Home Supply Network Website Privacy Statement
This document
was last updated on May 15, 2007.
1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Home Supply Network is committed to
protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement
sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to
the information we collect when you or your
computer interact with our website. By accessing
Home Supply Network, you acknowledge and fully
understand Home Supply Network\'s Privacy Statement and
freely consent to the information collection and
use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement.
2. PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES
Related services and offerings with links
from this website, including vendor sites, have
their own privacy statements that can be viewed by
clicking on the corresponding links within each
respective website. Online merchants and others
who participate in Home Supply Network services
are encouraged to participate in industry privacy
initiatives and to take a responsible attitude
towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not
have direct control over the policies or practices of
participating merchants and other third parties, we are
not responsible for the privacy practices or
contents of those sites. We recommend and
encourage that you always review the privacy policies of
merchants and other third parties before you
provide any personal information or complete any
transaction with such parties.
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
Home Supply Network collects certain
information from and about its users three ways:
directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies.
a. Web Server Logs.
When you visit our Website, we may track
information to administer the site and analyze its
usage. Examples of information we may track include:
Your Internet protocol address, the kind of
browser or computer you use, number of links you
click within the site, state or country from which
you accessed the site, date and time of your visit, name
of your Internet service provider, web page you
linked to our site from, and pages you viewed on
the site.
b. Use of Cookies
Home Supply Network may use cookies to
personalize or enhance your user experience. A
cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard
disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run
programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only
be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the
cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to
provide a convenience feature to save you time.
For example, if you personalize a web page, or
navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to
recall your specific information on subsequent
visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of
delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by
providing and saving your preferences and login
information as well as providing personalized functionality.
Home Supply Network reserves the right to
share aggregated site statistics with partner
companies, but does not allow other companies to
place cookies on our website unless there is a
temporary, overriding customer value (such as
merging into Home Supply Network.com a site that
relies on third-party cookies).
You have the ability to accept or decline
cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by
changing your browser settings then be aware that
this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
c. Personal Information Users
Visitors to our website can register to
purchase services. When you register, we will
request some personal information such as name,
address, email, telephone number or facsimile number,
account number and other relevant information. If
you are purchasing a service, we will request
financial information. Any financial information we
collect is used only to bill you for the services
you purchased. If you purchase by credit card,
this information may be forwarded to your credit card
provider. For other types of registrations, we will ask
for the relevant information. You may also be
asked to disclose personal information to us so
that we can provide assistance and information to you.
For example, such data may be warranted in order
to provide online technical support and troubleshooting.
We will not disclose personally identifiable
information we collect from you to third parties
without your permission except to the extent
necessary including:
To fulfill your service requests for
services, to protect ourselves from liability, to
respond to legal process or comply with law, or in
connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of
the company.
4. USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILES
Home Supply Network Web pages may contain
electronic images known as Web beacons –
sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that
allow Home Supply Network to count users who have
visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. Home Supply Network may include Web beacons in
promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to
determine whether messages have been opened and
acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by
third party service providers to help determine
the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email
communications. These Web beacons may be used by these
service providers to place a persistent cookie on
your computer. This allows the service provider to
recognize your computer each time you visit certain
pages or emails and compile anonymous information
in relation to those page views, which in turn
enables us and our service providers to learn which
advertisements and emails bring you to our website and
how you use the site. Home Supply Network
prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect
or access your personal information.
5. ACCESSING WEB ACCOUNT INFORMATION
You can access all your personally
identifiable information that we collect online
and maintain by contacting Home Supply Network.
To protect your privacy and security, we
will also take reasonable steps to verify your
identity before granting access or making corrections.
6. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Home Supply Network has the discretion to
occasionally update this privacy statement. When
we do, we will also revise the "updated" date at
the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to
periodically review this privacy statement to stay
informed about how we are helping to protect the
personal information we collect. Your continued use of
the service constitutes your agreement to this
privacy statement and any updates.
7. CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy
Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere
to this Privacy Statement and/or our general
practices, please contact us.
Home Supply Network will use commercially
reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve
any problem or question.