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Privacy and Security
Last updated: December 01, 2008
Welcome to www.blindswallpaperandmore.ca,
a website that is produced by American Blind and Wallpaper
Factory, its subsidiaries, affiliates and their successors
and assigns (collectively, "American Blind and Wallpaper Factory").
The full text of American Blind and Wallpaper Factory's
Privacy and Security Policy is stated below. It applies
to the collection, use and disclosure by American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
of information about identifiable individuals ("Personal
Information") collected through American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
websites such as www.blindswallpaperandmore.ca. American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy.
If you believe that American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
has not adhered to this Policy, would like access or
to request an amendment to your Personal Information
being held by American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, please
contact American Blind and Wallpaper Factory's Privacy Officer
by telephone, e-mail,
or postal mail.
You may contact us by mail at the following address:
American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
Attention: Privacy Officer
31557 Schoolcraft Rd.
Livonia, MI 48150-1847
USA
You may contact us by e-mail by clicking
here.
You may call us at 1- 800-973-0428
Additional Information
This policy is valid until 31 January 2011 at 12:00:00
EST
Dispute Resolution
Privacy/Security Dispute: If you have a question regarding
our privacy policy or wish to dispute a privacy related
issue, please contact our Customer Service department
at 1-800-973-0428.
Collection of Personal Information
P3P stands for "The Platform for Privacy Policies",
documentation which is maintained at the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C). Privacy policies, such as ours, that
comply with P3P policies declare the data that they collects
in groups (also referred to as "statements").
This Privacy and Security Policy applies to one data group.
The data practices of this group are explained below.
Group: American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
We collect the following types of information, which
include Personal Information:
- Click-stream data
- HTTP cookies
- Search terms
- Transaction history
- User's Name
- Home mailing address
- Home e-mail address
- Unique identifiers
- Computer information
- Interactive data
- Credit card information
At the user's option, we may also collect the following
Personal Information:
- Name Prefix
- User's Birth Date
- Home telephone numbers
- Home fax number
When providing Personal Information to American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
or responding to a communication from American Blind and Wallpaper Factory,
look for a button, box, a question asking whether or
not you want to provide or share your Personal Information
or exercise an unsubscribe option. Additionally, you
may opt out of certain disclosures by visiting the registration
section of this site and following the instructions
set out there for opting out.
Use of Personal Information
The Personal Information we collect about you will be
used for the following purposes:
- Completion and support of transactions with you
- Web site and system administration
- Research and development relating to the site
- One-time tailoring of the site to you. The user
is allowed to opt-out of this usage
- Anonymous user analysis
- Anonymous user profiling and decision-making
- Contacting visitors for marketing of services or
products
The following explanation sets out some additional
uses that American Blind and Wallpaper Factory makes of
the optional Personal Information (described above)
that American Blind and Wallpaper Factory collects:
When you place an order or register on our site, we
require you to provide your name, e-mail address, mailing
address, phone number, and credit card information (when
ordering products only). We may also require you to
create a username and password. This allows us to keep
a user profile so that we may customize preferences
for each user, as well as provide a more efficient method
for users to submit information to blindswallpaperandmore.ca
when placing an order or a request for product information.
When you order a product and/or register, we also give
you the option of submitting personal information such
as your phone number, gender, date of birth, and/or
other information. This allows us to know you better
and possibly tailor any specific features, promotions,
or other notifications to you. When registering with
our site, you are also given a choice whether you would
like to be on our mailing list, or whether you would
prefer to opt-out and not receive such mailings. When
you enter a contest or other promotional feature at
our site, we may again ask for your name, address, username
and password so that we are able to better administer
the contest and notify winners.
The Personal Information we collect will be used by
our agents and ourselves.
Information Sharing
We utilize third-party companies to perform certain
functions for us. Examples include but are not limited
to order fulfillment, package delivery, the sending
of emails and direct mail, data analysis, marketing
optimization programs and credit card processing. These
third parties are given only the Personal Information
that they need to perform the function that they are
engaged in, and we will also require those companies,
through contractual means, to maintain the confidentiality
of your Personal Information and respect your privacy
by prohibiting them from using that Personal Information
for any purpose outside of that of providing the service
they were retained to provide, or from disclosing that
Personal Information, and requiring them to establish
appropriate safeguards for the protection of that Personal
Information.
We may access and/or disclose your Personal Information
to third parties if required or permitted to do so by
law. American Blind and Wallpaper Factory may access and/or
disclose your Personal Information under the following
circumstances: (i) to comply with a legal requirement
including but not limited to one imposed by a warrant,
subpoena, court order or like instrument served on American Blind and Wallpaper Factory;
(ii) where American Blind and Wallpaper Factory has reasonable
grounds to believe that such access or disclosure is
necessary to prevent or investigate any breach of an
agreement or contravention of a law; or (iii) in urgent
circumstances to protect the life, health or security
of any person. We may also disclose your Personal Information
if we have reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure
is necessary to prevent or investigate any breach of
an agreement or contravention of a law.
We do make our customer postal mailing list available
to other reputable organizations from time to time.
You may opt out of this process by going to the site's
our registration section
and following the instructions for opting out set out
there.
In the event of a merger or acquisition involving any
of the entities forming American Blind and Wallpaper
Factory who hold your Personal Information, your Personal
Information may be transferred to the successor entity
without notice to you.
Please note that Personal Information collected through
the site may be stored and processed in the United States,
Canada or any other country in which American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent
to any such transfer, storage and processing of your
Personal Information outside of your country.
Cookies
Cookies are a technology that can be used to provide
you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie
is an element of data that a Web site can send to your
browser, which may then store it on your system. You
can set your browser to notify you when you receive
a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to
accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for
the following purposes:
- Site administration
- Contacting users
- Completing the user's current activity
- User targeting
- Pseudonymous analysis
- Pseudonym-based decision-making
- Research and development
Please note that if you choose to decline cookies,
you may not be able to access or use some or all of
the content on the Site.
Security Practices
We have appropriate physical, electronic and procedural
security safeguards in place to protect and secure the
information we collect.
In addition, our web site uses Secure Sockets Layering
(SSL) to encrypt your personal credit information, including
your credit card number, before it travels over the
Internet. SSL is the industry standard for secure online
transactions. By using SSL, we make placing an order
online at our web site just as safe as giving your credit
card number over the phone
Safe Shopping Guarantee
We have implemented many measures intended to make
sure that every transaction you make at www.blindswallpaperandmore.ca
will be safe and secure. In the unlikely event that
unauthorized charges are made to your credit card as
a result of shopping at www.blindswallpaperandmore.ca, you
must notify your credit card provider in accordance
with its reporting rules and procedures. Additionally,
American Blind and Wallpaper Factory will cooperate with
your credit card provider to investigate and reverse
unauthorized charges.
Changes to this Policy
American Blind and Wallpaper Factory will occasionally
update or change this Privacy and Security Policy. When
American Blind and Wallpaper Factory makes changes to this
Privacy and Security Policy, you will see the word "updated"
next to the Privacy and Security Policy link on the
introductory page of the site for a period of at least
thirty days from the change. The date that this Privacy
and Security Policy was last updated will appear at
the start of the Privacy and Security Policy. Your continued
use of the site will constitute your acceptance of the
terms and conditions of the revised Privacy and Security
Policy. If you do not agree to comply with the revised
Privacy Policy without limitation or qualification,
discontinue your use of the site.
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