BEST Electronics is committed to protecting your right to privacy when visiting our Web site. We recognize that when you share your personal information with us, you expect us to treat that information in a serious and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy below discloses what information we gather, how we use that information, and how you can correct or change that information. In summary, you should know that
- BEST Electronics has security measures in place to keep your personal information secure.
- BEST Electronics does not sell your personal information to other companies.
Security
BEST Electronics's site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, including without limitation protecting information behind a firewall within a perimeter network and, encrypting your ordering information during transmission.
Registration and order forms
If you choose to register with BEST Electronics or to place an order with us, we may ask that you provide us with contact information (first and last name, e-mail address and telephone number), financial information (account or credit card numbers), demographic information (address, age, or income level), and unique identifiers (tax ID number), information about where you learned of our products and information about your intended use of our products. We do not purge customer information on a regular basis, so information you provide us will remain in our systems for an indefinite amount of time. We may use your contact information to send you information about us and to contact you when necessary. If you do not want to receive any mailings from us, please see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information is used only to bill you for products. Demographic information may be used to tailor your experience at our sites, showing you information that we think you might be interested in, and presenting information according to your preferences. We may use demographic information to develop summary - but not individual - reports for our advertisers so that they may determine how effective their advertising investments are. We never tell our advertisers who it was that saw or clicked on their advertisements, unless you have specifically told us that this is acceptable. In addition, our sales and marketing departments may also use demographic information, information about where you learned of our products and information about your intended use of our products to improve our advertising and marketing efforts and to measure interest in our products. We may use unique identifiers to verify our resellers and customers and to allow customers to identify themselves to us.
Surveys and contests
BEST Electronics may invite you to participate in online surveys or contests. Participation is never required. If you choose to participate, you may be asked to disclose contact and demographic information as well as additional information about you and/or your company. We may use this information to send you information about our company, contact you when necessary, tailor your experience at our site, display information according to your preferences and improve our Web sites, products and advertising. If you do not want to receive any mailings from us, please see the choice/opt-out section below. This information may be shared with our advertisers on a summary, not individual, basis.
Public forums
BEST Electronics may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to you. Because any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, you should exercise caution when deciding whether to disclose your personal information.
Information requests
You may be able to request information on our sites regarding our products and services, including technical support and customer service, by using online forms. We ask that you provide certain contact information to allow us to fulfill your request and to send you information about BEST Electronics's products and services. If you do not want to receive any mailings from us, please see the choice/opt-out section below.
Children's guidelines
Although BEST Electronics's site is not geared towards children, BEST Electronics nonetheless attempts to protect children. BEST Electronics must, however, rely on the information provided to us by visitors to our sites. As a result, it is impossible for us to guarantee with absolute certainty that the information collected and utilized by BEST Electronics is not derived from a child. The following sets forth BEST Electronics's policy with respect to the collection and/or use of children's information:
- For purposes of this Policy, a "child" is an individual age 12 or younger
- We do not collect children's contact information without prior parental consent, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and for no other purpose.
- We do not collect children's personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent.
- We do not distribute children's personal information to any third party without prior parental consent.
- We do not provide the ability to publicly post or otherwise transmit information that could be used to identify a child without prior parental consent.
- We do not entice children by the prospect of a special game, prize, or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.
IP addresses
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, administer our sites, and gather broad demographic information to measure general interest in our products and to share with our advertisers on a summary, not individual, basis.
Cookies
Our Web servers may place small bits of text or "cookies" onto your computer's hard drive and memory. Cookies enable us to identify you so you do not have to re-enter certain information each time you visit our sites and allow us to keep track of your shopping choices.
Often we use third-party services to help us measure the effectiveness of our Web site. Specifically, we use WebSideStory and MediaPlex. These companies may place third-party cookies on your hard drive to help us analyze the traffic on our Web site and better meet our customers' needs. This does not give BEST Electronics or any other company access to your personal information or other information on your computer. We do not track or store any personally identifiable information. If you are concerned, you can set your browser to decline third-party cookies, or you can delete these cookies from your hard drive. To learn more about these partnerships and their privacy policies, or to opt out of receiving cookies from them, send us an email.
Supplemental information
We may supplement the information that you provide with information that is received from third parties. For example, BEST Electronics may use information that we purchase from a database marketing information firm to enhance our understanding of the information that you provide.
Links to other sites
BEST Electronics's site contains links to other sites. BEST Electronics is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Choice/opt-out
Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at any point where we request information. To change or cancel your BEST Electronics newsletter subscriptions, visit our newsletter subscription page. Un-selecting the boxes and clicking "Select" on this page will remove you from our e-mailing list. If you have any problems canceling your e-mail subscriptions, please contact us at 0049-8031-4089-10 Or you can send an e-mail to sales@best-electronics.com .
Correct/update
If you want to change or modify information you have previously provided to us, simply log in to your password-protected account. Once you are logged in, you will see links that will allow you to update your address book, e-mail subscriptions, password, and customer profile. (This list may change over time as our Web site is updated.) If you do not have a password-protected account with BEST Electronics, you can modify your e-mail subscriptions on our e-mail subscription page.
If you have any problems or questions about updating information you have previously provided, please contact us at 0049-8031-4089-10 Or you can send an e-mail to sales@best-electronics.com .
Confidentiality
BEST Electronics is part of a group of companies owned by BEST Electronics BEST Electronics does not sell uniquely identifiable customer information to any other business or organization outside the BEST Electronics group of companies.
Agents
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service.
Contacting the Web site
If you have any questions about BEST Electronics's privacy statement or the privacy practices of our site, please contact us at 0049-8031-4089-10 Or you can send an e-mail to sales@best-electronics.com .
Updates/Effective Date
Micron reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Policy will apply to information we have received and information we receive after the revised Policy is effective. When we do amend this Policy, the revised Policy will be posted here so please visit this Web page to view the most current Policy. The effective date of this version of the Privacy Policy is: September 15, 2005.
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