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Online Practices
We currently contract with online partners to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications.
We use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness of how visitors use our sites. To do this, we use Web beacons and cookies provided by our marketing company on areas of our sites. The type of information we collect includes pages visited on our sites, and whether a visitor is a new or a returning visitor. We do not collect personally identifiable information in connection with the browsing of our sites. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our clients, and what kinds of offers our clients like to see. Although our marketing company logs the information coming from our site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used.
SVB wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. While acknowledging the concerns that some visitors have about cookie usage, we believe that the benefit our Web visitors gain from the use of cookies is worthwhile.
A cookie is a piece of information either stored temporarily in your browser's memory space (session cookie) or placed on your computer's hard drive (stored cookie). Cookies allow a Web application to respond to you as an individual, but without the need to identify you explicitly. Session cookies are destroyed when you terminate your browsing session by shutting down your browser. Stored cookies often have a predetermined expiration date after which they disappear from your hard drive. Cookies can be removed through functionality built into most Web browsers. You may also set most Web browsers to notify you of cookie placement requests, ask for permission to accept them, or decline cookies completely. If the use of cookies is a concern to you, then please make sure your browser has this capability, and that you set your browser accordingly. Please note that disabling...
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Online Practices
We currently contract with online partners to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications.
We use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness of how visitors use our sites. To do this, we use Web beacons and cookies provided by our marketing company on areas of our sites. The type of information we collect includes pages visited on our sites, and whether a visitor is a new or a returning visitor. We do not collect personally identifiable information in connection with the browsing of our sites. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our clients, and what kinds of offers our clients like to see. Although our marketing company logs the information coming from our site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used.
SVB wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. While acknowledging the concerns that some visitors have about cookie usage, we believe that the benefit our Web visitors gain from the use of cookies is worthwhile.
A cookie is a piece of information either stored temporarily in your browser's memory space (session cookie) or placed on your computer's hard drive (stored cookie). Cookies allow a Web application to respond to you as an individual, but without the need to identify you explicitly. Session cookies are destroyed when you terminate your browsing session by shutting down your browser. Stored cookies often have a predetermined expiration date after which they disappear from your hard drive. Cookies can be removed through functionality built into most Web browsers. You may also set most Web browsers to notify you of cookie placement requests, ask for permission to accept them, or decline cookies completely. If the use of cookies is a concern to you, then please make sure your browser has this capability, and that you set your browser accordingly. Please note that disabling cookies for some services may impact ability to use that service.
Our sites contain links in some places to the Web sites of other companies. If you use these links to visit the site of another company, you will leave the SVB site. SVB is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of that company or its site.
Posted 1/8/2010