Privacy Notice

Parker Bail Bonds is concerned about your privacy. In accordance with recent initiatives to increase the level of consumers online privacy, we have adopted the following privacy policy:

This privacy policy describes the ways in which we collect information, from and about you, and what we do with the information, so that you may decide whether or not to share your information with us. Parker Bail Bonds will never share, sell, or rent any individual's personal information, with anyone, without that individual’s permission. Information submitted to us is managed for the limited purpose of contacting you or sending you emails in direct response to your request for the services of Parker Bail Bonds.

This website, ParkerBail.com, is exclusively owned and operated by Parker Bail Bonds. We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and confidentially.

For purposes of this privacy policy, the term “visitor” includes visitors to our websites who are not yet clients, those who become clients, as well as those who do not become clients; whether you upload information to our websites, download it, or are merely visiting our websites. You can choose not to provide certain information when using our website but may be unable to take advantage of many of its features.

By visiting this site, you agree to accept the practices as described in this privacy policy.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection

Our services are not designed for, nor directed to, children under the age of 13, and we will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.

Purpose of Collecting Information

1. What We Collect and Where?

The information we collect may include personal information that you share with us on our website, such as your name, contact information, IP addresses, web-based messages, telephone conversations, or other items that may identify you individually. The information we collect from our visitors enable us to personalize and continually improve upon the services we provide to you. Parker Bail Bonds is committed to providing you with the best overall experience available in the bail bond industry.

Generally, we may collect information about you in the following manners:
• By using your browser to navigate to our Websites including (but not limited to) www.parkerbail.com;
• By viewing an advertisement displayed on a third party website that is served through thrid parties or other sources;
• By viewing an email that is served content by our or a third party web server.

When you visit our Website, our third-party services may log your IP address (unique network address), the time and duration of your visit, and/or the time and duration of the pages on our website you view. If you arrive at our website by clicking on a paid advertisement (including a paid search engine result) or a link in an email, then we will capture information that tracks your visit from that link. If you arrive at our Website by clicking a non-paid source, such as link in a non-paid search engine result or an unsponsored link on another website, we may capture information that tracks your visit from that source, to the extent that we are able to do so. We may also capture information about your computer system, such as your browser type and/or operating system.

These third-party services include, but are not limited to the following: Google Analytics (view their privacy policy here).

We will likely place a cookie on your hard drive during your web visit. A cookie is a unique alphanumeric identifier that we use to help us identify the number of unique visitors to our Website, whether or not those visitors are repeat visitors, and the source of the visits. Cookies cannot be executed as code or used to deliver a virus. Other servers cannot read them and personal information cannot be gathered from them. They are simply an identifier shared between you and us to allow us to improve the services we offer to you through our Website. If you do not wish cookies to be placed on your computer, then they can be disabled in your web browser. The option to do so is normally found in your browser’s “security settings” section. However, please note, permanently disabling cookies in your browser may hinder your use of our Website as well as other websites and interactive services.

We use cookies to help us recognise visitors as unique visitors (just a number) when they return to our Website. We may also use the cookie to discover whether a certain visitor has visited our site more than once, and the source for each visit. We also use cookies to: allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interest; avoid showing visitors the same advertisements repeatedly; compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how visitors use our site and to help us improve the structure of our Website (we cannot identify visitors personally in this way); count the number of anonymous visitors to our Website.

We use web beacons to count the number of times that our advertisements and web-based email content are viewed. We combine web beacon information with cookies to track activity on our Website originating from advertisements and web-based email content.

We do not collect personal information about you as part of a web visit, but web visit information may be tied to other information (including personal information) we collect from you via emails, web forms, and other means as described in this privacy policy.

We use information you provide to us via telephone calls, emails, web forms and other communications to correspond with you about services you may be interested in using. If you elect to purchase a service online using a web form, we will use the information to establish your account. Information you submit in writing, such as emails and web forms, are archived and may be tied to information that we collect about your web visits. Your telephone call may be recorded for training purposes and we may enter information you provide via telephone into our systems to use for the purposes described in this paragraph.

Links to Other Websites

We may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. The privacy practices of those sites may differ from Parker Bail Bonds practices and are not controlled by Parker Bail Bonds or covered by this privacy policy. We do not make any representations about third-party websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policy before submitting your personal data.

