This web site has agreed to notify you of:
- What personally identifiable information of yours or third party
personally identification is collected from you through the web
site
- User ID and Password
- The organization collecting the information
- How the information is used
- With whom the information may be shared
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use
and distribution of the information
- The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect
the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the control
of the web site.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
- How you can limit the use and access to the information.
By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms
and conditions of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree please
do not use or access this site or our services. School Specialty
Children’s Publishing is a division/subsidiary of School Specialty,
Inc. ("School Specialty"). If you feel that this
company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should
first contact the Customer Service Department of School Specialty
by Contact Us.
Information Collection and Use
School Specialty is the sole owner of the information collected
on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information
to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
School Specialty collects information from our users at several
different points on our website. We use your information to facilitate
the services we provide you in the sale and distribution of products
and services that you request. We use information in the file we
maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current
and past activities on the site, to troubleshoot problems and enforce
our Terms & Conditions of Use. At times, we may look across
multiple users to identify problems. You agree that we may use personally
identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and
promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content
and product offerings, and customize our site's content, layout,
and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to
meet your needs.
User ID and Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and
password, including fees or expenses related to its misuse. Therefore
we do not recommend that you disclose your School Specialty ID or
password to any third parties, with whom you do not wish to be completely
liable for their actions. If you choose to share your User ID and
password or your information with third parties to provide you additional
services, you are responsible for all actions taken with your User
ID and password and therefore you should review that third party's
privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose
substantial control over your personally identifiable information
and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf.
Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason,
you should immediately change your password and notify us at Contact
Us.
Registration
In order to use this website, a user may become registered. During
registration a user is required to give their contact information
(such as name, email address, billing address, authorized users,
and budgets). This information is used to contact the user about
the services on our site for which they have expressed interest.
It is optional for the user to provide demographic information and
unique identifiers, but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized
experience on our site.
Order
We request information from the user on order forms and supplier
agreements. Here a user must provide contact information (like name
and shipping address) and financial information (like budget codes
and credit card information). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill user's orders. If we have trouble processing
an order, this information is used to contact the user.
Information from Other Sources
For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for
example, providing better product recommendations or special offers
that we think will interest you), we might receive information about
you from other sources and add it to our account information. We
also sometimes receive updated delivery and address information
from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records
and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked
to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once
the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For
instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have
to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on
our site as well as having the ability to take advantage of all
of the features of our site. Most cookies are "session cookies,"
meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive
at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies
if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able
to use certain features on our site and you may be required to reenter
your password more frequently during a session. The "help"
portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent
your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser
notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site
(for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
Log Files
We also collect Non-personally Identifiable Information though our
Internet log files, which record data such as IP addresses, browser
types, domain names, and other anonymous statistical data involving
the use of the Website. This information may be used to analyze
trends, to administer the Website, to monitor the Website's use,
and to gather general demographic information. We may link this
information to Personally Identifiable Information for these and
other purpose such as personalizing your experience on the website
and evaluating our Internet systems.
Sharing
We will share aggregate demographic information with our suppliers
and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual user.
We and our suppliers may use outside parties for the purposes of
fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and
e-mail, removing repetitive information from user lists, analyzing
data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments,
and providing customer service. They might have access to personal
information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it
for other purposes. These companies do not retain, share, store
or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Suppliers on our site also have the ability to collect information
from users purchasing their goods or services under the School Specialty
site. Suppliers of School Specialty agree to be bound by and comply
with the terms of this Privacy statement to the same extent that
such Privacy Statement shall apply to School Specialty.
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy business
operations or assets. In such transactions, customer information
generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the
event that the School Specialty division of School Specialty, Inc.,
or substantially all of its assets or shares is acquired, customer
information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
We may partner with another party to provide specific services.
When the user signs up for these services, we will share names,
or other contact information that is necessary for the third party
to provide these services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information
except for the purpose of providing these services.
We release account and other personal information when we believe
release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply
our Conditions of Use (http://www.onfileseries.com/terms.php);
or protect the rights, property, or safety of School Specialty,
our users, or others. We do share such information on a need to
know basis with shippers and credit companies when applicable. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Other than as set
out above, you will receive notice when information about you might
go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose
not to share the information.
School Specialty gives you access to user information regarding
you for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating
that information. When you update information, we may keep a copy
of the prior version for our records.
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information,
even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage
of such School Specialty features.
For a chart showing what information we collect from or about you,
and who has access to that information, please see http://www.onfileseries.com/userinfo.php
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that
School Specialty is not responsible for the privacy practices of
such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web
site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
E-mail List
A user may to subscribe our e-mail list. We collect the contact
information such as name and email address which we receive at the
time of registration.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site may request information from users via
voluntary surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or
contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice
whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested
may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information. Contact information will be used to
notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be
used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction
of this site.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information
is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive
information, that information is encrypted and is protected with
the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure
page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web
browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just
'surfing'.
While we use SSL encryption to protect most sensitive information
online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information
off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive
information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example, our billing clerk or a Customer Service representative)
are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees
must use password-protected access to the company's local area network.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and
privacy practices. Any time new policies are added, our employees
are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy,
and what they can do to ensure our user's information is protected.
Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information
on are kept in a secure environment.
We of course, transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate
credit card company during order processing. 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.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you
can Contact Us.
Supplementation of Information
In order for this website to properly fulfill its obligation to
our users, it is necessary for us to supplement the information
we receive with information from 3rd party sources.
For example, to determine if our users qualify for an open account,
we may request a credit report. Once we determine a user's credit-worthiness,
this document is stored in a secure environment.
Special Offers
We send all new users and their authorized members a welcoming email
to verify passwords and usernames. Established members will occasionally
receive information on products, services, special deals, and a
newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we provide
the option to not receive these types of communications. Please
see our choice and opt-out below.
Site and Service Updates
We also provide the user site and service announcement updates.
Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements,
which contain important information about the service and update
to the site. We communicate with the user to provide requested services
and in regards to issues relating to their account via email, phone,
or on the website, at our option.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as
your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's
personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member
information page or Contact
Us. Choice/Opt-out. Our users are given the facility
to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly
related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.
For example, our order form has an 'opt-out' option so users who
buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can
keep their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional
materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications
by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or Contact
Us.
Unless users of our site request by Contact
Us that they receive prior notice before their information is
being collected by any outside parties, no such notice will be provided.
We provide this option for those users who desire to make an informed
choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require
an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy statement, we will post those
changes on our website so our users are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any,
we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it
was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will
have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this
different manner. We will use information in accordance with the
privacy statement under which the information was collected.
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