Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains what information is
collected from visitors to the plumbingpeoplenow.com
web site, why the information is collected, and how it is used.
This Privacy Policy applies only to plumbingpeoplenow.com’s online information collection and use practices.
A. NOTICE : Information We Collect and How We Use It
We may collect two types of
information about you when you visit our site: personally identifiable
information (including, by way of example only, your name, address,
telephone number and e-mail address) and non-personally identifiable,
aggregate information (such as information regarding the pages on our site
that you have visited and your IP address).
1. Personally Identifiable Information
The only personally identifying information that we collect and store about you is the information you choose
to provide us. For example, if you request information about or from us, we may ask for
items such as your
name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Additionally, if you
make a purchase, we may request information such as your name, mailing
address and credit card information. We also may offer an e-mail alert service. If you would
wish to
sign up to receive e-mail
alerts, you would need to provide your e-mail address. If you would wish to
un-subscribe from this service, please notify us via our contact form.
2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We collect and use non-personally identifiable information about you in the
following ways:
Referrers, IP Addresses and Other Non-Personal Information
We collect certain non-personal
information relating to the number of web site “hits” and “visits,” the type
of web browser being used, time spent on the our web site, web pages visited within the web site, referring URLs, and other statistical
information. We collect this information through “referrers,” IP addresses
and various environmental variables. A “referrer” is information the web
browser passes along to our web server that references the
URL from which you came. The “IP address” is a number used by computers on
the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to
you. “Environmental variables” include, among other things, the domain from
which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our web site, the type
of web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address
of the web site you left to visit us, the names of the pages you visit while at
our web site, and the Internet address of the
web site you then visit. We may collect all of this information to allow us
to detect demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your
interests and to enhance your experience on our web site.
Cookies
“Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers sent to a user’s computer and stored
on the user’s hard drive. They are primarily used to identify users and
certain preferences that users may have when visiting a particular web site.
We may use cookies to help us
recognize you when you come back to our web site. We may also use cookies to help us track traffic and
demographic trends on our web
site. Cookie information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner. This will
help us better tailor our site and provide you with offers that we think may
be of interest to you
3. Use of Personally Identifiable and Non-Personally Identifiable
Information
We share your personally identifiable information with third parties that
help us with administration activities on our web site, including processing
credit cards, fulfilling orders, delivering orders, hosting our web site,
sending e-mail or postal mail on our behalf, and providing advertising and
marketing services.
Additionally, we may share your personally identifiable information with
businesses and third parties with whom we do business. From time to time,
these businesses may contact you with offers or information that we believe
might interest you. If you do not wish to receive communications from these
third party business, please notify us via our contact form.
In the unlikely event that we or
any of our assets are acquired by another party, your personally identifiable
information may be transferred to this acquiring party. Additionally, we
reserve the right to release your personally identifiable information when
we believe the release is necessary or appropriate to comply with any laws
or protect the rights, property, or safety of others.
We may also use non-personally identifiable information for web site
development, including detecting demographic trends, and web site marketing.
We may share this non-personally identifiable information with third parties
that help us administer our web site and, from time to time, with other
select third parties.
4. Links to Third Party Web Sites
This web site may contain links to other sites. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE ARE
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OF OTHER SITES. We encourage our
users to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that they
visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected when you
visit our web site.