We are committed to protecting your privacy on the Internet, ensuring that your identifiable personal information is kept confidential, and providing web browsing experiences and Internet transactions that are safe, secure and worry-free. The first part of this privacy policy statement covers our policies and practices regarding the possible collection, storage and use of identifiable personal data at this website; the second part of this statement is our disclosure of possible unrelated third party advertiser practices at this website.
Our Policies and Practices. We promise to adhere to the following policies and practices with respect to your identifiable personal information and other data collected at this web site:
- Whenever it is appropriate for us to collect identifiable personal information from you, say for example, when you request for us to contact you or when you are making a purchase, we will always explicitly ask you for that information. We will never attempt to use any stealthy technique to obtain identifiable personal information about you without your knowledge.
- When you contact us with a question or inquiry using our Online Contact Form, we only use the information collected to respond to you. The data will be collected, processed and used only by our organization. The data will be stored only as long as needed to complete our follow-up correspondence with you, after which time it will be destroyed.
- Credit card sales transactions will be communicated securely, using the TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer) data encryption protocol.
- When you purchase goods and/or services at our website using your credit card, we must disclose some of your identifiable personal information to banking service providers as necessary to approve and process your credit card sales transaction.
- When you purchase goods and/or services at our website using your credit card, some identifiable personal information about you will be stored to comply with credit card merchant record keeping requirements and with federal and state laws regarding sales and tax records. The data will be transferred securely to our private offline encrypted data systems and stored for the length of time required by law for tax auditing purposes, after which time it will be destroyed.
- When you subscribe to our mailing or e-mailing list(s), we only use the data collected to send you information from the categories you select and news about our company and website updates. The data will be collected, processed and used only by our organization. The data will be stored indefinitely unless you Unsubscribe from the mailing or e-mailing list(s) or your contact information becomes out dated (i.e., non-deliverable), after which time it will be destroyed.
- We will not sell, rent, lease or lend your identifiable personal information to any third party, unless you have specifically and willingly consented for us to do so and you are not a minor.
- We will not otherwise disclose your identifiable personal information to any third party, except as noted above for credit card sales and except under the extraordinary circumstances noted below.
In the following special circumstances only, we may disclose identifiable personal information:
- If required to do so by law or to comply with legal process served on us.
- To protect and defend our rights or property.
- To protect the personal safety of any person or persons.
We may use HTTP Cookies and/or URI Query Strings in HTTP requests to keep track of products in your shopping basket and to make decisions about what content to display to you. If we set first party cookies and/or URI query strings in HTTP requests, they will be used only by our organization. We set our cookies to expire in seven (7) days, after which time they should be automatically deleted by client browsers.
When we provide search services at and for our website, we use your search keywords only to provide the information you seek at our website. The web site search keywords you enter are processed only by our organization. The web site search keywords data is not recorded and is not retained beyond the duration of your browser session.
When you post a message on our public Discussion Message Board web pages, ALL DATA THAT YOU POST MAY BE VIEWED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC, including any sender information supplied by you. This data is stored on the web server indefinitely.
We use server access log data* for security monitoring, trend analysis and for research and development of web site improvements. Our web server access log data is recorded on our web server(s) and is stored and/or used only by our organization. The duration of storage of this data is indefinite.
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Please note that whenever you browse the Internet, there is some information about your computer and the Internet domain from which you are accessing the Internet that is passed along during the protocol exchange between client computers, Internet gateways and server computers. However, this information does not immediately identify you personally. Such information is useful to webmasters for keeping their websites tuned to technological and demographic trends and for discovering system errors or problems with their software code.
Note:you may contact us and request that we correct or delete your identifiable personal information, except that in the case of credit card sales transactions we can only correct, but cannot delete your identifiable personal information due to record keeping requirements.
Third Party Advertiser Practices
We may display on our web site the advertisements of unrelated third party advertisers. We may also facilitate Internet search services on this web site that are provided/sponsored by unrelated third party advertisers. These unrelated third party advertisers may engage in the following practices:
Unrelated third party advertisers may collect, store and/or use for their own purposes any access data generated when their advertisement links are clicked on our web pages. Whenever unrelated third party advertisement links are clicked on our web pages, third party servers unknown to us may generate and store access data for parties and purposes unknown to us. As the duration of their storage of this data is unknown to us, it should be considered indefinite
Unrelated third party advertisers may use Web Beacons (i.e., resources that load from remote locations) on our web pages to determine when their advertisements are viewed on our web site. Whenever unrelated third party advertisements are viewed on our web pages, third party servers unknown to us may monitor, store and/or use that information for purposes unknown to us. As the duration of their storage of this data is unknown to us, it should be considered indefinite.
Unrelated third party advertisers may use HTTP Cookies and/or URI Query Strings in HTTP requests for their own purposes. Whenever unrelated third party advertisement links are clicked on our web pages, third party servers unknown to us may attempt to set third party cookies and/or URI query strings in HTTP requests for purposes unknown to us. As the expiration time setting in third party cookies is unknown to us, it should be considered indefinite.
Unrelated third party advertisers may provide Internet search services at this web site, and they may collect, store and/or use your search keywords for their own purposes. Whenever you use keyword-based Internet search services provided by an unrelated third party advertiser on our web site, parties unknown to us may collect, store and/or use your search keywords for purposes unknown to us. As the duration of their storage of this data is unknown to us, it should be considered indefinite.