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Our Privacy Policy
P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd. (PMK) Online Privacy Policy
Your use of the PMK site and/or your registration for PMK products and services constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the PMK site.
Information Collection
Collection
While using this Web site you may be required to provide personal information such as your name, address, email address. Additionally, when purchasing an item you may also be required to provide financial information such as credit card number, bank account, etc. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest and complete any sale.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from PMK, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). PMK uses this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Social Security Numbers
The only time that PMK will request your social security number is the first time you have exceeded the $600.00 earnings limit if you participate in our refer a friend or other affiliate program. Your Social Security number will be used only to issue you a 1099.
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, PMK will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe.
Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
Special Offers and Updates
PMK will occasionally send you information on our products, services, special deals or promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our home page. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications.
Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
PMK will from time-to-time send an email newsletter to you. Any email sent by PMK will contain an opt-out section where you may cancel your online subscription.
PMK may from time-to-time release updates to software and manuals that it provides. You will be notified of these by email and these emails will contain an opt-out section where you may cancel your online subscription.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
PMK may store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences. We do not tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties other than our suppliers.
P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd. is the sole owner of the information collected on www.enterpadsusa.com. P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd. collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys), to send participants an email newsletter.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. PMK stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at remove@enterpadsusa.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Uses of Information
PMK will use any personal information collected from you only to provide necessary and requested services to you. We will not sell, give or otherwise provide your personal information to any third party that is no directly involved in providing those services and such information provided shall only include that information required to provide the contracted services. All third party services providers shall agree to use your personal information for only the services provided and they shall agree not to include, sell or otherwise pass along your personal information to other third parties.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, or promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our home page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. You may opt-out of these communications. Please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties. We share your profile in aggregate form only.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services such as credit [specify] to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
Credit Check
To determine if you qualify for one of our credit cards, we use your name and social security number to request a credit report. Once we determine your credit-worthiness, we destroy this document.
ID Verification
We use appropriate third party software or web searches to verify your address, in order to facilitate shipping of products ordered.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our suppliers. This information does not identify individual users. Our suppliers may from time to time request demographic information to aid in sales, product improvement or new product development. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
We Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
As a distributor PMK suppliers may request personal information to aide in resolving problems with their product. Such information provided shall be limited to name and contact information unless the supplier is at financial risk or a party to a lawsuit. PMK will notify the customer of such discloser. In certain circumstances, PMK will not notify customers such as a criminal investigation, contravention of laws, the collection of a debt, when the health of security of an individual is threatened or when requested by a law enforcement agency or court order.
Agents
We may use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies maintain their own privacy policy. Information shared is only that necessary for each party to perform their service.
Service Providers
We use PayPal to provide credit card processing on our site. When you sign up for PayPal their privacy policy are enforceable for the credit card transaction. PayPal does not share financial information with PMK. PMK provides PayPal with only that personal information PayPal requires to process a transaction. Additional information may be supplied to PayPal as part of an investigation by PayPal.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at remove@enterpadsusa.com. You may also opt-out by contact us using the information at the end of this statements.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are not tied to personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use not use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. [Provide a link to information on cookies.]
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this site only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We do not employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs). Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
We do not use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients.
Third Party Advertisers
We do not support third party advertisers on our website.
Links to Other Sites
At this time this Web site contains a link to Cedeq Industries website. At this time the Cedeq Industries website is the only link to other sites that are not owned or controlled by P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd. If such advertising links are included, please be aware that we, P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd., are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with our Terms of Use.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing our Customer Support at customersupport@pmkidder.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send an email to us at customersupport@enterpadsusa.com.
Business Transitions
In the event P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Phone/fax (816) 319-0426
or
Email address: customersupport@pmkidder.com
or
P. M. Kidder & Associates, Ltd.
P. O. Box 93
North East, PA 16428