Comstock Images Awarded Distinguished TRUSTe Privacy Seal.Business Editors & High-Tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. Writers MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002 Comstock Becomes First Stock Image Company to Earn the Distinguished TRUSTe Privacy Seal, Providing Customers With a Trustworthy Website for Obtaining Quality Stock Photos Comstock Images, a leading full-service stock photo provider of premium quality professional imagery, today announced it has been awarded the TRUSTe Privacy Seal for its website (www.comstock.com). Rated as the most trust-invoking seal online and consistently ranked as the most visible symbol on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the (according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Nielsen/NetRatings), TRUSTe maintains the largest privacy seal program with nearly 2,000 websites certified See certification. throughout the world. Comstock's addition to the TRUSTe program demonstrates the company's strong dedication to provide customers with an easy-to-use website that is also secure. "Obtaining the TRUSTe Privacy Seal was extremely important to us as it further demonstrates to our customers how meaningful their trust and confidence is," said Henry Scanlon, founder, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Comstock. "With the TRUSTe Seal, our customers can definitively know that the private information they provide to us will remain just that -- private." Scanlon continued, "In today's e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. society, a company's web presence must provide its customers with two attributes to operate as a successful sales venue: a user-friendly atmosphere combined with strong security policies for handling shared personal information. These two characteristics make it easy for users to not only find the exact content they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. , but securely acquire it without the risk that their personal information will be exploited. We've spent a lot of time and energy developing an amazingly user-friendly website -- including 'Ask Angela,' the industry's first and only purely visual image search and retrieval mechanism. As customers increasingly go online to acquire Comstock photos, it's of utmost importance that we maintain their privacy, which they have confided and entrusted to us." TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit privacy organization whose mission is to enable trusting relationships between organizations and individuals through respect for personal identity and information. A cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of the TRUSTe privacy program is its branded online seal, or "trustmark." TRUSTe awards the seal to websites that adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. established privacy principles and agree to comply with the group's oversight
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Comstock's Website Including 'Ask Angela' Comstock's fully e-commerce enabled website, incorporating revolutionary search features including the patent-pending "Ask Angela," accommodates tens of millions of hits per month and hundreds of thousands of customer visits by graphics professionals seeking images for their projects. The site is widely considered to be a model of efficiency and user-friendliness in a graphics-intensive environment. Currently, over 80% of Comstock's transactions include customer website activity as a portion of the sales cycle. 'Ask Angela,' Comstock's revolutionary "artificially intelligent" image search system can be used in combination with more traditional search methods (a keyword search for example). However, Angela is most powerful in her ability to think visually, understanding that there are relationships between images that are very real, but which don't always lend themselves to verbal communications. Scanlon stated, "It's an image retrieval An image retrieval system is a computer system for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as captioning, keywords, or descriptions to the system powered by Comstock's 25 years of experience watching graphic designers make non-verbal 'connections' between images. It doesn't replace our keyword system -- it gives an alternative and an enhancement to it." About Comstock Images For over 25 years, Comstock has been a world leader in the production and distribution of premium quality professional imagery to the advertising, graphic design, publishing, multimedia and corporate communities. With over 80% of its transactions including website activity as a component of the sales cycle, Comstock has demonstrated its strategic transformation from a traditional rights-protected catalog-only business model to a provider of both rights-protected and royalty-free formats available instantly over the company's website. Unique to the industry, Comstock's website incorporates unrivaled image search capabilities with 'Ask Angela,' Comstock's patent-pending search system with revolutionary, visual-based image search capabilities. The Company operates from three digitally connected distribution centers throughout the world (United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and Europe). For more information on Comstock and its products, check out the company's website at www.comstock.com or call Comstock at 800/225-2722. |
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