Privacy Statement
Paints4Less.com and Acrylatex Coatings & Recycling, Inc. (collectively will hereafter be referred to as “Us,” “We” or “Our”) is committed to respecting your privacy. Because facts about a person’s demographic and personal information are private and sensitive, so we know that you may have concerns about sharing information with us. This Privacy Policy is designed to answer your important questions about privacy, whether you are a consumer looking for products or information.
If you are a consumer, you’ll want to know how we use the information you provide when you register with us as a site user or when you participate in activities on our site, and how we protect this information from unauthorized use or disclosure.
We urge all users of our site to read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the policies and practices that we have developed to safeguard personal and health information, and to better understand our relationships with the third parties who may have access to this information.
- Information We Collect We have access to the following categories of information regarding you and your visit to our Web site. Only some of these categories of information identify you directly, but each category offers some information about your interests and activities that could be used to make inferences about you. The next section of this policy describes how We use the information we collect.
- Information That You Voluntarily Provide Site Registration. We have constructed this Web site so that you may visit us and review information about the services we offer without revealing your identity or volunteering any personally identifying information. If you register to use the Web site’s features and services a consumer, we will collect “personally identifying information” from you. Personally identifying information is information such as name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address that could be used to contact you.
Interactive Services. Information we collect may be used in our interactive services such as newsletters, questionnaires and surveys. Within any interactive service we promote, you will always have the option to “opt out” using a quick link provided in the content.
Correspondence with Us. You may use our site to ask questions or report problems regarding our products or regarding the use of our products. If you communicate with or request information from Our personnel, they will have your e-mail address as well as whatever facts you chose to include in your e-mail. If you are reporting a product experience, we may ask you for specific facts, including item(s) purchased, invoice or receipt number, date purchased, etc.
- Information That Is Routinely Collected By Our Site Technology: IP Address. We may choose to record the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer when you visit our site. Without more, the IP address does not identify you personally, but it is what allows us to maintain communications with you as you move about our site.
Cookies. We also collect information about your use of our site through cookies and similar technology. A “cookie” is a unique numeric code that we transfer to your computer so that we can keep track of your interests and preferences and recognize you as a return visitor to our site. Cookie technology allows us to collect “clickstream” data, which is not personally identifying information, but which reflects your activities on the site, including your interest in certain products or section of our web-site. A cookie does not collect or keep your name or other personal identifying information, but when you revisit our site the cookie allows us to bring you the content and features likely to be of greatest interest to you based on your previous activities on our site.
- Information That You Voluntarily Provide Site Registration. We have constructed this Web site so that you may visit us and review information about the services we offer without revealing your identity or volunteering any personally identifying information. If you register to use the Web site’s features and services a consumer, we will collect “personally identifying information” from you. Personally identifying information is information such as name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address that could be used to contact you.
- How We Use Your Information
Whether you are a consumer or trade professional, we use the information about your use of the services and activities on our Web sites to monitor user traffic patterns and try to analyze what our users prefer so that we can design better services for you. The personally identifying information that you provide may be used to create customized offers, information, and services tailored to your interests and preferences.Personally Identifying Information. You do not have to register to use most of the information available on our Web site. If you choose to register, we will use the personally identifying information you give us to send you an e-mail confirming your registration with our site and to respond to questions from you. Upon your request, we may also, from time to time, send you e-mail with special promotions or newsletters with information that we think may be of interest to you.Product Reports. If you contact “Us” regarding your experience in using one of our products, we may use the information you provide in reports to expedite your reason for contact by our internal staff or provide it to the manufacturer so they may contact you directly regarding the unexpected event involving use of their product.
IP Address. In addition to using the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer to maintain communications with you as you move about our site, we also may use your IP address to personalize content provided on the Web site. We retain IP addresses, and we retain them together with personally identifying information.
Cookies. We use the data we obtain through the use of cookies to customize your site experience by anticipating the information and services that may be of interest to you. We also analyze the information collected with cookie technology to help us improve the functioning of our site by monitoring traffic in popular areas and to modify the services and information we provide to meet customer demand. We will link the clickstream data available to us through the use of cookies to the personally identifiable information that you may choose to provide elsewhere on our site. We use the information we collect through the use of cookies for our business purposes, including operation of our site, as well as research and product analysis to help us better market our products.
