Monitronics Security LP ("Monitronics Security LP, Inc.," "we," "us" or "our") operates a Web site located at www.Monitronics.com (the "Site") from which users can gather information concerning news and services provided by Monitronics Security LP (the " Monitronics Security LP Services"). This Monitronics Security LP Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you access the Site and when you use the Monitronics Security LP Services.
Types of Information Collected From Customers On Website
In order to provide you with the services available through Monitronics.com, we may ask that you provide certain personal information about yourself. This personal information may include your name, home or business address, phone number, e-mail address, existing account number, and billing information including your bank account and/or credit card number. You may also choose to provide certain personal information related to friends or family members that you are referring to us.
How Monitronics Uses Information Collected From Customers
Once you provide your personal information to Monitronics, you can be assured that it will only be used to support our efforts to provide quality service to you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your personal information with others, as follows:
Internal Business Use. Your personal information may be used in numerous aspects in furtherance of our normal business operations, and in our efforts to provide services to you. Although all information submitted or otherwise collected on this website belongs solely to Monitronics Security LP, that information may be shared with Monitronics Funding LP, Monitronics International, Inc., Monitronics Canada, Inc. and/or any other related Monitronics entity or others in connection with the use of that information for the purposes for which it was provided.
Third Parties. In some circumstances, personal information is also shared with certain third parties, such as Monitronics authorized dealers and third party vendors, in connection with the performance of services or completion of transactions provided to you by those third parties.
Marketing. We may use information provided to us through this website for advertising or marketing purposes, or to communicate with you from time to time regarding new products, services and special offers.
Business Transfers. As we develop our business, we might sell, buy or otherwise transfer businesses or assets. In these types of transactions, your personal information may be one of the transferred business assets.
Protection of Monitronics and Others. We may disclose personal information to others as appropriate when we believe it is necessary in order to comply with legal requirements, protect the rights, property or safety of Monitronics, its customers or others, and for purposes of fraud protection and risk reduction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Monitronics Security LP may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Site.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, send an email to suggestions@Monitronics.com.
IP Addresses When your Web browser or email application requests a Web page from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where the requested information should be sent. This is called your computer's "IP address." (IP stands for "Internet protocol.") For most users accessing the Internet from a dial-up ISP, the IP address may be different every time you log on.
Information Collection and Use Practices
Monitronics Security LP receives your IP address each time you view a Web page from the Site. Your IP address is not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information. Your IP address may be used for various purposes, including:
to diagnose service or technology problems reported by you that are associated with your IP address. to estimate the total number of users visiting the Site from specific locales, countries or regions of the world.
Log Files
When a Web page on the Site is requested, that request (including the date and time) is logged on our servers with information including the IP address of the computer that requested the page.
We use log files for debugging and troubleshooting purposes. IP addresses and access times are not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information.
Cookies
If you request certain services from us, Monitronics Security LP may then attempt to set cookies on your computer and later access those cookies. You can normally refuse cookies by setting preferences in your browser. You do not need to accept cookies in order to use the Monitronics Security LP Services.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Web site's computers and then stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot obtain information from your hard drive, destroy files, or transmit viruses.
Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser, if your browser's preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser normally only permits a Web site to access cookies that it has previously sent to you, but not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Choices About Cookies
You can normally configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.) If you reject all cookies, you will still be able to use the Monitronics Security LP Services. Cookies are used only as an option selected by you that allows us to recall your email address from the cookie that we sent to your computer.