Kawartha Lakes Scale Modellers Privacy Policy
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our website, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
Personal Information You Choose To Provide:
1. Credit Card Information.
If you choose to purchase products or services from us or our partners, you may need to give personal information and authorization to obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may need to provide the following information:
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Credit card number
- Home and business phone number
- Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name etc.)
2. Email Information.
In addition to providing the noted information to our partners, if you choose to correspond further with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address, last known IP Address, and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
Web Site Use Information:
Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website, and the Websites visited just before and just after our Website. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use The Information You Provide To Us?
We use personal information to administer our business activities, provide customer service and make other products and services available to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers’ personal information. As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect From Cookies?
We use Website browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Website users’ browsing activities in order to constantly improve our Website and better serve our customers. This information assists Kawartha Lakes Scale Modellers in designing and arranging our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and continually improving our Website to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you although they do permit us to send focused online banner advertisements or other such responses to you.
Sharing Information With Affiliates:
Occasionally, you may notice offers from outside companies advertised on our website. We take measures to select product or service providers who are responsible and afford their customers privacy protections. However, we cannot make any representations about the practices and policies of these companies.
Sharing Information With Strategic Partners:
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances or partnerships with third parties who may be given access to personal information, including your name, address, telephone number and email, for the purpose of providing you with information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with strategic marketing alliances or partnerships, we will retain all ownership rights to the information and will not share information regarding you or other personal financial data.
Notice Of New Services And Changes:
We may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services, and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our client, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request at Customer Service.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information to us on our website, secure server software we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website.
Other emails you may send us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place before you transmit the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information, such as account numbers, to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
1. Information Security.
We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
2. Evaluation of Information Protection Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
3. Employee Access, Training and Expectations.
Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access And Correct Your Information?
You may email our Customer Service department to request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database.
Do We Disclose Information To Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website traffic patterns, and related website information to affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.
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What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our site or the information or content contained therein. Often, links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to our site’s users.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link to our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and policies. Please read those rules and policies before proceeding.
