Privacy Policy. Sharpsales.com is committed to
protecting your online privacy while you use the services provided
on our website. We urge you to read this privacy policy in its entirety
so that you will understand all of the practices and procedures that
we use relating to your online privacy.
What this Privacy Policy Covers. In this privacy policy, Sharpsales.com
will inform you about the type of information that is collected about
you on this website, how the information is collected, how the information
is expected to be used and to whom it is expected to be given. This
privacy policy will also tell you how to limit our use of your personal
information.
Contact our Website. This website
is the responsibility of Sharpsales.com Products Company. You can
contact us by e-mail at pjones@sharpsales.com or
by regular mail at:
Sharpsales.com, div. Hy-Ko Products Company
60 Meadow Lane,
Northfield, OH 44067
Attention: Patty Jones.
What Kind of Personal Information Sharpsales.com
Collects. While we don't ask for any registration or personal
information to browse our site, some information about your server
address, Web browser, and computer system are automatically transmitted
to our Web servers so that we can operate our site on the Internet.
If you choose to register with us to sell a product, we will collect
nonpublic personal information from you from (a) applications or
forms that you fill out; and (b) transactions with us or our affiliates
(including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number,
and other similar information). In order to facilitate our Sharpsales.com
service and assist you in finding the right match, you will sometimes
be asked to provide us with certain personal preferences in addition
to your personal contact information The information which you may
be asked to provide may include, without limitation (a) contact information
(i.e., name, address, telephone number, and electronic mail address),
(b) information regarding the home/apartment sought to be rented
(i.e., physical description), and (c) information regarding preferences
for subsequent rentals (i.e., age range, physical and mechanical
attributes, number of bedrooms, and number of bathrooms). Further,
as part of our site operation, we reserve the right to automatically
collect and track:
- The home server domain names, e-mail addresses,
type of computer, and type of Web browser you are using while
you visit our website.
- Information on what pages of our website you
access.
How We Use Your Personal
Information. Sharpsales.com stores its customer information in a secure
database to fulfill your requests for our services and to contact
you about new products and services. We restrict access to nonpublic
personal information about you to those Sharpsales.com employees
who need to know that information to provide products or services
to you. If we are required to do so under applicable federal regulations,
we will maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal
information.
Sharpsales.com may disclose all of the nonpublic personal information
that we collect, as hereinafter set forth. Sharpsales.com may share
your personally identifiable information, whether public or non-public,
with other companies as follows:
- We may sell or otherwise provide such information to financial
service providers such as realtors in your area which have contracted
with Sharpsales.com to receive such information so that they
may contact you as a prospective lead for a home rental, and these
realtors may in turn sell or otherwise transfer your personal information
to their affiliates or non-affiliated third parties;
- We may provide your information to other non-financial companies
such as retailers and direct marketers that assist us in providing
products and services
- We may provide your information to any party if we are required
to do so under applicable law, by court order or other legal
process to provide; We may provide your information to third parties
if we find that your actions on our website violate our Terms of
Use, which you agree to by using our website.
- We may sell or otherwise transfer such information to a successor
of Sharpsales.com or any subsidiary or division of Sharpsales.com
in connection with an asset sale, merger, consolidation, divestiture,
stock sale or other corporate transaction, or by way of assignment
(whether by operation of law or otherwise) in connection with
any such or similar transaction or in connection with the administration
of a bankruptcy estate.
Security. The importance of security for all
nonpublic personally identifiable information associated with our
users is of great concern to us. Except as otherwise provided herein,
only those employees who need access to our users' information
to provide products or services are allowed access, as described
above.
Cookies. A "cookie" is a persistent client side hypertext
transfer protocol file. Cookies are pieces of information that a
website can transfer to a visitor's hard drive for record-keeping
purposes. Cookies help Web surfing by saving visitor preferences
and other information. The use of cookies is a widespread industry
standard and thus many major websites use cookies. We reserve the
right to use cookies in connection with the Sharpsales.com website.
Most Web browsers are initially configured to accept and process
cookies. You can configure your browser to refuse cookies.
More extensive information concerning cookies is available on the
World Wide Web by searching for the word "cookies". If
you have any questions concerning our use of cookies, please contact
us at pjones@sharpsales.com.
Requesting to See Your Personal
Information. You may request, via e-mail or regular mail that
we provide you with the personal information we have collected from
you. Once you receive this information, we will modify or delete
from our systems any or all of your personal information as soon
as practicable after our receipt of a written request from you
stating in reasonable detail the modification and/or deletion
requested; provided, that, we reserve the right to verify your identity
before sending you this information.
Steps Taken to Protect the Privacy
of Your Personal Information. Our website may contain links to
other Internet websites. We encourage our partners, contributors
and other third parties to implement policies and practices that
respect your privacy. Our contracts with third party realtors to
which we sell or otherwise transfer your personal information require
such realtors to comply with applicable federal, state, local and
foreign laws, rules and regulations regarding privacy of personally
identifiable information, including, without limitation, the federal
Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (the "Privacy
Act") and the rules and regulations promulgated there under.
Additionally, our contracts with such realtors require that, as a
condition precedent to the transmission of any of your personal information
by such realtors to any other person, firm or entity (a "Recipient"),
that the Recipient agree, in writing, and that the disclosing realtor
shall cause any such Recipient to agree in writing, to comply with
all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and
regulations regarding the privacy of personally identifiable information
including, without limitation, the Privacy Act , and that the disclosing
realtor deliver to Sharpsales.com upon request fully executed copies
of all such writings. Finally, our contracts with third party realtors
require that such realtors agree that in the event that you notify
Sharpsales.com that you elect to opt-out of permitting Sharpsales.com
to transmit personally identifiable information to any party, then
immediately upon receipt of written notice from Sharpsales.com, such
realtors
(A) shall cease using your personal information in its possession
or control for
any purpose;
(B) shall cause each and every Recipient to cease using your personal
information for any purpose; and
(C) shall deliver to Sharpsales.com or destroy all of your personal
information
and other personally identifiable information with respect to you in its
possession or control, and shall cause each and every Recipient to do so.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, or anything contained in this Privacy
Policy to the contrary, we cannot and do not guarantee that any party
to which we sell or otherwise transfer your personal information
will, in fact, comply with applicable law governing the privacy of
personally identifiable information or keep your personal information
secure, confidential, or free from unauthorized access. Additionally,
we are not responsible for other website's privacy practices or website
content. Occasionally, you may receive cookies from third party advertisers,
partners and vendors. We do not control these cookies. Changes to
this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this policy at
any time. We ask that you review this privacy policy from time to
time to ensure you are familiar with the most current version of
it.
Changes to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change
this policy at any time. We ask that you review this privacy policy
from time to time to ensure you are familiar with the most current
version of it.
Opting-Out. Sharpsales.com reserves the right to collect, use, sell
and otherwise transfer personal information from you unless you affirmatively
prohibit us from doing so by opting-out to our collection and use
of such information after reading this Privacy Policy. You may opt-out
of having your personal information collected, used, sold or otherwise
transferred by Sharpsales.com by contacting us by sending us e-mail
or regular mail instructing Sharpsales.com that you have elected
to opt-out of such collection and/or use. Please note that in order
to fulfill certain obligations, we may need to continue sending you
notices or other important information concerning any orders or services
you previously requested.
Date of last update: April 13, 2005 |