Security & Privacy Policy
Egads is committed to protecting your right to privacy when visiting our Web site. We recognize that when you share your personal information with us, you expect us to treat that information in a serious and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy below discloses what information we gather, how we use that information, and how you can correct or change that information. In summary, you should know that
- Egads has security measures in place to keep your personal information secure.
- Egads does not sell your personal information to other companies.
Security
Egads's site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, including without limitation protecting information behind a firewall within a perimeter network and, encrypting your ordering information during transmission.
Registration and order forms
If you choose to register with Egads or to place an order with us, we may ask that you provide us with contact information (first and last name, e-mail address and telephone number), financial information (account or credit card numbers), demographic information (address, age, or income level), and unique identifiers (tax ID number), information about where you learned of our products and information about your intended use of our products. We do not purge customer information on a regular basis, so information you provide us will remain in our systems for an indefinite amount of time. We may use your contact information to send you information about us and to contact you when necessary. If you do not want to receive any mailings from us, please see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information is used only to bill you for products. Demographic information may be used to tailor your experience at our sites, showing you information that we think you might be interested in, and presenting information according to your preferences. Our sales and marketing departments may use demographic information, information about where you learned of our products and information about your intended use of our products to improve our advertising and marketing efforts and to measure interest in our products. We may use unique identifiers to verify our resellers and customers and to allow customers to identify themselves to us.
Surveys and contests
Egads may invite you to participate in online surveys or contests. Participation is never required. If you choose to participate, you may be asked to disclose contact and demographic information as well as additional information about you and/or your company. We may use this information to send you information about our company, contact you when necessary, tailor your experience at our site, display information according to your preferences and improve our Web sites, products and advertising. If you do not want to receive any mailings from us, please see the choice/opt-out section below. This information may be shared with our advertisers on a summary, not individual, basis.
Information requests
You may be able to request information on our site regarding our products and services, including technical support and customer service, by using online forms. We ask that you provide certain contact information to allow us to fulfill your request and to send you information about Egads's products and services. If you do not want to receive any mailings from us, please see the choice/opt-out section below.
IP addresses
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, administer our sites, and gather broad demographic information to measure general interest in our products and to share with our advertisers on a summary, not individual, basis.
Cookies
Our Web servers may place small bits of text or "cookies" onto your computer's hard drive and memory. Cookies enable us to identify you so you do not have to re-enter certain information each time you visit our sites and allow us to keep track of your shopping choices. Often we use third-party services to help us measure the effectiveness of our Web site. These companies may place third-party cookies on your hard drive to help us analyze the traffic on our Web site and better meet our customers' needs. This does not give Egads or any other company access to your personal information or other information on your computer. We do not track or store any personally identifiable information. If you are concerned, you can set your browser to decline third-party cookies, or you can delete these cookies from your hard drive.
Supplemental information
We may supplement the information that you provide with information that is received from third parties. For example, Egads may use information that we purchase from a database marketing information firm to enhance our understanding of the information that you provide.
Links to other sites
Egads's site contains links to other sites. Egads is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Confidentiality
Egads does not sell uniquely identifiable customer information to any other business or organization.
Agents
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service.
Contacting the Web site
If you have any questions about Egads's privacy policy or the privacy practices of our site, you may use one of the specific choices below or you may contact us by phone at 877-342-3765 (US and Canada only) or 212-557-4656 or by email at Service@egadscomputer.com.
- Choice/opt-out
Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at any point where we request information. To change or cancel your Egads newsletter subscriptions please contact us at 877-342-3765 (US and Canada only) or 212-557-4656. Or you can send an e-mail to Service@egadscomputer.com.
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Correct/update
If you want to change or modify information you have previously provided to us, simply log in to your password-protected account. Once you are logged in, you will see links that will allow you to update your address book, e-mail subscriptions, password, and customer profile. (This list may change over time as our Web site is updated.) If you have any problems or questions about updating information you have previously provided, please contact us at 877-342-3765 (US and Canada only) or 212-557-4656. Or you can send an e-mail to Service@egadscomputer.com.
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