SchaeffersResearch.com Privacy Policy

SchaeffersResearch.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting SchaeffersResearch.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

 

What Personal Information About Customers Does SchaeffersResearch.com Gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your online experience at SchaeffersResearch.com. Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way through sign-up forms or ordering forms for Schaeffer's publications and services. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our services and features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing your web browsing experience for you, improving our website, and communicating with you.
• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses SchaeffersResearch.com.
• Information from Other Sources: For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for example, providing better product recommendations or special offers that we think will interest you), we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. We also sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.

 

What About Cookies?

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features like "Remember Me" for our paying subscribers. Cookies are also utilized during the ordering process to help insure your order is handled correctly.
• The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of SchaeffersResearch.com's coolest features, and may be required to access certain areas of our website.

 

Does SchaeffersResearch.com Use the Information It Receives?

• Agents: We 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, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
• Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of SchaeffersResearch.com customers on behalf of SchaeffersResearch.com and other businesses. When SchaeffersResearch.com does this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please notify SchaeffersResearch.com by sending an email to remove@sir-inc.com. In addition, consistent with industry standard practices, SchaeffersResearch.com may share certain contact information with other businesses for their use, for example, in conducting promotional campaigns. If you do not like your contact information shared in this manner, please notify SchaeffersResearch.com by sending an email to remove@sir-inc.com.
• Protection of SchaeffersResearch.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce the terms of the Legal Notices that accompany this policy; or protect the rights, property, or safety of SchaeffersResearch.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

 

How Secure Is Information About Me?

• We work to protect the security of your information during the ordering process by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
• We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
• It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
• Customer information is stored in our firewall-protected data center which is not directly accessible from the internet.

 

How can I change my information?

• If you do not want to receive promotional offers, please notify SchaeffersResearch.com by sending an email to remove@sir-inc.com
• You can contact our Customer Service department about other changes to your information by calling 1-800-327-8833 or by emailing service@sir-inc.com

 

What Choices Do I Have?

• As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of SchaeffersResearch.com features.
• You can add or update certain information as explained above in the section entitled "How can I change my information?".
• If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please notify SchaeffersResearch.com by sending an email to remove@sir-inc.com
• The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use important features of SchaeffersResearch.com if you do not use cookies.
• The Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.

 

Children

SchaeffersResearch.com does not sell products for purchase by children. If you are under 18, you may use SchaeffersResearch.com only with involvement of a parent or guardian.

 

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit SchaeffersResearch.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy and our Legal Notices (http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/legal_notice.htm), including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Ohio. If you have any concern about privacy at SchaeffersResearch.com, please send us a thorough description to service@sir-inc.com, and we will try to resolve it. SchaeffersResearch.com does not control and is not responsible for privacy policies for any sites linked to or from SchaeffersResearch.com. Our business changes constantly. This Policy and the Legal Notices will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.

 

Legal Notices & Disclaimers

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