PRIVACY POLICY (Effective Date: July 20, 2014)

 

PRIVACY NOTICE

 

Thank you for visiting smithsoncompany.com. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site. The Information We Collect, you can order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities.

 

The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. The Smithson Company, Inc. also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows ‘95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

 

 

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

 

For the purposes of this privacy policy, personal information is any information about an identifiable individual, other than the person’s business title or business contact information when used or disclosed for the purpose of business communications.

 

For example, personal information includes your name, age, e-mail address, preferences (such as asking to receive our newsletters or special offers) and, where applicable, payment details.

 

 

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION

 

The Smithson Company, Inc. (“we”) may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us. The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.

 

The Smithson Company, Inc. sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services. We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request. Agents and contractors of The Smithson Company, Inc. who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for The Smithson Company, Inc.

 

Although The Smithson Company, Inc. take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identities in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data. If a The Smithson Company, Inc. site discloses personally identifiable information to companies not owned by The Smithson Company, Inc. who want to market products or services to you, it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses. For instructions on how to opt out from such disclosures, please send an e-mail, along with your first and last name, to info@smithsoncompany.com. The Smithson Company, Inc. may on occasion combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you.

 

If you prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, please send an e-mail, along with your first and last name, to info@smithsoncompany.com. Finally, The Smithson Company, Inc. sites will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses. Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. The Smithson Company, Inc. sites sometimes may offer contests, sweepstakes, or promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. The Smithson Company, Inc. has no control over the third-party sponsors’ use of this information.

 

The Smithson Company, Inc. site will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if third-party sponsors will obtain such information. Cookies To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use “cookies.” Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.

 

 

OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY

 

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. How You can Access or Correct Information For instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information that this The Smithson Company, Inc. site has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors in such information, please send an e-mail, along with your first and last name, to info@smithsoncompany.com. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

 

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while this Site and the Services strive to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the confidentiality or security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

 

 

ON-LINE SAFETY

 

It is important to remember that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. In addition, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on message boards, in e-mails, or in chat areas on the Site or through the Services, that information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited e-mail messages or attempt to contact you in other ways.

 

Always be cautious about the information you provide or store online.

 

 

SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS

 

The site you are visiting is The Smithson Company, Inc. general audience sites. Consistent with our obligations under various child privacy protection laws (such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect, use, disclose or store personal information of children under thirteen (13) years of age without their parent(s) / guardian(s) consent.

 

Accordingly, we request that children under the age of thirteen (13) not submit any personal information to us via the Site or the Services and obtain consent from their parent(s)/guardian(s) before accessing our Site or the Services. We request that children under the age of 13 not submit any personal information to us via the Site and require signed consent by means of returning a legal affidavit as required during submission of personally identifiable information from parents/guardians of children under the age of 13 to gain access to content and/or services on the Site. We require that all individuals accept our Terms of Use, which states explicitly that users of the Site and Service must have consent from their parent(s)/guardian if under the age of 13 years as well as prominently displaying a notice to parent(s)/guardian(s) to describe how we collect, use and disclose personal information. Where we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personally identifiable information from a child under thirteen (13), we will attempt to notify such child’s parent or guardian and remove such information from our records.

 

If you are the parent or guardian of a teenager who is under the age of eighteen (18) but at least thirteen (13) years old, and have authorized your teenager to use your Account, we urge you to instruct your teenager to NEVER give out his or her real name, address, phone number or other personally identifiable information while using the Service. Teenagers under the age of eighteen (18) but at least thirteen (13) years old should encourage their parents to review this policy and to contact us if they have any questions.

 

If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under thirteen (13), please contact our Privacy Officer in the manner noted below.

 

 

DISCLAIMERS

 

The Smithson Company, Inc. reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such change on this page. Please check back to this Privacy Policy from time to time to discover any updates to the site.

 

The Smithson Company, Inc. Privacy Policy outlined herein is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal right in or on behalf of any party.

 

 

HOW TO CONTACT US

 

If you have any questions or concerns about the The Smithson Company, Inc. online policy for this site or its implementation you may contact us at info@smithsoncompany.com.