Privacy Policy
Because Sierra Designs wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has adopted the following privacy policy. This policy notifies you of:
- what personally identifiable information of yours is collected from you through our web site,
- the organization collecting the information,
- how the information is used,
- with whom the information may be shared,
- what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information,
- the kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the unauthorized access, deletion, alteration, use or disclosure of information under Sierra Designs' control, and
- how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us.
Scope of Policy
This policy applies to Sierra Designs' treatment of personally identifiable information that Sierra Designs collects through the Sierra Designs site and when you use Sierra Designs' services. The policy does not apply to practices of companies whose sites may be linked to Sierra Designs. For access to the privacy policies of such linked sites please refer to the information provided by such sites at their home pages.
Information Collection and Use
Sierra Designs collects personally identifiable information when you request information from Sierra Designs and when complete the Consumer Survey. On such occasions, Sierra Designs asks for your name, email address, zip code and personal information concerning your interests, occupation, gender and other demographic information. Sierra Designs also receives and records information from server logs from your browser including cookie information relating to pages requested and the like.
Sierra Designs uses the information to customize advertising and content that we present to you, to contact you concerning specials and new products and to enhance our product offerings. Sierra Designs will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any third party except when:
- You have been given an opportunity to "opt out" of sharing the information and have declined to exercise that right within the time period provided;
- Sierra Designs must share the information in order to provide a product or service that you have requested, provided that such third party will not have the right to use the personally identifiable information other than to fulfill such request; or
- Sierra Designs is required to respond to subpoena, court orders or other legal process requiring such disclosure.
Use of Cookies
Sierra Designs uses cookies to enhance the interactive nature of your Internet experience and to provide a convenient feature to save you time. Cookies enable Sierra Designs to quickly retrieve specific information from previous visits and to recall features that you may have customized on your browser.
Managing Your Information
You are entitled to request access to and correction of all your personal data collected by us via this web site, as well as to require us to delete your data if you no longer want us to process it. You can make such a request by contacting us. Please note that there may be a small charge for making an access request or it may be free, depending on the circumstances. You can find out more details by emailing or calling us as provided above. We will keep your data only as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Statement. You may choose not to receive unsolicited marketing material from Sierra Designs and you have the right to request deletion of your Sierra Designs account information, subject to Sierra Designs' need to keep appropriate archives of its business operations.
Security
Sierra Designs maintains all personally identifiable information provided by you on computer servers in a controlled and secured environment, which is protected by measures reasonably designed to prevent unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of such information. However, the nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons.
Because of the international nature of the services and products provided by this web site and the nature of Sierra Designs' business, personal data may, subject to applicable law, be transferred internationally throughout Sierra Designs world-wide (details of which are available on request by contacting us) for the purposes described above. This may mean that personal data are transferred to countries which do not have laws or regulations which protect personal data, such as the United States, where the server for this web site is located. The data will be disclosed only to certain staff within Sierra Designs and its affiliates (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your inquiries and survey answers or otherwise to administer the web site, and those staff involved in the provision of Sierra Designs services and products which may be of interest to you) and they will process the data only for the purposes identified in this Statement.
Modifications to this Policy
Sierra Designs may make modifications or amendments to this policy from time to time. In the event that such changes alter how Sierra Designs gathers, processes, uses or discloses your personally identifiable information, Sierra Designs will post such changes on our site.