privacy
We know that you care how your information is used, and we appreciate your trust that we will use it carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting crankbrothers.com, you are accepting the privacy policy described below.
1. What Personal Information Do We Collect?
- Information You Provide. We receive and store information you
enter. For example, when you search for or buy a product or service,
or when you supply information such as your address, phone number or
credit card. You can choose not to provide certain information, but
then you might not be able to take advantage of some of our features.
We use the information that you provide for such purposes as
responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you,
improving our website, and communicating with you. crankbrothers will
not share this information with any outside source.
- Cookies. Like many websites, we use "cookies". Cookies are
small programs that we transfer to your hard drive that allow us to
recognize you and to provide you with a customized shopping
experience. If you do not want us to use cookies, you can easily
disable them by going to the toolbar of your web browser, and
clicking on the "help" button. Follow the instructions that will
prevent the browser from accepting cookies, or set the browser to
inform you when you receive a new cookie. In addition, you may visit
this and other websites anonymously through the use of utilities
provided by other private companies.
- Other Information: Every computer has an IP (Internet
Protocol) address. IP addresses of computers used to visit this site
are noted. In addition, we automatically collect other information
such as email addresses, browser types, operating systems, and the
URL addresses of sites clicked to and from this site.
2. How Do We Use Your Information?
- Agents. We employ other companies and individuals to perform
functions on our behalf. Examples include delivering packages,
sending postal mail and e-mail, and processing credit card payments.
They have access to personal information needed to perform their
functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Special Offers. We may send you special offers from time to
time, unless you choose to "opt-out" of receiving such offers. If we
send you an offer, you are able at anytime remove yourself from our
database and you will stop receiving offers from crankbrothers. If
you chose never to receive an offer from crankbrothers, simply email
info@crankbrothers.com
with the subject line "attn marketing: opt-out"
- Business Transfers. As we continue to develop our business, we
might sell or buy stores or assets. In such transactions, customer
information generally is one of the transferred business assets.
Also, in the unlikely event that we are acquired, customer
information will be one of the transferred assets.
- Law Enforcement. If we receive a lawful court order to release
account or other personal information then we will comply with the
law. We will also release information when necessary to protect the
life, safety or property of others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
3. How Do We Protect the Security of Your Information?
- We work to protect the security of your information during
transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which
encrypts information you input.
- We use encryption to protect your information contained in our
customer list.
- We use a firewall to protect against unlawful intrusion.
- We limit access to your information on a "need to know" basis.
- We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card
numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire
credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during
order processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access
to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when
finished using a shared computer.
- No system can guarantee absolute security, just as the finest
lock can not guarantee physical security. However, we take every
reasonable precaution to assure that your data is secure.
4. Other Websites
Various Web sites may be linked to from this site. If you link to
another site, your privacy depends on the policy of that site. We
strongly urge you to check their privacy policy. Not all sites
guarantee that they will not share your personally identifiable
information with others. You may also wish to consult privacy
guidelines such as those recommended by the Online Privacy Alliance
(www.privacyalliance.org).
5. Contact
If you would like to learn more about our privacy policy, or to
access your personally identifiable information contained on our
website, you may contact us at info@crankbrothers.com. You will be
required to provide identifier information to assure that this
information is not released to others. We reserve the right to modify
this policy in the future. If we do so, notice will be posted on our home page.
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