At pecash.com, your privacy is a top priority. Please read below
for our complete privacy policy details.
Overview
Our Internet Superstores allow you to buy products and services,
enter contests, receive special discounts, fill out surveys, and
receive newsletters, e-mails or other promotional information from
us. We use the information that we collect about you to fulfill
your product and service purchases and to create a more personalized
online experience. This is just a brief overview, so please read
on for more details about our Privacy Policy. This Policy may change
from time to time, so please check back periodically.
Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document
only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect
from you online. For some services, we either collect and transfer
personal information to a service provider you have selected, or
you may visit other merchants through links on our site who may
collect and use your personal information. We encourage you to ask
questions and to be very cautious before you disclose your personal
information to others.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to privacy@pecash.com
or may also be contacted directly at the following address:
Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer
pecash.com
P.O.Box 603550
Cleveland, OH 44103.
This Privacy Policy will explain the following
regarding use of our site:
- What information does pecash.com collect from
you?
- Where do we collect information from you and how
do we use it?
- Who is collecting your information?
- With whom do we share your information?
- How can you update or correct your Personally
Identifiable Information?
- What are your choices regarding collection, use,
and distribution of your information?
- What security precautions are in place to protect
against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
- A special note about children's privacy
- pecash.com and third-party use of "cookies"
- You should carefully review privacy policies
of any third party sites accessible from pecash.com
- Contacting pecash.com about privacy questions
or concerns
- Privacy Policy changes
- What information does
pecash.com collect from you?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services,
pecash.com collects two types of information about its visitors:
Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable
Information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you
is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience
while using our site.
Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of
who you are. Personal information is requested when you order
a product or service, enter contests, fill out surveys, and send
us feedback. For example, this information might include your
name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail
address, credit card or other payment information, and product
details. With this information, pecash.com can fill your orders
and better provide you with personalized services. For a few services,
we may collect your personal information on behalf of other merchants
and share it with them. If you visit one of the stores available
through a link on our site, they will independently collect, use
and share your personal information in accordance with their own
privacy policies. If you have questions about their information
practices, please read their privacy policies. In many cases,
you can find a link to their privacy policies on the page offering
the Partners' services.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that does not by itself identify a
specific individual. We gather certain information about you based
upon where you shop on our site in several ways. This information
is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated
basis. For example, this information may include the Web site's
Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which
URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet
Protocol ("IP") address. A URL is the global address of documents
and other resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an
identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the World
Wide Web. Networks like the Web use the TCP/IP protocol to route
information based on the IP address of the destination. In other
words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned
to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web
servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require
IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet,
browse and shop.
- Where do we collect information
from you and how do we use it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide
pecash.com's visitors with a superior customized online experience.
We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact
purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional
information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer
our systems.
Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third
party advertising servers or content servers, who provide us with
the zip code and area code associated with a visitor's server,
along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions of
the pecash.com visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers'
preferences. pecash.com also does research on our visitors' demographics,
interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided
to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files,
from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor
the visitor's experience at our site, to improve our marketing
and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to
improve our product offerings, and to customize our site's content,
layout, and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers
and content servers, that tells us how many ads were presented
and clicked upon or what content was served.
We may also share your personally identifiable information with
third parties who provide services to us, our customers and web
site visitors. Those third parties include authorized contractors,
temporary employees and consultants and other companies working
with us (collectively, "agents"). Where we believe it to be appropriate
(in our sole discretion), we will ask our agents not to disclose
or use your personal information for purposes other than to provide
services to you or pecash.com.
We gather information in the following ways:
Shopping
We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration,
to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to be served
on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable Information
to our advertisers, and to monitor the level of activity on our
site. We collect information from visitors to our site regarding
the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their
IP addresses, the date and time of their visit or order, the number
of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session,
the server type, the operating system and browser type used to
come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where
their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site
that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor's
computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications
and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.
Ordering
When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable information
from you. If you order one of our products or services, we will
collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address,
shipping address, telephone number, product selections, credit
card or other payment information, order number, referring URL,
IP address, page you bought from and a password. We collect this,
and other information, as disclosed in this Policy, in order to
fill your order, to communicate with you about your order and
to send you promotional materials. Before confirming your order,
you will have the opportunity to review the product order form
and make changes and additions to the information it contained
and these changes will be automatically kept for future use.
Online Surveys and Polling
In order to improve our services to you, we ask some of our customers
to voluntarily complete surveys, which may be collected by an
independent third party. Individual survey answers are confidential,
although Non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected
and disclosed to third parties. If you do not wish to participate
in a survey, simply decline to participate when asked.
Contests and Sweepstakes
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you for
contact information such as your name, address and e-mail address
in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails,
notify winners and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant
to certain states' laws. Your consent to such promotional use
and disclosure of this information is a condition of your participation.
As a condition of receiving any prize, you will be required to
submit an Affidavit of Eligibility, for us to ensure that you
are eligible to receive the prize according to the Contest Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails
We offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service
to our customers. We will send you newsletters and e-mails periodically
listing current specials and deals. To stop receiving our newsletter,
send an e-mail to us at removeme@pecash.com.
