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Privacy Policy
Overview
Our Internet Science retail store allows you to buy products and services, sign
up for a gift registry, 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@sciencelab.com
or may also be contacted directly at the following address:
Attn:
Privacy Compliance Officer
SCIENCELAB.COM, Inc.
14025 Smith Rd.
Houston, TX 77396
1.
What
information does sciencelab.com collect from you?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services,
sciencelab.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, register
for a Gift List, enter contests or sweepstakes, 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,
sciencelab.com can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized
services. 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.
2.
Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide
sciencelab.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 sciencelab.com visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers'
preferences. sciencelab.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 sciencelab.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.
Gift Registry
If you decide to create a Gift List through our site, you will create an
account, where we will collect and use your name, e-mail address, credit card or
other payment information, billing and shipping address, phone number, password
and product preferences. This information is subject to the terms of this
Privacy Policy except as explained here. Others will be able to search for your
Gift List using your e-mail address unless you choose not to make your Gift List
searchable. Those who have access to your Gift List will be able to see your
name, e-mail address, city, state, and may have access to other personal
information and product information that you have entered into the Gift List. If
others place orders for items on your Gift List, they may have access to your
address. We will use the product preferences that you include in your Gift List
to inform you about offers that may be of interest to you. If you provide us
with the e-mail addresses of your family and friends, we will use their e-mail
addresses to send them your Gift List if you instruct us to. With your
permission, we will send them the Gift List using your e-mail address as the
originating address. We will not use the e-mail addresses of your family and
friends for any other purpose.
Gift Certificates
If you purchase a gift certificate from our site, you will give us the
recipient's name and e-mail address if you wish to send the certificate by
e-mail. If you wish to send a certificate by regular mail, you will give us the
name, mailing information and phone number for the recipient. The recipient
information you give us will only be used to send the gift certificate and for
no other purpose.
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 optout@sciencelab.com.
Contact Information and Third
Party Data
If you contact sciencelab.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 use a third party to help us provide customer service. In order to help you
most effectively, we provide them with your order information.
Advertising
We display advertisements on our site. By knowing a little about you,
sciencelab.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.
sciencelab.com takes the advertisement and includes it in a sciencelab.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, sciencelab.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 basket 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 and allow others to use cookies in the operation of our site.
Action Tags
We may use and allow others to use action tags in the operation of our site.
3.
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.
Image
Servers: We use a third party image serving company to serve the graphics that
visitors see on our site more quickly. They collect a visitor's IP address and
the URLs of any graphics viewed and the date and time of the visit. However,
they do not collect and we do not provide them with any Personally Identifiable
Information. They may also use a "cookie."
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.
On
occasion, unaffiliated third parties will "frame" sciencelab.com's
site in an effort to collect customer information. To ensure your privacy, make
sure that your order originates from sciencelab.com's site. sciencelab.com is
not in any manner responsible in the event that you do disclose information to
an unaffiliated framing site.
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.
4.
With whom do we share your information?
Fulfillment: The information collected by sciencelab.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, provide you with
credit and deliver promotional e-mails to you from sciencelab.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 sciencelab.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, sciencelab.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 (e.g., magazine offers available on our
site).
Data
Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for sciencelab.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 sciencelab.com.
Ad
Servers, Advertisers, Image Servers 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 sciencelab.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. sciencelab.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.
5.
How can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable
Information?
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal
information that you have provided to us. During the online ordering process you
can review, change, or delete the information that you have submitted. You may
change any of your personal information in your account online at any time. We
encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. 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.
6.
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 sciencelab.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 optout@sciencelab.com.
After doing so, sciencelab.com users will not receive future communications or
mailings unless they open a new account 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.
7.
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.
When
you access your account information, the information is kept on a secure server.
All of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access by
physical security means.
8.
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@sciencelab.com
so that we may delete the minor's information.
9.
sciencelab.com and third-party use of "cookies" and
"action tags."
sciencelab.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
sciencelab.com. Our cookies store randomly assigned user identification numbers,
the country where you are located, and your first name to welcome you back to
our site. The cookies make your use of the site easier, allow you to retrieve an
earlier shopping cart, 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.
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.
E-mail
Distributor's Use of Action Tags: Our third-party e-mail distributor may use
action tags. They may, for example, keep track of when a promotional e-mail is
opened and provide sciencelab.com with ongoing aggregated reports of how many
customers have responded.
10.
You should carefully review privacy policies of any third party
sites accessible from sciencelab.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. sciencelab.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 sciencelab.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, sciencelab.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 sciencelab.com web site in the background.
Unless you are on sciencelab.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
e-mail at privacy@sciencelab.com,
or by sending a letter to the address below.
11.
Contacting sciencelab.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 sciencelab.com by sending a
letter to:
Attn:
Privacy Compliance Officer
SCIENCELAB.COM, Inc.
14025 Smith Rd.
Houston, TX 77396
You may also
contact us by e-mail at privacy@sciencelab.com.
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Privacy Policy changes
If sciencelab.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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