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IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY PERTAINING TO THE WEBSITE MADE AVAILABLE AT www.puppetchemistry.com (THE “SITE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE AND/OR ACCESSING THE VIDEOS POSTED THEREON (THE “CONTENT”) AS THEY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. Partners + simons, Inc. (“P+s”, “us”, “our” and “we”) recognizes that its users value their right to privacy and want to be assured that any personal and/or private information they provide to us or which is otherwise collected will be used in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein. P+s is committed to ensuring that your private and personal information will be kept secure and maintained in accordance with the this privacy policy.
Acceptance of terms
By using our services or accessing our website you are consenting to the practices
relating to information collection and use that are described in this policy. As
a reminder, we use the terms "use" and "using" to mean any time you download, install,
copy, transmit, access, initiate or utilize any of the capabilities, features or
functions of our Site and/or Content or if you attempt to do any of these things.
What information do we collect?
P+s may collect certain information from you relating both to your identity and
personal preferences. P+s will endeavor only to collect such information as is necessary
for the stated purpose for which we are collecting the information. For example
(and without limitation), we may collect your computers', systems' and/or networks'
IP addresses and message information for system administration, record keeping,
capacity planning, volume and other operational reasons as necessary in the conduct
of our business. When you use our Site, our servers record this information, which
may be stored with other information you provide to us. This may allow us to determine
which other websites refer to us.
Purposes for which we use information
P+s will not gather personally identifiable information about you. If, however,
you choose not to provide the information requested by P+s, we may not be able to
comply with your request or provide certain services. Among the information P+s
may collect is your email address. We will use this and other information that we
collect to maintain a record of your usage of the site and to inform you of any
upgrades, new products or promotions that may be of interest to you. In addition,
we may use the information you provide us with for our own internal statistical
and analytical purposes, to evaluate and profile customers, including customer preferences
and purchasing trends, which we may use for marketing purposes and in respect of
operations and development. We may contact you to ensure that the information we
have in our records is still correct and to add additional information to complete
your profile.
Third Party Use of Information
Whenever another party obtains or is otherwise provided your Information pursuant
to this Privacy Policy, these other parties may use and treat your information in
accordance with their respective privacy policies. If permitted by the applicable
third parties' privacy policies, you may revoke your consent for third parties to
have your information at any time, but to do so you must communicate directly with
the applicable third parties. Although we do not control and are not responsible
for these other parties, their privacy policies or their use or treatment of your
information, we make reasonable efforts to ensure these parties have privacy polices
and have instituted measures and procedures to maintain and protect the information.
The foregoing notwithstanding, we make no representation regarding how any third
parties use, manage, store, treat or maintain your information and you should therefore
carefully review all such third parties' privacy policies. If you unsubscribe from
receiving communications from any third party, you will not automatically be unsubscribed
from receiving communications you previously consented to receive from us. Similarly,
if you unsubscribe from communications you have consented to receiving from us,
you will not automatically be unsubscribed from receiving communications from a
third party.
Disclaimer
Although we make every effort to preserve user privacy, P+s may need to disclose
personal information when required to do so by law or necessary to comply with a
current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Website.
Security
We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your information is stored
and maintained in a secure environment. We have implemented procedures to ensure
that your information is only made available to such designated staff as necessary
to carry out the stated purposes that we have communicated to you.
Cookies
We may make use of "cookies" on our website. A cookie is a small text file that
can be placed and stored on your computer's hard disc when you visit a website for
record keeping purposes. A cookie itself is not designed or intended to read any
information from a user's computer (other than the contents of the cookie); rather,
it is an identifier used by the Web site that originally placed it on your hard
drive. The actual contents of the cookie information can be retrieved by the same
server to identify the computer and subsequently to customize, monitor, or regulate
the use of a site based on information stored on the host server. Therefore, cookies
only identify the user's computer to the Web site which may correlate other information,
including personally identifying information, with the cookie. Most web browsers
can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely.
If you are not sure how to do this or whether you have this option you should consult
the documentation that accompanied your web browser. You should be aware that if
you elect not to accept cookies, some parts of the website may not function properly
or permit access.
We use cookies to allow us to automate access and the data entry functions of our website, to tailor our website to your preferences or interests, or customize promotions or marketing. In addition, cookies allow us to track use of our website to determine those areas which are useful or popular and those that are not thereby enabling us to improve and update our website effectively.
Surveys
From time to time we may request that you participate in surveys to help us improve
the Site and/or the Content thereon or to better understand our online visitors
and our users. If you participate, information you provide to us is provided voluntarily
by you and you do so with the understanding and knowledge that under our Privacy
Policy, you are giving us your permission, and we reserve the right, to collect,
store, process and/or use such information for our internal purposes. We may also
use it and for any other purposes and/or share it with anyone we disclose to you
when we ask you to participate in the survey.
Links
We may offer links from our website to other websites which may be hosted by our
partners or by unrelated companies which we think may be of interest to you. Such
websites are not governed by this privacy policy and P+s makes no representation
as to their practices for dealing with your personal information. We recommend that
you check the privacy policy of any website at the beginning of your visit.
Children
This site is a general audience site which is neither designed nor intended to collect
personal information from children who are under the age of 13. In order to ensure
compliance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act children
under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information to this site. We
ask that parents supervise their children while online.
Retention and Storage of Information
We will retain your information for a reasonable time to permit us to use it for
the purposes that we have communicated to you. We may use the services of third
party companies to physically collect and store your information on our behalf.
Any such companies will have to comply with the terms of this policy.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may change the terms of this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect
our practices and provide greater protection for your information. Any change to
this policy will be clearly displayed on this website. Information collected by
us will be dealt within accordance with the provisions of our policy which were
in effect at the time of collection.
Business transfers
The information that is collected by P+s is considered to be an asset. In the event
that P+s, any affiliated company, division or portions of its assets are acquired
by another company, such information may be one of the transferred assets. We will
take reasonable steps to place a notification of such a transfer on our website.
Contact us
Any requests for access to your information, modification of your information or
questions in respect of this policy should be sent to the following email address
puppetchemistry@partnersandsimons.com.