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Welcome to Acorn Office Furniture's Web
solutions and Online Stores. In order to make
you feel comfortable and secure in our Web
solutions and Online Stores, Acorn Office
Furniture has taken numerous precautions to
guard your security while making purchases
online. For each visitor to our Web site, our
Web server automatically recognizes the
consumer's domain name and e-mail address (where
possible).
Acorn Office Furniture privacy/security policy
answers the following:
Privacy
What personally identifiable information is
being collected?
When you visit the Acorn Office Furniture Web
site, in order for us to provide you with the
products or services that you have requested,
you may be asked to provide us with personally
identifiable information. For example, when you
order a product, we may ask you to become a
registered user of our site, during which you
will be asked for your name, shipping and
billing addresses, your e-mail address, and your
credit card number or other payment-related
information. If you request one of our
newsletters or send an inquiry to one of our
customer service representatives, we will also
store a record of your request along with your
e-mail address. In addition, our Web servers
track various technical details about your
visit, such as you computer's IP address and
which pages you visited, however that
information does not typically contain any
personally identifiable information about you.
We post customer testimonials from time to time
on our web site which may contain personally
identifiable information such as the customer's
name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior
to posting the testimonial to post their name
along with their testimonial.
How is the information being used?
The information we collect is used to provide
the products and services that you have
requested or that we think you might have an
interest in. It is also used to improve the
content of our Web site, to notify you of
problems with your requests, or to update you
about changes to our Web site.
With whom do we share your information?
In order to operate this Web site and in order
to provide you with the products and services
you have requested, we occasionally need to
share information with third parties. We may
transmit your personal information to service
providers who assist us in processing orders,
shipping products to you, processing your
payment information, sending you catalogs,
conducting surveys, processing job applications,
sending you e-mails and newsletters, and helping
us decide whether to extend credit to you. We
have agreements with these service providers
that they will protect your privacy in
accordance with our standard Privacy Statement.
Some of those organizations may have their own
Privacy Statements which may give you additional
protection, so you are encouraged to read those
statements when presented to you.
Tell A Colleague
Where applicable, If you choose to use our
referral service on any of our sites to email a
colleague, we will ask you for that email
address only. We do not store the email address
or any information included and it is only used
for the sole purpose of sending this one-time
email.
How do I access, update, or delete my personally
identifiable information?
If you are a registered user of the Web site,
you can manage many aspects of your registration
information. For security reasons, however, some
parts of your personal information may not be
changed online and may require you to call or
write to us in order to verify your identity
before such changes can be made. The online
registration area will also permit you to
exercise control over the use of your e-mail
address, allowing you to opt-out of future
e-mail messages from this Web site.
Unfortunately, due to various legal and
recordkeeping requirements, we may be required
to maintain records about your purchases or
other activities on this website. However, you
will always be permitted to opt-out of any
marketing uses of information stored about you.
If you prefer to manage your personal
information via other means, you may contact us
by
e-mailing
or post.
What information will be disclosed if required
by law?
If required by law, we may provide any and all
information we have about you to law enforcement
or other government agencies, pursuant to a
subpoena, warrant, or other order by a court of
competent jurisdiction. In all cases, we will
require written documentation of the request,
proof of the identity of the law enforcement
official making the request, and we will take
steps to authenticate the validity of the
request. Any law enforcement or government
agency request submitted with less than a
court-issued order will be evaluated on a
case-by-case basis according to the need and
urgency, as well as the particular law
enforcement agency making the request.
What personal information is collected in Acorn
Office Furniture Talk Forums and Message Boards?
On certain portions of our Web site, we provide
message board and chat features. Those features
may require you to provide additional
registration information, such as creating a
username and password, providing an e-mail
address or other information. It is important to
understand that when you participate in online
discussions, any information you choose to
provide is considered "public knowledge" and it
is your responsibility to protect your own
privacy. If you register to use the chat or
message board features, we will keep your
information private, in accordance with this
policy. You have the choice of making certain
information about yourself available to other
users of the system. It is your responsibility
to manage your account settings in order to
maintain the level of privacy that you desire.
If you inadvertently post private or other
inappropriate information, we will do our best
to assist you in removing it, but we will not be
responsible for any problems arising from your
errors. The message boards and chat features are
provided without any warranty and you use them
at your own risk.
What are cookies and how do we use them?
A cookie is a block of text placed in a file on
the user's hard drive by a Web site you've
visited. These types of cookies cannot identify
an individual user specifically, such as by name
or address, unless the cookie data is attached
to personally identifiable information such as
online registration. Acorn Office Furniture may
use cookies from time to time to observe our
site visitor's navigation throughout the site.
This helps us identify ways to improve our ste
presentation.
Acorn Office Furniture also uses a session
cookie, which is a piece of identification
between your browser and our server, which helps
to do things like keep track of the items in a
user's shopping cart, and other information. The
shopping cart cookie is saved for a designated
period of time in case the users' session
expires or they return to complete a purchase
within that time frame. For the convenience of
our users, we also place a cookie on the users'
computer when they log in to our talk forums.
This gives the advantage of not having to log
back in when moving between the talk forums and
the rest of the site. We do not link cookies to
Personally Identifiable Information.
What choices are available to you regarding the
collection, use and distribution of the
information and how you can correct any
inaccuracies in information?
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in
the future, please let us know by calling,
sending an e-mail, or by writing to us and
telling us that you do not want to receive
e-mail from our company.
If you provide us with your e-mail address, you
may receive messages about your order status,
issues regarding the operations of the Web site,
and messages from subsidiaries of Acorn Office
Furniture and other companies with operational
relationships to Acorn Office Furniture. You may
modify your e-mail preferences changeing them in
the "My Account" section.
We will request your telephone number or
facsimile (FAX) number, and if you provide it,
you may receive telephone or FAX contact from us
with information regarding your orders, requests
for information or in reference to valuable
offers from us. We do not sell or rent phone
numbers.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this privacy
statement at any time, so please review it
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