Privacy Policy
Toscana Enterprises Corporatio (TEC) Privacy practices on the web highlights
Scope
This statement applies to Toscana Enterpises Corporation (TEC) Web Sites Worldwide.
Personal information
In general, you can visit us on the internet without telling us who you are or giving us personal information. There are times when we may need information from you, for instance: to process an order, to correspond, to provide a subscription or in connection with a job application. We may supplement this information to complete a transaction or to provide a better service.
Uses
- To fulfill your requests by us or by others involved in fulfillment.
- To contact you for customer satisfaction surveys, market research or in connection with certain transactions.
- By TEC and selected organizations for marketing purposes if you have permitted such use.
- In an non-identifiable format for analysis (e.g., Google Analytics)
- To develop our business relationship if you represent an TEC Business Partner or Vendor
Your choices
- When we collect information from you, you may tell us that you do not want it used for further marketing contact and we will respect your wishes.
- You may also turn off cookies in your browser.
TEC Privacy Practices on the Web
Your privacy is important to TEC. This statement discloses the information practices for TEC Web sites, including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.
Personal information
In general, you can visit TEC on the Internet without telling us who you are and without giving any personal information about yourself. There are times, however, when we or our partners may need information from you.
You may choose to give us personal information in a variety of situations. For example, you may want to give us information, such as your name and address or e-mail id, to correspond with you, to process an order, or to provide you with a subscription. You may give us your credit card details to buy something from us or a description of your education and work experience in connection with a job opening at TEC that you wish to be considered for. We intend to let you know how we will use such information before we collect it from you; if you tell us that you do not want us to use this information to make further contact with you beyond fulfilling your requests, we will respect your wishes. If you give us personal information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, we will assume that you have their permission to do so.
Using and Sharing Personal Information
The following paragraphs describe in more detail how TEC may use your personal information and with whom we may share it. Depending on the type of TEC Web site you are visiting, one or more of the paragraphs may apply. For example, if you order a product from an TEC Web site, your information will be handled as described in such paragraphs as Fulfilling Your Transaction Request and Marketing Use.
Fulfilling your transaction request
If you request something from a TEC Web site, for example, a product or service, a callback, or specific marketing materials, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information, with others, for instance, other parts of TEC, TEC’s Business Partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, postal or government authorities (for example, Customs authorities) involved in fulfillment. In connection with a transaction we may also contact you as part of our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
If you choose to “Email This Page” to a friend or colleague, we will ask for their name and email address. We will automatically send a one-time email sharing the page you indicated. TEC does not store this information.
Marketing Use
The information you provide to TEC on certain TEC Web sites may also be used by TEC and selected third parties for marketing purposes. Before we use it, however, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether or not to have your information used in this way. To opt-out of receiving further marketing emails from TEC, please follow the unsubscribe instructions included in each email.
TEC Human Resources Web Sites (including Recruitment)
In connection with a job application or inquiry, whether advertised on a TEC Web site or otherwise, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as a resume or curriculum vitae. We may use this information throughout TEC and its related entities for the purpose of employment consideration or your inquiry. Except where you tell us not to, we will keep the information for future consideration.
Information for Business Partners
If you represent a TEC Business Partner, you may visit a TEC Web site intended specifically for TEC Business Partners. We may use information provided on that site to administer and develop our business relationship with you, the Business Partner you represent, and TEC Business Partners generally. For instance, this may involve using your information to send you details of TEC Business Partner programs. It may also include sharing certain information with other Business Partners (subject to any confidentiality obligations that may exist), or TEC customers or prospects. In connection with a particular transaction or program, we may also contact you as part of customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
TEC Supplier Administration
If you represent a TEC supplier, you may visit a TEC Web site intended specifically for use by TEC suppliers. We may use the information provided on that site in connection with entering into or performing a transaction with you. For example, this may include sharing information with other parts of TEC, TEC’s Business Partners, customers, shipping companies, financial institutions, postal or government authorities involved in fulfillment. It may also be used to administer and develop our relationship with you, the supplier you represent and/or other TEC suppliers generally.
Use of Information in the Social Computing Environment
TEC provides social computing tools on some of its Web sites to enable online sharing and collaboration among members who have registered to use them. These include forums, wikis, blogs and other social media platforms.
When registering to use these tools, you will be asked to provide certain personal information to TEC. Registration information which is not automatically made available to other participants as part of your profile will be subject to and protected in accordance with this privacy statement.
