PRIVACY POLICY FOR SBFIREPLACE.COM
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties, recognizes the importance
of protecting the privacy of certain information ("Information")
collected about our customers and prospective customers (referred to as "Customers," "you" or "your").
This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use
it, and how to correct or change it. It is our intention to give you an
understanding about how we collect your Information and the use we make
of it in the course of our business. To that end, San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties gathers two types of information about Customers: data that
Customers provide through optional, voluntary registration on our sites;
and data San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties gathers through
aggregated tracking, mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.
Such information enables us to tailor our content to fit Customers' needs
better and to help our advertisers understand our audience. Because San
Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties derives its revenue mainly
from advertising and e-commerce, providing such aggregated data is essential
to keeping our service free to Customers. However, be assured that San
Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties will not disclose personal
Information to third parties without your consent, except as may be noted
in this Privacy Policy or disclosed to you when the Information is submitted.
How does SBFIREPLACE.COM collect Information?
• Optional Registration
We collect information by specifically requesting it from you. Generally
this occurs when you register at a site or request information or a service.
Usually, the San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties sites
and San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties's service partners
use your information to operate the sites and to deliver services. San
Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties sites also use your information
to inform you about other products or services available from San Bernardino
Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties and its affiliates
• Usage tracking
Use of Internet Protocol ("IP") Addresses
An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you're surfing the Internet so that your computer can
be identified by the main computers, known as "Web servers," that "serve
up" Web pages. San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties
and/or its affiliates collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration,
to report aggregated information to our advertisers, and to audit the use
of our site. When Customers request pages San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties's and/or its affiliates' sites, our servers log the Customers'
IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally
identifiable, which means that a Customer's session will be logged, but
the Customer will remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses
to identify a Customer when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance
with our site terms of use or terms of service or to protect our service,
site, customers or others.
Use of Cookies
What are cookies? Cookies are small pieces of information that a Web site
sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is
stored in a file on your computer. Cookies make Web surfing easier for
you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information
to facilitate your use of our Web site when you return to the site. Cookies
do not tell us your individual identity unless you have chosen to provide
it to us. We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and as such, you'll find that
most major Web sites use them.
By showing how and when Customers use a site, cookies help us see which
areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the
site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
This information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information
from cookies to provide services better tailored to our Customers' needs.
Most cookies expire after a defined period of time, or you can delete your
cookie file at any time. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.
You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie
is being sent. However, note that some parts of sbfireplace.com and/or
its affiliates' services will not function properly or may be considerably
slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not
be able to set personalized preferences, and/or may have difficulty completing
marketing transactions.
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties and/or its affiliates
have two primary uses for its cookies. First, we use them to specify a
Customer's preferences. For example, Customers can specify keywords across
several categories or markets so you don't have to tell us repeatedly about
Real Estate Services. Second, we use cookies to track Customers' Web site
usage trends and patterns. This helps us understand our Customers' needs
better and improve areas of San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties's and/or its affiliates services that our Customers find
valuable. While
both of these activities depend on the use of cookies, you have the option
of disabling the cookies via your browser preferences.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. San Bernardino
Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties and/or its affiliates do not control these cookies. The use
of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the
Internet industry.
With whom does San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties share
my Information?
As a general rule, San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties
will not disclose any specific personal information that you submit to
us about you ("Personal Information") in a manner that connects
you with the Personal Information, except when we have your permission
or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith
that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below.
The following
describes some of the ways that your Personal Information may be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties may disclose some or all of your Personal Information to business
partners or sponsors, but this use will be specifically described to you
prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Many promotions
offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By
requesting more information, you give San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties permission to transfer your Personal Information to the sponsor
so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your e-mail
address will be shared. If more Personal Information will be shared with
the sponsor,
you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Third Party & Aggregate Data
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials
or special offers from third parties. If you opt to receive information
from these third parties San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties
will (with your permission) share your name and e-mail address with such
third parties. Under confidentiality agreements, San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties may match Personal Information with third party data. Also,
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties may keep track of
what portions of the Web site Customers are visiting and other Customer
statistics, and aggregate this information to help us create a better
experience for users of our Web site. This is all done without knowing
your name or
other Personal Information in order to describe our viewers and services
to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for
other lawful purposes.
Other
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties may also disclose
account Information in special cases when we have reason to believe that
disclosing this Information is necessary to identify, contact or bring
legal action against someone who may be violating San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties's terms of use or terms of service, or may be causing injury
to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with any of
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties's rights or property,
other San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties Customers, or
anyone else San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties may
disclose or access account Information when we believe in good faith
that the law
requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary
to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
How can you control the usage of Information?
In case you change your mind or some Personal Information changes (such
as your zip code or e-mail address), we will try to provide a way to
correct, update or remove the Personal Information that you give us.
We also give
you the opportunity to control the communications we direct to you. We
offer Customers the opportunity to "opt out" of having Personal
Information shared with parties outside of San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties and/or its affiliated companies. If a Customer wishes to
update Personal Information or objects to any usage provided herein for
any reason,
he/she may e-mail the requested change to: info@sbfireplace.com
What happens when you link to a third party site?
You should be aware that when you are on San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties's and/or its affiliates' sites you could hyperlink or be directed
to other sites that are beyond our control and/or outside our service.
For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a search
result, the "click" may transfer you off the sbfireplace.com
site. These other sites may include sites of advertisers, sponsors and
partners that may San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties's
and/or its affiliates' logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These
other sites may send their own cookies to Customers, collect data, or
solicit
Information.
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties and its affiliates
do not control such sites, and, therefore, are not responsible for their
contents or the hyperlinks or advertising they choose to place on such
sites San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties's and/or its
affiliates' inclusion of hyperlinks to these sites do not imply any endorsement
of the material on such sites or any association with their operators.
San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties's policy does not
extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, which
is San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties's and its affiliates'
control.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out information online (for
example, via message boards or chat) that information can be collected
and used by people you don't know. San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties and its affiliates strive to protect their Customers' information
and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you
disclose online, and you disclose such information at your own risk.
Is my Information secure from others using the SBFIREPLACE.COM site?
The security of all information associated with our Customers is an important
concern to us. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your
information from your computer to our servers. Unfortunately, no data
transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As
a result, while
we strive to protect your information, San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties and its affiliates can't ensure or warrant the security of
any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services,
and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, San
Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove Specialties uses industry standard
efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your information, such as firewalls
and Secure Socket Layers. However, "perfect security" does
not exist on the Internet.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this site, you signify your agreement to San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties's Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS POLICY, PLEASE
DO NOT USE THIS SITE. Your continued use of San Bernardino Fireplace & Woodstove
Specialties's and/or its affiliates' sites following the posting of changes
to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
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