PRIVACY POLICY
Sarge-Knives-Store.com operates the websites
located at www.sarge-knives-store.com and other websites on which a copy of
this privacy policy appears (cumulatively the "Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites") as a service to its customers residing in the United States of
America, its territories and possessions. Sarge-Knives-Store.com is the owner
or authorized user of the content displayed on the Sarge-Knives-Store.comL
Sites.
SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM has adopted this privacy
policy to inform you of the following:
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How we collect information on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites.
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The types of information we collect on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites.
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How we use information we collect.
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The circumstances under which Sarge-Knives-Store.com
may disclose information gathered on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites to third
parties.
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The choices available to you on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites regarding the collection and use of your information.
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Security procedures that we have put in place to
protect your Personal Information.
For the purposes of this privacy policy,
"Personal Information" is personally identifiable information about
an individual person, as more particularly described under applicable privacy
laws. You should carefully review this privacy policy before using the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this
privacy policy or the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites, you should contact us at
sarge@sarge-knives-store.com.
1. Policy Scope
This privacy policy applies to your use of the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites and Sarge-Knives-Store.com's treatment of information, including Personal
Information, collected by or on behalf of Sarge-Knives-Store.com through the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites. Your use of linked or associated websites, or websites to which you may
be directed, may be subject to different or additional terms, notices and
policies, and such terms, notices and policies shall control as to those
websites. For information regarding the collection and use of information on
any of those websites or other third party sites, please refer to the terms of
use and policies provided by those websites.
NOTE: THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE, EITHER VOLUNTARILY OR INVOLUNTARILY, THROUGH RESPONSES
TO SOME SURVEY REQUESTS INITIATED AT THE SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM SITES. SOME OF
THESE SURVEYS ARE CONDUCTED BY YAHOO! INC. AND OTHER THIRD PARTIES. SUCH
INFORMATION WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE APPLICABLE PRIVACY POLICY(IES) OF YAHOO!
INC. OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES.
2. Our Information Collection Practices
Automatically Collected Information. When
you visit the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites to place an order, browse, read, or
download information, we may automatically collect and store the following
types of non-personally identifiable information:
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Information collected as server logs from
information provided by your browser.
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Click-through statistics.
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Your IP address.
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The type of web browser you are using to access Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites.
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The type of operating system you are using.
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The name of the domain and host from which you
access the Internet.
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The date and time you access Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites.
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The Internet address of the sites from which you
linked directly to Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites.
Personal Information Provided Voluntarily by the
User. You can use portions of the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites without providing any Personal Information. However, in order to take
advantage of the full capabilities of the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites and to
obtain access to, and use of, many of the features found on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites, including placing orders for products offered for sale on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites and receiving Sarge-Knives-Store.com email exclusives, you must provide
certain Personal Information. You may also provide Personal Information when
you participate in various services and offerings on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites. Personal Information may include, without limitation:
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Your name, mailing address, email address,
telephone number, fax number, billing information, and credit card number and
related information.
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Information concerning your interests,
occupation, product use and preferences.
You may also be asked to respond to additional questions
to help us meet your needs. Certain functionalities on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites, such as the "Email This Page to a Friend" feature, may require
you to provide information regarding third parties. Similarly, if you request
that an order or gift be sent directly to an individual other than yourself,
you will also be asked to submit information about the recipient of the order
or gift. This information may include a third party's name, address, phone
number, fax number, email address, and other similar information.
3. Information Warranty
If you do provide Personal Information through
the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites, including Personal Information regarding
individuals other than yourself, you warrant that (i) you have the authority to
provide that Personal Information and to grant Sarge-Knives-Store.com the right
to use such Personal Information consistent with this privacy policy, (ii) you
have provided that Personal Information voluntarily, and (iii) you consent to
the use of that Personal Information consistent with this privacy policy.
4. Use and Disclosure of Information
Use of Automatically Collected Information.
Information collected automatically through the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites
provides us with information regarding your use of the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM
Sites, including which pages are the most popular with Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites users. That information also allows us to determine if the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites are working properly and to make changes to the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites to allow the user to have a better experience on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites. We do not use that information to identify a particular user.
We may aggregate and use certain non-personally
identifiable information for research or marketing purposes and may share, sell
and rent or trade that information and statistical information derived there
from with our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties.
Use of Non-personally Identifiable Information
Provided Voluntarily by the User. By remaining opted-in to our
email list, you are acknowledging that we may sell, rent, share, trade or
otherwise provide or transfer your non-personally identifiable information such
as demographic and occupational information to third parties. Such third
parties may use such information for whatever purposes they wish or may
transfer such information to other third parties.
Business Uses of Information. Sarge-Knives-Store.com
uses Personal Information you provide to us for internal business purposes,
such as (i) for verification at login as a registered user, if applicable; (ii)
for marketing purposes; (iii) to contact you regarding the products or services
that you have ordered or requested and to provide the same; (iv) for
fulfillment of promotions, including but not limited to sweepstakes, contests
or subscriptions that you have entered; (v) to process and ship orders; (vi) to
send order and shipping confirmations; (vii) to provide customer service,
respond to your requests and inquiries and enhance product and service
offerings; (viii) to keep records regarding orders, returns and exchanges; (ix)
to protect both you and us against error and fraud; (x) to send information,
product and service alerts and exclusive offers; (xi) to record usage of the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites; (xii) to adjust the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites to your personal
preferences; and (xiii) to customize advertising and Sarge-Knives-Store.com
marketing information regarding our products and services. We may also exchange
information, including Personal Information, with other companies and
organizations for credit fraud protection and risk reduction.
