Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 01/01/2006
NeedThese is committed to protecting your privacy, just as you are committed to doing business with NeedThese; your trusted partner. The below policy will describe our general practices regarding the collection of personal information as well as account information collected through NeedThese.com. As described, personal and account information means your name, account number, company name, address(es), telephone numbers, email address(es) and other information that personally identifies you, including your business industry, employee count at your company, history of purchases, or permission to contact you. Occasionally NeedThese and its affiliates may refer to itself as “we”, “us” or “the company” throughout this policy.
NeedThese reserves the right to edit, modify, or change this privacy policy at any time; the effective date will be the most current privacy policy. Should you have questions in reference to this privacy policy, then it is advised that you review this policy occasionally for any changes.
Shared information limitations
The following section will describe what is collected when you utilize our website certain manners:
Purchase from our website: We collect your name, address, payment information as well as information that has already been provided by you the customer to process your order. This does not limit your ability to provide credit card and purchase order numbers via the telephone. Cookies are also a method of collecting information, such as log in data and purchases. Your browser must be set to accept cookies if you wish to add items to our shopping cart.
Creation of an online account: We obtain your user name, email address, password, secret question and the answer to your secret question; this is done to better protect your online account. The utilization of your secret question and answer will be used to identify you are the proper person authorized to access an account if you have forgotten your password. Please ensure account protection by ensuring that your user name and password are kept confidential.
Subscription to email updates: Though it is optional, you must create an online account if you wish to receive email updates on a regular basis. This is done to ensure that the proper account is matched with the proper subscriber. This does not preclude other types of emails from being sent to you, as you may have agreed to receive other emails in another format from our company.
Website Communication: In order to answer your questions or provide you with additional information then we must collect your email address.
Emailing product information utilizing NeedThese.com: Along with the collection of your email address we will also collect the email address of the person receiving the email.
Contests, surveys, registering for other activities: Collection of your name, address, telephone number, email and other information that allows you to participate in the registration or entry for participation, which may vary.
How Personal information is used
Will my personal and account information be provided to any other party?
A. NeedThese will attempt to restrict access to your personal and account information to those who need access to use it as set forth in the privacy policy. Authorized personnel are allowed access to your password for account maintenance purposes. The other information contained within your account may be disclosed to third parties in limited circumstances. Examples of limited circumstances may be sharing your personal or account information with our strategic suppliers, service providers, suppliers, and other entities or personnel involved in the transaction(s) in which you initiated. We also may be obligated or may disclose any of your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, other legal processes, as required by law, or to exercise or establish our legal rights or in defense against legal claims. Should the company be acquired, sole or merged with other entities then your information may also be disclosed to relevant parties.
Is my personal information or my account information used for other purposes?
A. As a necessity per transaction, we will utilize your information to provide products and services you have requested. We will also utilize your information to respond to your requested communication, contact you, and as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We may also analyze and act upon your account information not to exclude your personal information as part of our daily business practices. On occasion we purchase or create lists that may have information such as company size, employee count, and annual revenue of companies. Combined with your account and personal information we may customize offerings to you and use the information internally.
On occasion we may send you promotional, product or other non-specific information. If you do not wish to receive promotional, product or other non-specified information then you may opt out of future communications by following the instructions in the particular email you are receiving or by contacting your account executive.
Should you decide to become a valued customer of ours then we may send you updates on important information about our company, news and services.
Additionally, in order to measure how we are doing and to better understand how we can improve as a valued partner of yours, we or one of our service providers, strategic partners or a third party survey company may contact you via telephone or email and solicit participation in research.
How is my personal and account information protected?
A. NeedThese.com utilizes 128-bit encryption technology, in addition to Secure Socket Layers (SSL) in all sensitive areas were personal and account information in transferred, viewed or extracted. NeedThese.com is a certified VeriSign company, which verifies that our website is authentic and secure via SSL security. In order to view our security click on the yellow lock or solid key at the bottom of your browser window, this will display our account information. Your information and history of transactions is also secured with hardware and behind firewalls on varying servers. All transactions are processed through encrypted channels, although by choice you may send information through the unencrypted process.
How do I provide feedback or contact NeedThese?
A. You may contact or provide feedback by clicking on the Contact Page. The information you provide may be used by our company for varying purposes including promotional purposes.
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