Because we care about your privacy, we will not give your
personally identifiable information to other marketers or
retailers for them to use to contact you about offers or
promotions of their own (other than, of course, in connection
with the sale of our business) unless a box is checked
indicating that we may do so at the point where you give us such
personally identifiable information.
As a responsible
company, we believe obeying the law is important. Therefore, we
may disclose personally identifiable information in order to
comply with a subpoena or court order or when we are required to
do so by law. We may also disclose personally identifiable
information in cooperation with a law enforcement or government
request. It is important for you to understand that the above
policies and restrictions do not apply to our use or disclosure
of your non-personally identifiable information. We may freely
use and disclose non-personally identifiable information for
many purposes and on many occasions. Examples of how we use and
disclose non-personally identifiable information include
measuring and analyzing site usage, system administration,
improving our site and providing it to third party consultants,
clients, advertisers, vendors and researchers.
How We Collect
Information
We collect personally identifiable information from you by
"active" means, in other words, when you actively give us the
information. Examples of this include when you order products,
fill out online site registration forms, request that we send
you information, newsletters or catalogs, or respond to our
surveys or other requests for visitor responses. Like many other
commercial web sites, we collect non-personally identifiable
information from you by "passive" means, in other words, by
tracking your use of the site, often through the use of cookies.
That information includes, among other things, the type of
computer operating system and net browser that are being used
and the domain name of your Internet service provider, as well
as some of the information described below. This information
helps us to interact with visitors to our site.
- Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your
computer's hard drive that may contain information (such
as a unique user ID) that a web site may use to track
certain things. We use cookies in order to improve your
web site visit. The cookie helps us track the pages of
our site that you visit, tells us whether you have been
to our site before and tells us which web site you
visited immediately before visiting our site, but does
not tell us about your use of any other web sites. The
cookie does not tell us who you are or how to contact
you, unless you have submitted personally identifiable
information to us through active means. You can keep us
from using cookies by turning them off in your browser.
However, if you turn off your cookies, certain parts of
our web site may not function.
- Collection of
Information by Third Parties via Links
Our site contains links to other sites, including,
among others, those of some of our customers. Those
other sites may have privacy policies which may be
different from ours. Visitors using such links should
consult the privacy notices associated with those links.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal
information online—for example, via message boards or
chat rooms—that information can be collected,
intercepted and used by people you do not know. Our
policies do not extend to anything that is inherent in
the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our
control. We take no responsibility for information
collected by third parties.
Security
Protecting your order information is important to us.
We use the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
technology to protect the security of your online order
information. SSL encryption is a method by which information is
encrypted while being transmitted over the Internet. To check
the security of your connection, look at the lower left-hand
corner of your browser window after accessing the server. If you
see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your
browser), then SSL is active. You can also double-check by
looking at the URL line of your browser. When accessing a secure
server, the first characters of the site address should change
from "http" to "https." Some versions of browsers and some
firewalls don't permit communication through secure servers. In
that case, you won't be able to connect to the server and
therefore won't be able to place an order through an insecure
connection. While no method is completely impenetrable, SSL is
the state-of-the-art encryption technology used in e-commerce
today. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we are
committed to protecting your personal information, we cannot
entirely ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to us.
Your
Acceptance of These Terms
By using this site, you indicate your agreement to this Privacy
Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy then do not
use this site. Your continued use of this site following any
changes to this privacy policy constitutes your acceptance of
such changes.
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