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Shop4®.com
IMPORTANT PRIVACY CHOICES
How We Use And Protect Personal Information
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At Shop4®.com, protecting your privacy is very important to us. Shop4®.com is offered by Signature Agency, Inc., a subsidiary company of the General Electric Company ("GE"). We value your trust. We want you to understand what information we collect, how we protect it, and how we use it. We treat nonpublic personal information ("NPI") that identifies you with respect and in accordance with this Privacy Notice. NPI is vital to Shop4®.com in meeting our goal to provide you with products and services.
This Privacy Notice is designed to provide information regarding how we collect, use and disclose NPI we gather when you visit us on the World Wide Web. This Privacy Notice currently is applicable only to our United States customers and visitors when they interact with us on the Internet.
Our Privacy Notice
This is our Privacy Notice:
We will describe what NPI we collect, how we protect it, and how we may use it.
We will maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect NPI we obtain about our customers.
We will require servicing companies to whom we disclose NPI to adhere to our Privacy Notice.
We will also comply with any other state requirements that relate to the use and protection of your NPI.
Please read on for more details. This Privacy Notice includes examples of the types of NPI we may collect and with whom we may share NPI. These examples should not be considered a complete list of our information collection or sharing practices. As used in this Privacy Notice, "you" and "your" refer to an individual consumer and "companies" may include individuals.
Information We May Collect
We may obtain NPI to provide you products and services you have requested, to determine if you qualify for products or services, and to service your membership. We may collect NPI that identifies you and describes how to contact you. We may also collect NPI on your transaction and experience information. We may collect this NPI from you, our affiliates, and outside companies. We have listed examples below of the sources and types of NPI we may collect.
Applications, registration forms, or other forms containing your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.
Your transactions or experiences with us, other GE or outside companies, such as your transaction history.
Credit reporting agencies and other similar companies, such as your obligations with others, your driving record, medical claims, and social security or tax identification number.
You and others, such as NPI relating to your employment, insurance coverage, habits, avocations, finances, credit data, and other personal characteristics.
Other companies that have NPI about you, such as your name, address, phone number, and transaction information.
Information We May Disclose and To Whom We May Disclose Information
We may disclose the NPI we collect. The service providers and others to whom we disclose NPI are obliged to use such information only for the purposes stated. Disclosures may be made as stated below.
Disclosures To Service Providers
We may disclose NPI we collect to others, such as administrators, repair facilities, software consultants, and other third parties that provide services for us, including, in particular, Vcommerce Corp. These services may include:
Administrative or customer support;
Printing and delivering statements and other documents; and
Protecting against fraud.
Disclosure of NPI made to these service providers is done to help us better serve you.
Disclosures To Other GE Companies
We may disclose NPI to other GE companies, which are involved in diverse businesses ranging from financial services to consumer products. We may disclose NPI to other GE companies for purposes such as:
Fulfilling your requests; and
Offering you other products or services that may interest you.
Disclosures To Outside Companies
We may disclose NPI we collect to outside companies for marketing and related purposes. Outside companies are non-GE companies who may want to offer their products or services to you. These may include:
Banks, insurance, and other financial companies;
Retailers or direct marketers; and
Non-profit or social organizations.
If we have agreements with outside companies that restrict sharing your information, we will abide by those agreements.
Disclosures To Marketing Firms
We may disclose NPI we collect to companies with which we have marketing arrangements. These would include:
Companies that help us market our products and services; and
Other companies with which we have joint marketing arrangements to offer products or services.
Other Disclosures Permitted By Law
We may make further disclosures of NPI as permitted or required by law. For example, we may disclose NPI to law enforcement agencies.
Change In Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to change or add to our Privacy Notice at any time. We will always post our current Privacy Notice on our Web site.
Our Security Procedures
We maintain procedures and technology designed to prevent unauthorized access to NPI. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural protections in accordance with applicable standards to protect NPI. We restrict access to NPI to employees and others for lawful business purposes to assist in providing products or services to you. Employees who violate our Privacy Notice are subject to disciplinary action.
Online Privacy
In addition to the Privacy Notice outlined above, the following privacy principles apply when you visit us on the World Wide Web:
Online information and collection. You can visit us on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are and without revealing anything about yourself, including your e-mail address. Our Web servers collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet, such as âaol.com,â and the Web site you came from and visit next.
- We may measure the number of visits, average time spent, and other data about visitors to our Web site, in general. We may also use this data to monitor site performance and to make the site easier and more convenient to use. We may use this in the course of delivering an advertisement to you.
- We may summarize data about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and services and provide these statistics to third parties. However, when we provide this to others, it will not include any information that identifies an individual.
Cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data stored by your Internet browser on your computerâs hard drive. We use cookies to enhance your Web viewing experience and to measure Web site usage. With the help of cookies, we may present you with customized offerings or content that may be of interest to you. We may also use cookies to remember your user name so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit our site. You may be able to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being sent. Please note, however, that, by not accepting cookies, you may limit the functionality we can provide to you when you visit our site.
Links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the information collection practices of other Web sites when you link to them from our Web site. We cannot guarantee how those parties use cookies or whether they place on your computer cookies that may identify you personally. You should carefully review the privacy policy of each Web site you visit to understand how they collect, use, and disclose information.
Information from children. We do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not intentionally market our products or services to children.
E-mail communications. Occasionally, we may send you e-mail communications with information that may be useful to you, including information about our products and services or about offerings from other GE companies or third parties. With each such e-mail message, we will give you the option not to receive additional e-mail messages.
Encryption. We use encryption and authentication tools to protect information we gather on our Web site. E-mail communications outside of our Web site, however, may not be protected. If you are sending us an e-mail communication that includes highly confidential information, such as a credit card number, you may want to call us or send it by regular mail.
Access. In some cases, you may be able to update certain information that you provided to us. This may require you to use a unique user name and password (or âPINâ). Also, where the capability exists, you may request that we modify or delete information we have gathered during your visit to our Web site.
Visitors/Registered Users. As a visitor to our Web site, you may have access to certain features without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. We will not gather any information about you when you are using these features. We may require you to become a registered member in order to gain access to and use other features. Once you become a registered member, we may collect NPI when you use our Web site.
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The practices and policies contained in this Privacy Notice replace all previous notices or statements with respect to the same subject.
This Privacy Notice will not apply to your relationships with companies that are not part of GE. Their privacy policies will govern how they collect, use and disclose NPI that you allow them to access.
This Privacy Notice applies only to the information collection practices of Shop4®.com. This Privacy Notice will not govern NPI obtained by other GE companies. You should review the privacy policies of those specific GE companies to understand how they collect, use and disclose NPI.
Updated June 1, 2004
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