Amazon is committed to upholding a high level of privacy with regard to its user’s information. The company’s privacy policy is formulated to help our users how we gather, use and secure the information they avail to us and assist you in making the right decisions when using our services.
We hence notify you of the following:
- The identifiable information collected from you via the website, how the information is used and to whom it may be disclosed.
- What are the available choices to you with regard to the use of your information
- The security measures the company has put in place the guard the information you provide from misuse
- How you can correct mistakes in the information, you provide.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
The company collects both personal and non-personal information. The non-personal information includes any data that cannot be used to recognize you as the general demographic information, anonymous usage data, submitted preferences and those generated based on the information you and number of clicks. The personal information comprises your email, date of birth, contact information and address which you provide to us during registration at the site.
Information gathered through Technology
In order to activate the services, you are not required to provide any personal data other than your email address. To later access the services, you will be needed to give more information about the address and contact information. Nevertheless, to guarantee the quality of service, we track to track the data your browser provides us or by use of a software application when you use the services. The information is tracked through the use of cookies or small text files including a unique anonymous identifier. Cookies are sent to our customer’s browser from the company’s servers and are stored on the hard drive of the user’s computer. This will help us gather non-personal information about a user and keep a record of your preferences when using the services, both on a personal and aggregate basis.
Information provided through registration
Other than the data automatically provided to us by your browser when you visit the company’s website, to become a subscriber to the services you are required to create a personal account. This is done through the creation of a personal profile where you register by entering your email address, creating a username and a password. By registering, the user authorizes the company to collect, keep and use the address in-accordance-with the agreement.
THE USE AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION
Personal information
Other than the indicated use of your personal information in this policy, the company do not trade, sell or otherwise share your information for purposes of marketing with other companies or people without your consent. We, however, share the information with vendors who perform services for Amazon. They include servers for the company’s email who are given access to the user’s email in order to send emails from the company. The vendors, however, use the user’s personal information under strict directions from the company and in accordance with the company’s privacy policy.
In other words, the personal information you give us is used to communicate to you. This is in cases of questions, soliciting feedback from users, provision of technical support and inform users on available offers.
The information may be shared with third parties if Amazon has a good-faith belief that the access and use of the information are justifiably essential to meet any applicable legal process; to enforce probable Terms of Service, which includes address fraud and investigations in case of violations.
Non- Personal Information
Mostly, the company uses non-personal information to improve the services and customize the user’s experience. The information is also aggregated to track trends and assess the use patterns on the company’s site. The privacy policy, however, does not limit in any manner the use or share of such data even though as a company we reserve the right to use and share the non-personal information with our partners, advertisers and other parties at our will.
SECURITY
The company takes precautions to secure the information provided by our users. When you provide sensitive information through the site, it is protected both online and offline. Every time we pick sensitive data such as account numbers, the information is encrypted and safely transferred in that manner. As a user you can prove this by locating a lock icon in the address bar and “http” at the beginning of the web page address.
While the information is protected online through encryption it is as well secure offline. The company ensures that only employees who require the data to perform an assigned task like billing or customer services is given access to the information. The servers and computers used to keep records of personally identifiable data are safely kept in a good environment.
YOUR ACCESS TO AND CONTROL OF INFORMATION
As a user, you have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for purposes of marketing. When a promotional email is sent to you, you can opt out of more promotional advertisements by the use of unsubscribe tab provided in every email. It also allowed indicating that you are not interested in receiving the promotional communications from the company in the settings section of the site. Please note that notwithstanding the marketing preferences by either unsubscribing or opting out through the availed platforms on the site, we may continue sending the administrative emails to you including periodic updates to our privacy policy.
Links to Other Websites
ToolsGuides.com is an amazon.com affiliate, and May contains links Directing you there and also other links to other websites. Once you are linked to another website, our privacy policy ceases to function to the other website, and you are entirely on the other sites privacy policy. The privacy policy is not applicable to third party websites and any activities are done there. We are therefore not responsible for any information you may share there concerning your user content. This privacy policy is also not applicable to any information collected offline.