Vane Brothers is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Vane Brothers Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Vane Brothers website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Vane Brothers may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Vane Brothers also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Vane Brothers. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Vane Brothers for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Vane Brothers Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Vane Brothers public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Vane Brothers does not read any of your private online communications.
Vane Brothers encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Vane Brothers so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Vane Brothers is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Vane Brothers and Vane Brothers family of Web sites.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Vane Brothers collects and uses your personal information to operate the Vane Brothers Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Vane Brothers also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Vane Brothers and its affiliates. Vane Brothers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Vane Brothers does NOT sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Vane Brothers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Vane Brothers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Vane Brothers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Vane Brothers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Vane Brothers keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Vane Brothers in order to determine which services are the most popular. This data may be used to deliver customized content within Vane Brothers to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Vane Brothers Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Vane Brothers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Vane Brothers; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Vane Brothers, or the public.
USE OF COOKIES
The Vane Brothers Web site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Vane Brothers pages, or register with Vane Brothers' site or services, a cookie helps Vane Brothers to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the same Vane Brothers Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Vane Brothers features that you customized.
Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Vane Brothers Web site.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Vane Brothers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Vane Brothers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure, through the use of encryption such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Vane Brothers will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Vane Brothers encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Vane Brothers is protecting your information.