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At Mayfair Stationers, we value the trust of our customers. To earn your trust, we respect
your privacy in handling personally-identifiable information relating to you and
your transactions with us. This Privacy Statement describes the personally identifiable
information we gather about you, what we do with it, the safeguards we have in
place to protect it, and how you can control our use of it.
What personally identifiable information does Mayfair Stationers request?
We collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to
us when you register on the site, complete an application, request a catalogue,
place an order, enroll in a promotional or rewards program, give us a telephone
call or send us a letter or e-mail. This personally identifiable information may
include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number,
credit card number and expiration date, and other optional demographic information.
In addition, when you choose to participate in voluntary programs we offer we
may need to collect other personally identifiable information, such as your
age, social security number, and/or employment data, in order to provide this
information to the credit card company and to further process your request.
After submitting this information to the credit card company, we do not process
this information for our own use and we do not share it with any third parties.
We also may ask your age when you elect to participate in various promotional
activities we offer. This is done only to verify that you are of an age legally
required to participate. We do not store, process or otherwise use information
relating to your age.
You may browse our web site without supplying any personally identifiable information,
but we will need to collect personally identifiable information to process your
orders or to send you offers or information that you request.
What about web site “cookies”?
In order to use our web site, your computer must accept the use of cookies,
which are small data files that are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies do not contain personally-identifying information and do not give us
control over your computer. Some of our business allies whose sites are accessible
from our site may also use cookies, but we have no access to or control over
these cookies. The information that we store in cookies is used to track your
activity at our web site and to access your individualized settings (such as
your online shopping cart) to make your visit more convenient and to make it
unnecessary for you to re-enter this information when you make return visits
to our site. We also use cookie data when you have expressly requested to use
our “autologin” feature, which automatically accesses user ID and
password information in order to automatically log you into the site.
How does Mayfair Stationers use personally identifiable information about
me?
The personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to us will
be used to process your orders, and may be used to identify you within our systems.
We may use your email address to contact you if we have questions about your
order. We may also use your email address to notify you about new services or
special promotional programs, or send you offers or information.
With whom might Mayfair Stationers share personally identifiable information
about me?
We will not disclose personally-identifiable information about you to others
except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement or as specifically authorized
by you at the time the information is collected.
We contract with third parties to provide specific products or services to
you. For example, we use a credit card company to process credit card applications,
issue credit, verify, bill, and collect payments when you make a purchase with
a credit card; an independent financial institution to administer the Mayfair Stationers
credit card program; an outside shipping company to ship orders; outside direct
mail and catalogue vendors to provide customers with product and sale information;
and we use outside service providers to operate our web site and to send e-mails
to customers and prospective customers. These service providers are provided
with only the information that they need to perform their functions and are
not permitted to use or disclose your personally-identifiable information for
other purposes without your authorization.
We may share your personally identifiable information within the Mayfair Stationers family
of businesses – including our retail, mail-order catalogue, and online operations
– in order to send you information and to cater to your shopping preferences.
We enter into marketing relationships with advertisers or other companies that
provide products or services that we believe may be of interest to Mayfair Stationers customers.
We may share non-identifiable aggregated information with these companies, and,
in addition, we may provide them with mailing address information so that they
may extend offers to you. We will not disclose your e-mail address, telephone
number, or credit card account information for these purposes.
To make online shopping more convenient for you, our web site provides access
to other companies’ web sites or co-branded web sites that may be designed
to look similar to our web site; these sites are fully operated by the other
company. If you request additional information or order products or services
from one of the companies featured on our web site, that company may provide
us with the information you have given to them (except in the case of credit
application information, financial background or health information, which we
do not receive from such featured companies). We are not responsible for the
content appearing on these companies’ web sites or for the privacy practices
of these companies. We encourage you to read the privacy policy on the other
company’s web site if you have any concerns about how information may be
collected or used. If you make a purchase or request a service from a featured
company that you access through a frame on our web site, information relating
to that transaction will be available to us as well as the featured company.
We use third-party advertising technology to serve ads when you visit our site
and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information about your
visits to the Mayfair Stationers’ site and the sites upon which we advertise, (not
including your name, address, or other personal information), to serve our ads
to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party
cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition, we use web
beacons, provided by our ad serving partner, to help manage our online advertising.
These web beacons enable our ad server to recognize a browsers cookie when
a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to our
site. This information we collect and share through this technology is not personally
identifiable. To learn more about our third party ad serving partner, cookies,
and how to "opt-out", please click here.
We may share personally identifiable information with law enforcement or other
entities as required by law or as we reasonably determine to be necessary to
protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property,
to fight fraud, or to enforce our web site terms of use. Personally identifiable
information may be transferred as an asset in connection with a merger or sale
(including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding)
involving all or part of our businesses.
Does Mayfair Stationers conduct special programs that use personally identifiable
information?
We occasionally conduct surveys, contests, or other promotional programs that
involve the collection of personally-identifiable information, and we may send
promotional emails to such participants from time to time. Participation in
these programs is completely voluntary, so that you have a choice whether to
disclose the requested information without limiting your ability to place orders
for products and services. Information requested may include contact information
(such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as gender,
post code, or age). Contact information will be used to notify participants of
the outcome of such promotions. Survey information may be used or disclosed
for purposes of monitoring or improving the performance of our retail, catalogue,
or web site operations.
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