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Overview
At thebuzzelectronics.com, we are committed to protecting your
privacy online. We created our Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate
our firm commitment to protecting the privacy of our shoppers.
Our online store allows you to purchase products and receive
special discounts, fill out surveys, and receive newsletters,
e-mails or other promotional information from us. We use the information
that we collect about you to fulfill your product and service
purchases and to create a more personalized online experience.
This is just a brief overview, so please read on for more details
about our Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to
time, so please check back periodically.
Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document
only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect
from you. For some services, we either collect and transfer personal
information to a service provider you have selected, or you may
visit our Trusted Partners who may collect and use your personal
information. We encourage you to ask questions and to be very
cautious before you disclose your personal information to others.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to privacy@thebuzzelectronics.com
or may also be contacted directly at the following address:
Attn:
Privacy Compliance Officer
thebuzzelectronics.com, LTD.
1402 Coney Island AVE
Brooklyn, NY 11230
This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding use
of our site:
- What information does
thebuzzelectronics.com collect from you?
- Where do we collect information
from you and how do we use it?
- With whom do we share
your information?
- What are your choices
regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?
- What security precautions
are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration
of your information?
- A special note about
children's privacy
- Use of "cookies" and "action
tags"
- You should carefully review privacy
policies of any third party sites accessible from thebuzzelectronics.com
- Contacting
thebuzzelectronics.com about privacy questions or concerns
- Privacy
Policy changes
- What information does thebuzzelectronics.com
collect from you?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services,
thebuzzelectronics.com collects two types of information about
its visitors: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally
Identifiable Information. Our primary goal in collecting information
from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized
experience while using our site.
Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that lets us know the specifics
of who you are. Personal information is requested when you
order a product or service, register for a Gift List, enter
contests or sweepstakes, apply for credit, fill out surveys,
and send us feedback. For example, this information might
include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone
number, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information,
and product details. With this information, thebuzzelectronics.com
can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized
services.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that does not by itself identify
a specific individual. We gather certain information about
you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways.
This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal
and an aggregated basis. For example, this information may
include the Web site's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that
you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser
you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address.
A URL is the global address of documents and other resources
on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier for
a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks
like the web use the TCP/IP protocol to route information
based on the IP address of the destination. In other words,
an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to
your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web
servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require
IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet,
browse and shop.
- Where do we collect information
from you and how do we use it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide
our visitors with a superior customized online experience. We
use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact
customers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional
information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer
our systems.
We gather information in the following ways:
Shopping
We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration,
to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to
be served on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable
Information to our advertisers, and to monitor the level of
activity on our site. We collect information from visitors
to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain types
(e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time
of their visit or order, the number of visits and orders,
the number of visits per browsing session, the server type,
the operating system and browser type used to come to the
site, the country, state and telephone area code where their
servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site
that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor's
computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language,
applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on
our site.
Ordering
When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable
information from you. If you order one of our products or
services, we will collect and maintain your name, e-mail address,
billing address, shipping address, telephone number, product
selections, credit card or other payment information, order
number, referring URL, IP address and a password. We collect
this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy,
in order to fill your order, to communicate with you about
your order and to send you promotional materials. Before confirming
your order, you will have the opportunity to review the product
order form and make changes and additions to the information
it contains and these changes will be automatically kept for
future use.
Online Surveys and Polling
In order to improve our services to you, we ask some of our
customers to voluntarily complete surveys, which may be collected
by an independent third party. Individual survey answers are
confidential, although Non-Personally Identifiable Information
is collected and disclosed to third parties. If you do not
wish to participate in a survey, simply decline to participate
when asked.
Contests and Sweepstakes
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you
for contact information such as your name, address and e-mail
address in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional
e-mails, notify winners and make the winners' list publicly
available pursuant to certain states' laws. Your consent to
such promotional use and disclosure of this information is
a condition of your participation. As a condition of receiving
any prize, you may be required to submit an Affidavit of Eligibility,
and a photograph, for us to ensure that you are eligible to
receive the prize according to the Contest Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails
We offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service
to our customers. We will send you newsletters and e-mails
periodically listing current specials and deals. To stop receiving
our newsletter, send an e-mail to us at optout@thebuzzelectronics.com
or simply follow the instructions located in said email or
newsletter.
Contact Information and Third Party
Data
If you contact thebuzzelectronics.com or our customer service
representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep
a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report
a problem with our site, we may collect such information in
a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback
area or by calling one of our customer service representatives,
we may ask for your name and e-mail address in order to send
you a reply. If other users or third parties send us correspondence
about your activities or purchases on our site, we may keep
the information in a file specific to you. We use a third
party to help us provide customer service. In order to help
you most effectively, we provide them with your order information.
Affiliate Program
Our Affiliate Program is administered by a third party, on
a third party's Web site. Any information collected by them
is not governed by this Policy.
