What Personal Information About Customers Does ShoppersWorld.ORG™ Gather?
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other
way. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, providing our services and communicating with you.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact
with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies,"
and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses
our sites. Examples of the information we collect and analyze include
the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to
the Internet; computer and connection information such as browser type
and version, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource
Locators (URL) click stream to, through, and from our Web site, including
date and time. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the
site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use.
What About
Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers
that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser
to enable our systems to recognize your browser. Besides using the information
as described above, ShoppersWorld.ORG™ utilizes cookies to control the flow
of the ordering processes by maintaining the state of your online transactions.
- Some of our business partners may use cookies
on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to
or control over these cookies.
Does ShoppersWorld.ORG™ Share the Information It Receives?
- Yes, we do share information but only as described below.
Otherwise we will not provide your personal information without your consent.
Advertisers: We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to
any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Partners: We partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services,
we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary
for the third party to provide these services.
Agents: We engage other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include processing credit
card payments (e.g. Paypal), providing marketing assistance, providing customer services, sending postal mail and email to you, removing repetitive information
from customer lists, and analyzing data. These persons have access to personal information needed to perform their functions. These companies
do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information that you provide to ShoppersWorld.ORG™ for any secondary purposes.
Service
Providers: We engage other companies
and individuals to perform enhanced services on our behalf. In addition, certain of our
enhanced services require that we contact
Internet directories and various search engines on your behalf. Many
of our service providers have access to personal information needed
to perform their services. These parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Business Transfer: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses
or their assets. In such transactions, customer information generally
is one of the transferred business assets. Also, if ShoppersWorld.ORG™
or all or substantially all of its assets were ever to be acquired,
customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Compliance: We release account and other personal information when we believe release
is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Services Agreement
and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of
ShoppersWorld.ORG™, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit
risk reduction.
How
Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to protect the security
of your payment/financial information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) software, which encrypts information you input and the information
we may send to our agents.
ShoppersWorld.ORG™ has gone to great lengths to ensure your information is securely
obtained and held in compliance with the Card Holder Information Security
Program. For example, we do not store your credit card information and if we have to we encrypt your credit card number before it is
stored in our database. This ensures that no one may access your credit
card from our system.
It is important for you to protect against
unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to
sign off when finished using a shared computer.
What Information Can I Access?
- ShoppersWorld.ORG™ gives you access to
certain information about you for the limited purpose of viewing and,
in certain cases, updating that information. To view or change this
information, log-in to your account. When you update information, on
most of our websites we usually keep a copy of the prior version for
our records.
Links
- Sites provided by ShoppersWorld.ORG™
contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible
for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users
to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this
Web site.
Children
- ShoppersWorld.ORG™ does not advetise or sell services
for purchase by children (or individuals under the age of 18 years). If you are under 18, you may use our services
only with involvement of a parent or guardian.
Conditions
of Use, Notices, and Revisions
- If you choose to visit ShoppersWorld.ORG™,
your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and
our Terms (and Conditions) of Service, including limitations on damages, arbitration
of disputes, and application of the law of the province of Ontario,
Canada. If you have any concern about privacy at ShoppersWorld.ORG™, please
send us a thorough description to support@ShoppersWorld.ORG,
and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This
Notice and our Terms (and Conditions) of Service will change also, and use of information
that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the
time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions,
unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site
frequently to see recent changes.
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