Privacy Policy
The VendorPick privacy policy applies to all information we collect, receive and compile about you from VendorPick, our affiliates and unaffiliated third parties and in connection with an action, inquiry, registration, or transaction.
Specifically, the specific information we collect from you for verification, processing, enhancement, and marketing purposes may include, but is not limited to:
How We Use Information We Collect
We use the information we collect about you for the purposes of direct marketing and market research. This information may be used by VendorPick, our affiliates and unaffiliated third parties. We also use this information for various internal business purposes, such as billing, customer service, fraud prevention, and broadening and improving the services we can offer.
Additionally, VendorPick, our affiliates, and unaffiliated third parties may use the information, including but not limited to postal address, telephone numbers, handles, codes and/or email address, to send you promotions and direct solicitations via telephone, direct mail, fax, mobile text message, mobile multimedia message, instant message or email. Of course, you may opt out of receiving such promotions.
To Whom We May Disclose The Information We Collect
We may disclose any of the information we collect from or about you, as described above, to the following types of unaffiliated third parties (companies that are not owned or controlled by us) for various business purposes, including marketing and/or joint business efforts for related and unrelated products and services:
Financial services providers, such as banks and mortgage lenders;
Non-financial companies such as retailers, direct marketers and publishers;
Companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or on behalf of unaffiliated third parties; and
Others, as permitted by law.
We may also disclose any of the information we collect, as described above, to affiliates, which are companies that are related to us by common ownership or affiliated with us by common control.
We may disclose any of the information, as described above, to the types of affiliates and unaffiliated third parties, also as described above, whether you are an individual who has inquired, registered or ordered one time or one with whom we have an ongoing or prior relationship.
Opting Out
If you prefer that we not disclose to nonaffiliated third parties any personally identifiable information that we collect or compile about you, you may choose to opt out of such disclosures; that is, you may direct us not to make these disclosures. If you have registered or filled out online information that has been collected or complied by VendorPick, you may exercise your right to opt out of our disclosing information to unaffiliated third parties by emailing us at privacy@vendorpick.com and placing "opt out" or "unsubscribe" or "remove" in the subject line of the email.
Security and Confidentiality
We have security protocols and measures in place to protect the personally identifiable information we maintain about you from unauthorized access or alteration. These measures include internal and external firewalls, physical security and technological security measures, and encryption of certain information.
Accountability
We take reasonable precautions to be sure that unaffiliated third parties or affiliates, to whom information is disclosed, as described above, are aware of our privacy policy and fair information principles and that they will treat the personally identifiable information in a similarly responsible manner.
VendorPick is not, however, responsible for the privacy practices or content of unaffiliated third party or affiliate websites. The owners of these link sites are responsible for them.
Use of Cookies Technology
A cookie is a piece of text information that a web server may transfer to the hard drive of your computer through your web browser when you visit our website. Cookies are commonly used by websites to improve your experience and to enable systems to recognize your browser. Some cookies may last only through a single visit (session cookie); others may have an expiration date; still others may remain on your computer until you delete them (persistent cookie). Only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a website, can be stored in a cookie. For example, the site cannot determine your email name unless you choose to type it. Allowing a website to create a cookie does not give that or any other site access to the rest of your computer, and only the site that created the cookie can interpret it.
We use session and persistent cookie technology for several purposes. For example, cookies:
allow us to gather aggregated statistical data about the use of our website for research purposes;
enable us to store your preferences for certain kinds of information and marketing offers;
help us provide features such as personalized greetings;
Our cookies will only collect information during your online activity at our website, not during any of your other Internet activity. Cookies set by us or our agents are not able to be interpreted by or shared with any other third party without your explicit consent. We may combine cookie data with personally identifiable information you provide to us (e.g., your email address) so that you may receive marketing offers likely to be of interest to you. Of course, you may opt out of receiving these offers at any time by following the instructions in the marketing offer. We may sometimes use outside technology companies to set cookies on our website and collect cookie information for us. We use the cookie information collected by these companies in the same manner as stated above in this section. Those companies may not use these cookies for their own internal purposes or share the information collected with any party other than VendorPick.
You can decide if and how your computer will accept a cookie by establishing your preferences in your web browser. Please understand that, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use certain of our online services or website features. Internet Explorer is set up to allow the creation of cookies; however, you can specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so you can choose to allow or disallow the cookie; or you can prevent Internet Explorer from accepting any cookies. You can specify different settings for different security zones. For example, you might want to allow websites to create cookies if they are in your trusted sites or local intranet zone, prompt you before creating cookies if they are in your Internet zone, and never allow cookies if they are in your restricted sites zone.
Children's Privacy
The VendorPick websites and websites of unaffiliated third parties or the websites of our affiliates, where we collect personally identifiable information in conjunction with a transaction, inquiry, or registration are intended for use only by adults. We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not knowingly solicit or collect information from children.
Privacy Policy Changes
We want you to be fully informed about how we will protect your privacy. We may change our privacy policy in the future, but we will not change our practices until they have been posted at this website. If changes occur, we will also show the date of revision. You agree that we may notify you of changes in our policy through this web site.
Last revision occurred on 11/12/07
