BuckeyeVac.com: Privacy Policy
Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner Supply Company understands the power the Internet holds for changing your life and making things easier for you. We also recognize that you care about how we use the information we gather from you in bringing you our products and services. BuckeyeVac.com is committed to ensuring and earning the trust and confidence of our users. Frankly, we understand that building a relationship of trust with our customers makes good business sense. BuckeyeVac.com only collects company & personally identifiable information from individual users with permission from such users. This statement discloses our information practices and your choices.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
US Residents
BuckeyeVac.com products and services are offered through web pages with URL's (for example, www.______.com) ending in BuckeyeVac.com. In addition, third parties that have business relationships with Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner Supply, Northwest Wholesale Distributors, and/or Dustcare also offer their products and services through web pages with URL's ending in BuckeyeVac.com. These pages are not served by Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner Supply (nor its Subsidiaries), but instead by these third parties. Therefore, this privacy policy applies to web pages ending in BuckeyeVac.com that contain a link to this privacy policy at the bottom of the page.
In addition, the BuckeyeVac.com site contains links to other sites and sometimes allows other sites to be co-branded with the Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner Supply, Northwest Wholesale Distributors, and /or the Dustcare logo. The inclusion of the Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner Supply, Northwest Wholesale Distributors, and/or the Dustcare name at the top of a web page does not necessarily mean that this privacy policy applies. While we try our best to ensure that the privacy policies at these other sites are in line with our own, Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner Supply Company, Incorporated (and its Subsidiaries) cannot represent or guarantee that they are. If you ever have any questions about whether certain information, content or services pertain to us, or are "powered by" a third party, please contact us.
International Considerations
BuckeyeVac.com was designed, built, and launched for the exclusive use of web visitors from the United States. This privacy policy is intended for such users.
What Information Is Collected From You By BuckeyeVac.com and How Is It Used?
Two types of information are collected by BuckeyeVac.com and are defined as:
Anonymous Information is information that ordinarily cannot be traced back to a particular person. Anonymous information is data about how you use our site (such as the pages you view and the search terms you query). For example, at BuckeyeVac.com we know how many people visit this privacy policy Details page each day, but we don't necessarily know the names or any other specific information about those visitors. Anonymous information also includes the domain names and/or IP addresses of Internet browsers that visit our site, the time of day the site was visited, and other non-personal information.
Personally Identifiable Information is information, like your company’s name, mailing address, email address or telephone number; that can be used to uniquely identify you. Anonymous information, such as web pages viewed and search terms queried, becomes personally identifiable information when it is associated with personally identifiable information such that it can be traced back to a particular individual.
What type of anonymous information does BuckeyeVac.com collect and how is it used?
BuckeyeVac.com collects anonymous information when people use our site. When you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits information to BuckeyeVac.com’s web server logs. Examples of this information include the URL of the web page you were on before coming to BuckeyeVac.com, the Internet Protocol (or IP) address (as explained below) of the computer you are using and the web pages you view.
We use this information to personalize your experience on our site, to show you more relevant advertising messages, and to improve our services in general.
IP Addresses
An Internet Protocol (IP) Address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your Internet service provider or through your company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers, the powerful computers that provide web pages for viewing, automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online.
We collect IP addresses for some purposes (for example, to report anonymous user information to our advertisers and to audit the use of our site). We do not link a user's IP address to a person's personal information, which means we will have a record of each user's session but the user remains anonymous to us.
PLEASE NOTE: We will use IP addresses to identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site's Terms of Use or to protect our service, site or other users from fraudulent behavior. Furthermore, under certain circumstances to comply with court orders and subpoenas, IP address and/or domain names may be linked to personally identifiable information, when said information is stored in databases managed by Internet registrars or registries such as Network Solutions or ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers).
Cookies
A "cookie" is a very small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. It assigns a computer a unique identifier. It is essentially your identification card when you return to a web site. Cookies do not damage your computer.
Currently, BuckeyeVac.com requires your computer to accept cookies in order to use some portions of our site. Cookies are required to allow registered users to log in to the site. Cookies may also be used to assist BuckeyeVac.com in obtaining statistics about site usage and performance. In no case will cookies contain personally identifiable information.
What type of personally (company) identifiable information does BuckeyeVac.com collect?
In order to use our services, we do not require that you provide us with any personally identifiable information other than that which we already have on file for you as an existing customer.
From time to time, we may conduct surveys about your opinions regarding our site but will not request personal information and all data collected from these surveys will be analyzed in the aggregate. We may seek your consent to participate in promotions conducted on the site. For each such request, we may request that you provide personal information and with each promotion we will state how the information will be used.
What Information Do Third Parties Collect Through BuckeyeVac.com?
At present, there are NO third parties collecting anonymous information through BuckeyeVac.com.
If you have any questions about whether BuckeyeVac.com or a third party is collecting information, please contact us, immediately.
With Whom Is Collected Information Shared?
BuckeyeVac.com DOES NOT share your collected information.
Buckeye Vacuum Cleaner & Northwest Wholesale does not collect any information in relation to third-party sites and therefore, no third-party sites are covered by this privacy policy. If you feel that a site using the BuckeyeVac.com brand and/or logo does not follow acceptable privacy practices, please contact BuckeyeVac.com. Be sure to check the URL that you link to from BuckeyeVac.com web pages to determine whether this privacy policy applies. If you ever have any questions about whether certain information, content or services pertain to us, or are "powered by" these third parties, again please contact us.
Subpoenas and Court Orders
If a governmental agency requests information in the form of a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, BuckeyeVac.com will disclose only the information it has collected from its users.
What Security Measures Are in Place to Protect Against the Loss, Misuse or Alteration of Your Information?
We operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.
Only certain employees have access to the information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on our employees who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the server that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
How Will You Be Notified If BuckeyeVac.com Changes this privacy policy?
BuckeyeVac.com may update this privacy policy from time to time. If we are going to use personally (company) identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our databases, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change.
Policy updated and effective date: June 10, 2008.