Online Privacy Policy

Buywhiz.com knows that you care how your information is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust in us to keep it safe. The main goal in collecting your personal information is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and customized shopping experience you will never forget. We at Buywhiz value our customers and respect your privacy. We are committed to protecting all of the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that you share with us. This Online Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand the care with which we intend to treat your Personal Information.

This policy describes the personal information we collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties. Our policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information. With technology advances, we reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of our Privacy Policy at any time.  If our information practices change, we will post an updated policy on our website. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.  You can tell if the policy has changed by checking the effective date that appears below. If we change the policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you. You may exercise your choices about how we collect and use your information consistent with this policy at any time. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us as described in the section entitled, “Contact Information,” below.

The effective date of this privacy policy is January 7, 2011.

What personal information do we gather/track?

Personal Information includes any information that may be used to identify an individual such as a first and last name, a home or other physical address, a telephone or facsimile number, an email address or other contact information. We may need to obtain your Personal Information in order to process orders, provide you with information, products or services that you request or you may choose to provide us with your Personal Information.

We request personal information when you request information about products, order products, request a service, correspond with us or engage in certain other activities through our website. You make the decision whether to proceed with any activity that requests Personal Information. If you do not wish to provide the requested information, however, you may be unable to complete the matter.

What do we do with the information we gather/track?

We often use Personal Information you provide us to provide you with information about new services, informative emails, responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, communicating with you and research on future product ideas or improvements. Additionally, we use Personal Information to allow you to obtain access to services, information about products or otherwise engage in other activities you select.

How do we protect visitor information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Our Website incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information that is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Only key personnel are granted access to any personal information in order to process transactions and verify cardholder security with financial institutions. When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. 

Security

Ordering from Buywhiz online is safe and secure.  Buywhiz uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology, when processing online transactions.  Upon purchase, you will be directed to Google Checkout or to PayPal where you may pay using your PayPal account or your credit card. Your credit card information is securely, encrypted during the transaction, and is not stored online.  You will need to re-enter credit card information with each new order.  Our site is secured by GeoTrust SSL certificates, shared by Interspire, that are providing up to 256 bit encryption thereby offering the highest level of encryption and security possible. In addition, we have also secured our site using GoDaddy.com SSL certificates that support both industry-standard 128-bit and high-grade 256-bit SSL encryption as well as provide 99.9% browser recognition. This means you can rest assured that communications between your browser and this site's web servers are private and secure. If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, please email us at support@buywhiz.com.  Our Policy is intended to provide you with the most secure and safest shopping experience possible.

Cookies & Other Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Cookies can also help customize the Site for visitors. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology; however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied into such information. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Firefox or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting customer service.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our website is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our website and your experience. We may also analyze information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.

Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include Buywhiz. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

With whom may we share the information we gather/track?

Occasionally, we may share Personal Information with our selected business partners for the purpose of providing you with improved products or services. If you prefer that we not provide your information to our business partners, you may let us know by using one of the methods described below in this Online Privacy Policy. We also retain the services of outside contractors to provide services for us. They may be used to provide training services, technical support, to develop or manufacture products, to handle order processing and fulfillment or to perform other services. We require that these contractors keep the Personal Information of customers secure and confidential. We also require that these contractors use Personal Information only on behalf of Buywhiz. Please be advised that in certain instances, it may be necessary for Buywhiz to disclose Personal Information to government officials or otherwise as required by our legal obligations. We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when:

(1) permitted or required by law
(2) to protect against or prevent potential fraud or unauthorized transactions
(3) investigating fraud, which has already taken place

How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?

Buywhiz provides a number of ways for you to “opt-out” of receiving additional information from us or having us provide your personal information to our partners. We may offer you these choices at the time you give us your information. To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from buywhiz.com if your computer supports such capabilities. Users who no longer wish to receive our promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to an email communication and writing “unsubscribe” in the subject line in the email or by emailing us at support@buywhiz.com.

To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the "My Account" section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the "My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping. . You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features, such as:
 

• Not having to enter your information more then once
• Making the site easier for you to use
• Being able to quickly find information on products and services
• Provide you with notices on new products, services, promotions and discounts
• To help us create site content that will be most relevant to you

If you do not want to receive Terms of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Policy, those notices will still govern your use of Buywhiz.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.

Links to Business Partners and Co-Branded Websites

In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We do not necessarily share Personal Information with those websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work). Our website pages may contain links to websites operated by other companies. Some of these third-party websites may be co-branded with a Buywhiz logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by Buywhiz. Although we choose our business partners carefully, Buywhiz is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our website. Once you have left our website pages, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you. We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
 

Questions & Feedback

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.

Online Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

 Terms & Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into their control panel and going to the 'Edit Profile' page.

Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. Buywhiz does not sell products for purchase by children. Our website pages do not target and are not intended to attract children under the age of 13. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 13, you may use buywhiz.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Buywhiz does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 13 or send them requests for personal information. 

Access/Accuracy

To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, Buywhiz wishes to maintain accurate Personal Information. Where we collect Personal Information from you on our website, our goal is to provide a means of contacting Buywhiz should you need to review, update or correct that Information. If for any reason those means are unavailable or inaccessible, you may send updates and corrections about your Personal Information by email to support@buywhiz.com and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in your Personal Information that we hold as soon as practicable.

Your Consent

By using this website, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to Buywhiz’s processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where Buywhiz collects Personal Information on the Internet. Should the Online Privacy Policy change, we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on our website for a reasonable period of time. 

Protection of Buywhiz.com & Others

We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Buywhiz.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Online Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Buywhiz

320 Baskins Creek Road #1

Gatlinburg TN 37738

Phone: (901) 231-WHIZ (9449)

Fax: (901) 878-WHIZ (9449)

Email: support@buywhiz.com

Conditions of Use, Notices & Revisions

If you choose to visit buywhiz.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Tennessee. If you have any concern about privacy at buywhiz.com, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Terms of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.