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alonovo.com Privacy Disclosures:
We
at alonovo.com take great pride in providing you a
unique service that provides Social-Responsibility information (social,
environmental and economic) about businesses.
It
is critical for us to hold our business to the
highest standards and provide for you a safe and trusted environment
for
browsing and shopping. We
take privacy
very seriously and have taken the necessary steps to address the issues
around
this subject. The
details of our privacy
policy are provided below. If
you have
any questions, comments, or concerns about our privacy policy, please
don’t
hesitate to contact us at support@alonovo.com
Information
Collection & Use
Registration
Users are
able to fully utilize
the website, to browse and shop without registering with us. Because we allow you to
designate a
non-profit organization to receive a percentage of your online
purchases, we
require that you first register with us in order to activate that
feature. During the
registration you are required to
give us contact information (such as name and email address). We use
this
information to contact you about the services on our site in which you
have
expressed interest including but not limited to updates on site
features,
special offers as well as timely updates on funds directed to your
non-profit
of choice.
From time to
time, you will have
the option to provide demographic information to us; we encourage you
to submit
this information only so we can provide you a more personalized
experience on
our site.
alo
novo, inc. is the sole
owner of the information collected on alonovo.com.
alonovo.com collects personally identifiable
information from our users at different points on our website, and
those such
instances and the usage and sharing policies around this information
are
described below.
Orders
Currently
orders for products and
services on our site are handled by third party shopping and service
providers. In
providing you this
service, alonovo.com does not collect any personally identifiable
information
during the shopping transaction. In
all
instances you will be notified that you are no longer on our site and
being
directed to a third party site. We
encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the
privacy
statements of each and every Web site that collects personally
identifiable
information.
Surveys
or Contests
From
time to time we may
provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on
our
site. If you
participate, we will
request certain personally identifiable information from you.
Participation in
these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore
have a
choice whether or not to disclose this information.
For the purposes of a contest, the requested
information typically includes contact information (such as name and
shipping
address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We use this information
solely to notify
contest winner and award and deliver prizes.
In
the case of surveys,
the information requested will be limited to contact information (name
and
email address). This information will be used for the purpose of
confirming and
troubleshooting any member survey results and providing feedback to
users who
took the survey.
We
may use a third party
service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company
will be
prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable
information for any
other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable
information you
provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we
give you
prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose
to use our referral
service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your
friend’s name
and email address. We
will automatically
send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. alonovo.com may
temporarily store this
information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
Uses
of Information
The
information that we
collect fall into three broad categories: (1) information that allows
us to
stay in contact with you (2) information we need to allow us to fulfill
a
shopping transaction (3) optional and general ethnographic information. The first type of
information is generally
stored such that we can provide you with the latest offerings and
services of
our site and to update you on any critical events and notices. The second type of
information is solely used
for the purpose of fulfilling your shopping order, shipping it where
applicable
and to allow for product tracking communication.
The last type of information gathered is
optional and ethnographical in nature, items such as sex, age, income
level, occupation,
and areas of interest. This information, provided to us at your option,
is
simply used to better understand the alonovo.com community, and provide
a more
compelling experience as we add features and functions to our site. Any
information
shared for this purpose will never include personally identifiable
individual
information about any member of the alonovo.com community.
Communications
from the Site
Special
Offers and
Updates
We
will occasionally send
you information on products, services, and special announcements.
Out
of respect for your
privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of
communications. Please
see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
Newsletters
If
you wish to subscribe
to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send
the
newsletter to you. Out
of respect for
your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe.
Please see the “Choice and Opt-out”
section.
Service-related
Announcements
We
will send you strictly
service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to
do
so. For instance,
if our service is
temporarily unavailable due to maintenance or upgrades, we will send
you an
email.
Customer
Service
Based
upon the personally
identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming
email to
verify your username and password.
We
will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to
provide the
services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate
with you
by email or telephone, strictly in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We
store private information that we collect through well-accepted
processes to
create a “profile” of your preferences in order to
make the alonovo.com more
compelling for you as a part of our intelligent marketplace.
