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PRIVACY POLICY
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OVERVIEW
We use the information that we collect about you to fulfill your product and service purchases and to create a more personalized online experience. This Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.
Any references to “we” or to “us” includes and refers to aafstoreny.com. We may process your information on a server located outside the United States.
Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information that we collect from you through the website “https://www.aafstoreny.com”. For some services, your personal information may be collected and transferred by us to a service provider that you have selected, or you may visit other merchants through links on our site that may collect and use your personal information. In those cases the privacy policy of that third-party service provider or that merchant will govern how your information is handled. We encourage you to ask questions and to be very cautious before you disclose your personal information to others.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING REGARDING USE OF OUR SITE:
What information does aafstoreny.com collect from you?
Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it?
Who is collecting your information?
With whom do we share your information?
How can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information?
What are your choices regarding limitations on the collection, use, and distribution of your information?
What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
What about children’s privacy?
What about aafstoreny.com’s use of “cookies”?”
How do I contact aafstoreny.com about privacy questions or concerns?
How can this Privacy Policy be changed?
WHAT INFORMATION DOES aafstoreny.com COLLECT FROM YOU?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services, aafstoreny.com collects your information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our site.
We may collect personal information when you register and set up an account, order a product or service, register for a Gift List, enter contests or sweepstakes, fill out surveys, and send us feedback. For example, personally identifiable information might include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, and products viewing or purchase history(“Personally Identifiable Information”). With this information, aafstoreny.com can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized services. For a few services, we may collect your Personally Identifiable Information on behalf of other merchants and share it with them. aafstoreny.com does not sell or rent your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties.
We also collect information about your interactions with us, including the type of device or browser you’re using, your IP address, your browsing behavior while on our website, and the URLs of the websites you were at before you visited our site (these are called “referring URLs”). aafstoreny.com and our merchants use technologies such as cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. On an aggregated basis, we collect anonymous data related to the pages, products, downloads and other content that is sampled, clicked on, streamed, searched for, transferred from and downloaded.
WHERE DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU AND HOW DO WE USE IT?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide aafstoreny.com’s visitors with a superior customized online experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information, to enhance the oper
Personally Identifiable Information may also be transferred to third parties who act for or on our behalf, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected or may otherwise be lawfully processed, such as services delivery, evaluating the usefulness of this website, marketing, data management or technical support. Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third party advertising servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents who provide us with the zip code and area code associated with a visitor’s server, along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions of the aafstoreny.com visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers’ preferences. aafstoreny.com also does research on our visitors’ demographics, interests, and pages that they viewed, based upon the information provided that they have provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files, from our web site analysis agents, or from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor the visitor’s experience at our site, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize our site’s content, layout, and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents that tell us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what content was served or viewed.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to any third party websites, services and applications that you elect to access through the Service. While we attempt to facilitate access only to those third party services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of those third party services. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any third party services you access.
We gather information in the following ways:
Shopping
We collect your Information while you are shopping on the aafstoreny.com site. We collect this information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor’s computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.
Ordering
When you order from us, we collect Personally Identifiable Information from you. If you order one of our products or services, then we will collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, product selections, credit card or other payment information, order number, referring URL, IP address, page you bought from and a password. We collect this information, in order to fill your order, to communicate with you about your order, to send you promotional materials and maintain AAF Shop ID. Before confirming your order, you will have the opportunity to review the product order form and make changes and additions to the information it contains and these changes will be automatically kept for future use. We may require additional verifications or information from you before accepting any order.
Financing
The credit card is administered by a third party bank and aafstoreny.com’s privacy policy does not apply to any information that you provide to apply for the credit card or to purchases you make with that card. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of the third party bank.
