PRIVACY POLICY
Information Gathering and Usage
PACIFIC FLOORCARE gathers information about you from data that you provide through such things as optional or mandatory registration, courses, lessons, topics, online surveys, and contests. The types of personal information collected can include name, mailing address, phone number, email address, relevant license numbers, transaction and credit card information. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic information such as your job function, industry, application, contact preferences or experience with our educational training courses and/or products. PACIFIC FLOORCARE may enhance or merge your information collected on our site with other operational data as well as data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or services to you. Such information enables us to better tailor our course content to your needs. The information you provide will be used to support your professional relationship with PACIFIC FLOORCARE and our courses and/or products. Among other things, we want to help you quickly find information on PACIFIC FLOORCARE web sites and alert you to information on our course, products, services and programs. We also use this information to help you complete a transaction and to contact you for market research.
Message Boards/Forums
PACIFIC FLOORCARE may make forums and message boards available to you on one or more websites. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Electronic Newsletters
PACIFIC FLOORCARE may offer various free electronic newsletters. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the instructions provided in each electronic newsletter or by emailing orders@pacificfloorcare.com
Log Files
Like most standard web site servers, we use log files to automatically log information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. We log this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. For areas of our site that require registration, we log the user’s email address and specific information concerning the user’s activity on the site. This information may be tied to the user’s other personal information and, if so, it is used to support the user’s professional relationship with PACIFIC FLOORCARE and our courses and/or products.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are used to enhance your experience on our sites by allowing us to tailor our content based on your interests. A cookie is a small data file that is saved on your hard drive when you visit certain Web sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user ID, which the site uses to personalize content and track the pages you’ve visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. Cookies are required by many Internet commerce applications supporting online stores. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to browse the majority of the PACIFIC FLOORCARE site. Cookies may be required to be “enabled” if you choose to enter areas of our site that require registration or log on.
Information Sharing
PACIFIC FLOORCARE will not disclose your personal information to any outside organization unless it is affiliated with PACIFIC FLOORCARE. Affiliates, contractors, or other business partners of PACIFIC FLOORCARE who have access to your personal information use the information in connection with your customer relationship with PACIFIC FLOORCARE and our courses and/or products. Approved contractors use the information to fulfill PACIFIC FLOORCARE requirements for such things as processing credit card purchases, shipping goods to customers, and providing information to potential customers.
Legal Requirements
PACIFIC FLOORCARE may be required to disclose personal information in response to a court order or other legal requirement.
Security
PACIFIC FLOORCARE operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by you. Any particularly sensitive information, such as a customer’s credit card number collected for a commerce transaction, is encrypted prior to transmission.
Children’s Privacy Protection
PACIFIC FLOORCARE Web sites do not target and are not intended for children under the age of 13. PACIFIC FLOORCARE Web sites will not knowingly collect personal data from children, and will delete such data upon discovery.
Sale of Business
PACIFIC FLOORCARE may transfer personal information to a third party that acquires a business from PACIFIC FLOORCARE where the information is provided as an important asset of that acquired business.
Notification of Change
All updates to this Privacy Statement will be posted on this statement. Last updated on November 19, 2019. If we make a material change to this statement with respect to the use of personal information, we will place a notice on our Web site. orders@pacificfloorcare.com