Cookies
We use cookies in the operation of our site; to find out what
cookies are and how we use them, click here.
- With whom do we share your information?
Fulfillment: The information collected by thebuzzelectronics.com
is used only for the limited purposes of processing orders,
keeping you informed about your order status, for statistical
purposes, for improving our site and its performance, and to
notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest
to you. We will disclose your Personally Identifiable Information
to third parties to charge your credit card, deliver your order,
provide customer service, provide you with credit and deliver
promotional e-mails to you from thebuzzelectronics.com. For
example, we must release your credit card information to the
card-issuing bank to confirm payment; and release your address
and telephone information to the delivery service to deliver
products that you ordered.
Other Parties: We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal
information to others. We may provide Non-Personally Identifiable
Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns,
and related site information to third party advertisers, but
these statistics do not include any Personally Identifiable
Information. We may release account information when we believe
that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply
our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property,
and safety of thebuzzelectronics.com, our users, or others.
If customers do not pay us for products ordered, we may submit
their account information to a third party collection agency.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for
thebuzzelectronics.com may be provided to an outside company
for the purpose of analysis. That analysis is to help us to
improve our site and product selection, and to notify you
of special offers that may be of interest to you. That data
analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable Information
with others, or use it for any other purpose than to help
thebuzzelectronics.com.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally
thebuzzelectronics.com may be required by law enforcement
or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable
Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We
will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt
of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement
investigation. thebuzzelectronics.com fully cooperates with
law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our
services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report
to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good
faith believe to be unlawful.
- What are your choices regarding
collection, use, and distribution of your information?
Email: We may from time to time send you e-mail or other communications
regarding current promotions, specials and new additions to
the thebuzzelectronics.com site. You may "opt-out," or unsubscribe
from our newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions
in any e-mail you receive from us, or by sending an e-mail to
optout@thebuzzelectronics.com.
After doing so, thebuzzelectronics.com users will not receive
future communications or mailings unless they open a new account
or enter a contest.
- What security precautions are in
place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of
your information?
At thebuzzelectronics.com you can be assured that your personal
and account information is secure, consistent with current industry
standards. The importance of security for all Personally Identifiable
Information associated with our customers is of utmost concern
to us. Our secure socket layer (SSL) servers protect the information
using advanced firewall technology.
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions
and order fulfillment are handled by established third party
banking, processing agents and distribution institutions.
They receive the information needed to verify and authorize
your credit card or other payment information and to process
and ship your order.
When you access your account information, the information
is kept on a secure server. All of the customer data we collect
is protected against unauthorized access by physical security
means.
- A special note about children's
privacy
You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to
use this site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect,
use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors
under 18 years of age. If you are the parent or guardian of
a minor under 18 years of age and believe that they have disclosed
personally identifiable information to us, please contact us
at privacy@thebuzzelectronics.com
so that we may delete the minor's information.
- Use of "cookies"
thebuzzelectronics.com Cookies: When you use our site we will
store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize
your use of our site. A cookie is a small data text file, which
a Web site stores on your computer's hard drive (if your Web
browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you
to thebuzzelectronics.com. Our cookies store randomly assigned
user identification numbers
. The cookies make your use of the site easier, allow you to
retrieve an earlier shopping cart, make the site run more smoothly
and help us to maintain a secure site. You might be unable to
shop on our site without your browser set to accept cookies.
Website Analysis Agent Cookies: We may use a third party
to analyze what our visitors find to be most interesting on
our site. To do that, they will place a cookie on your computer
with a randomly assigned unique number in order to track the
pages you view on our site, along with other Non-Personally
Identifiable Information.
- You should carefully review privacy
policies of any third party sites accessible from thebuzzelectronics.com
Other sites accessible through our web site have their own privacy
policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices.
Please consult each site's privacy policy. thebuzzelectronics.com
is not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.
Please be aware that this site may contain links to other sites
on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties.
The information practices of those web sites linked to thebuzzelectronics.com
are not covered by this Privacy Policy. These other sites may
send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal
information. Additionally, other companies that place advertising
on our site may collect information about you when you view
or click on their advertising through the use of cookies. We
cannot control this collection of information. You should contact
these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their
use of the information that they collect.
- Contacting thebuzzelectronics.com
about privacy questions or concerns
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact
thebuzzelectronics.com by sending a letter to:
Attn:
Privacy Compliance Officer
thebuzzelectronics.com, Inc.
1402 Coney Island AVE
Brooklyn NY 11230
You may also contact us by e-mail at privacy@thebuzzelectronics.com.
- Privacy Policy changes
This Privacy Policy was last changed on August 27, 2002. If
thebuzzelectronics.com makes changes to any terms or conditions
of the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document
so that you will always know what information we gather, how
we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it.
We may change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy
at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately
upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.
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