Newsletters, Promotional E-mails and Personalized On-line Ads
As a service to our customers, we offer free newsletters, such as promotional e-mails and personalized on-line advertisements. We will send you newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current specials and deals. You may “opt-out,” or unsubscribe from our newsletters, emails or personalized on-line advertisements either by following any unsubscribe instructions contained in any e-mail, newsletter or personalized on-line advertisement that you receive from us, or by sending an e-mail to [email protected] to request opt out of receiving future email from us. After our customer service receive your email, we will promptly honor your request. Once you have opted out of receiving all newsletters, all promotional emails or all personalized on-line ads, then you will not receive any future promotional emails, newsletters or personalized on-line advertisements (as applicable) unless you then open a new account, enter a contest, or otherwise subsequently sign up to receive newsletters, emails or personalized on-line advertisements. Please Note: If you agree to receive e-mails from any of our third party service providers or any third party merchants on our site, then you will receive e-mails separately from them and all information that you choose to disclose to them will be subject to their privacy policy. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive their e-mails, then you will need to follow their own specific opt-out instructions. Following the directions for opting out of disclosing Personally Identifiable Information to aafstoreny.com will not opt you out of third party disclosures and their promotional emails.
Contact Information and Third Party Data
If you contact aafstoreny.com or our customer service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, then we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our site, then we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service representatives, then we may ask for your name, e-mail address and order information in order to send you a reply. If other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or purchases on our site, then we may keep the information in a file specific to you. The information collected about you in these cases may include your Personally Identifiable Information.
Customer Service
We use a third party to help us provide customer service. In order to help you most effectively, we provide them with your order information, which includes Personally Identifiable Information. Note that any contact with AAF Shop customer service in which Personally Identifiable Information is exchanged with a customer service representative will be used only for the purpose of satisfying your request. Any Personally Identifiable Information you provide will not be recorded or used for any reason beyond that of the stated request.
Web Site Use
We also track customers’ Personally Identifiable Information such as traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which pages, information and advertisements that a customer views while using the site and what items that they place in their basket or purchase. We use your information such as your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information.
Cookies
We use cookies and may allow others to use cookies in the operation of our site.
Cookies are unique identifiers that we transfer to your device to enable our systems to recognize your device and to provide features such as recommendation, personalized advertisements, and storage of items in your shopping cart between visits.
The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the Web site of its manufacturer. Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of our essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on.
WHO IS COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION?
Ad Servers and Content Servers
We may use third party ad servers or content servers to serve ads, product information, or other information both on and off our site. Those third parties may use “action tags” or web beacons throughout the site to count the number of visitors who click on a banner ad or other information and to track the number of customers who continue on to make a purchase. They may also place their own “cookie” on your computer to help those ads to run, analyze site usage and to provide you with personalized on-line advertisements. With respect to personalized on-line ad serving, our third party ad server may collect your first name and/or a product group/category (chosen by aafstoreny.com based on your personal preferences and/or prior purchase history e.g., shirts, mugs), which are used to serve you the most relevant personalized on-line ad. Except as set in the following sentence, we do not provide them with any of your Personally Identifiable Information. For more information about the information they collect, please see the section “Use of Cookies and Action Tags” below. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here.
Email Services
We use a third party to send promotional e-mails to customers. Images contained in the email may be served by the third party. They collect certain items of your information such as your IP address, browser type, your operating system, the country and server your computer is logged onto, where the servers that your computer is logged onto is located, the time and date that a particular email was viewed, the area code and zip code associated with your server, and whether you responded to a particular ad or email, products viewed and whether you continued on to make a purchase. Note that it is with the requirement that such Personally Identifiable Information will be kept confidential and will be used only for aafstoreny.com services.
Website Analysis Agent
We may contract with several online partners to help manage and optimize our Internet business and marketing. We use the services of marketing companies to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site. To do this, we use Action Tags and cookies provided by the marketing companies on this site to collect Non-personally Identifiable Information. The type of information we collect includes things such as pages, product information and advertisements viewed as well as what items are placed in a shopping basket or purchased, the order number, the amount of a purchase, the product number and the quantity purchased. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what kinds of customers our site attracts, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Although the marketing companies log the information coming from our site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. For more information, please see the section “Use of Cookies and Action Tags” below.
