TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT
This Terms Of Use Agreement addresses the nature, purpose, use, and sharing of any information collected via our Sites. The information you provide on the Sites will be used only as outlined in this Terms Of Use Agreement. Except as outlined herein, the submission and collection of personally identifiable information (defined below) is strictly voluntary. By using or visiting any Site, you acknowledge your agreement with this Terms Of Use Agreement and the Terms of Use related to that site or application. If you do not want to grant permission to use your information as outlined in this Terms Of Use Agreement, please do not provide it and elect not to visit the Sites. However, not providing certain information may result in our inability to provide you with the information or services you desire.
Information Collected
The two types of information we collect are personally identifiable information and website use information.
Website use information is anonymous information that cannot be used to identify you. We use this information to track navigation through the Sites, which pages are viewed most often, what other websites are visited, and similar data. We also use the information to develop and deliver marketing strategy, to notify you of ads and promotions, and to offer products and services to you.
Personally identifiable information is sensitive information that can be used to identify you. Personally identifiable information includes, among other information, your full name, e-mail address, physical mailing address, and telephone number. Some of the features on the Sites may require that you provide us information about yourself. You can review and update any personally identifiable information you have voluntarily elected to provide to us prior to submitting the information.
We will never request your password, user name, or other personally identifiable information through e-mail. This practice, called “phishing,” is oftentimes a scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an e-mail message that looks like it is from us asking for your personal information, please do not respond.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information You Choose to Provide
If you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information, we will use that information to enhance your experience. Providing us with your personally identifiable information allows us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, sister and parent corporations, and independently owned and operated HC28 COSMOPOLITAN® retail furniture stores to better service for you.
Children
The Sites are general audience sites. We do not permit anyone who tells us they are under the age of 16 to register with us. We also do not collect information from anyone that tells us they are under the age of 16. Children under the age of 16 should always ask their parents or guardians for permission before providing any contact information to anyone online. We urge parents and guardians to participate in their children’s online activities and use parental controls or other web filtering technology to supervise children’s access to the Internet.
Automatically Collected Information
We save information based on your interaction with the Sites. This allows us to process your inquiries more efficiently, notify you of advertisements, promotions and to offer products and services to you and ultimately, provide you with enhanced customer service. This information includes, but is not limited to, your Internet Protocol address (the address automatically assigned to your computer every time you establish a connection to the Internet), the name of any referring websites, as well as your navigation and activity on the Sites. By tracking this type of information, we may be able to modify our content and product displays to enhance your experience while visiting the Sites.
This information is only used to help us make the Sites more useful to you and to notify you of ads, promotions and to offer products and services to you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are retained temporarily as required for security and site management purposes only.
Information Collected for Tracking Purposes (Cookies)
Like many websites, the Sites do not currently respond to “do not track signals” or other mechanisms that consumers may utilize on their web browsing device to limit the collection of certain information about a consumer’s activities over time and across various websites or online services. As with most websites, we use “cookies” to obtain information when your web browser accesses one of the Sites. “Cookies” are small amounts of data that are stored on your computer and find their way to your browser via a web server. They flag information about your activity on the Sites. This information helps us to improve the Sites and to make them friendlier and easier to use. We are then able to “recognize” you and personalize your experience with the Sites. You may “turn off” cookies by following steps outlined in the “Help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers; however, cookies allow you to take advantage of some of the Sites’ best features, so we recommend that you leave them turned on.
We use third-party cookies to collect statistics in aggregate form in analysis tools. We may use trusted third party service providers to serve advertisements on our behalf using the Internet. This form of marketing, called “retargeting,” enhances the web surfing experience and allows us to better notify you of our advertisements and promotions, and offer products and services to you. These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of advertisements and use information about your visits to the Sites and other websites so that we can provide a better experience for you. The third party service providers may collect anonymous information about your visits to the Sites and your interaction with the Sites.
Sharing Information
We may share aggregated general information collected by the Sites with our subsidiaries, affiliates, sister and parent corporations, independently owned and operated HC28 COSMOPOLITAN® retail furniture stores, and our third party service providers. Aggregated data does not contain any personally identifiable information that could be used to contact or identify you. We only share personally identifiable information in one or more of the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent.
We may provide such information to respected third party service providers to the extent necessary for them to assist and support us as we attempt to better provide enhanced products and services to you and to complete your requests to receive information from us via email, use our online tools or register as a member on any of the Sites. When this is done, it is subject to agreements or other specific direction given to the service provider that requires them to process such information only in accordance with our instructions, in compliance with this Terms Of Use Agreement, and with appropriate confidentiality and security measures in place. We have no control over, and bear no responsibility for the privacy policies and/or content of any websites or advertisers linked to or on any of the Sites or cookies these websites may deposit on your computer.
We may provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, sister or parent corporations, or independently owned and operated HC28 COSMOPOLITAN® retail furniture stores that may use this information to notify you of advertisements and promotions or to offer products and services to you using the Internet, e-mail and mail.
When required by law or where we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on us in direct relation to you. We may also share your personally identifiable information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Terms of Use of the Sites and services, or as otherwise required by law.
If you have established an account with us, we may share the information submitted under your account among any or all of the HC28 COSMOPOLITAN Brands and affiliated companies and the Sites in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in limited circumstances described in this Terms Of Use Agreement or with your consent.
In the event that another company acquires all or substantially all of the assets related to our business, we reserve the right to include any or all stored personally identifiable information among the assets transferred to the acquiring company.
We may store and process personally identifiable information collected through the Sites in any country in which we maintain facilities. By using the Sites you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
We currently DO NOT share your personally identifiable information with any other companies or organizations that would present you with offers or promotions that are not directly related to us or our subsidiary, affiliate, sister, or parent companies, or one of the independently owned and operated HC28 COSMOPOLITAN® retail furniture stores.
Security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of the data you provide to us. Our servers are protected by firewalls and are physically located in secure data facilities to further increase security. While no computer or facility is 100% safe from outside attacks, we believe that the steps we have taken to protect your personally identifiable information dramatically reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate for the type of data involved.
Opt-Out of Services
At any time you may opt-out of our services. You are free to delete all cookies on your browser, or have your browser notify you when a cookie is set—simply check your browser settings. By deleting your cookies you will disable our ability, or that of our third party partners, to deliver advertisements that are targeted to your interests. You will have to clear your cookies each time you visit the Sites to ensure that you are not receiving retargeted advertisements.
Terms Of Use Agreement Changes
As we continue to improve the services, products, and features we provide, this Terms Of Use Agreement is subject to change. This Terms Of Use Agreement is subject to change without direct notice to you. We may change our Terms Of Use Agreement at any time by posting a new version of it on our online Sites. Therefore you should review this Terms Of Use Agreement each time you visit any of the Sites. The dates provided below will inform you as to when the most recent material updates to this Terms Of Use Agreement occurred and the date on which the updated Terms Of Use Agreement became effective.
Date of Last Update: October, 2018.
