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Online Privacy Policy of Rocan International, Inc.
(“ROCAN”)
(Last Updated November 28, 2004)
ROCAN has established this Privacy Policy to explain
how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects
from you (the customer) online.
Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure:
Rocan International, Inc. remains committed to the protection of your
information. We never sell, lease or rent any information that we
collect. This notice describes ROCAN’s privacy policy. By viewing
and/or using any of the websites owned, operated and/or maintained
by Rocan International, Inc., including this one, you constitute your
consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with
any of the content contained herein, please do not view or use any
of ROCAN’s websites.
ROCAN may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When it does, ROCAN
will also revise the “last updated” date at the top of
this Privacy Policy. In addition, ROCAN will seek a customer’s
prior consent, by email, for any new uses or proposed disclosures
of information collected from the customer prior to the change. ROCAN
will notify customers by email of changes to this policy that will
affect information collected from them in the future. In certain circumstances,
however, ROCAN will not inform and obtain the consent of the customer,
such as in connection with an investigation of a breach of an agreement,
contravention of laws, an emergency where the life, health or security
of an individual is threatened, the collection of a debt or in compliance
with the request of a law enforcement agency or a court order.
A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and
disclosure at any time by sending an email to unsubscribe@goosedownduvets.com.
When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for
any ROCAN product and you request a refund, the guarantee will still
be honoured.
In order to provide our customers with an expected level of customer
service Rocan International, Inc. may collect a variety of information
in the following categories.
Purposes for Collecting Personal Information:
ROCAN collects and uses personal information for the following Identified
Purposes:
a) to understand customer needs regarding ROCAN’s products and
services;
b) to better develop and better provide our web site and our products
and services for the benefit of our customers;
c) to better fulfill your requests for products, services or information;
d) to better communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary,
and to inform customers of new products, upgrades, warranty information,
as well as any other products and services that may be available from
ROCAN and its affiliates and third parties;
e) to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of ROCAN’s
site;
f) to personalize some of our services and products for you and to
deliver targeted advertisements and offers from ROCAN and third parties;
g) to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
h) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
government request;
i) to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable
belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any
of the agreements or policies that govern your use of ROCAN’s
sites or any of ROCAN’s products or services;
j) to protect the services, products or rights of ROCAN, including
but not limited to the security or integrity of ROCAN’s websites;
and
k) to identify and resolve technical problems concerning ROCAN’s
websites, products and services
Personal Information:
ROCAN limits its collection of personal information to only that information
which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. ROCAN does not direct
its sites to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information
from children under the age of eighteen.
We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or
give us in any other way. This may includes information such as first
name, last name, sex, contact information including billing address,
shipping addresses, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.
Statistical Information:
We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. This includes broad demographic information
that when combined with site usage data, enables us to better facilitate
the needs of our customers. Statistics include; number of visitors
to the site, browsers used, operating systems used, and time spent
on site. Web server logs and cookies are two of the technologies used
to collect this information. This type of information does not contain
any personal information that can identify a specific user.
E-mail Addresses:
Email addresses are kept for the purpose of responding to your inquiries
and/or for periodic e-mail newsletters and promotional e-mails to
our customers and visitors about products offered by ROCAN. Individuals
may have their information removed by e-mailing unsubscribe@goosedownduvets.com.
We never sell, rent or lease our email addresses or customer lists.
Information from Other Sources:
For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for
example, providing better product recommendations or special offers
that we think will interest you), we might receive information about
you from other sources and add it to our account information. We also
sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our
shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver
your next purchase or communication more easily.
Cookies:
Cookies are numbers and letters that are transferred to your computer's
hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize
your browser at subsequent logins.
When you visit a ROCAN web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer
or the cookie may be read if you have visited the ROCAN site previously.
ROCAN uses cookies to allow ROCAN to determine which products and
services you have already purchased so that ROCAN does not provide
redundant information to you, and, if you are a ROCAN affiliate, to
track ROCAN sales made to customers referred by you so that you can
receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to
not have your browser accept cookies from a ROCAN web site, you may
not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience
a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product
offerings on the ROCAN site.
Credit Card Information:
ROCAN’s preferred method of payment receipt is through PayPal.
ROCAN also accepts payment with VISA, MasterCard and American Express
credit cards. ROCAN utilizes Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to encrypt
all of the information you provide before sending it to our server.
Data in transit remains encrypted until it reaches our server where
it is decrypted. ROCAN utilizes Thawte Secure Site Certificates for
the most comprehensive security coverage.
Your account information:
Information required to open an account helps to pre-define certain
criteria such as billing address, shipping preferences, and payment
methods. Customer access to accounts is controlled by security Login
ID and Password. This is to prevent unauthorized access, improper
use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction
or accidental loss.
Disclosure, Processing and Retention:
As ROCAN continues to develop it’s business, we or our affiliates
may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with
another company. In the event that ROCAN or substantially all of its
assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred
assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States,
or in any other country in which ROCAN or its affiliates, subsidiaries
or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you consent
to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be
removed from our database), ROCAN will keep your personal information
in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary
for tax reasons or to prove ROCAN’s compliance with any applicable
law.
Accuracy of Personal Information:
ROCAN will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information
accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility
of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such information.
Customers are responsible for informing ROCAN about changes to their
personal information. You can do this by calling 1-888-753-7846 or sending
an email to privacy@goosedownduvets.com. ROCAN will use new or updated
personal information it receives from customers to update its own
records.
Security Safeguards:
ROCAN will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal
information.
Access to Personal Information:
ROCAN will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal
information in your file, if you so request by calling 1-888-753-7846,
or writing to:
Rocan International, Inc.
P.O. Box 493
Teulon, Manitoba R0C 3B0
Canada
... or upon request via e-mail to privacy@goosedownduvets.com.
If ROCAN is not able to provide access to some aspect of a customer’s
personal information, it will provide reasons for denying access such
as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about
a third party, or that it is confidential commercial information or
attorney–client privileged communications, or that the information
relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or
that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten the life
or security of another individual.
Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete
information be amended as appropriate, by contacting ROCAN as described
above. ROCAN will promptly correct such personal information.
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