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Privacy Policy:
Effective Date: November 30, 2006
4warranty is committed to protecting your privacy. That is
because we base our business on the trust you place in us. This policy
describes our practices regarding personal and account information
collected through our Web site. In this policy, “personal and account
information” means your name, company name, account number, address,
telephone number, and e-mail address plus any other information that
personally identifies you, and your purchase history, or any
information that we would permit us to contact you. “We” and “us”
means 4warranty as well as its affiliated companies.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy from time to
time; the effective date noted above will indicate the date that this
policy was last updated. You should visit our Web site periodically to
review any changes.
How much information must I share?
The amount and type of information we collect from you depends
on your activities and use of our Web site. Below, we explain what
information we collect.
When you browse our Web site:
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IP address - We collect your IP address to measure our Web
site traffic and to help provide a relevant shopping
experience.
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Referral Web site. If you come to our Web site via a link,
we collect the location of the link that referred you.
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Movements through our Web site. We keep track of pages you
visit to help provide you with a more personalized shopping
experience.
When you make purchases through our Web site:
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We collect your name, address and payment information to
process your order. However, you may provide credit card and
purchase order numbers by telephone.
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We collect information contained in “cookies,” such as your
purchases and log in data, to personalize your shopping
experience. Your browser must be set to accept cookies if
you wish to add items to a shopping cart.
When you communicate with us through our Web site:
Is my personal or account information used for any other
purpose?
We may use your personal and account information to provide
products or services you have requested, respond to a
communication from you, contact you, and as otherwise described
in this policy.
We may occasionally send you promotional or product information.
If you do not wish to receive promotional or product
information, you may opt out of future communications by
following the instructions in the e-mail communication or simply
click here.
We may also analyze and act upon your personal and account
information as part of our standard business practices. We
occasionally purchase from third parties commercial information
such as company size, number of employees and annual sales of
other companies. We may use this commercial information along
with your personal and account information to customize our
offerings to you, as well as for our internal use.
In addition, in order to measure how we are doing and to better
understand how we can improve our product offerings, we or one
of our service providers or strategic partners may contact you
by telephone or e-mail and solicit your participation in
research.
If you become our customer, we may send you updates on important
information about our company and services.
Will my personal and account information be provided to any
other party?
We restrict access to your personal and account information to
those who need access to use it as set forth in this policy.
Your other personal and account information may be
disclosed to third parties in limited circumstances. For
example, we may share your personal and account information with
our service providers and strategic partners and with suppliers
and other entities involved in transactions you have initiated.
We may disclose your personal and account information to respond
to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, as required
by law, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend
against legal claims. Your personal and account information may
also be disclosed in connection with a sale of some or all of
our business or a merger with another company.
How do you protect my personal and account information?
We use 128-bit encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”)
in all areas where your personal and account information is
required. Our Web site is certified by
GeoTrust, which verifies
that our Web site is authentic and that we use SSL security. To
view our GeoTrust certificate, click on the image of the closed
lock or the solid key at the bottom of your browser window. Our
Web site security information will appear.
In addition, your personal and account information and
transaction history are kept behind our firewall on separate
servers. All transaction information is processed under
encrypted channels, although you may choose unencrypted
processing.
How can I give you feedback or contact you?
Simply click
here. Please note that messages become our property and,
unless you direct otherwise, may be used by us for promotional
purposes.
How can I correct inaccurate information?
To correct any other information, please contact us at 800-867-2216.
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