- INTRODUCTION
We appreciate you being our customer and your privacy is very important to us. This page explains our online information and privacy practices:
1.1 Who collects your personal information?
1.2 Why we collect your personal information?
1.3 How we collect your personal information?
1.4 For which purpose we use this information?
1.5 With whom we may share this information?
1.6 How users can change any of her/his own information?
1.7 What type of security policy we have set in place to ensure confidentiality and the protection of the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
Should you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us by email at: customercare@expertgreencard.org.
- INFORMATION OWNERSHIP
USGCIS Corporation is the sole owner of the information collected on www.expertgreencard.org.
- REGISTRATION AND BILLING
The purpose of our site is to submit on your behalf your entry to the U.S. Government Diversity Visa Program also know as Green Card Lottery.
To benefit our services you must complete a registration. During this registration you will give information about yourself, your spouse and your children if case. The information is of contact and financial type. We use this information to:
3.1 Submit your entry to the US Diversity Visa Program also known as Green Card Lottery.
3.2 Submit your payment to the third party Credit Card Processor Service for billing purposes.
3.3 To contact you in case of any problem that may arise.
Note: All information submitted by user(s) is voluntary. Submitting information constitutes your consent for USGCIS to use the information for the purpose stated and indicates that you are aware of USGCIS's Privacy Policy provisions.
When user(s) follow a link to another site, the user(s) is(are) subject to the privacy policies of the new site.
- COOKIES
A cookie is a text string stored by a user's web browser. A cookie consists of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information, which may be encrypted for information privacy and data security purposes.
We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website and for tracking using Google Site Stats. Cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. User should have the Internet browser set to accept cookies.
- "MY ACCOUNT"
5.1 User has the possibility to access, edit and change at any time his information data stored on our databases by:
5.1.1 accessing My Account page using her/his email address as username and the chosen password, OR
5.1.2 by contacting us via email at: customercare@expertgreencard.org.
5.2 If a user no longer desires our service, or wants to deactivate his personally identifiable information, she/he can contact us for this purpose at: customercare@expertgreencard.org
- SECURITY
The user information is very important to us and we are concerned about your data protection and data privacy. For these reasons we use:
6.1 On-Line Security
Data transmission over the Internet is secured with an industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and login protection (user name and password). To ensure the maximum level of security using SSL, the user should use a browser that supports 128-bit encryption.
6.2 Off-Line Security
The access to all of our users' information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform specific jobs (e.g. our representative who will register the customer entry to US Governmental DV Lottery Program) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
6.3 We do not store any credit card information on our databases. The credit card information is used for billing purposes and is forwarded to the credit card company only at the time of the charge.
- LOG FILES
To help us better service our site visitors, we employ log files. These include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, time stamp,
to administer the sites. This information does not identify you personally.
- EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS & UPDATES
All our applicants will receive:
8.1 A welcoming email with their password and username.
8.2 Email reminders to complete the registration, to those who did not registered yet.
8.3 Email confirmation of a complete registration.
8.4 Email with the results of the US Governmental DV Lottery drawing.
Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the “opt-out” (option) to not receive reminders to complete the registration.
- CUSTOMER SERVICE
For our customers' benefit we send out informational emails. (e.g. if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance).
We communicate with users to provide requested services and/or to answer to their questions and concerns.
- LEGAL DISCLAIMER
We make every effort to preserve user privacy, however we may need to disclose in good-faith users' information when required by law in case of a court order, a current judicial proceeding, a legal process, or other cases stipulated by US laws.
- THIRD-PARTY INTERMEDIARIES
We use an outside credit card processing company to bill users for our services. This company does not store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
This company will verify user's identity to check the validity of the use of her/his credit card.
- LINKS
Our web site contains links to other sites:
12.1 US Governmental website.
12.2 Credit card processing company.
12.3 Security Encryption Certificate(SSL).
12.4 Other federal agencies and private organizations.
Websites of those organizations may contain links to outside organizations. These links are provided for user convenience only.
USGCIS Corporation is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We recommend our users, when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of such web sites which collects personally identifiable information.
In such cases those privacy statements apply only to information collected by those web sites.
- WE DO NOT
13.1 Partner with third-parties to provide our services.
13.2 Share Web site usage information about users with third-parties.
13.3 Share aggregated demographic information with our partners and/or advertisers.
13.4 Display any third-party ads on our websites.
13.5 Store any credit card information on our databases. The credit card information is used for billing purposes and is forwarded to the credit card company only at the time of the charge.
- NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
USGCIS Corporation reserves the right to change the Terms of Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. The changes will be displayed on the web site.