Privacy Policy

Relationships are built on TRUST. Our goal and top priority at Don Richard Associates is to build long-lasting relationships with our customers. We have always been committed to protecting your privacy and the information you share with us. With this in mind, we want to provide our Consumer Privacy Rights Notice to you and confirm our commitment to safeguarding your information. Don Richard Associates customers value our recognition and understanding of their need for confidentiality. We will never forget the TRUST you have placed with Don Richard Associates.

Don Richard Associates Consumer Privacy Rights Notice
Our Consumer Privacy Rights Notice will explain the information we collect about you, with whom we share the information, and how we protect the information responsibly. This Notice applies to our customers and applicants. If you have any further questions concerning our privacy policy please feel free to contact us at 757-518-8600 during regular business hours.

Definition of Terms:
In this policy the reference to "YOU", "YOUR", and "YOURS" refers to Don Richard Associates customers and applicants, and the words "WE", "OURS", and "US" refer to Don Richard Associates.

Nonpublic personal information means information about you that we obtain in connection with providing a product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources such as telephone directories or government records.

An affiliate is a company we own or control.

A nonaffiliated third party is a company that is not an affiliate of ours.

Confidentiality and Security of Information
Our employees have always been subject to our rules governing customer confidentiality and held accountable for compliance with such rules. In performing their duties our employees need to access confidential information regarding our customers. Access to confidential information about you is limited to only those employees who need that information so they may provide products or services to you. Our employees are required to protect the information and to use it only in performance of their duties. Employees are held strictly responsible for violations of confidentiality.

Types Of Information We May Collect
We may collect the following types of nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information you provide us on applications, and other oral, written, or electronic communications, such as your name, address, social security number;
• Information we receive from third parties, including persons providing references;
• Information such as your credit history that we receive from credit bureaus;
• Information we obtain from others to verify information provided by you, such as your employment history and credit or other relationships with third parties;
• Information collected from our Internet web sites, such as information you provide us during your online session with us. (For more information refer to the section below on "Information We May Collect From Our Websites And How We Use It")

Types of Information We May Disclose To Nonaffiliated Third Parties
We may disclose the information we collect, as described above, to nonaffiliated third parties such as our service providers or companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements or as permitted by law. Our agreements with our nonaffiliated third party service providers prohibit them from disclosing or using your information other than to perform the relevant services. For example, we may disclose information about you to nonaffiliated third parties in order to:

• Obtain credit reports in order to assist us in servicing your account;
• Respond to subpoenas issued by government entities;
• Offer products provided by nonaffiliated third party suppliers with whom we have joint marketing agreements.

Information Sharing Practices About Former Customers
We will adhere to the privacy policies and practices as described in this notice for our former customers.

Our Commitment To Protecting Your Privacy Online
Don Richard Associates is committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors and customers. With the rapid changes in technology, we will continue to provide the most up-to-date protection in keeping your personal information confidential and secure.

Security Of Our Website
We are proud of the measures that we have taken to ensure the security of your information. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards.

• If you send personal identifying e-mail to our website, we will use this information only to the extent that it is required.

Information We May Collect From Our Websites And How We May Use It
If you visit our websites to read our documentation, check current position openings, and/or submit online job orders, we may track the following information:

• The domain name from which you access the Internet (AOL, Yahoo, etc.);
• The IP address (a numeric address given to servers connected to the Internet);
• The Web browser used to access the Internet (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.);
• The date and time you access our site;
• We may place a "cookie" on your PC while you are visiting our site (a cookie is a piece of information that our web server stores on your computer's hard drive. This helps us recognize you the next time you visit our site and expedites the amount of time it takes to establish a connection).

Disclosure of Website Information
We may disclose your personal information which we have collected online to service providers and joint marketers only to the extent needed to provide the service you have requested. All service providers and joint marketers we may use for our websites must agree to strictly safeguard the confidentiality of customer information and they are not allowed to disclose this information to anyone else.