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| Tommy Tape has created this privacy statement in
order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your privacy. As a
responsible participant on the Internet, Tommy Tape gladly complies with
generally accepted privacy principles. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for www.TommyTape.com.
Because Tommy Tape wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, we have agreed to disclose our information practices and have our privacy practices. The bookmarks below can be used to expedite your search for our position on a number of privacy issues:
We suggest that you practice reasonable discretion when you provide any site with personal information. Note also that whenever you post personal information in publicly accessible places, such as chat rooms or message boards, this information becomes available to anyone with access to the Internet. Therefore, we recommend that you refrain from posting any information you do not want seen in these public areas. You should feel free to contact any site that requests personal information from you if you have any questions regarding its policies. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this Web site, contact Tommy Tape's Privacy Advocate. What information does Tommy Tape collect? At different times, Tommy Tape may collect five types of information about you. First, we use a feature of your browser called a cookie to assign identification to your computer. The unique user ID contained within your cookie automatically identifies your computer – but not you – to our servers every time you visit our site. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user but may be correlated with identity information in our log files. You can turn the cookies feature off by using your browser's preference options, but you may not be able to utilize some services properly. Second, we keep track of your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information about you, such as your location and your Internet service provider. Tommy Tape may also collect aggregate information on how our users are utilizing the site. This might include information regarding traffic patterns through the site and search queries. Third, we log browser types, access times, URLs from which visitors came to our site and URLs viewed by visitors while on our site. Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy, we do not provide this information to third parties, except in aggregate form. Fourth, we may collect credit card information if you purchase our products on our site. We make our best efforts to protect credit card transactions through encryption, although we cannot guarantee complete security. In order to complete a transaction, payment information may be transferred through one of our partners such as Mercantec or Paymentech who process such information. What organization is collecting the information? Tommy Tape alone collects the requested information. However, Tommy Tape has chosen select partners in order to provide you with access to other carefully selected products and services. Tommy Tape's partners provide users with services such as modular home solutions and classified ads. In order to use these areas, it may be necessary to enter information that then goes to our partner and is not kept by Tommy Tape. The areas of our sites in which partners are collecting information may be cobranded with our partners' logos. If you have any questions regarding who is collecting or receiving the information you provide on our sites, please contact us. Some of the sections in which we use content partners include, but are not limited to, the following:
If you have questions regarding the privacy policy or data-collection practices of one of our content partners, please contact that partner directly. Some of our content partners, as well as advertisers who display ads on our site, may use cookies. We do not control their use of cookies or have access to the information contained in or related to those cookies. What does Tommy Tape do with the data it collects? Whenever Tommy Tape collects data, the data is intended to tailor or improve the experience of visitors to our site. From the data collected we can customize content and advertising based on the user's preferences. We analyze what our users prefer in order to improve Tommy Tape. We use information from a cookie (a feature of your browser used to assign identification to your computer to count and track site visits in the aggregate, to personalize the site for each unique user, to control the frequency of individual advertisements directed to individual computers, and to target advertisements to broad demographic segments. For example, if an advertiser wants to target males between the ages of 25 and 40, we will limit ad presentation to this group. We also use information about your interests to display banner advertisements. Some broad statistical customer data is provided to our advertisers (e.g., percentage of males or females visiting the site, but specific personal information is not shared with our advertisers, except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web sites. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or property of Tommy Tape or others. On occasion we will email bulletins to provide you with information that we think you will find useful, including information about new products and services. We might also contact you to see if you are interested in participating in market research regarding Tommy Tape. Many of our sites also send a monthly or bimonthly newsletter by email to their users. It is our policy to send these promotional emails only to customers who give us permission to do so. In every such email, we will also have instructions on how to unsubscribe and avoid receiving any future emails from us. Please see our Opt Out Policy section below. Tommy Tape also may contact you by email to respond to customer-service complaints you have submitted, to address a problem affecting your use of the service or to verify your account information if you submit a password request. Users who have submitted a site suggestion may receive separate promotional information on occasion, by email or telephone call. With whom does Tommy Tape share data? Tommy Tape may disclose your personal information to our business partners in order to provide you with the services you have requested, or to companies that offer a cobranded version of one of our sites. If you have questions regarding the privacy policy or data-collection practices of one of our content partners, please contact that partner directly. Tommy Tape does not have control over and is not responsible for the data collection and use practices of our business partners. We also may disclose your personal information to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, to protect the rights or property of Tommy Tape or others, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy. We may share aggregate demographic information with our advertisers. Many of the services available on our site provide you with the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners. In addition, in the majority of our email communications, we will have instructions on how to unsubscribe so that you will not receive any future emails from us if you so choose. As previously noted, you may always choose to not provide us with any of the information we request; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or limit our ability to offer personalized content. For example, Tommy Tape's email registration form requests your contact information (such as an alternate email address, demographic information (such as your age and gender as well as information regarding your interests. How can you update or correct your information? Tommy Tape does not currently have a method for users to change their user information. In the case of personalized services, you will be able to modify your user information through personalization links on those pages. How can you delete your information or deactivate your membership? Tommy Tape currently does not have a method for completely deleting user information from our database. However, deleting the cookie stored on your computer will cause you to be perceived as a new user with no known user data. You may also change a setting in your browser, instructing it not to accept cookies, but this could prevent you from receiving some Tommy Tape services. Some information is automatically deleted from our site after a certain period of time. For example, your purchase activity within our on-line store is deleted every 24 hours after transaction settlement. Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy, Tommy Tape has taken measures to ensure that information that is not publicly available through its sites is accessible only to the user who initially entered the information or to authorized personnel at Tommy Tape or its partners, and only after a password has been entered. What about privacy policies for sites linked to Tommy Tape? Tommy Tape contains links to other sites not affiliated with Tommy Tape. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy, and Tommy Tape cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these unaffiliated Web sites. In addition, in certain instances a Tommy Tape advertiser may ask you for personal information. Tommy Tape cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of its advertisers. Notification of Changes This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the Web site. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check this site for information about revisions to our privacy policy. Contact Information If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about Tommy Tape's information-collection practices, please contact us at privacy@tommytape.com . |
