Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective
Date: 05/01/2012
This
privacy policy applies to the website http://www.ultimateglobes.com/ owned and operated
by Brand Runner, Inc. (Henceforward Brand Runner, We, Us). This policy
describes how Brand Runner collects and uses the personal information you
provide on our site. It also describes
the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and
how you can access and update this information.
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
Brand Runner, Inc.
has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and
practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability
and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. The TRUSTe program
covers only information that is collected through this website, www.ultimateglobes.com and
does not cover information that may be collected offline.
TRUSTe's mission, as
an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and
organizations globally through its leading privacy Trustmark and innovative
trust solutions. If you have questions or
complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at
Brand Runner, Inc., PO Box 954224, Lake Mary Florida 32795. If you are not
satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here
What information do we collect?
We
collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order,
enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as
e-mail, or participate in another site feature.
When
ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing
address, phone number and credit card information. You may, however, visit our site
anonymously. We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can
fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is
not used for marketing purposes.
As is true of most web sites, we gather
certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not
identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track
users movements around the site and to gather demographic information about
our user base as a whole.
We do not link this
automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. For more information on anonymous tracking on
our site, please refer to the Tracking Technologies section below.
How do we use your information?
We
may use the information we collect from you when you register, purchase
products, enter a contest or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing
communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the
following ways: To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver
the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested; To
allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests;
To quickly process your transactions; To administer a contest, promotion,
survey or other site feature.
If
you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic
e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us,
please refer to the "How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you
have provided to us?" section below. If you have not opted-in to receive
e-mail newsletters, you will not receive these e-mails. Visitors who register
or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and
'members-only' content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on
our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.
Do we disclose the information we
collect to outside parties?
We will share your personal information
with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise
transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we
provide you with advance notice and receive your consent, except as described
below. The term "outside parties" does not include www.UltimateGlobes.com,
the parent company Brand Runner, Inc. or its network of stores. It also does
not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in
operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as
those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Non-personally identifiable visitor
information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or
other uses.
We
may also disclose your personal information:
as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal
process; when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect
our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond
to a government request; if Brand Runner is involved in a merger, acquisition,
or sale of all or a portion of its assets; to any other third party with your
prior consent to do so.
Additionally,
we may provide your personal information to companies
that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping
your order, offering customer service, processing payments and facilitating
feedback on our products. These companies are authorized to use your personal
information only as necessary to provide these
services to us.
How can you opt-out, remove or modify
information you have provided to us?
If your personally information changes, or if you no longer desire our service,
you may correct, update, amend, delete, or request deletion of your information
by making the change in the Account Settings area of the site, by emailing our
Customer Support at support@brandrunner.com or by contacting us by telephone or
postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to access
within 30 days.
To
delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the
"My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses,
billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain
information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that
transaction and for record keeping.
In
general, we will retain your information for as long as your account is active
or as needed to provide you services and use your information as necessary to
comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our
agreements.
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and
email address to send the newsletter to you.
Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving our
newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions
included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account
settings page or you can contact us at support@brandrunner.com. Please note
that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in
production.
What tracking technologies do we use?
Cookies
are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your
computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the
site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and
remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember
and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us
understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which
enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help
us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we
can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent,
or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser
(like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look
at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If
you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your
site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function
properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting
customer service.
We
employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons), that help
us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is
effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics
with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track
the online movements of Web users. In
contrast to cookies, which are stored on a users computer hard drive, clear
gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period
at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear
gifs to our customers personally identifiable information.
The use of cookies and/or web beacons by our service providers and other 3rd
party elements on our site is not covered by our privacy policy. We do not have access or control over these trackers. The use of these trackers by 3rd
parties helps them better manage their content on our site, or provide their
services to you. We do not tie the
information gathered to our Customers or Users personally identifiable
information.
We partner with third party ad networks to either display advertising on
our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web
beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities
on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your
interests. If you wish to not have this
information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out
by clicking Here. Please note this does not opt
you out of being served advertising. You
will continue to receive generic ads.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
How
do we protect visitor information?
We
implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your
personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured
networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special
access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information
confidential. When you place orders or access your personal information, we
offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply
is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into
our databases to be only accessed as stated above. Unfortunately, no method of transmission over
the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute
security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can
contact us at support@brandrunner.com.
Third party links
In
an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party
links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy
policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and
activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity
of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a
specific link does not work).
Refer a Friend
If you choose
to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you
for your friends name and email address.
We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or
her to visit the respective site. Brand
Runner stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time
email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend
may contact us at support@brandrunner.com to request that we remove this
information from our database.
Our Blog
Our Web
site offer a publicly accessible blog. You should be aware that any information
you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who
access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or
community forum, contact us at support@brandrunner.com. In some
cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we
will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
To leave comments on
our blog, you can log in using sign-in services such as Open ID. These services
will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain
personal information with us such as your name and email address.
Social Media Features
Our Web site
includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets,
such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site.
These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site,
and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social
Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted
directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the
privacy policy of the company providing it.
Changes to our policy
We
may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices.
If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail
address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior
to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this
page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Questions and feedback
We
welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us
any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.
Terms and Conditions
Please
also visit our Terms
and Conditions
section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability
governing the use of our website.
Contact Us
support@brandrunner.com
UltimateGlobes.com
PO Box 954224
Lake Mary, FL 32795 USA
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