Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICIES
LapPro welcomes all visitors to our website. LapPro is committed to ensuring the privacy and
protection of all our customers. This policy was developed with this goal in
mind and outlines the guidelines in which we gather personal and non-personal
information and the use of such information. In the process of engaging in
commerce with the public, certain non-personal and personal information is
gathered by our website. We do not store personal information on our website,
for your protection and privacy, all personal information is redirected to an
encrypted, secure site maintained by our order processing system. This system
uses the highest level of internet security to protect you from unauthorized
use. The following is an explanation of our privacy policy.
Definitions
For the
purposes of this statement, personal information includes your name, address,
account information, company name, email address, telephone number and any
other information which identifies you. "We, us, our" refers to LapPro and our affiliated companies. Non-personal
information refers to all non-identifiable information such as your IP address,
referring website, browser type, and navigation on the website as well as
consolidated demographic information which does not contain individual
information.
Gathering of Personal Information
To
provide you with the best service possible or to complete a transaction, LapPro gathers your information to both verify your
identity (to prevent fraud) and to facilitate your request. By providing your
information in association with your request you are giving us your expressed
consent in using that information to provide you the service or transaction you
requested. This information is not stored on our website but redirected to a
secured site. Information collected in this manner is used solely for
processing your request. We may collect and summarize this information in such
a manner where no individual may be identified for statistical purposes to help
us improve our business practices and provide better service to you.
Gathering of Non-Personal Information
As most
other websites our website may collect information about you that cannot be
used to identify you directly. This information is gathered to help us improve
our website and our business practices. Most of this information is used in
statistical models for our information and may be shared with our vendors,
suppliers and third-party contractors to improve the website and continue to
give you the best value in the products offered to you. Other uses may include
this information to create limitations to specific IP addresses or URLs that
have been known to create problems for us.
Access to and Releasing of Information
Order
Processing: When you purchase from our website or retail location, your name,
address, credit card number and amount purchased will be submitted to your
financial institution to verify your identity and to authorize your purchase.
We must also supply your name, telephone number, address and items purchased to
third party shippers such as UPS to deliver your order to you. There may also
be instances where we may drop ship directly from the manufacturer or one of
our suppliers. In these instances they are the shipper for this order and given
the same information.
Independent
Contractors: From time to time, we may employ other companies or individuals to
provide certain services to us such as analyzing customer lists and data,
providing marketing assistance, or consulting services. These third parties
will have access to the information needed to perform their functions but
cannot use that information for any other purpose. Any 3rd parties who use our
data will be fully bound by this privacy policy.
Disclosure
to Service Providers: LapPro may share your personal
information with certain service providers in order to: provide products and
services to you based on your request, to verify and validate information, and
to address customer service matters. Examples of service providers include
credit card issuers, product service depots, warranty providers, and delivery
services.
Any
information our customers provide will not be used for other commercial
purposes and will not be sold, rented, leased or forwarded to any third party.
Legal Disclosure:
We may
disclose your information as permitted or required to by law; for example:
- To
a government institution or other person or entity that has asserted its
lawful authority to obtain the information
- Where
we have reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful in
the investigation of unlawful activity
- To
comply with a subpoena or warrant or an order made by a court, person or
entity with jurisdiction to compel the production of information
- To
comply with court rules regarding the production of records and
information
- To
our legal counsel
Third-Party
Links: We have many links on our site to third-party sites, most of these are
vendor sites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these sites.
We recommend you read the privacy statement for each site before supplying any
information. Other third-party sites may link into our site; we have no control
over these sites and likewise cannot assume any responsibility or liability.
Some sites may give you a unique code, cookie or graphic which will uniquely
identify you to them. These are used to track and possibly capture information
you supply while on our site, though we endeavour to remove such access, you
must take the responsibility to limit exposure to such practices. We suggest
using a spy ware program to remove these programs on a regular basis and to
visit our site directly.
LapPro reserves the right to modify this policy at anytime. You should visit periodically to review any changes.
