This Privacy Policy describes the terms of our commitment to your
privacy and protection of your personally identifiable information.
PERSONS OR PARTIES COVERED
This Privacy Policy is intended to cover all Website Users,
which term shall include all visitors, all subscribers to lists, feeds, or newsletters, all members or affiliates,
and all customers.
Visitors are persons who visit or view this website, whether intentionally or unintentionally,
whether solicited or unsolicited.
Subscribers are persons who voluntarily agree to receive postings sent to email
distribution lists, channels pulled from RSS feeds or periodic newsletters
whether paid or unpaid.
Members are persons who join an organization or marketing endeavor (e.g. "affiliates") promoted by this website
whether paid or unpaid.
Customers include anyone who attempts to order, actually orders, or receives a product sold
(e.g. a recipient) or advertised on or delivered from this website, even if at no cost.
Hereafter, the terms you and your refer to the above described
Website Users and the terms we, us, and our refer to the website,
its agents, owners, operators, and employees.
PERSONS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE
If you are under the age of thirteen (13), you are subject to the
provisions of the federal Child Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA),
and this website is not lawfully accessible to you. You must leave this site immediately.
PERSONS EXCLUDED FROM THIS WEBSITE STILL SUBJECT
In the event that you are excluded from this website because of your age, the
Terms of Use agreement or because we have denied service to you for
any other reason and you nonetheless unlawfully view this site, you remain
subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and are in violation of
the Terms of Use agreement.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY
You must accept of the terms of this Privacy Policy as a portion of the
consideration required for your right to visit the website. You must also accept
these terms before submitting any personally identifiable information. If you do
not accept these terms, you have no right to visit this site and you are fraudulently
using this site. Your continued viewing, use, or communication, especially the
submission of personally identifiable information, shall be construed as active
acceptance of the terms of this policy.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
We, in the course of operating this website, routinely collect
information about you in various ways, such as:
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION
Registration means that the you took active, positive steps to communicate
information to us. This can include pages or pop-ups where you registered for a newsletter
or subscribed to a mailing list or RSS feed. or it can include your participation in visitor surveys;
or it can include requesting information from the website via email, mail, telephone, or courier;
or it may be from joining an affiliate program or other membership organization, paid or unpaid;
or it may be from ordering a product. In addition, if you furnished your information to us at our offline
"bricks and mortar" place of business, it may also be captured as well.
Occasionally you may provide complete credit card or checking account information to us via
telephone, fax or a fill-in form rather than regular secure merchant service processing.
This information is kept at the highest level of security and is never divulged to anyone except
the merchant service provider or for the purpose of communication with the customer.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED DURING ONLINE ORDERING
Online ordering via SSL encrypted communication provided by shopping cart services supporting
merchant service companies such as Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American
Express, provides some information to the us but does
not provide complete credit card numbers, expiration dates, or CVV2 (back of
card) numbers. In the case of electronic check processing, your bank routing
code and account number are not provided to us. During the process of online ordering,
you may provide your name, address, city, state, zipcode. email address, phone number,
and, occasionally a member ID and password. You should consider all this information available to us.
While the primary purpose of this information is to deliver the product to you, under the
Purchase Agreement you also approve its use for general solicitation purposes.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM EMAIL, PHONE, OR MAIL INQUIRIES
When you communicate with us, you do so under two conditions: first,
you give us your permission to contact you; and second, you are subject to any
‘submission’ provisions of the Terms of Use, Purchase Agreement, or this
Privacy Policy.
While your contact information may or may not be used to solicit you, it
may be added to the website's general solicitation database.
If you send us an email message or if you communicate with us by telephone or mail,
we collect information about your communication and by communicating with us, you give your
permission to collect, archive, retrieve, and otherwise use any information collected as we see fit.
