SR International believes strongly in
protecting the privacy of the personally identifiable information
you share with us. We also believe it is important to inform
you about how we will use your personal data, and to give
you choices about how those data will be used. Therefore,
we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Scope
of this Privacy Policy
In general, this Privacy Policy applies
to all personal information of consumers collected or used
by SR International or its subsidiaries (SR International).
This includes information from websites for commercial use
that are owned by SR International and offline collections
of personal data for commercial use owned by SR International.
Why should
you share your personal data with SR International?
Sharing your personally identifiable
information enables us to offer you a number of benefits.
It will make it easier and more convenient for you to:
- Register your purchase so you can
receive all the benefits to which your purchase entitles
you;
- Request information specific to your
interests;
- Participate in online communities;
- Receive personalized messages and
special offers that are relevant to your interests;
- Save time by storing your preferences;
It will also allow us to conduct
market research to help us develop better products, to provide
more responsive customer service, and to improve our websites.
You may choose to share your information with us in a number
of ways online, such as completing an registration form to
become a member of Club SR International, ordering a product,
entering a contest, registering a purchase, participating
in a promotion, or subscribing to a newsletter. You can also
share your personally identifiable information with us by
returning the reply card that comes with the product you purchased
or by communicating with one of our customer care representatives
by e-mail, telephone, or in writing. Sometimes SR International
obtains your personal data from other parties outside SR International.
This includes the buying of a business of which you already
are a customer or the disclosure of your personal data by
one of our partner companies. If you do not want us to use
your personal data which you have not provided to us yourself,
you can let us know by contacting us at the address listed
below.
Sharing information
We want to know you better so
we can serve you better. But the choice of whether you want
this kind of service is up to you. You should know that your
personally identifiable information may be transferred from
your home country to other SR International companies around
the world, who may communicate with you about our products
or special offers you may find useful. If you do not want
us to send you personalized offers or information, you can
let us know by checking the appropriate box on the registration
form or reply card. SR International will only share your
data with third parties outside SR International in the following
circumstances:
- Sometimes SR International sells you
a product or offers you a service in a joint marketing effort
with other companies.
- In such cases, your personal data
will be shared with these companies.
- We will always let you know that such
relationship exists and who these companies are prior to
your registration.
- Note that these companies often have
their own privacy policies that apply to the way they use
your personal data.
- These privacy policies sometimes differ
from the SR International’s Privacy Policy.
- SR International sometimes uses outside
companies for handling your purchase or request or for processing
your data.
- SR International requires these companies
to adequately safeguard your personal data and not use your
data for any other purpose not authorized by SR International.
• SR International sometimes sells a business to another
company.
- Such transfer of ownership could include
the transfer of your personal data directly related to that
business to the buyer.
- SR International will release personally
identifiable information if compelled by law.
SR International will not sell or provide
your personal data to other third parties allowing them to
use your personal data for their own purposes. SR International
will not share any personal financial information you provide
(such as credit card information) with other parties unless
this is needed to handle your order, process our invoice,
or prevent or combat fraud. From time to time, this Web Site
may provide links to other websites. You should carefully
review the privacy policies on those sites; they may differ
from the SR International Privacy Policy.
“Cookies”
and website logging
Some of our Web Sites will send a "cookie,"
a small text file, to your computer. This allows us to recognize
your computer the next time you visit, without bothering you
with another request to register. If you do not wish to receive
cookies, please refer to the "Help" file of your
Internet Browser to learn how to either block all cookies
or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. To learn more
about cookies we encourage you to visit www.cookiecentral.com
If you visit our Web Sites to browse, read, or download information,
we collect and store some "visitor information"
from you, such as the name of the domain and host from which
you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol (IP) address
of the computer you are using, the date and time you access
our Web Site, and the Internet address of the website from
which you linked directly to our Web Site. We use this information
to measure the traffic on our Web Sites and to help us make
our Web Sites more useful. We delete this information after
some time.
Safeguarding
the information you share with us
We recognize our responsibility to protect
the information you entrust to us. SR International uses a
variety of secure techniques to protect your information,
including secure servers, firewalls, and encryption of financial
data. SR International websites also may make chat rooms,
forums, message boards and/or newsgroups available to you.
Please remember that any personally identifiable information
you provide in these areas is also available to other users,
and you should exercise caution before deciding to disclose
it.
Your
rights
Once you have provided us with
your personally identifiable information, you will have reasonable
access to that information so you can change or delete it.
You may do this by accessing your online profile, or by requesting
a copy of your profile at the contact address listed below.
Because SR International sells hundreds of products in many
countries, you may have previously provided us with personally
identifiable information through reply cards, our call centers,
or in some other manner. Your decision not to register now
will not affect the information you have already provided
to SR International. Of course, you will always have the option
to unsubscribe to any online contact from SR International
or change your personal profile information.
Contacting us
You may contact us through the
contact form if you would like to:
- ask us any question regarding
our privacy policy;
- request a copy of your personal
data, or change or delete your personal data;
- opt-out from receiving any future
personalized offers or information from SR International.
Our Address
You can find our address by pressing
the CONTACT button at the top of the Web Site. If you have
a problem with our use of your information, please let us
know and we will make all reasonable efforts to correct it.
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