The
Information We Collect
How
We Use the Information
Third-Party
Sites and Sponsors
Cookies
Our
Commitment to Security
Thank you for visiting Metaldisc.com. Your privacy is important
to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our
online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used at Metaldisc.com
Information We Collect
At Metaldisc.com, you can order products, enter contests, vote in polls or
otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our
online newsletters. The types of personally identifiable information that
may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone
number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests
in and use of various products, programs, and services.
At certain parts of Metaldisc.com, only persons who provide us
with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order
products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities
and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information
when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are
using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system
you are using, (e.g., Windows 95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your
Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your
requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your
inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs
or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such
as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes
to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter,
or to contact you about your account with us.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "letter
to our editors"), we may publish your screen name and other information
you have provided to us.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information
that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable
us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information
in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products,
programs, or services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response
to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.
We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement
agency's request.
Agents and contractors of Metaldisc.com who have access to personally
identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner
that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the
information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are
performing for Metaldisc.com.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized
disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable
information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent
with this Privacy Notice.
Finally, Brain Storm sites will not use or transfer personally
identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described
above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated
uses.
Metaldisc.com may contain links to other sites whose information practices
may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy
notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected
by, these third parties.
Metaldisc.com may offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes,
or promotions) that is sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties.
By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally
identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in
the site activity. Metaldisc.com has no control over the third-party's use
of this information. Metaldisc.com will notify you at the time of requesting
personally identifiable information if these third-parties will obtain such
information.
Metaldisc.com may use a reputable third party to present or serve
the advertisements that you may see at its Web pages. Our privacy policy does
not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected
from you. This site does not currently partner with or have any special relations
with third-party ad servers to present or serve the ads that appear on the
site.
Cookies
To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use "cookies."
Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences.
Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally
identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to
us by, for example, registering at Metaldisc.com. However, once you choose
to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information
may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content
and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize
your experience at our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return
to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you
to use the shopping cart on Metaldisc.com. We also may use cookies to offer
you products, programs, or services.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security,
and correctly use the information we collect online.