PRIVACY STATEMENT
Circuits West, Inc. 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 CircuitsWest.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does CircuitsWest.com Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at CircuitWest.com. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information
You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter
on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose
not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able
to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information
that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests,
profiling your company, improving our processes, and communicating
with you.
- Automatic
Information: We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites,
we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information
when your Web browser accesses CircuitsWest.com. Although we will
not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at CircuitsWest.com
if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools
exist.
- E-mail Communications:
To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive
a confirmation when you open e-mail from CircuitsWest.com if your
computer supports such capabilities. If you do not want to receive
e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Account
Profile.
- Information
from Other Sources: For reasons such as improving personalization
of our service (for example, providing better product recommendations
or special offers that we think will interest you), we might receive
information about you from other sources and add it to our account
information. We also sometimes receive updated delivery and address
information from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct
our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more
easily.
What
About Cookies?
- Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize
your browser and to provide features such as our exclusive Qwik-Quote
online purchasing, and storage of all transactions between orders.
- The "help"
portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent
your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser
notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of
some of CircuitsWest.com's coolest features, and we recommend that
you leave them turned on.
Does
CircuitsWest.com Share the Information It Receives?
Information
about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are
not in the business of selling it to others.
- Agents:
We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on
our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages,
sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information
from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance,
processing credit card payments, and providing customer service.
They have access to personal information needed to perform their
functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional
Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of CircuitsWest.com
customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do
not give that business your name and address. If you do not want
to receive such offers, please adjust your Account
Profile.
- Business
Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might
sell or buy stores or assets. In such transactions, customer information
generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the
unlikely event that Circuits West,Inc., or substantially all of
its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be
one of the transferred assets.
- Protection
of CircuitsWest.com and Others: We release account and other
personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply
with law; enforce or apply our Terms
and Conditions and other agreements; or protect the rights,
property, or safety of CircuitsWest.com, our users, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- With Your
Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice
when information about you might go to third parties, and you will
have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How
Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to
protect the security of your information during transmission by
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information
you input.
- We reveal only
the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming
an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to
the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
- It is important
for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password
and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a
shared computer.
What
Information Can I Access?
CircuitsWest.com
gives you access to the following information about you for the limited
purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.
This list will change as our Web site evolves.
Automatic
Information
Examples
of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol
(IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail
address; password; computer and connection information such as browser
type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history;
the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and
from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; quotes you
viewed or searched for and orders you have placed.
