Online Privacy Notice
Introduction
(a) Web Site Owner. Paracord Life, (“Paracord Life”) is the owner of this web site (“Paracord Life Sites”). Paracord Life can be contacted by e-mail at support@ParacordLife.com. This online privacy notice discloses Paracord Life information practices for this Paracord Life Sites, including what type of personal identifiable information is requested in order to make a purchase, how the information is used, and with whom the in-formation is shared.
(b) Web Site Visits. In general, you can visit on the Paracord Life Sites without disclosing any personal information. Paracord Life may keep track of the domains from which people visit us and analyze the data gathered from site visits for trends and statistics.
(c) Web Site Transactions. At times, Paracord Life will need personal information regarding a customer or a prospect. For example to process an order or provide a subscription, Paracord Life may need to know a customer’s name, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card details. It is Paracord Life’s intent to inform you know before Paracord Life collects personal information, such as user’s name and/or address on the Internet. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you, Paracord Life will respect your wishes.
Personal Information That May Be Collected
(a) Identifying Information. In order to make a purchase to make a purchase, or to access designated subscriber services or content, and /or restricted areas within the Paracord Life Sites, Paracord Life will request a user to provide certain personal identifying information, which may include: legal name, postal address, e-mail address, screen name, password, telephone number, facsimile number, method of payment, and, if applicable, credit card number. Paracord Life may request additional information necessary to establish and maintain customer’s account.
(b) Service Quality Monitoring. Some transactions may require a customer to telephone Paracord Life, or Paracord Life to call the customer. Paracord Life will not contact you by telephone without your prior consent, except to confirm an order placed online and/or to inform a customer of the status of such order. Customer should be aware that it is Paracord Life’s practice to monitor, and in some cases record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.
(c) Information from Children. Paracord Life does not sell products or services for purchase by children, and will not collect or post information from a child under the age of 18 without the involvement of a parent or guardian. Paracord Life does not use personally identifying information collected from children for marketing or promotional purposes, and does not disclose such information to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.
(d) Lost or Stolen Information. If a customer’s credit card and/or password is lost or stolen, the customer should promptly notify Paracord Life in order to enable Paracord Life to cancel the lost or stolen information and to update its records with a changed credit card and/or password.
(e) Chat Rooms, Forums and Bulletin Boards. If customer participates in an Paracord Life chat room, discussion forum, or posts messages to an Paracord Life bulletin board, customer should be aware that the information disclosed and shared will be broadly available to other persons, both inside of and/or outside Paracord Life, who have access to that chat room, forum or bulletin board. Some individual Paracord Life chat rooms, forums or bulletin boards have additional rules and conditions regarding participation. Also, participant’s expressed opinion is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Paracord Life.
(f) Links to Other Web Sites. An Paracord Life Web site may contain links to other web sites. Paracord Life is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites.
(g) If You choose to pay for the Paracord Life products or services by credit card, Your credit card details are not stored by the Paracord Life. Your credit card details are encrypted and securely stored by [SERVICE PROVIDER] to enable Paracord Life to automatically bill your credit card on a recurring basis. You should review [SERVICE PROVIDER] Privacy Policy to ensure you are happy with it.
Uses Made of the Information
(a) Limited Uses Identified. Without customer’s prior consent, Paracord Life will not use your personal identifiable information for any purpose other than that for which it is submitted. Paracord Life uses personal identifiable information to reply to inquiries, handle complaints, provide operational notices and in program record-keeping. Paracord Life also processes billing and business requests related to Paracord Life Sites participation.
(b) Marketing Uses. When customer provides information to Paracord Life, Paracord Life will provide customer with information about Paracord Life Sites, Paracord Life products and services, and related information in which customer has indicated an interest until such time as the customer elects to unsubscribe from such messaging.
(c) Stored Information Uses. Paracord Life stores and retains the information provided by customer. This information is used to compile a customer’s purchase history in order to enable Paracord Life to recommend products, services, or special offers that would be of interest to a customer. Stored information is used by Paracord Life and/or Paracord Life agents: to support customer interaction with the Paracord Life Sites; to deliver customer purchases; and/or to contact customer again about other Paracord Life services and products.
(d) Online Advertising. Some companies that help Paracord Life deliver interactive on-line advertising, such as banner ads, may collect and use information about Paracord Life’s customers to help Paracord Life better understand the types of advertising or promotions that are most appealing to Paracord Life’s customers. If, however, customer would prefer that these companies not collect such information, please mark an “x” on the opt-out option box herein provided.