We
only
share the information in your profile that is necessary to fulfill your
order.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate
Information
(non-personally identifiable)
We
share aggregated
demographic information about our community with our partners,
merchants,
affiliates and advertisers. This
information does not identify individual users and is in no way linked
to any
personally identifiable information that you have selected to provide
to us
during the course of your usage of our services.
This
aggregate information
allows us to show in very generalized fashion the demographic of users
that comprise
our community, and in turn allows us to better describe our benefit to
possible
advertisers and future partners, affiliates and merchants.
Affiliate relationship
Some of the services and
products that we provide
on the site are delivered through an affiliate relationship and
agreement with
a 3rd party vendor.
We do not
share any personally identifiable information with these 3rd
parties
unless you have specifically provided us with the necessary permission
to do
so. In most of
these instances, you will
be directed out of our site and onto the 3rd
party’s site to
complete the transaction whose link was initiated at our site. We will notify you in the
event you are
leaving our site and on to our 3rd party vendor
site. We encourage
you to be aware when you leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site
that
collects personally identifiable information.
Legal
Disclaimer
We
reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information
as a
last resort when required by law and such a disclosure is necessary to
comply
with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our
Web
site
Choice/Opt-out
We
provide you the
opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally
identifiable information
used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information.
If you no longer wish to
receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out
of
receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or
communication or by changing your preferences during registration or
after
registration, via the user account section.
Log
Files
We gather
certain internet
information automatically and store it in log files.
This information includes internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, to
analyze trends, to administer the site, to track the
community’s usage and
navigation of the site, so we may provide a more compelling experience
for the
alonovo.com community in the future.
Cookies
A
cookie is a small text
file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping
purposes. We keep
the usage of cookies on our site to a minimum.
We
use both session ID
cookies and persistent cookies. We
use
session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A
session ID
cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains
on your
hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent
cookies in
Internet Explorer by going to the Tools section on the menu bar,
selecting
Internet Options and then General. From there you can view or delete
your cookies.
For Firefox, select Tools from the menu bar, then Options and Cookies.
From
there you can view or delete your cookies. For additional information
on
cookies and their removal, please refer to your
Internet browser’s “help”
file.
We
set a persistent cookie
to store your passwords, so you do not have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also
enable us to track
and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site.
If you reject cookies, you
may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site,
such as
contests or surveys, will be limited. Rejecting cookies will also
prevent you
from saving a shopping cart for later use.
Some
of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or
control over these
cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This
privacy statement covers the use of cookies by alonovo.com only and
does not
cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. [See the
“Third Party
Advertisers” section.]
Clear
Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ [or our third party
advertising partner
employs] a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web
Beacons/Web Bugs),
that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what
content is
effective. Clear
gifs are tiny graphics
with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used
to track
the navigation of content by the alonovo.com community.
In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a
user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly
on Web pages and
are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
We use clear gifs in our
HTML-based emails to let
us know which emails have been opened by recipients.
This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of
certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to
opt-out of these emails,
please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Third
Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web
site are delivered to
users directly by alonovo.com.
We share
aggregated (non-individual) Web site usage information about users with
reputable third party advertising firms for the purpose of targeting
our
Internet banner advertisements on this site.
Links
to Other Sites
This
Web site contains
links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by alonovo.com. Please be aware
that we, alonovo.com are not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be
aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of
each and
every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement
applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Access
to Personally Identifiable Information
If
you wish to modify your
registration information, or if you no longer desire our service, you
may
correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our
registration
and profile page. In
the event you
experience any problem, please email us at support@alonovo.com
Security
The
security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive
information we
encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL)
provided by
industry leader thawte.com (http://www.thawte.com).
We
follow accepted industry standards to protect the personal information
submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We strive to use
commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information.
If
you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send
us email at
support@alonovo.com
In the event
alonovo.com goes
through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another
company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via
email and a
prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in
ownership or
control of your personal information.
Changes
in this Privacy Statement
If we decide
to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the
homepage, and
other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what
information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose
it.
We reserve
the right to modify
this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material
changes to this policy,
we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home
page.
Contact
Us
If you have any
questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact
us at: support@alonovo.com