Personal
Information
California Closets collects
personally identifiable information on the site, including in areas such
as Franchise Opportunities. Personal information
includes, among other things, a users name, address, telephone number,
financial information, social security number and email address or other
Internet address. Fields in which we collect such
required information will be marked with an “***”. We
use the above information about your interests and other personal
information so that we can combine such information with the information
describe above. We use that information so that both
you and we can take advantage of the interactivity of the Internet to
provide you with services and offers, but you may always choose whether or
not to respond. From time to time, we may disclose
personally identifiable information to government entities when such
disclosure is required by law. We also receive
personally identifiable information when you apply for a franchise in the
Franchise Opportunity section of the site. Any such
information gathered through the Franchise Opportunity section of the site
will be used solely to evaluate whether your background and experience
makes you a candidate for the purchase of a California Closets
franchise.
Non-Personally
Identifiable Information
In addition to personal
information, California Closets may also gather non-personally
identifiable information, which may be used by California
Closets. Generally, “non-personally identifiable
information” means information that is collected through “traffic data”
and may entail the use of “cookies,” IP addresses”, pixel tags” or other
numeric codes used to identify a computer or monitor how or when a user
accesses the site or communications. California Closets
may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you and
your use of our web site whenever you visit, such as various forms of
“click stream” information including URLs or domains, site traffic
statistics and origination information, page views, impressions, and
operating system and browser types.
In addition,
California Closets’ servers automatically log your IP address when you
request pages on our web site. This information
generally will not personally identify you or be correlated to your
individually for external purposes. California Closets
may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, sell or otherwise
disclose or use any and all of the aggregate information, provided that,
such information does not personally identify you, and the aggregate
information will not be used by other companies to contact
you.
Use of
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of
information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for
record keeping purposes. Cookies make web-surfing
easier for you by saving your passwords, purchases, and preferences while
you’re at our site. The use of cookies is an Industry
standard – you’ll find them at most major web sites.
This site uses cookies. By showing how and when
guests use the site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which
are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are
based on such data as total number of cookies to retrieve information from
you computer that was not originally sent in a cookie.
Except as described below, California Closets does not use
information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing
purposes, nor is that information shared with any third parties
whatsoever. California Closets does not use cookies to
identify specific individuals, except in such cases as online shopping and
contest registration (where a cookie allows you to enter a contest every
day without registering again each time). You may
occasionally get cookies from our advertisers and/or partners.
California Closets does not control these cookies, and a different
cookie policy may apply to them. The use of advertising
cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet
industry. Most browsers are initially set to accept
cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set yours to refuse
cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
However, it is possible that some parts of the site will not
function properly if you do so.
Policies for
Individuals 13 Years of Age or Older
By submitting information,
individuals 13 years of age or older agree that such information may be
used for marketing and promotional purposes by California Closets,
although we do not currently sell your name or other information to third
parties and do not currently intend to do so in the future.
California Closets may retain your personal information and other
information you provide to us. We collect and retain
this information in order to be able to provide you with information about
California Closets. We also provide you
information about upcoming product introductions, showroom openings and
the like. We also use information that you
provide to better design our website and to improve our marketing strategy
and products. We share your information with our
customer call center, licensed franchisees, and external service
providers (for example, mailing houses and IT service providers)
who have agreed to follow our Privacy Policy with respect to that
information. California Closets reserves the right to
use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation
or legal request, to protect the integrity of the site, to fulfill your
requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement investigation or an
investigation on a matter of health and safety.
Communication from
Site
You may occasionally
receive information on products, services, special deals, and newsletters
or updates. If you have submitted information to the
Franchise Opportunities section of the site, we may also contact you with
regard to potential franchise opportunities. Out of
respect for your privacy we present the option to not receive these types
of communications. If at any time you wish to opt out
of receiving further communications from our site, please contact California Closets.
Reviewing, Updating
and Deleting Personal Information
If the personal information
we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact
us and we will take reasonable steps to correct this
information. If you would like us to review, update or
delete your personal information, please contact California Closets.
Children’s
Privacy
This website is directed
toward and designed for use by persons aged 13 or older.
California Closets will not approve applications of, or establish
or maintain registrations for any child whom California Closets knows to
be under the age of 13. California Closets does not
solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from
children under the age of 13. If California Closets
nevertheless discovers that it has received personally identifiable
information from an individual who indicates that he or she is, or whom
California Closets otherwise has reason to believe is, under the age of
13, California Closets will delete such information from its
systems. Additionally, a child’s parent or legal
guardian may request that the child’s information be corrected or deleted
from our files by requesting this via California Closets.
External
Links
The California Closets
website may contain links to other websites not maintained or related to
California Closets. These links are provided as a
service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated with this web
site. Or
Security of
Personal Information
California Closets has
implemented technology policies to protect any personal information that
we use from misuse and loss. These policies are also
designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access,
modification and disclosure. We will update these
measures as new technology becomes available, as
appropriate.
Consent
By using this site, you
consent to the collection, use and storage of your information by us in
the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the
site. We reserve the right to make changes to this
Privacy Policy from time to time. If this Privacy
Policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this
page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under
what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other
parties.
Other
This Privacy Policy applies
only to this site. The policies of other websites
operated by California Closets franchisees may vary because of local
customs, practices or laws or due to circumstances unique to that
website. Please review the privacy policy of each
website to determine the privacy policies of that website.
Contacting
If you have any questions,
or need any further information, please send us an email to the following
address:
California Closet Company,
Inc.,
Attention: Corporate
Counsel