Any other content you post, such as pictures, information, opinions, or any other type of personal information which you make available to other participants on these social platforms, is not subject to this privacy statement. Such content is rather subject to the Terms of Use of these platforms, and any additional guidelines and privacy information provided in relation to their use. Please refer to them to better understand yours, TEC’s, and other parties’ rights and obligations with regard to such content. In addition, you should be aware that the content you post on any such social computing platforms may be made broadly available to others inside and outside TEC.
Other TEC Web Site Notices
In some cases, specific TEC Web sites may contain other notices about their use and the information practices applicable to those sites.
Our Worldwide Practices
TEC is a global organization, with entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems that cross borders.
Our privacy practices are designed to provide protection for your personal information, all over the world.
We may share your personal information within TEC and transfer it to countries in the world where we do business.
Some countries may provide less legal protection for your information. In such countries TEC will still handle information in the manner we describe here.
Information Security and Quality
We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its quality. We implement appropriate measures and processes, such as using encryption when transmitting certain sensitive information, to help us to keep your information secure and to maintain its quality.
Supplementing Information
From time to time we may supplement information you give us via a TEC Web site with information from other sources, such as information validating your address or other available information about businesses. This is to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect and to help us provide a better service.
Use of Suppliers
In some cases TEC uses suppliers to collect, use, analyze and otherwise process information on its behalf. It is TEC’s practice to require such suppliers to handle information in a manner consistent with TEC’s policies.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, TEC decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize one or more of its divisions, affecting one of more web properties and web sites. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. It is TEC’s practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.
Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Technologies
We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our Web sites to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit, and we also measure visitor activity on TEC Web sites, but we do so in ways that keep the information non-identifiable. This information is sometimes known as “clickstream data.” TEC or others on TEC’s behalf may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service.
Also, when we collect personal data from you in a transaction, we may extract some information about that transaction in an non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner you can disable your cookies.
We collect the information we mentioned in the previous paragraphs through the use of various technologies, including one called “cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer but not you. Some TEC pages use cookies, sent by TEC or its third party vendors, or other technologies to better serve you when you return to the Web site. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, some Web sites may not work properly.
Some TEC Web sites also use Web beacon or other technologies to better tailor those sites to provide better customer service. These technologies may be in use on a number of pages across TEC’s Web sites. When a visitor accesses these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers. These Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you don’t want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off cookies.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Online Advertising.”
If you turn off cookies, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded. .
Service Quality Monitoring
Certain Web transactions may also involve you calling us or our calling you. Please be aware that it is TEC’s general practice to monitor and in some cases record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.
Online Advertising
Certain companies help us deliver interactive on-line advertising such as banner ads. These companies may collect and use information about customers to help us better understand the offers, promotions, and types of advertising that are most appealing to our customers. After it is collected the information is aggregated so it is not identifiable to a specific individual. If, however, you would prefer that these companies not collect such information, please visit www.networkadvertising.org and follow the “opt-out” instructions.
Personalized URL Link
On occasion, we may personalize and customize Web sites for certain visitors. If you visit one of these sites, you may find it customized with references to products and/or services that we believe may be of interest to you, based on your previous interactions with TEC and information you have provided to us. While you are visiting these Web sites, we may collect information about your visit to better tailor the site to your interests. An invitation to visit one of these Web sites is usually presented as a personalized URL in an e-mail, a notice on a Web site registration page, or as a response to you logging on to a certain Web site.
If you choose to visit one of these Web sites, you are agreeing to let TEC collect information about your visits and also to its association with other information about you and your relationship with TEC. If you do not wish your information to be used in this way, do not accept the invitation to visit these sites.
Disclosures Required By Law
Please be aware that in certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders.
Privacy Technology
Technology will increasingly help give you more control over your personal information. It will also help organizations to manage their privacy practices and policies. As an information technology provider, TEC actively supports the development of privacy technologies to help achieve these goals and to help create greater trust and confidence in the way personal information is handled.
There are products and services are available which can assist you with the control of your personal information while navigating the Web. See http://www.privacyalliance.org/resources/rulesntools.shtml for an overview of many privacy-related tools. Please note that TEC has not formally evaluated these tools.
Links to non-TEC Web sites
TEC Web sites may contain links to other Web sites. TEC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites.
Notification of Changes
This privacy statement was last updated on July 6, 2009. A notice will be posted on our Web site home page for 30 days whenever this privacy statement is changed in a material way.
Privacy Questions and Access
If you have a question about this statement or TEC’s handling of your information, you can send an email to the TEC Web site coordinator using our online contact form at http://tecorporation.com/contact-us
Before TEC is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, however, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request. We will contact you within 30 days of your request.
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