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Secure shopping guarantee
We provide our customers added protection by offering
a secure shopping guarantee. Under the Fair Credit Billing
Act, your credit card bank cannot hold you liable for
more than $50 in unauthorized or fraudulent charges.
We will cover the amount for which you are held liable
up to the full amount of $50 if the fraudulent transaction
was a direct result of purchasing online with us using
our secure server. The only requirement is that you
have followed all rules and procedures of your credit
card provider relating to fraudulent and unauthorized
use, and that the fraudulent transaction was not by
fault of your own.
Credit card security
Our servers employ the latest Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocols to safeguard your information, including your
credit card number during online transactions. We can
proudly report, none of our customers who have made
purchases via our website using the SSL protocol have
reported to us any fraudulent use of their credit card
as a result of their purchasing online with us. We employ
server detection software to help ensure you are using
a secure browser and your information is secure when
you check out. If our server determines that you are
not using a secure browser, a message will appear at
checkout.
To protect your information once your transaction is
complete, we store your information on an off-line server
stored securely behind our firewall. There is no external
access to this information and its internal access is
strictly monitored. For your protection, never put your
credit card number or other sensitive information in
any unencrypted e-mail. In the unlikely event that we
ever do suspect a customer's credit card number has
been intercepted, we will immediately notify the customer.
Personal information
We will sometimes ask customers for personal information
such as your name, address, email address, and other
pertinent details. Providing us your information will
simply help us better identify you, and in some cases,
offer products and services that we think you'd like
to hear about. If you prefer not to receive such information
you can unsubscribe online via Account Manager anytime
24/7, or contact us by phone. Ways
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We also collect purchasing information including credit
card numbers, and information used to provide requested
transactions such as fulfilling an order. Information
collected with our "Email this Page to a Friend"
feature is used one time for that purpose only.
When you choose to give personal information to us
over the Internet that we or our business partners may
request, we will endeavor to inform you how we use the
information. Information collected is held in confidence
by us and our third party vendors. In the event you
accept a financing offer, you are then considered a
customer of the vendor, who may market to you consistent
with their policies.
When we ask for personal information for any reason,
we will provide a link to our Privacy
Policy to make our intentions clear at all times.
We respect your privacy
We will take all appropriate steps to keep your personal
information confidential. Those steps include limiting
access to customer information databases. We will not
sell, rent, or give away our customers' personal information
to other companies for use in selling others' products
or services. When we do contract with another company
to market or advertise products or services for us,
we will insist on binding agreements from those companies
protecting our customer information. We will vigorously
enforce all privacy agreements we have with other companies.
However, when you receive services directly from a third
party, such as a shipping company or internet service
provider, your personal information is treated in accordance
with that service provider's privacy policy even though
you may have purchased such services through us.
We gather personal information from our customers so
we can better develop our relationship with those customers.
Occasionally, we seek customer comments on our products
and services. These comments allow us to determine which
products and services our customers should be made aware
of based on their specific needs.
We will pro-actively communicate with customers via
e-mail or other online delivery devices to provide offers
and information we think will be of interest. Customers
who no longer desire to receive these communications
should inform us and we will remove those customers’
names from our mailing lists. We will be judicious in
the use of e-mail and paper mail to communicate with
customers. We will, at all times, put ourselves in the
place of the recipients of our mail and treat our customers
as we ourselves would like to be treated.
Our websites share usage information about visitors
with reputable third-party companies for the purpose
of gathering aggregate information about site traffic
and usage.
For these purposes, we and our third-party companies
note some of the pages you visit on our Site through
the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). The
information collected by our third-party advertiser
through the use of these pixel tags is not personally
identifiable. Some of the information collected by our
third-party analytics provider may be personally identifiable;
however, our provider is contractually precluded from
selling, licensing or conveying any such information
to any third party or from using that information in
any way outside our own Privacy
Policy. If users have questions or concerns regarding
this statement, they should contact us by phone. Ways
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Notification of changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes to our Privacy
Policy Statement, and other places we deem appropriate
so our users are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to
use users’ personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time of
collection we will notify users by providing 30 days
notice on our Site.
Contact us
If you have any questions about the practices used
on any of our Sites, please contact us. Ways
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