PRIVACY POLICY & COOKIE POLICY
A. Introduction
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The privacy of emigh.com visitors is very important to Emigh Ace Hardware, and Emigh Ace Hardware is committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what Emigh Ace Hardware will do with your personal information.
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Consenting to Emigh Ace Hardware’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit emighsoutdoorliving.com permits Emigh Ace Hardware to use cookies every time you visit emigh.com.
B. Credit
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Emigh Ace Hardware.
C. Collecting personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
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information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
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information about your visits to and use of emigh.com including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
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information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with emigh.com;
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information that you enter when you create a profile on emigh.com—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
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information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to Emigh Ace Hardware’s emails and/or newsletters;
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information that you enter while using the services on emigh.com;
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information that is generated while using emigh.com, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
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information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through emigh.com, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
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information that you post to emigh.com with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
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information contained in any communication that you send to emigh.com by email or through emighsoutdoorliving.com, including its communication content and metadata;
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any other personal information that you send to Emigh Ace Hardware.
Before you disclose to Emigh Ace Hardware the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy
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D. Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to Emigh Ace Hardware through emigh.com will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of emighsoutdoorliving.com. Emigh Ace Hardware may use your personal information for the following:
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administering emigh.com and business;
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personalizing emigh.com for you;
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enabling your use of the services available on emigh.com;
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sending you goods purchased through emigh.com;
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supplying services purchased through emigh.com;
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sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
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sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
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sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
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sending you Emigh Ace Hardware’s email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform Emigh Ace Hardware at any time if you no longer require the newsletter); sending you marketing communications relating to Emigh Ace Hardware’s business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which Emigh Ace Hardware thinks may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform Emigh Ace Hardware at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
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providing third parties with statistical information about Emigh Ace Hardware’s users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information;
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dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our emigh.com;
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keeping emigh.com secure and prevent fraud;
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verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of emigh.com and other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on emigh.com, Emigh Ace Hardware will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to Emigh Ace Hardware.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on emigh.com and can be adjusted using privacy controls on emigh.com.
Emigh Ace Hardware will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
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E. Disclosing personal information
Emigh Ace Hardware may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
Emigh Ace Hardware may disclose your personal information to any member of Emigh Ace Hardware’s group of companies (this means Emigh Ace Hardware’s subsidiaries, Emigh Ace Hardware’s ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
Emigh Ace Hardware may disclose your personal information:
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to the extent that Emigh Ace Hardware is required to do so by law;
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in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
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in order to establish, exercise, or defend Emigh Ace Hardware’s legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
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to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that Emigh Ace Hardware are (or are contemplating) selling; and
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to any person who Emigh Ace Hardware reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in Emigh Ace Hardware reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International data transfers
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Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
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Information that Emigh Ace Hardware collects may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
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Personal information that you publish on emigh.com or submit for publication on emigh.com may be available, via the internet, around the world. Emigh Ace Hardware cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
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You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retaining personal information
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This Section G sets out Emigh Ace Hardware data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that Emigh Ace Hardware comply with the legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
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Personal information that Emigh Ace Hardware process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
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Without prejudice to article G-2, Emigh Ace Hardware we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below: (a) Personal information will be deleted 7 days after the order has been received by the customer.
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Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
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to the extent that Emigh Ace Hardware is required to do so by law;
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if Emigh Ace Hardware believes that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
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in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
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H. Security of your personal information
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Emigh Ace Hardware will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
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Emigh Ace Hardware will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
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All electronic financial transactions entered into through emigh.com will be protected by encryption technology.
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You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and Emigh Ace Hardware cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
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You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing emigh.com confidential; Emigh Ace Hardware will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to emigh.com).
I. Amendments
Emigh Ace Hardware may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on emigh.com. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. Emigh Ace Hardware may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on emigh.com.
J. Your rights
You may instruct Emigh Ace Hardware to provide you with any personal information Emigh Ace Hardware holds about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:
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the payment of a fee; and
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the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
Emigh Ace Hardware may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct Emigh Ace Hardware at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or Emigh Ace Hardware will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third party websites
emigh.com includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. Emigh Ace Hardware has no control over, and is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Updating information
Please let Emigh Ace Hardware know if the personal information that Emigh Ace Hardware holds about you needs to be corrected or updated.
M. Cookies
emigh.com uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that Emigh Ace Hardware store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
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The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
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Emigh Ace Hardware uses Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website’s usability / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users;
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Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
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in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”;
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in Firefox (version 44) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
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in Chrome (version 48), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
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Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on emigh.com.
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You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
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in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
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in Firefox (version 44), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
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in Chrome (version 44), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
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Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.