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26 May 2010
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. Nasco collects customer information to enhance your shopping experience. This privacy policy is intended to assist you in understanding what information we gather about you when you visit this Web site, how we use that information, and the safeguards we have in place for that information. This Privacy Statement applies only to the information collected online at Nasco.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
1. General Browsing Information
Nasco gathers navigational information during each visitor's use of our Web site. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected. The navigational information tells Nasco about the use of our Web site by visitors, including the areas of our site that are visited or the time of a last visit to a page on our site. It also tells us about the technical efficiencies of our Web site and services (i.e. the time it takes a visitor to connect to our Web site or download pages). The navigational information helps us better understand a visitor's experience at Nasco and improve upon that experience by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer.
2. Personal Information
Nasco may ask you to provide personal information when you establish or update a Nasco account, Registration for Nasco E-mail, enter a contest, participate in a survey, shop online, check the status of an order, Registration to receive information about our products, and promotions.
Categories of information collected include name, address, e-mail address, recipient's name and e-mail address, order information, telephone number, mobile phone number, credit card information and messages or reminders you create.
USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
Nasco uses the personal information we collect from you to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfill requests that you have created, to contact you or the product recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties, for verification purposes, to respond to your inquiries, and to deliver services and information about our products, promotions or Web site, including adding you to the Nasco E-mail list and to our mailing list when you Registration or make a purchase.
Nasco E-MAIL
Nasco E-mail allows you to receive exclusive information about special offers, media events, new products, and much more. If you're not already registered, simply complete our Registration form to receive these special messages. If, at any time, you would like to stop future delivery of Nasco E-mail, please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each message or complete the removal from e-mail form. Asking to be removed from Nasco E-mail will not prevent you from receiving e-mail communications relating to any online orders you place at Nasco, requests to participate in surveys about our products or other operational e-mail communications.
INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES
We use third parties to help us provide services to you such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering e-mails, and administering drawings or contests. Third parties also provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our site to us and a select group.
If, after making a purchase at Nasco, you choose to participate in a survey conducted at a third party provider's website, any personal information that you provide during the survey at the third party provider's website will be subject to that third party provider's privacy policy.
If you make a purchase through Nasco, the information you provide (for example, name, address, credit card) will be added to a database.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you, if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site or the public.
VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
If you are visiting Nasco from a location outside of the U.S., your orders placed through Nasco will be accepted and fully processed in and shipped from the U.S. All information you provide will be maintained in our Web servers and/or internal systems located within the U.S., and protected as noted in this privacy policy.
COOKIES
What are cookies and how do we use cookies on our Web site?
Nasco uses a browser feature known as a cookie. A cookie is a small data file that is stored by your Web browser on your computer. Cookies are used to help track your clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within Nasco. This allows Nasco to make our site more responsive to your needs by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. Nasco also uses cookies to keep track of how many items you put into your shopping bag and to remember you when you return to Nasco.
We also use cookies and/or a technology known as clear gifs, which are typically stored in e-mails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to, our e-mails and to provide you a more personalized experience. Cookies can allow us to associate navigational information from browsing visits with personal information you provide at our site.
UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We prefer to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information including billing and shipping information by logging into Your Account.
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN ON OUR WEB SITE
To ensure compliance with federal law, Nasco does not knowingly collect or maintain information provided by children under the age of 13.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
For your convenience, our Web site may contain links to other sites. Links that appear on Nasco should not necessarily be deemed to imply that we endorse or have any affiliation with the linked Web sites. Nasco is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We encourage you to review the separate privacy policies of each site you visit.
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
SECURITY STATEMENT
Nasco takes the following types of security measures: use of technologies and policies such as limited access data-centers, firewall technology, secure socket layer certificate authentication and limitations of administrative access to our systems. In addition, it is our policy not to send your credit card number via e-mail. In fact, this is a practice we encourage you to adopt in all of your Internet activities.
We designed Nasco to accept orders only from Web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology; for example, versions 7 and 8 or higher of Internet Explorer, versions 2 and 3 or higher of Firefox and versions 4 and 5 or higher of Safari and versions 1.0 or higher of Google Chrome. SSL is encryption technology that provides security while information is being transmitted over the Internet.
While we implement the above security measures on this site, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.
