Effective as of January 1, 2009
The Centice Corporation (“we” or “Centice”) Privacy Policy informs you about how we handle your personal information gathered on or in connection with this website (collectively, the “Website”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other website or offline point of contact between Centice, or any other company, and consumers.
If our information practices change in the future, we will notify you by posting the policy changes directly to this web page. We will post any such change before we use any of your information in any way other than as explicitly stated in this policy. Each time you visit the Website or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.
In order to operate the Website 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 Website) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address), “password information” or “demographic information” (i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor password information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, browsing history information, searching history information, registration history information, and the content of communications sent to us and communication posted on the Website). Please note that nowhere on the Website do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old.
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Website, to process your order, as well as improve your shopping experience and to communicate with you about our products, services, contests, surveys and promotions (collectively, “Promotional Communications”). By registering with the Website, you are agreeing to receive Promotional Communications. To stop receiving Promotional Communications, please send a request email to webmaster@centice.com
To operate the Website, including supporting your activities on the Website, 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 email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, promotional fulfillment, order tracking and fulfillment and payment processing. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
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 password 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 Centice or visitors to the Website. We also may disclose your personal information or password information to affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or password information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our 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.
We may review all demographic information. We may use demographic information to tailor the Website 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 Centice’s 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 Centice 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 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.”
[Protecting your order information is a priority for us. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your online order information. To check the security of your connection, look at the lower corner of your browser window after accessing the server. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser), the SSL is active and the server is secure.] Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the Website in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Like most websites, the Website uses cookies to keep track of your activity on the Website and enhance your experience on the Website. Cookies are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit our Website. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Website. Third party advertisers on the Website 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 Website.
Each time you visit the Website, we automatically collect your IP address (which is a number that can be used to identify your location) and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Website for you and to diagnose problems with our Website, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you. We may also collect the URL from which you came to our site and the URLs visited on our site.
Registered customers can access their account information online by clicking the “My Account” link at the top of any of the pages on www.centice.com and entering your email address and password. This will load the My Account portion of the Website and allow you to edit your billing, shipping and email preferences, alter your login and password settings, and allow you to opt-out of certain communications. Please note that changing or deleting your information through the My Account portion of the Website, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from Centice, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Website and for managing future communications from Centice. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users s 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 Website, or your dealings with the Website, you can contact us at webmaster@centice.com.