The Remington's® Online Privacy Notice
Thank you for visiting The Remington's® site. 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 at The Remington's® site.
The Information We Collect
At The Remington's® website you will be able to order products, enter
contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to
one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in
one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally
identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include:
name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card
information, and information about your interests in and use of various
products, programs, and services.
In the future you may be able to submit information about other people.
For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send
an electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online and want it
sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and
address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be
collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name,
address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide us with
the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order
products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's
activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when
you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using
(e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you
are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your
Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your
requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your
inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs
or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to
notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes
to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online
newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to
send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this
information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.
The information we collect in connection with our online forums and
communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this
information to facilitate participation in these online forums and
communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or
services.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "letter to our
editors"), we may publish your screen name and other information you
have provided us.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we
collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us
to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information
in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products,
programs, or services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal
process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also
may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's
request.
Agents and contractors of Remington's® who have access to personally
identifiable information are required to protect this information in a
manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not
using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the
services they are performing for Remington's®.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized
disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally
identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a
manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.
The Remington's® site may disclose personally identifiable information
to companies whose practices are not covered by this privacy notice,
(e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory
databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market products
or services to you. If a site shares personally identifiable information,
it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses.
Remington's® may on occasion combine information we receive online with
outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or
services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive
marketing information from this site. You will be provided the
opportunity to block such uses.
Finally, The Remington's® sites will not use or transfer personally
identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones
described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt
out of these unrelated uses.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
The Remington's® site may contain links to other sites whose information
practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other
sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is
submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
The Remington's® site sometimes may offer content (e.g., contests,
sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with
identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third
parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors
voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. Remington's®
has no control over these parties' use of this information. The Remington's
® site will notify you at the time of requesting personally
identifiable information if these parties will obtain such information.
The Remington's® site may use a reputable third party to present or serve
the advertisements that you may see at its Web pages. Our privacy policy
does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may
have collected from you.
Cookies
To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use
"cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser
to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your
e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you
choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at
one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with
personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to
the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and
offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize
your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when
you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas,
and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use
cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain
data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.