CenterStone Technologies ("CenterStone", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting the online privacy of Your personal information. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy (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 the Site and our products and services. This Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices, and CenterStone's Users' needs. "Site" means
http://www.centerstone-europe.com or other designated CenterStone websites or IP addresses. "You," "Your," or "User(s)" means any individual or legal entity, its parent organizations, subsidiaries, directors, officers, affiliates, agents, and employees using or accessing the Site. BY ACCESSING, BROWSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MUST NOT AND SHALL NOT ACCESS, BROWSE OR USE THE SITE.
CenterStone's Sales Order Management System
Users of CenterStone's sales order management system software applications and services (collectively, the "System") are subject to CenterStone's Terms of Use in addition to this Policy. See CenterStone's Terms of Use for more information.
What Information Do We Collect?
When You visit the Site, You may provide us with two types of information: (a) personal information You knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis; and (b) website use information collected on an aggregate basis as You and others browse the Site, including IP address information.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Some basic personal information is required in order to access or receive certain information from CenterStone through the Site. You will be prompted to complete a registration form should You request this information and the personal information collected will be limited to what You voluntarily submit. For example, You may need to provide the following information:
- Name
- Mailing address
- E-mail address
- Home and business phone number
- Other personal information (e.g., mother's maiden name)
If You choose to correspond further with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of Your e-mail messages together with Your e-mail 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. CenterStone reserves the right to use this information internally or distribute it to selected agents acting on CenterStone's behalf.
Users of System
CenterStone collects personal information such as email address, name, address and telephone numbers from Users of the System. In addition, we collect and maintain Your order history. Third parties offering or showing their goods and/or services through the System ("Supplier(s)") may choose to load orders placed by Users via other means into System for reporting, forecasting or other purposes. CenterStone may disseminate aggregate data related to activity processed through the System but will not share personally identifying data or details of a User's activity with third parties (other than with the Supplier with whom User is transacting), except as necessary to carry out our business or as required by law.
Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial websites, we use a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our online services are used. However, the Site does not use cookies unless a User accesses or uses the System. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at a website, and the websites visited just before and just after our Site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with You as an individual.
Use of IP Addresses
When You browse the Site, Your computer's IP address is logged in our server log files. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to Your computer whenever You are online. CenterStone collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information and to audit use of the Site. Typically, we do not link these IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, however, we can and will use these IP addresses to identify a User when we believe it necessary to protect the Site or System, our services, our Users or our Suppliers.
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 Users and prospective Users. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify You about important changes to the Site or System.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access website. They 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 website 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 website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about the Site and System Users' browsing activities in order to constantly improve our System and better server our Users. This information assists us to design and arrange our System and Site in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our System and Site to better meet the needs of our Users and prospective Users. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by Users to our System and Site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture Your individual e-mail address or any personally identifying information about You although cookies do permit us to send focused online banner advertisements or other such responses to You should we choose to utilize that capability in the future.
Sharing Information With Affiliates
From time to time You may notice offers from third parties advertised on the System or 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 e-mail 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 personal business or financial data.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we will use the information we collect to notify You about 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 Users' personal information. You will be given the opportunity to notify us of Your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an e-mail request at privacy@centerstonetech.com.
Submissions to CenterStone
E-mail, information or other transmissions 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 through an unsecured e-mail.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security
The Site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under CenterStone's control. CenterStone also uses reasonable security measures designed to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of its Users' data under CenterStone's control.
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.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all Your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database in order to review and make corrections, if any, by e-mailing privacy@centerstonetech.com.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about out Users, sales, website traffic patterns and related website information to our Suppliers, affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this Policy. CenterStone will not sell or distribute Your personal information without prior notification and consent. We do not share personal information with third parties except or as required by law or other legal processes, and we never sell your personal information. CenterStone reserves the right to disclose any personal information about You or Your use of the Site or System without Your prior permission if CenterStone has a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of CenterStone, its affiliates or related parties; (3) enforce the CenterStone Terms of Use; or (4) act to protect the interests of its Suppliers or other Users. This Policy is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this Policy is in derogation of CenterStone's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to Your access or use of the Site or System or information provided to or gathered by CenterStone with respect to such use. If any part of this Policy is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the Policy shall continue in effect. BY USING THE SITE OR SYSTEM, YOU CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY.
What About Other websites Linked to Our website?
The Site contains hyperlinks, which are highlighted words or pictures within a hypertext document, that, when clicked, take the User to another place within the document, to another document, or to other websites that may or may not be controlled by CenterStone. These hyperlinked websites may contain privacy provisions that are different from those of this Policy. CenterStone is not responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of information collected through non-CenterStone websites and CenterStone expressly disclaims any liability related to such collection, use or disclosure. We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site or System nor the information or content contained therein. Links to other websites are provided solely as a convenience. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site or System, is subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Policy Changes
This Policy is subject to change at our discretion. Changes to the Policy will be posted on the Site. By continuing to access, browse or use the Site or System, You acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy, as amended.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about our administration of your personal information, please contact us at privacy@centerstonetech.com. You may also use this address to communicate any concerns you may have regarding compliance with this Policy.