Contact Information and Third Party Data
If you contact pecash.com or our customer service representatives
by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep a record of your correspondence
or comments. If you report a problem with our site, we may collect
such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us
through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service
representatives, we may ask for your name, e-mail address and
order information in order to send you a reply. If other users
or third parties send us correspondence about your activities
or purchases on our site, we may keep the information in a file
specific to you.
Customer Service
We may use a third party to help us provide customer service.
In order to help you most effectively, we provide them with your
order information.
Partner Program
Our Partner Program is administered by a third party, on a third
party's Web site. Any information collected by them is not governed
by this Policy.
Advertising
We display advertisements on our site. By knowing a little about
you, pecash.com will be able to deliver more relevant advertisements
and content to you in the form of targeted banners and promotions.
For example, advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us
the type of audience they want to reach (e.g., buyers of fetish
DVD). pecash.com takes the advertisement and includes it in a
pecash.com e-mail to prior customers meeting that criterion. We
may also have third-party advertising servers display ads linked
to certain search terms that you have entered, or to certain pages
that you are viewing. In this process, advertisers never have
access to individual account information. Additionally, pecash.com
may share aggregated data with advertisers. We also track customers'
traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which
pages, information and advertisements a customer views while using
the site and what items they place in their shopping cart or purchase.
We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers,
software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information.
We may share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our site,
sales and other shopping information with third parties.
Cookies
We use cookies in the operation of our site; to find out what
cookies are and how they are used, click here.
- Who is collecting your
information?
Ad Servers and Content Servers: We may use third party ad servers
or content servers to serve ads or other information both on and
off our site. Those third parties may use "action tags" throughout
the site to count the number of visitors who click on a banner
ad or other information and to track the number of customers who
continue on to make a purchase. They may also place their own
"cookie" on your computer to help those ads to run. We do not
provide them with any of your Personally Identifiable Information.
For more information about the information they collect, please
see the section "Use of Cookies" below.
Website Analysis Agent: We may use an outside service to collect
Non-Personally Identifiable Information on an aggregated basis
so that we can improve the marketing and layout of our site. They
may use cookies to perform their service. For more information,
please see the section "Use of Cookies" below.
Marketing Partners, Co-branded Services, Framing/Windows on Third-Party
Sites: We run promotions for merchants where you may visit the
merchants' sites. In some of those promotions, a window or frame
containing the merchant's site may appear. Any time you are in
a window, you should assume that your personal information is
being collected, used and disclosed in accordance with that merchant's
policies. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that
you supply to those merchants. Any information that you share
with them will be used and disclosed in accordance with that merchant's
privacy policy. However, once you click on a return link to our
site, you can expect that further information that you disclose
will be treated in accordance with this Policy.
Links and Banner Ads to Third-Party Sites: Please be aware that
our site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that
are owned and operated by third parties. The information practices
of those websites linking from or to our site are not covered
by this Policy. These other sites may send their own cookies to
users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally,
other companies or ad servers, which place advertising on our
site may collect information about you through the use of cookies
when you view or click on their advertising. We cannot control
this collection of information. You should contact advertisers
directly if you have any questions about their use of the information
that they collect.
- With whom do we share
your information?
Fulfillment: The information collected by pecash.com is used for
processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status,
for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance,
to serve ads, and to notify you of products or special offers
that may be of interest to you. We will disclose your Personally
Identifiable Information to third parties to charge your credit
card, fill your order, deliver your order, provide customer service
and deliver promotional e-mails to you from pecash.com. For example,
we must release your credit card information to the card-issuing
bank to confirm payment; and release your address and telephone
information to the delivery service to deliver products that you
ordered.
Other Parties: We do not sell, trade, or rent your Personally
Identifiable Information to others without your consent. We may
provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information about our customers'
sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third
parties, but these statistics do not include any Personally Identifiable
Information. We may release account information when we believe
that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply
our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property, and
safety of pecash.com, our users, or others. If customers do not
pay us for products ordered, we may submit their account information
to a third party collection agency.
Services Provided on Our Site: Except as otherwise stated in this
Policy, without your consent, pecash.com does not disclose its
customers' Personally Identifiable Information to other merchants.
Where you sign up for goods or services offered through our site,
but sold directly to you by a third party, we give your personal
information to that third party. To see our magazine suppliers
privacy policy click here.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for pecash.com
may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis.
That analysis is to help us to improve our site and product selection,
and to notify you of special offers that may be of interest to
you. That data analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable
Information with others, or use it for any other purpose than
to help pecash.com.
Ad Servers, Advertisers and Website Analysis Agents: These third
parties use their cookies' identification numbers and internal
web site tracking features to serve ads on our site and to collect
aggregated information to create statistics about our customers
and visitors, traffic patterns, and related site information.
