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Information
About You. We may collect several types of information
on our Site. We collect "Personal Information", which
is used to identify you individually, such as your name and address.
We also collect "Non-Personal Information", which does
not itself identify you individually, such as age and gender.
We also collect "Aggregate Information", which is information
about use of our site, such as which pages have been visited the
most. The information we collect depends on what services you
use on our Site. The following explains these types of information
and how we collect and use it.
Please
see our Terms
of Use for
a more detailed
legal explanation
of our general
online policies.
If
you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of
your information, e-mail us at info@zorkoelectric.com.
Personal
and Non-Personal Information. When you contact our Site,
we may collect various kinds of Personal Information, including
name, e-mail address, and phone number.
Surveys.
We may post surveys on our Site to gain information on how to
improve the overall experience of zorkoelectric.com. The surveys
may request demographic information (age range, gender, areas
of interest, and familiarity with Zorko channels, products, and
services) and customer feedback. Participation in these requests
is completely voluntary. With each request, you will have the
choice of whether or not to disclose information.
Customer
Service Correspondence. We may collect information that
identifies you personally when you submit comments, questions,
or suggestions to our Service Department. Our Site may have chat
rooms, discussion boards, online forums, and other interactive
technologies that allow individual comments and messages to be
tied to a guest's name or e-mail address. Any information you
post in such forums is public information. Zorko cannot control
what uses third parties may make of personal information you share
in such forums.
Resumes.
If you are interested in applying for a job with Zorko, we may
collect your resume. Resumes you submit for job applications will
not be used for marketing purposes.
Use
of Your Personal and Non-Personal Information. Except
as disclosed in this policy, we DO NOT sell or disclose information
that identifies our guests personally or makes it possible for
other parties to contact them directly without our guests' consent.
We may use, sell, disclose, or otherwise dispose of Personal Information
we collect in the following circumstances:
Internal
Analysis and Promotions. We may use information about you
for our own internal statistical, design, or operational purposes,
such as to estimate audience size; measure aggregate traffic patterns;
and understand demographic, customer interest, purchasing, and
other trends among our guests and customers. We may also use your
Personal Information for the marketing and/or promotion of our
products or services. We may outsource all of these tasks to third
parties on a confidential basis.
Legal
Requirement. We may disclose personal information:
(a)
to conform with the law, respond to claims or comply with legal
process served on Zorko (e.g., a lawful subpoena, warrant or court
order);
(b) to enforce or apply our policies or agreements (including
to initiate, render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us);
(c) to protect and defend our or our user's rights or property,
the Site, our employees, guests or the public, including fraudulent,
abusive, or unlawful use of, our Site; or
(d) if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate
danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires
disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records
without delay. Zorko. Information collected through our Site is
considered a trade secret of Zorko. As the owner of such information,
we may disclose or sell such information as an asset of the company
in conjunction with the sale to a third party of our company or
a portion of our assets.
Aggregate Information. We collect Aggregate Information
about you and your use of our Site whenever you visit us online.
For instance, we may collect various forms of "click stream"
information, such as entry and exit points for our Site (i.e.,
referring URLs or domains), site traffic statistics, page views,
impressions, and operating system and browser type. In addition,
when users request pages on our Site, our servers automatically
log their IP addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web.
We
also use third-party software that tracks traffic directed to
zorkoelectric.com from affiliate Web sites.
This
Aggregate Information generally will not personally identify you
or be correlated to you individually for external purposes. We
may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, sell, or
otherwise disclose or use any and all Aggregate Information, provided
that, such information does not personally identify you. When
we share such information with other companies, it is not traceable
to any particular user, and will not be used to contact you. If
we do correlate any Aggregate Information to you, such information
will be treated like any other Personal Information under this
policy.
Cookies.
We may make use of "cookies" on our Site. Cookies are
small text files that are stored on a user's computer by a Web
server based on the permissions set in a user's browser software.
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 Site,
which may correlate other information, including personally identifying
information, with the cookie.
We
use cookies to allow us to automate access and data entry functions
of our Site, such as correlating online orders for purchases you
make while at the Site (if any), tailor the Site to your preferences
or interests, or customize promotions or marketing. In addition,
cookies allow us to track use of the Site to determine those areas
which are useful or popular and those that are not, thereby enabling
us to improve and update the Site effectively. You may adjust
your Web browsers to either alert you of the use of cookies or
refuse to accept cookies entirely. For Internet Explorer or AOL
users, you can click on the "Start" button and then
select Control Panel, Internet Options, and the Security tab.
If you click on the "Custom" button, you will be able
to see the cookie options. For Netscape users, in the browser,
select File, Preferences and then Advanced to view the cookie
options. Be aware that if you elect not to accept cookies, the
Site may not function properly or permit access.
Links
to Other Sites. Please be aware that we provide links
to third-party Web sites as a service to our guests, and that
we are not responsible for the content or information collection
practices of those pages. Please note that these Web sites' privacy
policies may differ from those of Zorko. We encourage you to review
and understand their privacy practices before providing them with
information.
Children.
Our Site is a general audience site that is not designed nor intended
to collect Personal Information from children under the age of
13. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age
of 13 should not provide any Personal Information on this Site.
We ask that parents supervise their children while online.
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