Privacy Policy
Custom Computers welcomes all visitors to our website. Custom Computers
is committed to ensuring the privacy and protection of all our customers. This
policy was developed with this goal in mind and outlines the guidelines in
which we gather personal and non-personal information and the use of such
information.
In the process of engaging in commerce with the public, certain non-personal
and personal information is gathered by our website. We do not store personal
information on our website, for your protection and privacy, all personal
information is redirected to an encrypted, secure site maintained by our order
processing system. This system uses the highest level of internet security to
protect you from unauthorized use. The following is an explanation of our
privacy policy.
Definitions
For the purposes of this statement, personal information includes your name,
address, account information, company name, email address, telephone number and
any other information which identifies you. We, us, our" refers to Custom
Computers 4U and our affiliated companies. Non-personal information refers to
all non-identifiable information such as your IP address, referring website,
browser type, and navigation on the website as well as consolidated demographic
information which does not contain individual information.
Gathering of Personal Information
To provide you with the best service possible or to complete a transaction,
Custom Computers gathers your information to both verify your identity (to
prevent fraud) and to facilitate your request. By providing your information in
association with your request you are giving us your expressed consent in using
that information to provide you the service or transaction you requested. This
information is not stored on our website but redirected to a secured site.
Information collected in this manner is used solely for processing your
request. We may collect and summarize this information in such a manner where
no individual may be identified for statistical purposes to help us improve our
business practices and provide better service to you.
Gathering of Non-Personal Information
As most other websites our website may collect information about you that
cannot be used to identify you directly. This information is gathered to help
us improve our website and our business practices. Most of this information is
used in statistical models for our information and may be shared with our
vendors, suppliers and third-party contractors to improve the website and
continue to give you the best value in the products offered to you. Other uses
may include this information to create limitations to specific IP addresses or
URLs that have been known to create problems for us.
Access to and Releasing of Information
Order Processing: When you purchase from our website, your name,
address, credit card number and amount purchased will be submitted to your
financial institution to verify your identity and to authorize your purchase.
We must also supply your name, telephone number, address and items purchased to
third party shippers such as UPS to deliver your order to you. There may also
be instances where we may drop ship directly from the manufacturer or one of
our suppliers. In these instances they are the shipper for this order and given
the same information.
Independent Contractors: From time to time, we may employ other
companies or individuals to provide certain services to us such as analyzing
customer lists and data, providing marketing assistance, or consulting
services. These third parties will have access to the information needed to
perform their functions but cannot use that information for any other purpose.
Any 3rd parties who use our data will be fully bound by this privacy policy.
Disclosure to Service Providers: Custom Computers may share your
personal information with certain service providers in order to; provide
products and services to you based on your request, to verify and validate
information, and to address customer service matters. Examples of service
providers include credit card issuers, product service depots, warranty
providers, and delivery services.
Legal Disclosure: We may disclose your information as permitted or
required to by law; for example:
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to a government institution or other person or entity
that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information;
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where we have reasonable grounds to believe the
information could be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity;
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to comply with a subpoena or warrant or an order made
by a court, person or entity with jurisdiction to compel the production of
information;
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to comply with court rules regarding the production of
records and information; and
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to our legal counsel.
Third-Party Links: We have many links on our
site to third-party sites, most of these are vendor sites. We do not accept any
responsibility or liability for these sites. We recommend you read the privacy
statement for each site before supplying any information. Other third-party
sites may link into our site; we have no control over these sites and likewise
cannot assume any responsibility or liability. Some sites may give you a unique
code, cookie or graphic which will uniquely identify you to them. These are
used to track and possibly capture information you supply while on our site,
though we endeavour to remove such access, you must take the responsibility to
limit exposure to such practices. We suggest using a spy ware program to remove
these programs on a regular basis and to visit our site directly.
Custom Computers reserves the right to modify this policy at anytime. You
should visit periodically to review any changes.
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