.: PRIVACY POLICY

I. Commitment to Privacy

This Internet Web site (the "Benoit & Associates web site") is made available for your use by Benoit & Associates, Inc, and we are committed to protecting the privacy of your nonpublic personal information ("Personal Information"). You can use the Benoit & Associates web site without providing us with any Personal Information. Sometimes however, we do need information to provide services that you request. Benoit & Associates has developed this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy while you are using the Benoit & Associates Site.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, your sole recourse is to discontinue your use of the Benoit & Associates web site. Benoit & Associates reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Benoit & Associates will notify you of any change to this Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Benoit & Associates web site. You have an obligation to periodically visit the Benoit & Associates web site to review any changes in this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Benoit & Associates web site constitutes your agreement to be bound by any such changes to the Privacy Policy.

II. Information Collected

Benoit & Associates does not collect any Personal Information about you as a result of your use of the Benoit & Associates web site. However, if you send us an email message, we may respond to your message and keep your email address and the contents of your message for our records. This email information is collected and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of your request, as determined by Benoit & Associates, to fulfill your request.

III. Use of Personal Information

If you send us an email message, Benoit & Associates will use your email address to enable us to respond to your electronic communication or inquiry.

IV. Disclosure of Personal Information

Benoit & Associates will not sell, trade, rent, or license your email addresses to any third-party. However, we may disclose part or all of your personal information when we believe, in good faith, that the law requires or compels such disclosure, or when we have a good faith reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, the rights of another user or to prevent harm to others.

V. Security

Benoit & Associates cannot provide any assurance of privacy over a network that is not a secure network or over a network that we do not control. The Internet is not a secure network and, aside from our own servers, it is not within our control. Messages traveling through the Internet using your Internet provider's e-mail servers are subject to viewing, alteration and copying. Benoit & Associates cannot and does not guarantee the security or confidentiality of communications you send to us through the Internet using third-party e-mail servers. Accordingly, you should consider carefully if you want to submit sensitive information via the Internet.

VI. Use of Personal Information Collected by Third-Party Web Sites

The Benoit & Associates web site contains links to facilitate our users' access to external or third-party sites. You should be aware that these linked external or third-party sites are not controlled by Benoit & Associates and, therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Policy. Benoit & Associates is not responsible for the other, linked sites, including the privacy practices of such other sites. You are responsible for checking the privacy policies of these third-party sites to determine how your Personal Information will be utilized by the proprietors of those third-party sites. Benoit & Associates disclaims any and all responsibility and/or liability for the collection and/or transfer of information collected by such third-party sites.


VII. User Access to E-Mail Information

If you desire access to your own e-mail address, in order to correct our records, or to remove your e-mail address from our database, please contact Benoit & Associates using the contact information provided below. If you request removal of your e-mail address, you acknowledge that residual information may remain in Benoit & Associates’ records and archives.

VIII. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Benoit & Associates web site, or your dealings with Benoit & Associates, you can contact Benoit & Associates at info@benoitandassociates.com.

Benoit & Associates has developed a Privacy Policy applicable to our business generally.