Our
policy
BuyForHome.com is committed to protecting your privacy. During the
course of doing business with you, we may have to gather certain
information but we will not sell, rent or trade that individual
information to any third parties. Our sole reason for collecting
such information as your name, home address and e-mail address is
so we can process orders and/or personalize your shopping
experience. For instance, if you so choose, we will e-mail you
special offers from time to time. But only if you tell us it's
okay. We value your business and want to deserve your trust. The
policy below describes, among other things, what information we
collect, how we collect it, why we collect it and what we do with
it.
Online
orders
BuyForHome.com may collect credit card information from you in
order to process purchases from purchases made on our site. The credit card transaction is handled by a reputable
third-party financial institution that your local "brick and
mortar" retailer normally uses. They receive the credit card
number and other personal identifying information that you provide
in order to process the transaction. Keep in mind that whenever credit card
information is transmitted over the Internet, it is scrambled
using encryption technology and is therefore secure. If necessary,
the contact information you provide may also be used by authorized
BuyForHome.com employees to get in touch with you regarding a
transaction. None of this personal information will be shared or
sold to third parties. Employees or other representatives of our
company who violate our privacy policy are subject to disciplinary
action. To protect your security, we do not allow you to store
your credit card number from session to session but ask you to
enter it each time you make a purchase.
Cookies
BuyForHome.com, like most Web sites, may use a feature of your
browser to set a "cookie" on your computer. We cannot
tell your name or any personal information about you based solely
on the cookie. Unless you specifically tell us your name and other
identifying information, we will never know who you are. All the
cookie tells us is what you do - meaning what functions you
perform - when you are on the site so that we can keep track of
your transaction. A cookie also helps BuyForHome.com note
particular traffic patterns on the site so that we can improve
what we offer.
Every browser allows you to reject cookies or to choose which
cookies you will accept. Doing so, however, may sometimes
interfere with your ability to use all the features of the
BuyForHome.com site. If you choose not to allow cookies, you may
not benefit from the special features offered by the site.
Our
business partners
BuyForHome.com transacts sales through member merchants. These
merchants pay a fee for being represented on the site and the
opportunity to sell products to you. This, however, does not
entitle them to see individualized personal information about our
users. We will only share your individual information only to the
extent we need to facilitate your purchase. Our business partners
understand our privacy philosophy and pledge to uphold the same
high standards. However, if you have any questions or concerns
regarding the merchant with whom you are doing business via
BuyForHome.com then we recommend that you become acquainted with
their privacy policy.
Online
surveys
When you participate in our online surveys, you may be asked to
volunteer certain information about yourself. BuyForHome.com
might, for example, request demographic data such as zip code, age
and income level. You can provide some, all or none of the data as
you so choose. The survey results will be used to improve the site
as we add more features and product categories based on your
input.
Contests
and Sweepstakes
When BuyForHome.com runs contests and sweepstakes on the site, we
will ask those who enter for certain personal and demographic
information so that we can contact you if necessary. In most
cases, we will need to know your true identity. The exact rules of
each contest will be posted and may vary from contest to contest.
When users give us prior permission to do so, we will share their
personal information with a third party for the sole purpose of
facilitating the delivery of the prizes when they are supplied by
a merchant, manufacturer or other BuyForHome.com employee.
Security
BuyForHome.com has put security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
When credit card numbers and personal information must be
transmitted over the Internet, we employ SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
encryption technology that scrambles the numbers and letters,
making it virtually impossible for them to be stolen or
intercepted. SSL is the Internet standard for conducting business
online. As soon as BuyForHome.com receives your ordering
information, it is erased from the site and is no longer
accessible from the Internet.
How
to opt out
If you have chosen to receive e-mail from us, from time to time,
BuyForHome.com will send e-mails to you advising you of our new
products and services. You always have the option of declining to
receive this information. If you want to decline e-mails from
BuyForHome.com, you can also send an e-mail to feedback@buyforhome.com
asking to have your name removed from our e-mail list. We will
remove your e-mail address promptly. Of course, this does not rule
out the possibility that you can opt back in at any time!
Third
parties
On occasion, we do provide non-personal, aggregate information
about our users to third parties such as advertisers,
manufacturers and business partners. We may tell an advertiser,
for instance, that X number of users responded to a banner that
read "click here for more information on home safety."
This information will not identify any user personally. We will
never give individual, personally identifiable data to a third
party without your prior consent.
Children
Protecting children is important to us -- and to you. We will not
knowingly collect personal information from children, send e-mails
or other communications to children or allow them to post messages
on our bulletin boards. We will not entice children with special
games, prizes or other rewards to divulge additional or
superfluous information. Parents should be advised -- and should
advise their children - that it is not prudent for children to
offer personally identifiable information on any bulletin boards
or in any online public forums.
Outside
links
BuyForHome.com may offer links to other sites. Any time you click
on a link and are transported to another site, you should be aware
that the other site may have a different privacy and information
use policy than BuyForHome.com. We are committed to doing business
with other sites with privacy policies as responsible and
comprehensive as our policy. Ultimately, however, we cannot
control the policies of other sites. Always be aware of where you
are when you are online by checking the URL heading in your
browser.
Changes
This privacy policy is subject to change at the sole discretion of
BuyForHome.com. When we modify it, we will post the changes in a
revised policy statement.
Contacting
BuyForHome.com
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, your
dealings with BuyForHome.com or other practices of this site,
please e-mail us at privacy@buyforhome.com.
We will try to answer each e-mail on this topic within 72 hours of
receiving it.