In the event that our ad servers collect any Personally Identifiable
Information on our behalf, it will not be used by them or disclosed
to any third parties.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally
pecash.com may be asked by law enforcement or judicial authorities
to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate
governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally Identifiable
Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate
with a law enforcement investigation, without prior notice to
you. pecash.com fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies
in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities.
We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any
activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.
- How can you update or
correct your Personally Identifiable Information?
Because we do not require you to use a personally identifiable
account when ordering, it is not necessary for you to update your
information. During the online ordering process you can change
the information that you have submitted. You may ask to have the
information on your account deleted or removed; however, because
we keep track of past purchases, you cannot delete information
associated with past purchases. Also, as a security measure we
"back up" the data stored on our systems, and such prior information
cannot be completely removed from our databases. As a result,
you should not expect that all of your Personally Identifiable
Information will be completely removed from our backed-up databases.
- What are your choices
regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?
Email: We may from time to time send you e-mail or other communications
regarding current promotions, specials and new additions to the
pecash.com site. You may "opt-out," or unsubscribe from our newsletters
by following the unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail you receive
from us, or by sending an e-mail to removeme@pecash.com.
After doing so, pecash.com users will not receive future communications
or mailings unless they request e-mail promotions or enter a contest.
Ad-servers and other Content Servers: You may also set your browser
so that it will not accept "cookies" to prevent assignment from
the ad server of a unique identifier; however, you will be unable
to shop on our site if you do so.
- What security precautions
are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration
of your information?
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions
and order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking,
processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive
the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card
or other payment information and to process and ship your order.
All of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized
access by physical security means.
- A special note about children's
privacy
You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use
this site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use
or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors
under 18 years of age. If you are the parent or guardian of a
minor under 18 years of age and believe that they have disclosed
personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at
privacy@pecash.com so that we may delete the minor's information.
- pecash.com and third-party
use of "cookies"
pecash.com Cookies: When you use our site we will store cookies
on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use
of our site. A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site
stores on your computer's hard drive (if your Web browser permits)
that can later be retrieved to identify you to pecash.com. The
cookies make your use of the site easier and make the site run
more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure site. You will
be unable to shop on our site without your browser set to accept
cookies.
Ad Server Cookies: We may use an outside ad serving company or
content server to display banner advertisements and other information
on our site. As part of their service, they place a separate cookie
on your computer. pecash.com does not provide third-party ad servers
with any of your Personally Identifiable Information. pecash.com
and its third party ad servers do collect and use Non-Personally
Identifiable Information about you, such as your IP address, browser
type, the URLs from which you came, referring site's domain types
(e.g., .com), operating system, the country, the server your computer
is logged onto, where the servers that your computer is logged
onto is located, the pages of our site and products that visitors
viewed during their visit, where an ad was placed on a specific
web site page, the time and date particular ads were served, the
area code and zip code associated with your server and whether
you responded to a particular ad, and a receipt identifier.
Our third-party ad servers will occasionally use outside agents,
whose computers will serve ads on our site in the same manner
and under the same conditions as above. In addition, other ad
serving companies or advertisers may place banner ads on our site
in the same manner as above, but we do not disclose to them any
Personally Identifiable Information.
Website Analysis Agent Cookies: We may use a third party to analyze
what our visitors find to be most interesting on our site. To
do that, they will place a cookie on your computer with a randomly
assigned unique number in order to track the pages you view on
our site, along with other Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
- You should carefully
review privacy policies of any third party sites accessible from
pecash.com
Other sites accessible through our web site have their own privacy
policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please
consult each site's privacy policy. pecash.com is not responsible
for the policies or practices of third parties. Please be aware
that this site may contain links to other sites on the Internet
that are owned and operated by third parties. The information
practices of those web sites linked to pecash.com are not covered
by this Privacy Policy. These other sites may send their own cookies
to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally,
other companies that place advertising on our site may collect
information about you when you view or click on their advertising
through the use of cookies. We cannot control this collection
of information. You should contact these advertisers directly
if you have any questions about their use of the information that
they collect.
On behalf of various sponsors, pecash.com provides sponsored links
to third-party web sites. If you click on a sponsored link or
banner ad, a "window" or "frame" containing a third-party's web
site may appear in the foreground with the pecash.com web site
in the background. Unless you are on pecash.com's web site, any
time that you have moved to a window, you should assume that your
personal information is being collected, used and disclosed in
accordance with the windowed site's privacy policy (if any). If
you are unsure as to whose privacy policy applies, please contact
us by eMail at privacy@pecash.com,
or by sending a letter to the address below.
- Contacting pecash.com
about privacy questions or concerns
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact
pecash.com by sending a letter to:
Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer
pecash.com
P.O.Box 603550
Cleveland, OH 44103.
You may also contact us by e-mail at privacy@pecash.com.
- Privacy Policy changes
This Privacy Policy was last changed on May 15, 2002. If pecash.com
makes changes to any terms or conditions of the Privacy Policy,
the changes will be posted in this document so that you will always
know what information we gather, how we might use that information
and to whom we will disclose it. We may change, modify, add or
remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will
become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell
you otherwise.
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