Sensitive Information

We will not intentionally collect or maintain, and do not want you to provide, any information regarding your medical or health condition, race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or any other types of sensitive information.

Issuing Bail

At the beginning of issuing a bail bond, Parker Bail Bonds collects certain personal information about each bail bond applicant (you or your loved ones). The information may be collected from a variety of sources, such as you, in person, by telephone, or the internet otherwise known as the World-Wide Web, from applications or other forms submitted by you, from credit/consumer reporting agencies, from others when Parker Bail Bonds investigates claims or disputes, and from your transactions with Parker Bail Bonds (such as charges, fees, claims, premium payments, account balance, and history). Information collected may include your name, address, contact information, driver’s license information, social security number, employment information, credit rating, and other information necessary for Parker Bail Bonds to assess the risk of the transaction, protect against fraud, or generally to effect, administer, or enforce the terms of the bail bond transaction.

2. Use of Information

Personal Information

We may use your information to process your service requests and services, process payments, communicate with you about orders, provide access to secure areas of the Website, recommend services that might be of interest to you, to personalize your visit to our Website, and to enable us to review develop and continually improve the services and offers we provide online. We also use this information to prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our Website and to enable third-parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.

Contact Information

We use visitor information to send information about our company to unique site visitors and to get in touch with them when necessary. We also use the information we collect to improve the content of our websites and as training aides for our employees. Visitors are given the choice to opt-out when any such request for information is made.

Financial Information and payment card details

We may ask visitors to enter credit card or account information in order to process requests placed with Parker Bail Bonds and/or its affiliates. Financial information provided via our website is transferred over a secure connection. We collect this information on a transaction-by-transaction basis and will not authorize the release of the information with anyone not directly involved in processing the transaction. This information may be encrypted and stored for logging purposes in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.

Credit card numbers are used only for processing payments and are not used for any other purposes. When we use third-party service providers for credit card processing services we will enter into a written agreement with such third-parties, ensuring appropriate security and confidentiality measures are in place to safeguard your personal data.

3. Disclosure/Sharing of Personal Information

The personal information we gather is for internal use only and we will not authorize the release of this information to anyone outside of Parker Bail Bonds (except to third-party service providers to Parker Bail Bonds who perform functions on our behalf but in such event personal information will only be shared to the extent reasonably necessary to perform their functions and they will not be authorized to use it for any other function), unless you have previously consented to such disclosure.

There may arise special circumstances where it is necessary for us to disclose and use personal information and non-personal information, such as: to enforce this privacy policy or any other part of our Terms & Conditions to protect our property or rights; to protect the safety of anyone; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or improper activities; to carry out a merger or consolidation with another entity, a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, or any similar transaction; or for other reasons we determine in good faith are necessary, appropriate, or required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal or administrative process.

Right To Access and/or Opting Out Of Communications

Parker Bail Bonds gives you an opportunity to chose to opt-out of personal data being disclosed to third-parties for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was originally collected (except for meeting applicable legal requirements or permitting third-party service providers who perform functions on our behalf as described in previous sections of this privacy policy), including your opting out of receiving future marketing e-mails. We will not use your contact information to correspond with you about our services if you ask us not to.

If you believe that any personal information we have about you is incorrect, or is, has been, or might be used inappropriately, please contact us by one of the following means:
Please send your request to:
compliance@parkerbail.com or you may mail in your request to:
Parker Bail Bonds
Compliance Department
Post Office Box 8152
Greenville, NC 27835

Please note that it may take up to ten (10) days to remove your contact information from our marketing communications lists, so you may receive correspondence from us for a short time after you make your request.

Security

4. Website Hosting

Our hosting service maintains its systems in accordance with current industry standards to reasonably secure the information of its clients. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Inquiries Or Complaints

If you have a question or complaint about this privacy policy or our information collection practices, please contact us, in writing, at: compliance@parkerbail.com or you may mail in your request to:
Parker Bail Bonds
Compliance Department
Post Office Box 8152
Greenville, NC 27835

We will investigate the matter and are committed to resolve any privacy concerns that you may have.

Policy Changes

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of your personal information is protected and maintained. However, we reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, with or without notice. In the event of changes to this policy, we will not use your information submitted to us in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this privacy policy, without your prior consent.

Updated: May 25, 2016