Information We Gather
Our main purpose in gathering personal information is to supply you with a smooth, secure, customized and effective shopping experience. This allows us to provide features and services that can meet your demands to the most extent. And in order to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier, we only collect personal information about you that we believe necessary for fulfilling this goal.
In one word, you can scan the Site without informing us who you are or disclosing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you will no longer be anonymous to us. If you decide on our services, we may need you to offer contact and identity information, billing information, shipping information and other personal information as presented on the forms throughout the Site. Where likely, we will indicate which fields are required and which ones are optional. You have the option of not providing information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature all the time; but most sales transactions will not be completed without revealing personal information.
Under some circumstances we may need some extra financial information, for instance, but not limited to: if you are registering using an email account at a free email service, or registering to become an affiliate on the Site. We use your financial information, which include credit card information to verify the accuracy of your name, address, and other information, and to bill you for your usage of our services.
We automatically record your IP address when ordering items in our shopping cart.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" in the course of the purchasing. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that help us in providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available via the use of a "cookie". We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Most cookies are "session cookies," which means that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to refuse our cookies if your browser allows, although in that case you may not be able to finish your sales transaction on the Site and you may be required to input your password more frequently during a session.
We do not use cookies by third parties for marketing purposes or to track user's online activity.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as letters or emails, we may collect such information in a file that is specific to you.
Our Use of Your Information:
We use your personal information to assist the services you require. We use your personal information in the file we retain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: solve disputes; troubleshoot problems; customize your experience; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, items, services, and updates; enforce our User Agreement; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
You agree that we may use personal information about you to better our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and items offerings, and customize the Site's content, design, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your demands, so as to provide you with a secure, smooth, effective and customized experience while using our Site.
You agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as administrative notices, targeted banner advertisements, merchandise offerings, and communications related to your use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you clearly agree to receive this information. If you do not want to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications on the notification preferences page. You may change your notification preferences at any time.
Our Disclosure of Your Information:
As a matter of policy, we will not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes. We will not reveal any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and bank account number, are not disclosed to third parties in a personally identifiable manner.
Legal Requests
www.newsoakley.net will work together with law enforcement inquiries, in addition to other third parties to enforce laws, such as credit card fraud and other rights. Consequently, in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize us to) reveal your name, state, city, email address, telephone number, UserID history, fraud complaints, and purchasing history without a subpoena. Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy, we will not otherwise reveal your personal information to law enforcement or other government officials without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to: prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss; or report suspected illegal activity. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, city, state, zip code, country, street address, phone number, email, and company name.
Because of the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to reveal personal information to the government or third parties under some certain situations, and third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. For this reason, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.
Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password, including fees charged to your credit card. So we do not recommend you reveal your password to any third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your personal information with third parties, you are responsible for all actions taken with your account and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should change your password as soon as possible.
Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you reveal your information to other parties, such as manufacturers' sites throughout the Internet or sites that links from www.newsoakley.net, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Since www.newsoakley.net does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We recommend you to ask questions before you reveal your personal information to others.
Security
Your information is stored on www.newsoakley.net servers located in the United States. We use procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against theft or loss and unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption, "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We adopt many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. Nevertheless, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
Attention
We may mend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amend terms on the Site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are primarily posted on the Site. Additionally, we will inform you according to your Notification Preferences.