Any communication which, in our sole discretion, we deem to be a testimonial,
may be publicized for commercial purposes.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM INTERACTION WITH THIRD PARTY BANNERS, POPUPS, OR SITE ADVERTISERS
When you click on third party banners, pop-ups, or hyperlinked advertising appearing on our website,
you must assume that information is being collected about you. We are not responsible for the
use of information collected in such a fashion. You must assume that (1) information will be
collected, (2) that a ‘cookie’ will usually be placed on your hard drive, (3) that
we do not have any control over what happens with this information, (4) that we take no responsibility over the
accuracy or content of advertisers, (5) that we are not responsible for downloads from third party
advertisers that contain viruses or worms or other computer code that causes their computer or
software harm, and (6) that we assume no responsibility for the data that is garnered from
the click itself or that the advertiser collects.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM REFERRING EMAIL OR REFERRING URLS
If you send a friend an email from our site or if you send the url or one of our web pages to a
friend, you must assume that some data is collected about your IP address or your email
address and that of your friend. You must assume that referred emails or web pages may
appear to come from your email. You must accept fully responsibility for referring pages or
email to a friend and agree to indemnify us for any damage, intentional or unintentional
that results from said referrals.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM VOLUNTARY VISITOR, SUBSCRIBER, MEMBER OR CUSTOMER SURVEYS
Unless otherwise specified in the survey, you must assume that any information provided
to us as part of a survey in which you participate may be used for general solicitation
for commercial purposes and that such information will be shared with joint venture partners,
affiliates, marketing organization or used by us for product design or solicitation purposes.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM ELECTRONIC MEANS (HTTP HEADERS)
Many websites, including this one, collect information about your computer, your email address,
and your IP address as part of the normal process of distributing content
across the Internet. You must assume that your web-viewing or web-use activity is monitored, tracked,
and information collected. This information is not usually of a personal nature, but it may help define
your viewing habits and product preferences even though the website may or may not have
the foggiest notion who you are.
- INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM COOKIES
The term "Cookie" is web jargon for small bits of textual data placed on and retrieved
from your hard drive by a web site. Websites use this to keep
you 'logged in', to store your preferences, to keep track of search criteria, to monitor use, to password protect use of the site or use
of products sold by the site. Cookies can also be used to obtain information about your computer
configuration or your use of your computer.
Cookies can be used to electronically gather information about you. Again, it may or may not be personal
information, but it is information and by using this site you are expressly giving permission to
allow the use of 'cookies' and to use the information gathered from their use to benefit you. You also give permission to collect,
archive, retrieve, and use any information collected for product design, product offers to you, and general
commercial solicitation purposes by this site or joint venture partners, affiliates, and
marketing organizations. It is possible for you to deny access to cookies, but doing so
may limit your access to this site and its features.
By the term "commercial solicitation," we mean our various offers we extend to you for
the purchase the goods and services we offer for sale and includes our advertisements,
announcements, and other promotional materials. We may maintain a general solicitation
database and one or more specialized solicitation databases at our discretion.
All information we collect may be captured into one or more of these databases for
this purpose. In addition to soliciting you via the content we provide on our website,
information thus captured may be used as follows:
- EMAIL ADDRESSES
If we collected your email address, we may occasionally use it to send you offers and announcements via email.
- PHYSICAL ADDRESSES
If we collected your physical address (street, city, state, and zipcode), we may occasionally use it to send you direct
mail offers and announcements via regular postal mail or courier service.
- TELEPHONE NUMBERS
If we collected your telephone number, we may occasionally use it for telemarketing purposes.
- FAX NUMBERS
If we collected your fax number, we may occasionally use it to send you offers and announcements via fax.
By providing your contact information to us, you consent to receiving our commercial solicitations. If you
wish to discontinue receiving them in one or more of the above methods, please let us know and we will remove you from our lists.
THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTION LISTS
We do not purchase, rent, or borrow third party distribution lists nor do we sell, rent, or share your personally
identifiable information to third party distribution lists unless you have expressly granted your consent to do so.
However, we may borrow or share your personally identifiable information with our affiliated business partners.
This type of shared information may include your name, physical address, email address, telephone number, orany
other information that could be used to identify you, along with information linked to this information such as
your buying habits or preferences. While our actual use of any information we collect is quite conservative,
you must assume that it is not. Unless we tell you otherwise, you must assume that information collected is shared
with third parties for commercial purposes. While this is uncommon in practice, you must assume so as you make your
decision whether or not to view or interact with this or any other website. If you have previously granted your consent
to share your personally identifiable information and wish to withdraw that consent, please let us know.
INFORMATION THAT IS NOT SHARED
Credit card information or other financial information is usually
unknown to the us. However, in the event that it is made known, that information is never revealed to anyone
except to processing authorities or law enforcement agencies. However, you give
us express permission to use it in fraud investigation or for litigation against you.
SOCIAL MEDIA, BULLETIN BOARDS, CHAT, MESSENGER, AND PUBLIC FORUMS
Your use of any bulletin boards or other public forums, including social media, chat rooms or instant
messenger services, provided by us is at your own risk. You may not assume that
we monitor these services or protect you in any manner from information you post publicly
or share with anyone else via these services. The term 'Social Media' includes, but is not
limited to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterst.
