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Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and
services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our clients and partners. The Policy is designed to
assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to
assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. This statement will
be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly
choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate
basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose
to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services from us or our partners, you may need to give personal information
and authorization to obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may need to provide the
following information:
Name
Mailing address
Email address
Credit card number
Home and business phone number
Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information to our partners, if you choose to correspond further with us
through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see
explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web
site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits,
the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That
You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing
customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally,
we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services
and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed
and managed under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers’
personal information. As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of
your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers
to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s
Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to
simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the
user’s transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and
to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more
personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect
from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Web
site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. This
information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually
improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace
the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to
count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies
to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you although they do permit
us to send focused online banner advertisements or other such responses to you.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
We will not share your information with any 3rd parties who are not affiliated with
CheapBlackberries.Com
. From
time to time you may notice offers from outside companies advertised on our Web site. We take measures to select
product or service providers that are responsible and afford privacy protections to their customers. However, we
cannot make any representations about the practices and policies of these companies.
Sharing Information with Strategic
Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances or partnerships with third parties who may be given access to personal
information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information
regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with strategic marketing
alliances or partnerships, we will retain all ownership rights to the information, and we will not share information
regarding your social security number or other personal financial data.
Log Files Like many
other Web sites, www.CheapBlackberries.Com
makes use of
log files. The information inside the log files includes
internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser,
Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp,
referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze
trends, administer the site, track user’s movement
around the site, and gather demographic information. IP
addresses, and other such information are not linked to
any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
www.CheapBlackberries.Com does
use cookies to store information about visitors
preferences, record user-specific information on which
pages the user access or visit, customize Web page
content based on visitors browser type or other
information that the visitor sends via their browser.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and
web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners
include Google Adsense, Commission Junction, Linkshare,
Amazon, Simplexity and all of the Major Wireless carriers .
These third-party ad servers or ad
networks use technology to the advertisements and links
that appear on www.CheapBlackberries.Com send directly to
your browsers. They automatically receive your IP
address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as
cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used
by the third-party ad networks to measure the
effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to
personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.CheapBlackberries.Com has no access to or control
over these cookies that are used by third-party
advertisers.
You should consult the respective
privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for
more detailed information on their practices as well as
for instructions about how to opt-out of certain
practices. www.CheapBlackberries.Com's privacy policy does
not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of,
such other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish
to disable cookies, you may do so through your
individual browser options. More detailed information
about cookie management with specific web browsers can
be found at the browsers' If you have any additional
questions, please feel free to contact us any time.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site,
new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our client, you will be given the opportunity
to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an
offer or by sending us an email request at removeme@CheapBlackberries.Com
.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information to us on our Web site, a secure server software which
we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route
and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place
prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information
such as Social Security or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security. We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information
we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed
for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our
information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are
committed to the protection of customer information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to
confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes
and transactions.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside
Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and related Web site
information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying
data, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure
of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that
the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked
to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information
or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
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CheapBlackberries.Com
"All Rights Reserved"
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