Disclosure of the Information
(a) Within Corporate Organization. Paracord Life may share your personal information within the Paracord Life corporate organization, and may transfer the information to countries in the world where Paracord Life conducts business. Some countries may provide less legal protection for customer personal information.
(b) Agents. Paracord Life employs or engages other companies and individuals to perform business functions on behalf of Paracord Life. These persons are provided with personal identifying information required to perform their functions, but are prohibited by contract from using the information for other purposes. These persons engage in a variety of functions which include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer services.
(c) Affiliated Businesses. Paracord Life works closely with affiliated businesses operating web site stores, providing services or selling products on each other’s Web sites. These businesses identify themselves to customers. Customer information related to a transaction with an affiliated business is shared with that affiliated business.
(d) Marketing Analysis by Third Parties. Paracord Life reserves the right to disclose to third parties personal information about customers for marketing analysis.
(e) Disclosure to Governmental Authorities. Under certain circumstances, personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to a judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants or orders.
Use of Computer Tracking Technologies
(a) No Tracking of Personal Information. Through web site access logs Paracord Life does collect clickstream data and HTTP protocol elements, which generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used for internal purposes by technical support staff for research and development, user analysis and business decision making, all of which provides better services to the public. The statistics garnered, which contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information, may also be provided to third parties.
(b) Use of Cookies. Paracord Life, or its third party vendors, collects non-identifiable and personal information through the use of various technologies, including “cookies”. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that a Web site can transfer to customer’s hard drive through customer’s browser. The cookie is then stored on customer’s computer as an anonymous tag that identifies the customer’s computer, but not the customer. Cookies may be sent by Paracord Life or its third party vendors. Customer can set its browser to notify customer before a cookie is received, giving an opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. Customer may also set its browser to turn off cookies; however, some Web sites may not then work properly.
(c) Use of Web Beacon Technologies. Paracord Life may also use Web beacon or other technologies to better tailor its Web site(s) to provide better customer service. If these technologies are in use, when a visitor accesses these pages of the Web site, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by Paracord Life or by its suppliers. Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If customer does not want cookie information to be associated with customer’s visits to these pages, customer can set its browser to turn off cookies; however, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
(d) Collection of Non-Identifiable Information. Paracord Life may collect non-identifiable information from user visits to the Paracord Life Sites(s) in order to provide better customer service. Examples of such collecting include: traffic analysis, such as tracking of the domains from which users visit, or tracking numbers of visitors; measuring visitor activity on Paracord Life Sites(s); Web site and system administration; user analysis; and business decision making. Such information is sometimes known as “clickstream data.” Paracord Life or its contractors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics.
(e) Collection of Personal Information. Paracord Life collects personal identifying information from customer during a transaction. Paracord Life may extract some personally identifying information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information, such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level (not at an individual level) to help Paracord Life understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level.
Information Security
(a) Commitment to Online Security. Paracord Life employs physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information. Billing and payment data is encrypted whenever transmitted or received online. Personal information is accessible only by staff designated to handle online requests or complaints.
(b) No Liability for Acts of Third Parties. Paracord Life will exercise all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of customer personal information. However, transmissions protected by industry standard security technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, Paracord Life shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal information due to no fault of Paracord Life including, but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of Paracord Life staff and/or third parties.
Privacy Policy Changes and Opt-Out Rights
(a) Changes to Privacy Policy. Paracord Life reserves the right to change or update its privacy policy statement at any time. A notice of any material change will be posted on the Paracord Life Web] for [Thirty (30) days] prior to the implementation of such change
(b) Opt-Out Right. Customer and/or prospective customer has the right at any time to cease permitting personal information to be collected, used or disclosed by Paracord Life and/or by any third parties with whom Paracord Life has shared and/or transferred such personal information. Right of cancellation may be exercised by contacting Paracord Life via e-mail Support@ParacordLife.com, telephone or [certified] postal mail. After processing the cancellation, Paracord Life will delete customer or prospective customer’s personal information from its data base.
Terms of Use. If customer chooses to enter into a purchase order or to subscribe to Paracord Life’s services, customer’s action is hereby deemed acceptance of Paracord Life practices described in this policy statement. Any dispute over privacy between customer and Paracord Life is subject to the provisions of this notice and to Paracord Life’s Terms and Conditions of which is hereby incorporated herein and which can be read at [provide web site address/link].