Privacy Policy
Effective on December 6, 2009
C.O.D. Wholesale is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes how C.O.D. Wholesale collects and uses the personal information you provide on our website: www.codwholesale.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding C.O.D. Wholesale's use of your personal information and the steps you can take to access this information and to request that we correct or update it.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect the following personal information from you.
- Contact Information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number
- Information about your business such as company name, company size, business type
- Billing Information such as credit card number, expiration date, billing address
- Preferences Information such as product wish lists, order history, marketing preferences
- Unique Identifiers such as user name, ID number, account number, password
We collect this information when you
- Set up an account
- Purchase products
- Sign up for our newsletter or email list
- Submit a product review
- Contact us with questions or request more information about our products or services
- Provide us feedback
We use this information to
- Fulfill your order
- Send you an order confirmation
- Respond to customer service requests
- Administer your account
- Send you a catalog
- Send you a newsletter
- Send you marketing communications
- Respond to your questions and concerns
- Improve our website and marketing efforts
- Conduct research and analysis
Information Obtained from Third Parties
We obtain address information about you from third party sources, such as the US Postal Service, to verify your address so we can properly ship your order to you and to prevent fraud.
If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.
Information Sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties without first providing you notice and choice.
We may provide your personal information to agents or service providers acting on our behalf for limited purposes. For example, we may share personal information with our agents or service providers to ship your order, or send you email on our behalf. These third parties are authorized to use your personal information only to perform the service they are providing for us.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on our website) and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request.
In the event C.O.D. Wholesale goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Choice/Opt-Out
You may opt-out of receiving our newsletter or marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each newsletter or marketing email or you can contact us at codwholesale@yahoo.com.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Cookies
Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. We use cookies on our site to
- Keep track of login name and password
- Keep track of what you have in your shopping cart
We use a service provider to place cookies on your computer to collect non-personally identifiable information to compile aggregated statistics about the visitors to our site and to determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
Log Files
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or page views.
We use this information, which does not usually identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We may record your IP addresses when you place an order through our site in order to detect and prevent fraud.
Web Beacons
A web beacon is an electronic image placed on a web page that can serve many of the same purposes that cookies serve, For example, recording the pages you visit on our site. We or third parties may use web beacons to track the traffic patterns of users from one page to another.
We or our third party service provider may use web beacons in some of our emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients or track click-through rates. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our communications to customers and our marketing campaigns.
Correcting and Updating Your Personal Information
To review and update your personal information to ensure it is accurate, contact us at codwholesale@yahoo.com.
Widgets
Our website includes Widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our site and are designed to provide single-purpose services (e.g. displaying the latest news, opinions, music, etc). These Widgets are hosted by a third party. Personal information, such as your email address, may be collected through the Widget. Cookies may also be set by the Widget to enable certain features of the Widget to function properly. The information collected by this Widget is subject to the Widget's privacy policy. C.O.D. Wholesale is not responsible for personal information you choose to provide through the Widget.
Links to Other Websites
Our site includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of C.O.D. Wholesale. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is subject to their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us at codwholesale@yahoo.com.
Notification of Privacy Statement Changes
We may update this policy from time to time as our information practices are modified or changed. If we make any material changes to this policy that affect your personal information, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Contact Information
You can contact us by writing or email us at the address below.
C.O.D. Wholesale
7732 Talbert Ave
Suite F
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
codwholesale@yahoo.com 714-841-1092