Financing Services
The bank collects Personally Identifiable Information to provide their financing services. Any information about you that they collect is not governed by this Policy and they will independently collect, use and share your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
General Order Fulfillment and Site Operations
We contract with third-party service providers to operate many of our website functions. We may provide such other third-party service providers with your other Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with this Policy as may be needed to fulfill any orders that you may place.
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?
Fulfillment
The information collected by us is used for processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status, for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads, and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest to you. We will disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties to charge your credit card, fill your order, deliver your order, provide customer service, provide you with credit and deliver promotional e-mails to you from aafstoreny.com. For example, we must release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment; and release your address and telephone information to the delivery service to deliver products that you ordered.
Data Analysis Agents
The Personally Identifiable Information collected by or for aafstoreny.com may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis. That analysis is to help us to improve our site and product selection, and to notify you of special offers that may be of interest to you. That data analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable Information with others, or may not use it for any other purpose than to help aastore.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement
Occasionally aafstoreny.com may be asked by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement Usenforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we believe to be unlawful.
HOW CAN YOU UPDATE OR CORRECT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. During the online ordering process you can review, change, or delete the information that you have submitted. You may change any of your personal information in your account online at any time. We encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past purchases, you cannot delete information associated with past purchases. Also, as a security measure we “back up” the data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be completely removed from our databases. As a result, you should not expect that all of your Personally Identifiable Information will be completely removed from our backed-up databases.
WHAT ARE YOUR CHOICES REGARDING COLLECTION, USE, AND DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR INFORMATION?
You may “opt-out,” or unsubscribe from our newsletters, emails or personalized on-line advertisements by following any unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail, newsletter or personalized on-line advertisement you receive from us, or by sending an e-mail to [email protected] to request opt out of receiving future email from us. After our customer service receive your email, we will promptly honor your request. After doing so, if you have opted out of receiving all newsletters, all promotional emails or all personalized on-line ads, then you will not receive future promotional emails, newsletters or personalized on-line advertisements (as applicable), unless you open a new account, enter a contest, or otherwise subsequently sign up to receive newsletters, emails or personalized on-line advertisements.
Note regarding Ad-servers and other Content Servers: You may also set your browser so that it will not accept “cookies” to prevent assignment from the ad server of a unique identifier; however, you may experience difficulty shopping on our site and performing other transactions if you do so.
WHAT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS ARE IN PLACE TO PROTECT AGAINST THE LOSS, MISUSE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR INFORMATION?
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order.
Within aafstoreny.com, your information is kept on password protected, limited access servers. Wherever possible and applicable, aafstoreny.com servers reside behind a corporate firewall that maintains controls on access to the system from both our internal network and the Internet.
WHAT ABOUT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY?
You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors under 13 years of age. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 13 years of age and believe that they have disclosed personally identifiable information to us, then please contact us at [email protected] so that we may delete the child’s information.
WHAT ABOUT aafstoreny.com USE OF “COOKIES”?”
aafstoreny.com Cookies:
When you use our site we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our site. A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site stores on your computer’s hard drive (if your Web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you to aafstoreny.com The cookies make your use of the site easier, allow you to retrieve an earlier shopping cart, make the site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure site. You will be unable to shop on our site without your browser set to accept cookies.
Website Analysis Agent Cookies:
We may use a third party to analyze what our visitors find to be most interesting on our site. To do that, they will place a cookie on your computer with a randomly assigned unique number in order to track the pages that you view on our site, along with other Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
HOW DO I CONTACT aafstoreny.com ABOUT PRIVACY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, then please contact aafstoreny.com by sending a letter to:
E-mail: [email protected]
AAF Shop
4299 Express Lane, Sarasota, FL 34249 USA
HOW CAN THIS PRIVACY POLICY BE CHANGED?
If aafstoreny.com makes changes to any terms or conditions of the Privacy Policy, then the changes will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it. We may change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.