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Privacy
Statement Effective September 1, 2003
Bossen Implement Inc. (BI) is committed to protecting your privacy
while you are visiting our Site.
BI knows that you care how information
about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so
carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By
visiting BI, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy
Notice.
In order to provide the best in customer service, we may ask
you to share "personal information" -- information unique to you, such as your
name, address, e-mail address, and phone number. First and foremost, we want
you to understand our policy regarding the collection and use of your personal
information.
The Personal Information Collected
You may visit
our Site or call our staff to search for great deals and unique toys without
providing us with any personal information.
- Transaction
Information
In order to complete a purchase, you will be asked to share
with us information required to complete the transaction successfully, such as
billing and shipping addresses, credit card number and expiration date,
etc.
- Personal Interests
Information
At times BI will ask you for personal information regarding
the interests that you have in the farm toy market. This may include
information about scale, OEM and other collector information that interests or
applies to you so that we may inform you of appropriate opportunities and
special offers as well as new product introductions.
How Personal
Information Is Used
When you make purchases on our Site, become a
member, and/or subscribe to our e-mails, we use your personal information in
the following ways:
- When you make
purchases, your personal information will be shared with all others who need to
help facilitate the transaction (for example, credit card authorization
companies, or private consigners of toys).
- As a member, from time
to time, you may receive communications from us, including: (i) specific
information we want to communicate to you regarding special offers or new
product information that we feel you might be interested in based on the
information you may have supplied or past purchase history, or (ii) to contact
you with information regarding a transaction you have initiated with
us.
- We may disclose your
personal information (i) if you violate our Terms of Use or any law, rule, or
regulation, or (ii) if required by law or regulatory authority (for example,
court order or subpoena).
- In the event that our
Company or this Site or certain of our assets are acquired, your personal
information may be one of the transferred assets.
What We Won't Do
With Personal Information
BI will not sell or rent your personal
information to any third parties. Nor will any person or organization that
deals with us use the information for their own uses or sell or make the
information available to others.
Sellers
All sellers agree to
keep the privacy of their buyers confidential and not to share their names or
personal information with any other persons or organizations. Sellers also
agree to not have further direct contact with buyers or solicit any further
sales or do business from these buyers directly, or to make further special or
additional offers.
Security
Because security is important to
us, we exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your personal
information before it is transferred across the Internet from your personal
computer to our secure servers. We use industry-standard, secure-socket-layer
(SSL) technology, which is utilized by most popular browsers, including
Netscape and Microsoft Explorer, to encrypt (or convert into code) your
personal information before it is transferred across the Internet. To further
safeguard your most sensitive credit card information, we transfer such
information across the Internet in an encrypted format and then store such
information in our secure database.
We will permit only authorized
employees, who are trained in the proper handling of personal data, to access
your personal information.
To further protect your personal
information, we have a security system that includes: world-class firewall
technologies; logical network segmentation, allowing restricted access to
stored profile information; and logical and physical security restrictions to
our databases and systems.
Other, Non-Personal Information
Collected
Like many other Internet sites, we automatically collect
non-personal information regarding our visitors, such as software client
information (for example, IP addresses, browser versions and operating systems)
and aggregate information (for example, number of pages accessed) in order to
analyze Web traffic and usage trends. Information of this nature does not
pertain to your specific identity and is not associated with your personal
information.
Children
BI's website does not sell products
for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults.
If you are under 18, you may use BI's website only with the involvement of a
parent or guardian.
What Is Not Covered By This Privacy Policy
Except as covered above, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the
practices or policies of any companies or entities that we do not own or
control, including links to sites that are not maintained by us, or to people
that we do not employ or manage. Because these companies or entities may have
privacy policies that differ from this Privacy Policy, please be sure to review
their respective privacy policies before providing them with any personal
information.
Privacy Policy Updates
We may, in our sole
discretion, revise this Privacy Policy at any time; all such revisions shall be
effective when posted. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy
Policy in order to keep apprised of our current privacy practices. |
