ES40 Privacy
Policy
We are not going to sell your personal information to
anyone. We will only provide your information under the order of a
recognized court providing a search warrant for such information. Or
in an emergency situation, in our best judgement, may provide
information to recognized law enforcement agencies.
Privacy
Policy
We at ES40 Technologies, have created this
privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your
personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This
privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which
you engage, and data gathered, on the ES40 Technologies Website,
Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it
from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on December,
2007. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by
doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy
policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like
most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we
automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you
came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to
diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help
identify you and to gather broad demographic information about
you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site
uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on
the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies
to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password,
and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information
so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third
party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your
browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help"
portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However,
if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas on the Site.
Information We
Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to
provide you with information about products or services that may be
of interest to you, we may collect "personal information"
(i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without
using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or
email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card
numbers or passwords) or "demographic information" (i.e.
information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither
personal information nor financial information; this may include, but
is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username,
age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history
information, searching history information, registration history
information, and the content of communications between you and other
members over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph.
Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1)
"non-public information", which consists of purchase
history information and one-on-one communications between you and
other users of the Site; and 2) "public information", which
consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do not
enter personal information or financial information into your
�Profile� (for example, don't use your address or
passcode as your username, or include your name or address in your
written responses), because if you do then it may be posted publicly
on the Site, and the information will then be treated as "demographic
information" that is "public information." Please note
that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information
from children under the age of 13, as we require that all users
represent to us that they are at least 13 years old.
Information
Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place
links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some of these
other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other
intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on
these links and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether or
not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual
property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other
Websites or these other Websites' business practices, and that this
privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites. Consequently,
the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds of
information about you, and may use and disclose that information in
different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We
encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we
will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use
Personal Information
We use your email address and your
other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site,
to contact you in connection with your transactions and other
activities on the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation
emails or important news that could affect your relationship with
ES40 Technologies, and to forward messages to you from other ES40
Technologies users. These types of communications, are known as
"Operational Communications." In some cases, Operational
Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner
ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to
send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional
materials for ES40 Technologies or third parties' goods or services.
We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as
discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site
provides you with options to decline to receive communications from
ES40 Technologies (other than those contained in Operational
Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain
category of communications; others may be more general. By posting a
profile on the Site, you are opting in to receive the ES40
Technologies by Mail email. To stop receiving ES40 Technologies by
Mail, go to the "Email Options" section of your account
settings and change your desired frequency" to "Never."
To
operate the Site, including processing your transactions and
supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal
information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service
providers so they can provide us with support services such as
authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt
or support services, customer relationship management services, order
fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require
these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By
purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or
services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or
electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine
subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or
other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or
sponsored by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing
your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties
may use your personal information in accordance with their own
privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to
instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your
personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use
and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties
in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any
other information you submit to us.
In some cases, we may
enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which
we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages of the
Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these
companies are known as �Co-Branded Companies.� If the
page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was
accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may
share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information in
accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact
Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your
preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such
information so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same
manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other
information you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may contain an
action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that a
third party, such as the advertising company Avenue A, may use to
read cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser
at other (non-ES40 Technologies) web sites before your visit to ES40
Technologies. This technology is used to measure the effectiveness of
advertisements on such other Websites that promote Co-Branded
Pages.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your
personal information is authorized to use your personal information
in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third
parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which
we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or
liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you
will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences
for the use of your personal information by them.
Please read
the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which
we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways
in which we may share your personal information.
How
We Use Financial Information
We use your financial
information to check your qualifications, to bill you for products
and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and
similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a
purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction
that uses financial information, on the Site, you consent to our
providing your financial information to our service providers and to
such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and
process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit
card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the
credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and
support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or
making reservations for, products or services of third parties
offered on the Site, or by participating in programs offered on the
Site that are administered by third parties and that require you to
submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent
to our providing your financial information to those third parties.
Additionally, if the page on which you submit information is a
Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a
Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial information with
the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third parties
(including Co-Branded Companies) may be authorized to use your
financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements
with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy
policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are
not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions.
Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such
information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in
which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that
you submit to us. Please read the information below under the heading
"Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial
Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your
financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share
Personal and Financial Information
Your personal
information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a
bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial
information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to
comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to
protect the interests or safety of ES40 Technologies or other
visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and
businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with
whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal
information or financial information is disclosed under this
paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along
with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and
affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal
information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic
information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy
with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
How
We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public
information to enable other users to find your profile, to determine
whether they are a match for you and to communicate with you. We may
use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to
your interests. We may also share demographic information with
advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without
telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do
this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers' goods and
services will appeal to ES40 Technologies users, so that we may
target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing of
demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do
not tell advertisers which particular ES40 Technologies users are
members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this
privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask
you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic
group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal
information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being
a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we
disclose your financial information or personal information to a
Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that
Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than the
content of one-on-one communications between you and other members.
Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic
information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the
paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and
Financial Information." Also, to read further details about how
we may use your public information, see our
Our
Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in
place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the
information under our control. Our secure server software (SSL) is
the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and
financial information as it travels over the Internet and we store
your financial information on our servers in encrypted form. Your
information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks
which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or
jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not
have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or
jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for
Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we
decide to use particular personally identifiable information in a
manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we
will notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice
on the Site. Please note that we will continue to have the right to
change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your
personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in
the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such
changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date
of the change.
How You Can Access and Update Your
Email Preferences, Personal Information and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications
and modify personal information or demographic information you have
provided to us, and to hide demographic information from, or make
demographic information visible to, the public users of the Site, at
anytime by going to the section of the Site. Please be aware that it
may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the
public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience. Please note
that changing or deleting your information through the "Account
Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Site, or
otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from ES40
Technologies, will only change or delete the data in our database for
purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future
communications from ES40 Technologies. These changes and deletions
will not change or delete emails or information that we may have
already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any
other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy
policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this
privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the
Site, you can contact us at support@es40.net.