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Privacy Policy
iBcart respects your privacy and want you to be confident in sharing your
information with us. We've written the following statement to disclose any of
the information we gather while you are using our site. We do not share any identifiable
information with any third party at any point in your relationship with us as
a valuable customer without your permission. We collect certain technical information
to insure that our site is working properly. For example, when you are browsing,
we use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to help
administer our Web site.
iBcart does not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about
you from your computer.
Our site contains links to other Web sites. iBcart
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
PLEASE
READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES. BY ACCESSING
OR USING OUR WEBSITE OR OUR SERVICES (OTHER THAN TO READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR
THE FIRST TIME), YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
1. Introduction
Maintaining your privacy is one of our highest priorities. Accordingly, we
have created this privacy policy (“Policy”) to explain our practices
for the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as it relates to your
use of our website and services (the “website”).
2. Information We Collect
We collect two types of information from users
through our website: personally identifiable information (“PII”) and
non-personally identifiable information (“non-PII”).
PII identifies you
individually. We may collect PII such as: (a) your contact information (e.g.,
your name, email address, physical address, or phone number) that you may provide
to us in filling out forms or when you enter into a contest or promotion on our
website; or (b) photographs or other information about yourself that you may upload
or post to our website through comments or otherwise, including information on
your gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religious views, age, occupation,
or other similar information.
Non-PII does not identify you as an individual.
We may collect non-PII such as: (a) certain non-personal data when you visit our
website, such as the type of operating system or browser you are using, the URL
of sites from which you arrive or leave our website and how you interact with
our website, your internet service provider, your mobile carrier; or (b) user
information in a non-personal, aggregate format for statistical and research purposes.
3. Your Consent
We will collect, use, or disclose your PII only with
your knowledge and consent, except where required or permitted by applicable laws,
regulations, ordinances, or as compelled by a court of law or other government
body of competent authority. When you choose to provide us with your PII you consent
to the use of your personal information as identified in this Policy (i.e., in
connection with your use of our website and services) and as may be further identified
at the time of collection. You may notify us at any time that you wish to withdraw
or change your consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information.
We will accommodate your request subject to any legal and contractual restrictions.
4.
How We Collect Your Information
We may use a variety of methods to collect
information from you, as described in this section below.
4.1. Our Website
When
you use our website, it collects the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer,
the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access
our website, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly
to our website, the operating system you are using, the internet browser you are
using, the sections of the website you visit, the website pages read and images
viewed, and the content you download from the website. This information is used
for website and system administration purposes and to improve our website.
4.2 Cookies and
Web Beacons
We and the third parties we authorize may receive and store
certain types of non-PII whenever you interact with us by using "cookies,"
“web beacons” and analogous technology. "Cookies" are small
files that are placed on your computer or your internet browser memory to enable
the owner of the cookie to recognize your browser and to provide convenience and
other features to you. It is important to note that the cookies that we use, or
permit others to use, do not contain and are not tied to PII about you.
You
may be able to direct your internet browser not to allow cookies and you can typically
delete existing cookies from your computer at any time. Please note, however,
if you set such browser settings or delete existing cookies then some elements
of our website may not function properly or be available to you.
4.3 Preference
Based Advertising
We also work with and permit certain third parties,
including, but not limited to advertising networks and website analysis firms,
to place cookies on your computer or browser when you visit our website and/or
when you view, click or otherwise interact with advertisements that are featured
on our website. These third party cookies and analogous technology are used to
gather non-PII about your activities on our website and third party sites you
may visit to serve you with advertisements that are relevant to your interests
and preferences while you are on third party sites. Some of these third parties
participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”), an industry
self-regulatory program to give consumers a better understanding of and greater
control over ads that are customized based on their online behavior across different
web sites. To learn more and make choices about preference-based ads from participating
third parties, please visit the DAA website at www.aboutads.info.
4.4
Third Party Sites and Links
Our website may contain links to other websites
or Internet resources which are provided solely for your convenience and information.
When you click on one of those links you are contacting another website or Internet
resource. We have no responsibility or liability for, or control over, those other
websites or Internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your
personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those other
websites to learn how they collect and use your personal information.
5. Disclosure or
Sharing of Information
We may disclose PII and Non-PII to:
our third
party service providers who perform functions on our behalf in connection with
the operation of the website, e.g., providers who host and manage data, process
credit card orders, deliver our merchandise, etc.;
participating sponsors
to a
program or promotion you enter through our website; our parent company,
subsidiaries or other affiliated companies ("affiliated companies")
for operational, marketing and promotional purposes;
promotional partners
and others with whom we have marketing or other relationships; and
our other
users where you choose to publicly post reviews, comments or other information
relating to products or services, communicate with other users via public forums
(e.g., forums, message boards, bulletin boards, etc.).
In addition, we
use non-PII to help analyze site traffic, understand customer needs and trends,
and carry out targeted promotional activities (see "Preference Based Advertising"
above). We may use your non-PII by itself or aggregate it with information we
have obtained from others to produce research reports and other information and
data about online shopping for participating merchants and other customers, as
well as media and other interested parties.
6. Securing Your Personal
Information
We maintain appropriate and commercially reasonable administrative,
technical, personnel and physical measures in order to protect your personal information.
Unfortunately, however, since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. We
cannot guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or
destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
By accessing the website you acknowledge and accept this risk.
7. Accessing
and Updating Your Personal Information
If your personal information changes
in any way or you realize the information you provided to us contains errors or
is incomplete, we invite you to supplement, correct or update your information
as soon as possible. You can request changes or access to your information by
emailing contact@ibcart.com.
8. Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update or change this Policy
from time to time, with or without any advance notice. The date of the last change
or update to this Policy shall be noted at the end of this Policy, and any changes
made will be effective upon posting of the revised version. If there are material
changes in the way we handle your PII, or to the Policy itself, including changes
to the Preference Based Advertising practices set forth above, we will notify
you using more direct means, at our discretion - either through displaying a notice
on our website or by sending you an email, so that you may review the changed
terms prior to continuing to use our website. We encourage you to check this Policy
whenever you use our website and services to understand how your personal information
is used.
9. Acceptance Your
use of our website, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this
Policy as well as to our Terms of Use and Terms of Service for the website. BY
USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Please be aware that as we may update this Policy from time to time, and your
continued use of any portion of our website following an updated posting of this
Policy will constitute your acceptance of any changes made to it.
10.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy,
please contact us at contact@ibcart.com.
This privacy policy was last
revised and updated as of 02/22/2013. |
