This is the official website of the Parking Pal Company, Inc.: www.parkingpal.com

One of the founding principles and the on-going policy of the Parking Pal Company is to promote safe driving and parking. The Parking Pal Company always recommends to our visitors, clients, and members the adherence of, and compliance to all related traffic laws and regulations when parking and driving.

Our postal address is: P.O. Box 350-003, Brooklyn, NY 11235.
You can reach our Webmaster at: Webmaster@parkingpal.com
Telephone and fax: 718-946-6736.

The goal of the Parking Pal Company and ParkingPal.com is to provide our membership with high quality products and services. To achieve this, it requires that we collect and maintain certain information. With respect to this information we promise the following:

•	To safeguard all personal information against unauthorized access.
•	To collect only that information necessary to continue our ability to provide high-quality products and services for our visitors, members and/or customers.
•	To require that companies who perform servicing and marketing functions for us maintain strict confidentiality concerning any information they acquire.
•	To notify, post changes and updates of our policies on information collection, sharing and safeguards on our Privacy Policy page.

For each visitor, member and/or customer to our website, our web server automatically recognizes the individual’s IP address and domain name (where possible). Information may be gathered on our website through online forms, site-visit data and/or automatic online collection devices such as "cookies."

The information we collect is for the internal use of ParkingPal.com only and is used to improve the content of our website and may be used to notify visitors, members and/or customers about updates to our website or to contact visitors, members and/or customers for marketing and update purposes.

•	We collect the IP address and domain name (where possible) of visitors to our website, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail. We may analyze aggregate information on what pages are accessed or visited for our internal purposes.
•	We do not maintain individual subscriber profiles or other aspects of site use except for information volunteered by the visitor, member and/or consumer, in the process of survey information, information necessary for the application of membership and other requests for member services and mailings.
•	We do not make the names or any other identifying information of our website visitors, members and/or customers available to any organization outside of Parking Pal Company.
•	We store this information on our own server and protect it with careful entry procedures and industry-standard security equipment. Our identity is registered and will always be authenticated before your web browser can access this site.
•	All credit card transactions are processed over a secure (encrypted) Internet gateway. When the site is secured in this fashion a lock icon will appear on your computer’s status bar.

Use of Personal Information

The information we collect from you is an important part of our ability to provide you with high-quality member services and to offer benefits, products and services that are relevant to you. In the course of our use of the information, we may share it with others, as set forth below:

•	We may share personal information when we are required to by law, such as a subpoena, to prevent fraud or in response to an inquiry by a government agency.
•	We may share general personal and aggregate information with companies who perform services or marketing functions for us or as part of a joint marketing agreement.
•	We require these companies to observe strict confidentiality with respect to any information they obtain from us.
•	We may communicate with you from time to time (whether by email, advertising or postal service) regarding our products and/or services, about other news concerning Parking Pal and/or your membership, topics that relate to the subject matter of your membership and our general business and on other subjects of possible interest we deem appropriate from our affiliates and/or advertisers.
•	We will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personally identifiable information in any form to a third-party for the sole purpose of monetary compensation.
•	Personally identifiable information will be shared with third parties only in the following instances:
	o To perform essential services or functions such as processing credit cards and communicating by e-mail
	o To enforce our legal rights under a Subscription Agreement or related legal arrangements
	o In connection with the sale, merger, exchange or other disposition of all or a portion of our business.

Links Disclaimer

The Parking Pal website contains links to other websites which provide information about issues, products and/or services of potential interest to Parking Pal members. Each of these websites has its own privacy policy governing the collection, use and distribution of information, which may be different than our privacy policy.

Accordingly, Parking Pal Company, Inc. assumes no responsibility for information collected, used or distributed by other entities that maintain websites linked to this site.

Links to and from our website may become inactive over the course of time. These links will be updated or removed from the Parking Pal website when necessary.

These assurances apply only to subscriber information collected by ParkingPal.com. If ParkingPal.com provides links to other sites as a convenience to users, we cannot and do not assume responsibility for the privacy practices of those sites.

Policy Date and Amendments

The date of this Privacy Policy is September 10, 2002. Future updates and amendments, if any, will be announced on the Privacy Policy pages of the ParkingPal.com website.

The Parking Pal website, Motorist Educational Products, and/or information published and contained therein is not a substitute for professional legal advice or counsel. Please refer to our Legal Notice for further information.

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