LTO Imports
Privacy Policy
February 23, 2007
At LTO Imports we
recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all of the
products, services and websites offered by LTO Imports Inc. or its subsidiaries
or affiliated companies (collectively, LTO Imports' "services").
If you have any
questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website
or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o LTO Imports Inc., 1411 S. Main Street, Lockhart, TX 78644.
Information we collect and how we use it:
We offer a number of
services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any
personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we
may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide - When you sign up for a LTO
Imports Account or other LTO Imports service or promotion that requires
registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name,
mailing address, email address and an account password).
- LTO Imports cookies - When you visit LTO Imports,
we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of
characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We
use cookies to improve the quality of our service. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
some LTO Imports features and services may not function properly if your
cookies are disabled.
- Log information - When you use LTO Imports
services, our servers automatically record information that your browser
sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include
information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser
type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
- User communications - When you send email or other
communication to LTO Imports, we may retain those communications in order
to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our
services.
- Affiliated sites - We offer some of our
services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you
provide to those sites may be sent to LTO Imports in order to deliver the
service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The
affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you
to read their privacy policies.
- Links - LTO Imports may present
links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links
have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our
customized content and advertising.
- Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies
to web sites and services that are owned and operated by LTO Imports. We
do not exercise control over the sites displayed as links from within our
various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other
files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from
you.
LTO Imports only
processes personal information for purposes which include:
- Providing our products and services to users,
including the display of customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to
maintain, protect and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our
network; and
- Developing new services.
LTO Imports processes
personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in
other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server
outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our
own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of
and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising
partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a
particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal
information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose
for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such
use.
If we propose to use
personal information for any purposes other than those described in this
Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal
information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive
information for purposes other than those described in this Policy,
unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to
submit personal information to any of our services, in which case LTO Imports
may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
LTO Imports only shares
personal information with other companies or individuals outside of LTO Imports
in the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent
for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries,
affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the
purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that
these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions
and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use,
preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to
(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service,
including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect,
prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d)
protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of LTO
Imports, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If LTO Imports becomes
involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its
assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Please contact us at the
address below for any additional questions about the management or use of
personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate
security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized
alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews
of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures,
as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to
systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to
personal information to LTO Imports employees, contractors and agents who need
to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject
to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to
meet these obligations.
Data integrity
LTO Imports processes
personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in
accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice.
We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that
we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide
or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal
information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our
users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing
and updating personal information
When you use LTO Imports
services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your
personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to
delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained
by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify
themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed
before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that
are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical
effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical
(for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or
for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide
information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge,
except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
Enforcement
LTO Imports regularly
reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any
questions or concerns regarding this Policy or LTO Imports' treatment of personal
information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at
Privacy Matters, c/o LTO Imports Inc., 1411 S. Main Street, Lockhart, TX 78644. When we receive formal written complaints at this address,
it is LTO Imports' policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her
concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities,
including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints
regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between LTO
Imports and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this
Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights
under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such
changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page
and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice
(including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each
version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its
effective date.
If you have any
additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact
us any time through this web site or at Privacy Matters, c/o LTO Imports Inc.,
1411 S. Main Street, Lockhart, TX 78644.
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