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OVERVIEW
Our Skate Shoe Superstore allows you to buy skateboarding products,
set up a Wish List, enter contests, receive special discounts, 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 online. 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 info@BuySkateShoes.com
may also be contacted directly at the following address:
BuySkateShoes.com, Inc.
2100 Barrett Park Dr. #505
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
Attn: Operations Manager
This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding use of our site:
- What information does BuySkateShoes.com collect from you?
BuySkateShoes.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 a Wish List, enter contests, 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,
BuySkateShoes.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.
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- Where do we collect information from you and how do we use
it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide
BuySkateShoes.com's visitors with a superior customized online experience.
We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers
to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information,
to enhance the operation of our site and administer our systems.
Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third party
advertising servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents
who provide us with the zip code and area code associated with a visitor's
server, along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions
of the BuySkateShoes.com visitors on an aggregate basis to determine
customers' preferences. BuySkateShoes.com also does research on our
visitors' demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information
provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files,
from our web site analysis agents, or from contests, drawings or surveys.
We will use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site,
to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically
analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize
our site's content, layout, and services. We receive reports from
third party ad servers, content servers, or a web site analysis agent
that tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what
content was served or viewed.
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, page
you bought from 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 contained and these changes will be automatically kept for future
use.
Wish List
If you decide to create a Wish List through our site, you will create
an account, where we will collect and use your name, e-mail address,
credit card or other payment information, billing and shipping address,
phone number, password and product preferences. This information is
subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy except as explained here.
Others will be able to search for your Wish List using your e-mail
address unless you choose not to make your Wish List searchable. Those
who have access to your Wish List will be able to see your name, e-mail
address, city, state, and may have access to other personal information
and product information that you have entered into the Wish List.
If others place orders for items on your Wish List, they may have
access to your address. We will use the product preferences that you
include in your Wish List to inform you about offers that may be of
interest to you. If you provide us with the e-mail addresses of your
family and friends, we will use their e-mail addresses to send them
your Wish List if you instruct us to. With your permission, we will
send them the Wish List using your e-mail address as the originating
address. We will not use the e-mail addresses of your family and friends
for any other purpose.
Gift Certificates
If you purchase a gift certificate from our website, you will give
us the recipient's name and e-mail address to send the certificate
by e-mail. The recipient information you provide us will only be used
to send the gift certificate and for no other purpose.
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. You consent to such promotional use and disclosure
of this information as a condition of your participation. As a condition
of receiving any prize, you will be required to submit an Affidavit
of Eligibility, for us to ensure that you are eligible to receive
the prize according to the Contest Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails
We may 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.
Contact Information
If you contact BuySkateShoes.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, e-mail address and order information in
order to send you a reply.
Cookies
We use cookies in the operation of our website.
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- With whom do we share your information?
Fulfillment: The information collected by BuySkateShoes.com is used
for processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status,
for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance,
to serve ads, and to notify you of products or special offers that
may be of interest to you.
Other Parties: We do not sell, trade, or rent your Personally Identifiable
Information to others without your consent. We may provide Non-Personally
Identifiable Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns,
and related site information to third parties, 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 BuySkateShoes.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.
Services Provided on Our Site: Except as otherwise stated in this
Policy, without your consent, Buywake.com does not disclose its customers'
Personally Identifiable Information.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally
Buywake.com may be asked 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, without prior notice to you.
BuySkateShoes.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 believe to be unlawful.
Sweepstakes and Drawings: Where you enter a sweepstakes, drawing or
other promotion, we may provide entry information, including name,
address, email address and age to the company providing the prize
or sponsoring the promotion. They may use your Personally Identifiable
Information to send you marketing or promotional materials or other
communications.
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- How can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable
Information?
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal
information that you have provided to us. During the online ordering
process you can review, change, or delete the information that you
have submitted. You may change any of your personal information in
your account online at any time. We encourage you to promptly update
your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information
on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track
of past purchases, you cannot delete information associated with past
purchases. Also, as a security measure we "back up" the
data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be completely
removed from our databases. As a result, you should not expect that
all of your Personally Identifiable Information will be completely
removed from our backed-up databases.
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- 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 BuySkateShoes.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 info@BuySkateShoes.com.
After doing so, BuySkateShoes.com users will not receive future promotional
emails unless they open a new account, enter a contest, or sign up
to receive newsletters or emails.
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- What security precautions are in place to protect against
the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
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.
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- 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 info@BuySkateShoes.com
so that we may delete the minor's information.
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- BuySkateShoes.com use of cookies.
BuySkateShoes.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 BuySkateShoes.com. Our cookies
store randomly assigned user identification numbers, the country where
you are located, and your first name to welcome you back to our site.
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 will be unable to shop on our site
without your browser set to accept cookies.
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- Contacting BuySkateShoes.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 BuySkateShoes.com
by sending a letter to:
BuySkateShoes.com, Inc.
2100 Barrett Park Dr. #505
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
Attn: Operations Manager
You may also contact us by e-mail at info@BuySkateShoes.com.
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- Privacy Policy changes
This Privacy Policy was last changed on May 3, 2003. If BuySkateShoes.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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