Service Providers and Vendors. We
may also share your Personal Information with certain third parties that
perform services for Sarge-Knives-Store.com. Those third parties may host the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM
Sites, operate certain features on the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites, print or
send mailings, provide marketing materials for the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites, authorize and process your payments, provide customer service, analyze
data and assist in fulfilling your orders, send emails on Sarge-Knives-Store.com's
behalf, or otherwise assist Sarge-Knives-Store.com with the operation of the Sarge-Knives-Store.com
Sites. Those third parties are not authorized to use or disclose your Personal
Information for any purpose other than to perform the services designated by Sarge-Knives-Store.com.
Business Transfers.
Automatically collected information and your Personal Information may be
transferred as an asset in connection with a merger or sale involving all or
part of Sarge-Knives-Store.com or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock
sale or other change of control.
Required Disclosures. Sarge-Knives-Store.com
may also provide your Personal Information to a third party if Sarge-Knives-Store.com
in good faith believes that access, use, preservation or disclosure is
reasonably necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process
or enforceable government request. For example, Sarge-Knives-Store.com may be
required to disclose your Personal Information to respond to a subpoena, court
order or other legal process.
6. Consent to Processing and Transfers of
Information
Sarge-Knives-Store.com may transfer information
that you send to us, including, without limitation, Personal Information, to
recipients in countries that do not provide the same level of legal data
protection as the country from which you access the Sarge-Knives-Store.comL
Sites. By using the Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites, you consent to those
transfers and to the processing by Sarge-Knives-Store.com of that information.
7. Notice for Parents
The Sarge-Knives-Store.com Sites are considered
to be general audience Sites and are not to be used by children. Sarge-Knives-Store.comL
does not sell products that are intended for children and does not intend to
collect Personal Information from individuals under the age of eighteen (18).
If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided personal
information to us, please inform us as provided under Section 12 below, and we
will delete that Personal Information.
8. Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website
transfers to an individual's hard drive to identify previous visitors to the
Sites. Cookies are text files that can be rejected or deleted by you at any time.
You may disable cookies using your Internet browser settings. However, by
deleting or rejecting cookies, you may inhibit the user experience on the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM
Sites and other sites. For example, in order to complete online transactions,
cookies must be accepted.
SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM uses cookies to store
information about your visit to the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites in order to
enhance your visit to the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites. For example, storing
that information will allow us to, on occasion, customize account pages for
you. We also use cookies and tracking technologies to:
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Track user visits.
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Track your shopping cart and purchases.
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Determine what set-ups are most frequently
rendered.
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Save your password so you do not have to provide
it each time you visit SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites.
In addition, we currently contract with several
online partners to help manage and optimize the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites.
We use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness
of our advertising and how visitors use our sites. To do this, we use Web
beacons and cookies provided by our marketing company on the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM
Sites. The type of information we collect includes which pages are visited,
which products are put into the shopping cart, which orders enter the checkout
process, which checkouts are executed with payment, etc. By supplementing our
records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most
attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers,
and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Although our marketing
company manages the information coming from our sites on our behalf, we control
how that data may and may not be used. If you do not want to help us learn how
to improve our sites, products, offers and marketing strategy, you can "opt-out"
of our ability to analyze such data by contacting us (see Section 12).
9. Security
SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM and authorized third
parties employ reasonable measures, including administrative, technical, and
physical measures, to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized
access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure. For example, any Personal
Information you enter when you place an order for a product, including, without
limitation, your credit card and other Personal Information, is encrypted
before transmission to SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites servers by using Secure
Sockets Layer 128-bit encryption, if supported by your browser. In addition, we
use reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of your Personal Information
consistent with this privacy policy. However, your Personal Information can
never be 100% secure: information may be transmitted over networks without
appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or
disclosed by unauthorized persons. You can help us to protect your Personal Information
by (i) not sharing your password or other account information with others, (ii)
using a secure web browser, and (iii) changing your password frequently.
10. Managing Your Information
SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM reserves the right to
retain any Personal Information reasonably necessary to appropriately document
its business activities and for archival and record retention purposes. We will
store your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary for the
purposes described in this privacy policy. You may find out more details
regarding this privacy policy by contacting us (see Section 12).
You may "opt-out" of receiving future
email or other communications from us by clicking the "unsubscribe"
link at the bottom of any email that you receive from us, or by contacting us
(see Section 12). Please note that removal of your Personal Information from
our database or "opting-out" will not stop (i) marketing or
advertising content that is ready to be mailed or is queued for transmission to
you prior to the time when we can implement your request, or (ii) the use of
your Personal Information by third parties with whom SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM may
have already shared your information.
11. Updates and Changes to Policies
SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM may change this privacy
policy from time to time by posting updated versions of the privacy policy
here. As we may make changes to this privacy policy at any time without
notifying you, we suggest that you review this privacy policy each time you access
or use the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites. Please note that our rights to use
your Personal Information will be based on the privacy policy in effect at the
time the information is collected.
12. Contact SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM
If you have questions regarding the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites, the privacy policy or your privacy on the SARGE-KNIVES-STORE.COM Sites, you can send a request with any further questions to our Customer Service Department by email to sarge@sarge-knives-store.com