This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.IndependentBands.com. By visiting IndependentBands.com,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Because we, IndependentBands.com, desire to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we have agreed to disclose our information practices. Our website has agreed to inform you on:
- What personally identifiable information of yours IndependentBands collects.
- The organization collecting the information.
- How the information is used.
- With whom the information may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
- The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under
IndependentBands control.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, please contact our customer service
department by e-mailing sales@independentbands.com.
This privacy policy is effective as of November 10th, 2004.
Information Collection and Use
IndependentBands.com is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or
rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy. We collect information from our
customers to process orders and better serve you with pertinent information, such as order confirmations and order
status updates. Information collected includes your name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers,
e-mail address, and payment information such as your credit card number.
Order
In order to process your orders placed on this website, you will be required to provide your contact information,
which includes your name,
e-mail address, telephone number and street address. This information is used to provide you with important
IndependentBands.com services such as automated order status updates via e-mail.
During the order process, you will have to provide financial information such as your credit card number,
expiration date, money order or check information. This information is used for billing purposes
and to fulfill your order. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this contact information to get
in touch with you. To properly process your credit card information, we must share your personal and financial
information with the merchant bank for authorization and approval. This process is protected by an enhanced
security system. See the Security section below for more details on security measures and procedures. We do not
share your personal and financial information with any third parties, except those specified in the Sharing section
of this policy.
Cookies
We customize certain Web page content based on your browser-type or other information provided by our cookie.
If you reject the cookie, you will still be able to browse our site; however, you will be unable to use our shopping
cart and purchase items. This is because cookies are required by the shopping cart to retain the necessary information
to process your order. If you disable cookies, IndependentBands.com will be unable to accept your order online. We do
not share any personally identifiable information provided by this cookie with any third party. Cookies are used only
for the purpose of providing you with a personal experience at IndependentBands.com.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information, and we do not
distribute or share IP information with any third parties.
Sharing
We may employ third party companies to perform functions on our behalf. These functions may include order
fulfillment, package delivery, marketing assistance, postal and e-mail delivery, customer service, data analysis,
and credit processing. The third parties we contract for these purposes have limited access to your personal
information and may not use it for other purposes.
As our business continues to evolve, we may acquire or sell business units or subsidiaries. Customer information
is one of the business assets that would be transferred in these types of transactions. In such a situation, your
personally identifiable information would only be used in a manner consistent with our pre-existing Privacy Notice.
In the interests of creating a safer marketplace, IndependentBands.com will disclose its customers' personally
identifiable information to law enforcement or third party fraud protection companies whenever such disclosure is
required by state or federal law.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that IndependentBands.com is not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read
the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies only to information collected by this website.
Security
IndependentBands.com takes precautions to protect its customers' information. When you submit sensitive
information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
When our order form asks you to enter sensitive information (such as your credit card number),
that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software currently available in the
industry - SSL.
Access to all of our users' information is restricted. Only employees who need the
information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.
All IndependentBands.com servers, including web servers and database servers, are housed and maintained in
secure locations. Access to the database is strictly monitored and protected from outside access. Internet access
is restricted and protected by firewalls and password protection. The servers on
which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secured environment.
If you have any questions about IndependentBands.com's security practices, you can send us an email at
sales@independentbands.com.
Special Offers
Our special offers are sent to our customers. To honor the privacy of our users, we offer the option to
not receive these types of communications.
All special offers are sent via e-mail and have a "remove link" if you wish to no longer receive special offers
and news. Otherwise, customers may occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals or news.
Please see the Choice/Opt-out section below for further details on how to be removed from our mailing list should
you choose to be removed.
Choice/Opt-out
For customers who wish to optout and stop receiving IndependentBands.com special offers and related news,
IndependentBands.com provides several ways to do so. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or
promotional materials may optout of receiving these communications by using the link provided in all
IndependentBands.com newsletters to automatically unsubscribe.
