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. To make this notice easy
to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where
personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the voltspheres.com
websites (the Site). On some pages, you can order products, make requests,
enter contests & sweepstakes, complete surveys, submit newsletter
registrations and other notification requests, and request to be contacted by
our staff. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
Name, Address, Email address, Phone number, Credit/Debit Card Information,
demographic information, gender information, and responses to survey questions.
The Way We Use Information
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to
complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties
except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We use the information you
provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and
to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties
except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We use return email addresses
to answer the email we receive, and notify customers of new products, expansion
of our service area, and periodic special offers. Such addresses are not shared
with outside parties. In all cases, voltspheres will provide a means by which any
recipient of these email notifications can opt-out of receiving any future emailings.
We use non-identifying and
aggregate information to better design our website and to share with
advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of
individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and
Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose
anything that could be used to
identify those individuals.
Clickstream Data
This site automatically collects certain data concerning its interactions with
visitors that facilitate operation, management and planning. Such data may
include the IP address of your computer, the date and time of an online
request, the type of browser and operating system used by your computer, the
time required to download information you requested, and error codes generated
while your browser is in contact with our Site.
Cookies and Other Technologies
Cookies are small text files, placed on the hard drive of a visitor‘s computer,
that facilitate the operation of the Site and visitors’ use of the Site. As is
standard practice on many corporate websites, the Site uses cookies and other
technologies, such as pixel tags and web beacons, to help us understand which
websites our visitors are coming from and what websites they go to when they
leave our Site, which parts of the Site are the most popular, and how much time
they spend on our Site. We also use cookies and other technologies to
facilitate participation in our loyalty programs, as well as to customize your
experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us.
You can configure your
browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie
is set. (Each browser is different, so click the Help menu of your browser to
learn how to change your cookie preferences.) If you reject all cookies, you
will not be able to use those services on the Site that require you to sign in.
Some uses of cookies in
connection with the Site may be under the control of third-party entities that
we engage for the management of certain programs and fulfillment of specific
requests. We request that these parties limit their use of cookies and similar
technologies, but we cannot be responsible for third party uses of cookies.
We may also collect
information for other purposes, such as:
Sweepstakes and Contest Entries
From time to time, we offer sweepstakes, contests and other promotions (each, a
Promotion) that require online registration. Persons wishing to participate in
those Promotions are asked to provide some personal information. Some of the
information requested for this purpose is optional, but other requested
information, such as the individual’s name and e-mail address, is mandatory
because it will be needed to identify and notify winners. Also, some Promotions
may require selection of a user ID and password by the individual. You should
carefully review the rules, if any, of each Promotion in which you participate
through the Site, as they may contain additional important information about
our use of your personal information. To the extent that the terms and
conditions of such rules concerning the treatment of your personal information
conflict with this Policy, the terms and conditions of such rules shall
control.
Coupon and Rebate Requests
Visitors to the Site may be offered the opportunity to apply for rebates or
request discount coupons associated with voltspheres products. Those visitors may be
asked to provide certain personal information such as names, postal addresses
and e-mail addresses in connection with those offers.
Contact Us and Write to Us
Features. We also offer e-mail news updates for visitors who request that
service. Personal information of persons using these features may be collected
in order to facilitate our responses to those inquiries.
We may provide your personal
information to our third party service providers to fulfill requests and
transactions submitted through the Site. For example, we may use third-party
service providers to conduct consumer surveys, and we may share information
submitted in connection with sweepstakes, contests, and other programs with
vendors that we have retained to administer those programs. We may also share
certain information with third party organizations for the purpose of
processing your credit card transactions.
We will provide personal
information to law enforcement authorities and other entities where we
determine that such disclosure is required by subpoena, court order or other
applicable law. In addition, , we may disclose personal information if we
determine that such disclosure is required to protect our operations; to
protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of voltspheres, you or others.
In addition, if you live in
the EU, you should be aware that your personal information may be shared with,
and transferred to, voltspheres affiliates and third-party service providers who are
located outside of the EU.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided
to us on-line in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also
providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise restrict such unrelated
uses.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct
use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect
online.
Our Commitment to Children‘s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that
reason, we never collect or maintain information at the Site from those we
actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract
anyone under 13.
Third Party Links
The Site may contain links to third party web sites. These linked sites are not
under voltspheres’s control and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or
the contents of any such linked site, or any link contained in any linked site.
We provide such links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on the
Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by voltspheres. If you provide
any personal information through any such third party web site, your
transaction will occur on such third party‘s web site and the personal
information you provide will be collected by, and controlled by the privacy
policy of, that third party. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with
the privacy policies and practices of any such third parties.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY
DOES NOT ADDRESS THE PRIVACY OR INFORMATION PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES.