Privacy Policy
PRIVACY STATEMENT
VendTechs™ understands how much you care about your
personal information and we appreciate the trust you put
in us, while visiting our site. This notice describes our
privacy policy. By visiting VendTechs™, you are
accepting the principles described in this Privacy Notice.
VendTechs™, (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is
committed to respecting the privacy rights and concerns of
all users of our website and/or service (collectively, the
“Site”). As such, we have established and implemented
this privacy statement to inform visitors and users of the
Site how we use and protect the information we collect. If
you have any questions regarding this information or our
privacy practices, please see the section entitled
“Questions? Contact Us” at the end of this privacy
statement. This privacy statement is effective as of March
24, 2008.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
VendTechs™ does not collect personally identifiable
information unless our visitors voluntarily provide it to
us. We do, however, collect certain types of information
and ask for personal information in certain circumstances,
such as when you place an order or become a customer. The
following sections describe what type of information we
collect, when we collect it and how we use it.
PURCHASING PRODUCTS AND
SETTING UP ACCOUNTS
In order to purchase VendTechs™ products and/or
register as a VendTechs™ customer, you will have to
create an account, which requires you to submit certain
personal information. When you create an account, we
require you to provide us your name, telephone number,
e-mail address, home and billing address and credit card
information (possible).
COOKIES
Cookies are small bits of electronic information that a
web site can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to help
tailor and keep records of his or her visit to the site.
The use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many
web sites use them. Cookies allow web site operators to
better customize visits to the site to the visitor’s
individual preferences. We do not receive or record any
personal information in the cookies we use. Although most
Web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually
change your browser to prevent that or to notify you when
you are sent a cookie.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
We provide customer service support through telephone and
e-mail. In order to provide customer support, we will ask
for your e-mail address. Aside from this information, we
do not ask for any personal information to provide
customer support. We only use information received from
customer support requests, including e-mail addresses, for
customer support services and we do not transfer or share
this information with any third parties.
HOW DO WE USE THE
INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE?
As stated above, we use your personal information such as
your name, address, billing and mailing address and credit
card number for billing purposes when we charge you for
products or services. We also will use your e-mail address
to contact you when we provide customer support. In
addition, we may also use your e-mail address to send you
information on updates to the VendTechs™ products or
services from time to time. To opt out of receiving these
e-mails, please see the section below titled “How do you
opt out?” We may also provide information about our
visitors and account holders to outside parties from time
to time. For further details, please see the section below
titled “Does VendTechs™ disclose the information
it collects to outside parties?”
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We implement a variety of security measures to ensure the
security of your personal information on our server based
systems. User personal information is contained behind
secured networks and is only accessible by a limited
number of employees who have special access rights to such
systems.
DO WE DISCLOSE THE
INFORMATION WE COLLECT TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?
VendTechs™ does not currently sell, trade, or
otherwise transfer outside the company personally
identifiable information that account holders voluntarily
provide in any account registration. This information is
used to better understand how account holders use the
Site, to support related transactions made on the site,
and to better know our visitors and possibly tailor any
specific promotions, or other notifications to them.
Should you change your mind about the information you’ve
provided to us, should you no longer wish to receive
information from us, or should your information change, we
have provided a way for you to correct, update or remove
the personal data you gave us. For further details please
see the section below titled “How do you change the
information we have for you?” In the event VendTechs™
goes through a business transition, such as a merger,
being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of
its assets, account holders’ information will, in most
instances, be part of the assets transferred. Visitors and
account holders will be notified via prominent notice on
the Site for 30 days prior to a change of ownership or
control of information of users held by us. If as a result
of the business transition, information will be used for a
purpose different from that stated, or implied, at the
time of collection users will be given a choice consistent
with our notification of changes section.
We may find it necessary to share your personal
information with certain third parties such as service
providers and other representatives acting on our behalf
for limited purposes. The third parties with whom we
conduct business are only authorized to use your
information to perform the service for which they were
hired. As part of our agreement with them, they are
required to follow the privacy guidelines we provide them
and to take reasonable measures to ensure your personal
information is secure.
Notwithstanding any other term of this privacy statement,
we may release any personal information we obtain or
collect when we believe its release is appropriate to
comply with the law, enforce our Site policies, or protect
ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. In an
attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, we may
choose various third party web sites to link to, and frame
within, the Site. We may also participate in co-branding
and other relationships to offer e-commerce and other
services and features to our visitors and account holders.
However, even if the third party is affiliated with us, we
have no control over these linked sites, each of which has
separate privacy and data collection practices independent
of us. Data collected by our co-brand partners or third
party web sites (even if offered on or through our site)
may not be received by us. As such, we have no
responsibility or liability for these independent policies
or actions, and are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of any such web sites. These
linked sites are only for your convenience and you
therefore access them at your own risk. Nonetheless, we
seek to protect the integrity of the VendTechs™
website and the links placed upon each of them, and
therefore request any feedback on not only the VendTechs™
website, but for sites each links to as well (including if
a specific link does not work).
POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND
SEVERABILITY
We reserve the right to make changes to our site,
policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any
of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for
any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed
severable and shall not affect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining condition. By visiting the
Site or purchasing VendTechs™ products/ services,
you consent to the collection and use of information by us
as set forth in this privacy statement.
Updated 1-10-2008