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What this Privacy Policy covers
Your privacy is very important to us.
This policy covers how myVendi treats personal information that myVendi
collects and receives, including information related to your past use of
myVendi services. Personal information is information about you that is
personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone
number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the
practices of companies that myVendi or its parent company, KHK Consulting LLC,
do not own or control, or to people that myVendi does not
employ or manage!
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Collection and use of Information
Like most standard website servers, we use
log files. This includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, Internet
Service Providers (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform types, date/time stamps,
and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer our website, gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use, and to investigate potential misuse of
myVendi's services, its users, or to cooperate with law enforcement, if
requested. We do not collect and evaluate this information for specific individuals.
Our web servers do not automatically record email addresses of visitors.
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What are Cookies?
From time to time, myVendi or its
advertisers may send a "Cookie"
to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your
Internet browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A
cookie can not read data off of your computer's hard disk or read cookie files
created by other websites. Cookies do not damage your system. We use cookies
to identify which areas of myVendi's services you have visited or
customized, so the next time you visit those pages may be readily accessible.
Our advertisers may also use cookies to ascertain how many times you've seen an
advertisement. Our advertisers and we may use this information to better
personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you see on our site. You
can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your Internet
browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your
browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept
these cookies, your experience at our site and other websites may be
diminished and some features may not work as intended.
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Other Information we occasionally
request
We may also request your email address
or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide
additional services (for example, subscriptions to email newsletters, or
announcement lists). Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we will
clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry before the information is
requested. We maintain a strict "No
SPAM policy" that means that we do not sell, rent, or otherwise
give your email address to a third-party, without your consent or as permitted
by this Privacy Policy.
We may from time to time send emails
announcing new myVendi products and/or services. Except as stated above,
myVendi will not send you email that you have not agreed to receive. If you
choose to supply your postal address in an online form, you may receive postal
mailings from other third party companies.
When you sign up for a myVendi
discussion forum, your username or alias is recorded solely for purposes of
maintaining your own account within the forums. This information is not used to
monitor your activity within a forum, nor is it used to identify you outside
myVendi's services.
When you register for a contest or other
promotion, we may ask for your name, address, and email address so we can
administer the contest and notify winners.
When you use co-branded services, or
those provided by a third party offered through the myVendi website, your
information may be passed to the co-brand or third party provider and their use
of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.
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Information we collect when you
purchase something
If you are purchasing something from an
myVendi property, we need to know your name, email address and mailing
address. This allows us to process and have the Seller fulfill your order and
to notify you of your order status. This information may also be used by us to
notify you of related products and services. All credit card handling
(including, but not limited to your credit card number, its expiration date and
your billing address) is done on a secure credit card processing network
provided by PayPal safeguarded by using industry standard SSL
(Secure Socket Layer) encrypted servers.
Wherever myVendi collects personal
information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that
page.
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Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information
about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with
that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their
jobs. To protect your personal information, we have physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations. For example,
myVendi uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption technology when transmitting
certain kinds of information, such as financial services information or payment
information. An icon resembling a padlock is displayed on the bottom of most
browsers window during SSL transactions that involve credit cards and other forms
of payment. Any time myVendi asks you for your credit card information for
either payment or verification purposes, it will be SSL encrypted. Even that our
servers are secure, we do not save your credit card information on any of our
servers.
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Information disclosed to outside
Third Parties
myVendi will disclose personal
information and/or IP addresses, when required by law or in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to:
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Cooperate with the investigations of
purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply
with legal process served on myVendi,
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Protect and defend the rights or
property of myVendi's services of sites and related properties, or visitors
to myVendi's services, sites and related properties,
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Identify persons who may be violating
the law, the myVendi
Copyright Notice and
Terms of Service, the
rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing myVendi's services or its
related properties,
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Fulfill a user's order or request.
We may transfer information about you if we
are acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you
before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different
privacy policy.
In any case, myVendi uses reasonable precautions to keep the information
disclosed to us secure.
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Submission of Ideas, Suggestions, etc.
myVendi is always pleased to hear from
members of the myVendi community and welcomes their comments regarding
myVendi's products and services. However, if you submit to us either:
- an unsolicited suggestion, idea,
proposal or other material, or
- at our request, a comment or
suggestion to improve the myVendi website or add a new category or feature
(for example, through our suggestion box, customer support web forms,
discussion boards, email, or otherwise)
(collectively, the "Submission"), be aware that myVendi will consider such
Submissions to be non-confidential and non-proprietary. myVendi shall have no
obligations concerning your Submission, contractual or otherwise (including but
not limited to an obligation to keep the Submission confidential), and shall not
be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submission. myVendi shall be
entitled to unrestricted use of the Submission for any purpose whatsoever,
commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the submitting party.
myVendi has adapted this policy to avoid future misunderstandings when new
products, services and features developed internally by myVendi employees might
be similar or even identical to a member's idea.
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Use of Email Tools
You may not use the "Refer a Friend"
service, "Email this Page to a Friend" service or other email services that we
offer to send SPAM or otherwise send content that would violate our
Terms of Service and/or
our
Anti SPAM Policy.
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Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken
with your
Member Name and Password, including fees charged to your
account. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your myVendi
password to any third parties. If you choose to share your member name and
password or your personal information with third parties, you are responsible
for all actions taken with your account and therefore you should review that
third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may
lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to
legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has
been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change it.
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Children & Minors
The
Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA) of 1998 provides safeguards to protect children who
use the Internet by regulating the online collection of personal information
from children under the age of 13. Because of these and other safeguards,
minors under 18 are not permitted to register with myVendi and purchase
products from the site. However, we sell children's products for purchase by
adults. If you are under 18, you may only use myVendi's services with the
involvement of a parent or guardian.
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Your Ability to Edit and Deactivate Your
Account Information and Preferences
You can edit your myVendi account
information by going to your "My Account" page. There, in the "Preferences"
section, you may also opt-out of receiving marketing or promotional-related
emails. However, we reserve the right to send you certain communications
relating to the myVendi website, such as service announcements and
administrative messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving them. Occasionally, we will send you emails about new services or
promotions.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, billing
information and any financial information from our active databases. To deactivate
your account simply send an email to info@myVendi.com
with "Cancel My Account" as the subject. Your account will be deactivated as soon
as reasonably possible based on your account activity and in accordance with our
Terms of Service and applicable law.
We will retain in our files some personal information you have requested to edit
or remove to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Service and comply
with legal requirements as is permitted by law. Therefore, you should not expect
that all of your personal information will be completely removed from our databases
in response to your requests. However, such personal information will be
deactivated from public and user viewing and will only be available to select
myVendi personnel for the limited purposes described above.
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Beware of "Phishing"
myVendi will never ask for your private
information such as your myVendi account password, billing or credit card
information in an email or on the phone. If you receive an email or phone call
requesting you provide personal account information such as your password, billing
or credit card information, do not respond! myVendi will NEVER solicit your
account information in an email or on the phone.
These attempts are from hackers in what is
known as "phishing". Phishing attacks typically use "spoofed" emails and fraudulent
websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as
credit card information, account usernames and passwords, etc. Phishers work by
hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card
companies. To protect your privacy and security, myVendi does not store your
credit card information on our servers. If you are contacted by ANYONE asking you
to provide myVendi account information or have received a suspicious email,
please contact or forward it immediately to legal@myVendi.com.
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Your Consent to this Policy
By using myVendi's services, you
consent to the collection and use of information by myVendi as specified
above. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we
use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Questions regarding this statement should
be directed to myVendi's Legal Department at legal@myVendi.com.
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