will provide such information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.

II. Cookies.
This site does not use cookies.
III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information.

This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information. For example, as you browse this web site we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally. Via web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). Our web site uses an outsourcing program, WebTrends Suite, to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor our web site. We do not share aggregated data about our visitors with any third party.

Retention.
We reserve the right to retain personally-identifiable information collected through this site for the length of our business relationship with you. In some cases, we will retain the information for a longer period if required to do so by law, regulation, or the Individual Reference Services Group Industry Principles.

INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE.
The information collected by this web site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our web sites.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
If you decide that you do not want to receive further emails regarding your inquiry from Michael Binns Private Investigator Inc., you can reply to the email or use the telephone number (954) 894-3490 with a request that we not continue to email you. We do not use outside data sources to enrich marketing data obtained online.

ONWARD TRANSFER.
We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.

ACCESS AND CORRECTION
As an information company, we know the importance of accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through this web site. Furthermore, we believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate. We will provide you with access to personally-identifiable information you provide through our web site for as long as we maintain that information in a readily accessible format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our web site.
If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you have submitted to this site, please call (954) 894-3490 or send an e-mail to: privacy@mikepi.com.

SECURITY.
We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through this web site. We recognize the importance of security for all personally-identifiable information collected by our web site. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps to protect its security on our systems. In the event we request or transmit sensitive information, such as credit card information or Social Security Numbers, we use industry standard, secure socket layer ("SSL") encryption.
We strictly limit access to personally-identifiable information to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities. All employees are prohibited from "browsing" through our files and databases. We train our employees in the application of our need-to-know standard. We periodically audit for compliance with this standard and we impose penalties for any failure to comply with this standard.

POLICY CHANGES.
We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the web site. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.


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