OUR COMMITMENT TO CAN-SPAM
The
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
(Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act),
15 U.S.C. 7701 et seq. requires all commercial emailers to ensure that email headers are true and accurate,
that subject lines are not misleading, that the content is clearly identified as an advertisement, that a working opt-out
method is provided, and that a valid physical address is furnished.
All commercial email messages we sent to our general or special solicitation distribution lists will always comply with these
requirements. You will only receive these messages if you have provided us with information that forms the basis of communication
with you, such as an email address. You agree to waive all rights to file complaints concerning unsolicited email
or spam from us since, by providing such information, you agree to receive communication from us or other related marketing
organizations you have approved. However, all email communication we send you will always contain an 'unsubscribe'
link where you may notify us that you no longer wish to receive solicitations or information from us (i.e. to opt-out) and
your name will be removed from our solicitation databases within a reasonable time. If you choose to opt-out,
you will not receive notices of updates, special offers, prices, and deals, new or related product announcements or other
promotional material from us. Should you continue to receive unwanted commercial email from us after unsubscribing,
please send a printed copy of the message you received to our Designated Agent by mail and so we can promptly investigate
and take corrective action.
The
Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA),
15 U.S.C. 6501 et. seq., requires commercial website operators providing
content targeted to children under the age of thirteen to publish its privacy policy describing the information collected
from its users, to acquire parental consent prior to collection of information from children under age thirteen, and to
disclose any such information to parents on request. In addition, it allows parents to revoke their consent and have
information removed, limits the information that is collectable, and requires protection of the confidentiality, security,
and integrity of information collected from children.
We do not provide any content specifically targeted toward children under the age of thirteen (13). Nonetheless, it
is possible that a child under age thirteen could visit and interact with the features of our website. Our policy,
without exception, is that children under age thirteen may not access our content without parental consent and supervision.
If you are a child under age thirteen, you must immediately exit this website until your parents have granted their written
consent. If you are a parent of a child under age thirteen, you must not allow your child or children to view and access
our website except under your supervision and only after you have communicated your written consent to us for each child you
wish to access the provided content. Such consent shall be in writing and sent to our Designated Agent indicated below.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
We take measures to protect our data files that contains information related to you.
However, as a consideration for viewing this website or interacting with it in any manner,
you waive all claims of any nature against us concerning the loss, alteration, or misuse
of information. You must assume that it is possible for your personal data to be obtained by
unauthorized individuals (i.e. hackers) and used in an inappropriate manner that may cause you harm and
that you agree that the site is not responsible for damages to you from such intrusions.
The California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003 (OPPA),
Ca BPC §22575 et. seq. requires operators of commercial websites to identify the categories of personally
identifiable information it collects about individual consumers who use or visit its website and the categories
of any third parties whom it shares this information. It also requires these website operators to describe the
method, if any, that a consumer may use to review or change this information. Website operators must also describe
the process it uses to notify consumers of material changes to its privacy policy and the effective date of
the current privacy policy. Finally, it outlines several methods operators must use to conspicuously post its privacy policy.
Personally identifiable information, as defined by OPPA, includes:
- The consumer's first and last name,
- The consumer's physical address,
- The consumer's email address,
- The consumer's telephone number,
- The consumer's social security number,
- Any other identifier that permits the online or physical contacting of the consumer, and
- Any other information about the consumer that is linked to any of the above identifiers.
We believe that, taken as a whole, this
Privacy Policy document meets all OPPA requirements.
REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WITHOUT NOTICE
This Privacy Policy is dynamic and subject to continual change. You may
not assume that it remains the same and you agree that you have an affirmative duty to review this
Privacy Notice each time you visit our website. Unless, in our sole opinion, this policy changes so
drastically as to suggest a posted notification on the website or via email, you will receive
no notification of changes to this Privacy Notice nor, under any circumstances, do
we promise notification. By continuing to view and use our website, you accept
the terms this Privacy Policy or any modifications thereto.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR CONCERNS
You should direct questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy
to our Designated Agent at the address listed below.
WEBSITE PROVIDER CONTACT INFORMATION
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Privacy Policy is the copyrighted intellectual property
of SPS Technical Service, 41 West Sixth Street, Franklin, Ohio 45005, USA,
telephone (937) 514-2350, email:
privacy@spstechnical.com
and a license has been granted for limited use by this Website. Any other use is prohibited without
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