Privacy Policy
Mercer Lal respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information that you provide to us. This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by Mercer Lal. Please note that, Mercer Lal reviews and updates this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how Mercer Lal collects and uses personal information. By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Mercer Lal as explained below.
Personal Information:
You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you can visit our web site without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information, an example being a request to be contacted. This information may include registration data (your name, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), information request data and response data (“User Information”). When you receive your confirmation email or when you receive any email from the list server, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from the list.
Disclosure of User Information:
Mercer Lal does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing, advertising or product/service offering purposes. For example, we provide User Information to our service providers for direct emailing of our newsletters, online surveys or notifications on Mercer Lal Offerings to our viewers. We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share it in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested; we respond to a court order or you violate our Terms of Use. You may separately agree to provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for Mercer Lal Offerings, in order to access and/or use their products and/or services. If you agree to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their privacy policies.
Accuracy and Security:
Mercer Lal is concerned with the security of your User Information and is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we put in place the appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information.
Website Visitors:
Like most website operators, Mercer Lal collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Mercer Lal purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mercer Lal visitors use its website. From time to time, Mercer Lal may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Mercer Lal also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://mercerlal.com/ blog posts. Mercer Lal only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information:
Certain visitors to Mercer Lal websites choose to interact with Mercer Lal in ways that require Mercer Lal to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mercer Lal gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://mercerlal.com/ to provide a username and email address.
Cookies:
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Mercer Lal uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Mercer Lal uses cookies to help Mercer Lal identify and track visitors, their usage of https://mercerlal.com/, and their website access preferences. Mercer Lal visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Mercer Lal websites, with the drawback that certain features of Mercer Lal websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Mercer Lal use of cookies.
External Links:
Mercer Lal web site provides links to other third party web sites. Even if the third party is affiliated with Mercer Lal through a business partnership or otherwise, Mercer Lal is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such external links. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only and you access them at your own risk.
General:
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, please contact Mercer Lal via our Contact page.