Last updated: May 12, 2006.
PlatesAhead.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 PlatesAhead.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What personal information about customers does PlatesAhead.com gather ?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve
your shopping experience at PlatesAhead.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.
You provide most such information when you buy, post, enquiry,
or communicate with Customer Service.
For example, you provide information when you search for a product;
place an order through WebStock;
provide information in Your Account or Your Personal Area;
communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise;
complete a Specific Enquiry or a contest entry form;
provide employer information through a Get in touch facility .
As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as
your name, address, or/and phone numbers;
people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number;
content of e-mails to us;
personal description and photograph in Your Profile.
You can choose not to provide certain information,
but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests,
customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, 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 PlatesAhead.com.
A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not
be able to provide you with a personalized experience at PlatesAhead.com if we cannot recognize you,
we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
• E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting,
we often receive a confirmation when you open account from PlatesAhead.com
if your computer supports such capabilities.
If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Communication Preferences.
Does PlatesAhead.com share the information it receives ?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries PlatesAhead.com, Inc. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
• Third-Party Service Providers: 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, providing search results and links
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 PlatesAhead.com customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give
that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please
adjust your Communication Preferences.
• Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that PlatesAhead.com, Inc., or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
• Protection of PlatesAhead.com and Others:
We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to
comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements;
or protect the rights, property, or safety of PlatesAhead.com, our users, or others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection
and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling,
renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from
customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
• 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 ?
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.
If you are using a public terminal, you will want to log out, or sign out, before you leave the computer.
Once you have done this, your name will be removed from the page and you will see a customer entry area form,
and your ordering settings will be inaccessible to anyone using the same computer after you.
Which information can I access ?
Examples of information you can access easily at PlatesAhead.com
include up-to-date information regarding recent orders;
personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences and site settings);
enquiry lists and claim registries;
and your Profile.
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 such PlatesAhead.com features as your Profile,
Specific Enquiry, WebStock.
• You can view, add or update certain information on pages such as
up-to-date information regarding recent orders;
personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences, company address);
e-mail notification settings (including Alerts, Order notifications, Delivers, and newsletters);
and your Profile. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
• If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Communication Preferences. (If you do not want to receive Terms And Conditions and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of PlatesAhead.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
• Click here to explore products we offer. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.