Law Enforcement. In certain limited circumstances, “We” may be called upon to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or regulation. We plan to cooperate in responding to such requests, taking appropriate measures to ensure that the requester understands the sensitive nature of the personal information that they may receive. We also reserve the right to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting users who violate our rules or engage in behavior that is illegal or harmful to this or other web sites.
- Our Relationship to Third Parties We may use third parties to provide services and information on our site and we may provide some co-branded services in partnership with others. We also may use third parties to analyze data collected on our site. We will not disclose your personally identifying information to anyone other than “Our” own employees and those third parties with whom we have a business relationship. If we allow a third party contractor to have access to your personally identifying information, we will not authorize them to take it or use it for any purpose that is not consistent with this privacy policy.
We pledge that we will not sell or disclose any personally identifying information or health-related personal information you provide on our site to an unrelated third party without your express permission, except as explained below:
- Cookies. We do not allow other sites or third parties to use our cookies for their own purposes or to place their own cookies on your computer when you access services through our site.
- Vendors and Suppliers. We have relationships with different vendors and suppliers who help us design and maintain our systems and our computer security, respond to e-mail and customer inquiries, analyze our data and create special promotions. We will not authorize our vendors and suppliers to use our customer information for any purpose not related to “Our” joint business operation.
Other Important Information About Our Relationship With Third Parties
- Links to Other Sites. We also feature links to Web sites that we believe you might find useful and informative. Please be aware, however, that we do not endorse or recommend these sites’ content or services, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of and read the privacy policy of each site you visit. Remember, the statements in this privacy policy apply solely to information collected by “Us”.
- Advertisers. We do not permit advertisers to display their advertisements at our site, and we will not permit third party ad servers to use cookies to collect information from users at our site.
- Our Children’s Policy “Our” site content and services are intended for adult users over the age of 13. The site is not designed to attract child users.
- Your Privacy Choices When you access any interactive tool or service on an “Our” web site, you will be asked to affirmatively choose (“opt-in”) to provide the requested information. You may always choose not to provide the requested information.
- Receive E-mail. When you register with our site, you will be given the option of requesting to receive e-mail with information we think you might find useful, including promotions, announcements of new services and products, and newsletters. If you decide, at any later time, that you no longer wish to receive these e-mails you may unsubscribe at this link: UNSUBSCRIBE or send an email request to: sales@acrylatex.com with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
- Accept Cookies. Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, but if you reject our cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our site may not work properly. Cookies and similar technologies are how we ensure that we can promptly retrieve and deliver the information to you when you use our site.
- Correct/Update Personal Information. You may correct or update your personal information you previously provided to the web site at any time, by sending an e-mail to webcoordinator@paints4less.com
- Remove Personal Information. You may remove previously provided personal information at any time by sending an e-mail webcoordinator@paints4less.com*Deletion Policy. The information that you provide “Us” is stored in servers that are operated and maintained by “Us” and/or third parties under contract with “Us.” Web site users should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove from our servers each and every record of the information you have provided to “Us.”. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of information about you or your health-related interests may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving your request, “We” will delete all personal information stored in the databases “We” actively use for research and daily business activities, or stored in other readily searchable media. In addition, we will use commercially reasonable efforts not to disclose any personal information stored in a non-erasable format after receiving your request for removal, except as required by law.
- Communicate with “Us” by E-mail. At our Web site, consumers may communicate with our staff to learn more about our products and services. “We” will not disclose personally identifiable information that we receive in e-mail, but all e-mail transmissions are vulnerable to unauthorized interception. In addition, we remind you that e-mail sent or received through an employer’s computer or computer system is not confidential and may be the legal property of the employer.
- Our Security Measures We want your personal information to remain as secure as reasonably possible and will make every effort to do so
- Changes in Our Privacy Policy We will only use personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was collected from you. However, we reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to our site. If at any point, we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by e-mail to the extent that we have your e-mail address. You will be given the choice at that time to “opt-in” for any additional uses or disclosures of your personally identifiable information that you made available to us prior to the change in our policy.