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Applica Consumer Products, Inc. and its affiliates ("Applica",
"we" or "us") respect your right to privacy. We do not currently
trade, sell or rent personal information collected about you to
third parties.
Please read the Privacy Policy outlined below that explains
how Applica will and will not use the information you provide.
By using or accessing this website, you signify your
acknowledgment and assent to the Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree to this policy, please do not use this website. Please
note that we can revise this policy at any time by updating this
posting, and your use after such change signifies your
acceptance of the changed terms.
What information does Applica collect and how do we
use this information?
- We may request personal information from you for
processing orders and shipping products, conducting contests
or sweepstakes, and for product registration. This may include
your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, etc., as
well as information related to customer satisfaction surveys,
customer purchasing habits or other purchasing information.
- Our web-sites allow you to contact us directly with
questions or comments regarding our products, services,
web-sites, or to register products. The process requires you
to give certain personal information so that you may complete
the warranty registration. We also maintain data files to
ensure that we quickly resolve customer comments or questions
and implement improvements based on those comments.
- We may conduct sweepstakes or other contests on our
web-site, which require personal information to be provided to
qualify for participation in the promotion or contest. This
information is used primarily as a means to notify the
winners.
- In an effort to continually improve our products and
services, we may use personal information to conduct market
research and on-line surveys. This may involve contacting
recent and/or past web-site visitors who have provided
personal information to Applica.
- Our web servers may automatically monitor the number of
visitors, the average time spent on the site, the popularity
of our web-sites, and any programming errors or failures on
any of our web-sites in order to determine the effectiveness
of the Applica web-site and to make improvements to the
website.
Does Applica share your information with other third
parties?
Applica will not collect any personally-identifiable
information about you (that is your name, address, telephone
number, or email address) unless you provide it voluntarily.
If you do not want your personally-ident2Fstrong>
Apifiable information collected, do not submit it to us.
If you do submit personally-identifiable information we may
store and process that information to better understand your
needs, and how we can improve our products and services or
we may use that information to contact you. We may share
your personal information with our business partners in
order to facilitate the process of servicing your products,
to help you exchange your product or to better serve you. We
will not give or sell your individual information to any
outside company for its use in marketing or solicitation and
we will maintain the confidentiality of your personal
information and it will only be used to support your
relationship Applica.
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Applica may also share aggregate data about our sales,
customers, traffic patterns, and other related site
information with respectable third parties. None of this
data is related to any individual's name without their
consent.
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If you do not want Applica to share your information, please
immediately contact us and we will remove your name from lists we
share our business partners. Your request will take
approximately six to eight weeks. Your information will then
no longer be shared. When contacting us, please clearly
state your request, including your name, mailing address,
email address, and phone number.
Does Applica use cookies?
Applica uses "cookies" on this website because they help us
in many ways to make your visit to our website more
enjoyable and meaningful to you. Cookies are text
information files that your web browser places on your
computer when you visit a website. Applica may use such
"cookie" technology to obtain information from you as an
online visitor. Cookies flag information about your activity
on our Web site. This information helps us improve our site
and make it friendlier and easier to use. Most browsers
accept cookies automatically, but can be configured not to
accept them or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. We
never use cookies to save passwords, credit card numbers or
other highly confidential information.
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Applica may also use so-called "web-beacons" to access the
information contained in cookies within the network of the
Applica websites. Web beacons, also sometimes called "pixel
tags," are small strings of code placed on a Web page or in
an email message for the purpose of transferring data.
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Applica may employ the use of cookies and web beacons on our
site's pages to deliver our ads, to measure the
effectiveness of our advertising, including our email
promotions, and to learn how visitors use our site.
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For more information about the technology used to deliver
our emails, or how to set your browser to reject cookies,
please click here.
Does Applica have any special privacy policies with
respect to children?
- Applica encourages parents and guardians to monitor and
participate in their children's online activities. No
information should be submitted to this site by users under 13
years of age, and users under 13 years old are not allowed to
register for newsletters, clubs or activities. Users under 18
years of age are not allowed to make purchases or participate
in contests. Where appropriate, Applica may ask you to
indicate your age to verify compliance with these policies.
- Applica does not knowingly collect information from our
guests under 13 years of age or provide any personally
identifying information from such guests to any third party
for any reason whatsoever. We do not allow guests known to be
under 13 years of age to receive direct marketing
communications from Applica or from third parties.
How do I stop Applica from contacting me via e-mail
in the future?
We do wish to provide our customers with information on new
products or tips for use in the home or kitchen. If you do
not want Applica to share your customer information, please
immediately contact us and we will remove your name from lists we
share with other companies. Your request will take
approximately six to eight weeks. Your information will then
no longer be shared. When contacting us, please clearly
state your request, including your name, mailing address,
email address, and phone number.
What is the policy regarding Applica's ownership of
information?
- All opinions, ideas, suggestions, and other feedback
submitted to our web-sites may be used by Applica without any
restriction and free of charge, and nothing contained in this
policy shall limit or otherwise affect this. There may be
instances where we request or permit the submission of your
opinions/ideas. In such instances you will be required to
agree to the terms of an Applica prepared agreement related to
the provision of such information prior to its submission.
What about Applica's links to other sites?
- We have and may add links to third party sites. Because
such linked sites are not under the control of Applica, we are
not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any
information, data, opinions, advice or statements contained on
any such linked sites. Access to any other Internet site
linked to this website is at your own risk. Applica has not
reviewed all of the sites linked to the website. Applica
provides these links merely as a convenience and the inclusion
of such links does not imply an endorsement by Applica of such
third party sites or any goods or services offered by such
third parties.
Will this Privacy Policy change?
- Applica may change this policy from time to time to better
serve you, so please review this policy periodically.
How do I contact Applica regarding this policy
statement?
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