CT2 Technologies, LLC (“CT2”) recognizes the importance of informing you how we
treat information about you that we may receive from this website:
www.ct2technologies.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy Statement ("Privacy
Statement") covers the Site and all personal information collected through the Site
or your use of the Site.
If you choose to visit the Site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject
to this Privacy Statement and our Terms and Conditions (Legal Notices), including
limitations on damages and application of the laws of the State of California. Our
business and Site change constantly. This Privacy Statement and the associated Legal
Notices may also change. Our use of Personal Information that we receive and store
is subject to the Privacy Statement and Legal Notices in effect at the time of our
use of such Personal Information. If CT2 decides to change its Privacy Statement
or Legal Notices, CT2 will post the revised CT2 Privacy Statement and/or Legal Notices
on this Site.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY CT2 - GENERAL USERS
In general, you can visit this Site without telling us who you are or revealing
any information about yourself. CT2’s web servers may collect the domain names,
not the e-mail addresses, of visitors. This data helps us determine what is most
beneficial for our users and how to continually create a better overall experience
for them. This data does not include personally identifying information.
CT2 may gather Personal Information so that we can improve and personalize your
experience with CT2. Information that we collect falls into the following primary
categories. We may receive Personal Information that you enter into the Site, provide
in an online form, or provide in any other way. You can choose not to provide some
or all of the Personal Information we ask for, but this may prevent you from using
some of our Site's services and/or features.
In addition to the preceding categories of Personal Information, CT2 also collects
certain non-identifiable information (the "Non-Identifiable Information"). Whenever
you interact with CT2, we receive and store certain types of Non-Identifiable Information.
For example, we may use "cookies" to obtain information when your web browser accesses
this Site. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier which we transfer to your computer
via your Web browser and store on your computer's hard drive. The cookie file allows
us to recognize your computer when you visit our Site. On most web browsers you
will find a "help" section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information
on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie, and how to turn
cookies off. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they may enable
you to take advantage of some of our Site's best features.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND OTHER NON-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
CT2 uses the Personal Information you provide to us through this Site in a manner
that is consistent with this Privacy Statement. If you provide Personal Information
for a certain reason, we may use it in connection with the reason for which it was
provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we may use the Personal Information
you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. If you contact us about
a job listing, we may use your Personal Information to consider you for the position.
CT2 also uses your Personal Information and other Non-Identifiable Information collected
through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to
better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services.
CT2 may also use your Personal Information to contact you, electronically or otherwise,
in the future to tell you about products or services we believe will be of interest
to you or to make it easier for you to use our site. If we do so, each communication
we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future
communications.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY CT2 - CUSTOMERS
In order to provide some of the services on
www.ct2technologies.com, we ask you to provide personal information such as,
for example, your name, e-mail address, home or business address, phone number and
existing account numbers. Once you choose to provide us with personal information,
you can be assured it will be used only to support your customer relationship with
CT2. This includes responding to your requests, customizing your experience on our
website, improving our services, and communicating with you about your account and
about products and services we think will be of interest to you.
In order to create an online account with CT2, you must provide an e-mail address.
You may, either upon registering with www.ct2technologies.com
or any time thereafter, request that CT2 not send any further communications to
that e-mail address.
DOES CT2 SHARE THE INFORMATION IT RECEIVES?
We are not in the business of selling information about our users. We consider this
information to be a vital part of our relationship with our customers and we treat
it with great care and respect. There are, however, certain circumstances in which
we may share your Personal Information with certain third parties, as set forth
below.
Marketing: We may use any statements that you communicate to us through the Site
regarding CT2 or any of our products and services for advertising or marketing purposes.
In addition, CT2 works closely with certain businesses to provide you with high
quality products and services. On occasion, these companies make special offers
available to CT2’s customers. You will have an opportunity to receive information
about these offers. If you request to receive information about these offers, we
will share your personal information with these companies so that they can send
you details about their special offers. Each of these companies has its own policies
with regard to the collection and use of personal information and CT2 is not responsible
for their use of your information.
Agents: CT2, like many companies, may hire other companies to perform certain functions,
such as mailing communications, sending e-mail and managing databases. When we employ
another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with
the Personal Information they need to complete the task and we endeavor to prohibit
them from using that Personal Information for any other purpose.
Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses
or assets. In transactions such as these, Personal Information may be one of the
transferred business assets.
Protection of CT2 and Others: We may release account and other Personal information
when we believe that such release is appropriate to comply with legal requirements,
protect the rights, property or safety of our users, CT2 or others, or enforce terms
of our Terms of Use. In addition, we may exchange information with other organizations
for fraud protection and risk reduction.
Public Areas: Any submissions that you make to Public Areas will be considered public.
CT2 does not control, and is not responsible for, the actions of other users of
the Site with respect to any information you post in Public Areas. In addition,
information that you submit to Public Areas may be collected and used by others
to send you unsolicited messages and for other purposes.
Surveys & Contests: CT2 may occasionally request information from you via surveys
or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary.
The requested information typically includes contact information such as name and
shipping address, and demographic information such as zip code. If you choose to
participate in any survey or contest, the information you provide will be shared
with the contest / survey sponsors 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. While CT2 may use a third party intermediary to conduct surveys or
contests, the third party may not use your personally identifiable information for
any secondary purposes.
HOW SECURE IS INFORMATION ABOUT ME?
CT2 uses reasonable measures to protect the Personal Information you provide to
the Site from unauthorized access, deletion or alteration. However, the security
of the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly, you should not provide any confidential
information to this Site.
SECURE TRANSACTIONS
CT2 maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard any non-public
personal information you provide. When you are in the secure portion of our Site,
your personal information is protected by CT2’s sophisticated security software.
CT2’s servers have been enabled with Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") technology to
automatically encrypt your information and help prevent unauthorized parties from
viewing your non-account information during a secure session. That is why you must
enter a unique User Name and Password each time you access your account information
online. Additionally, when you place an order,
www.ct2technologies.com securely stores the information in your account to
log in and process over an SSL connection.
CT2 employs Digital Certificates, to authenticate that you are transacting with
CT2 online, used for the SSL encryption are provided by RapidSSL (RapidSSL is owned
and operated by GeoTrust, Inc.) and automatically use 40, 56, or 128 bit encryption
based upon your browser's ability and security settings (the highest level possible
is automatically selected).
At no time is any secure information sent using email or any insecure means.
Some Web browsers and some firewalls will not permit a secure connection. If your
Web browser will not permit a secure connection, you can use a standard server connection
to complete your transaction, but this method may not be secure.
To check that your browser is in secure mode, check that a "lock" or a "key" icon
is displayed in the lower left-hand corner of your browser window. You can also
check by looking at the URL bar on top of your browser. This line will typically
show the first characters as "https" when a secure connection has been established
rather than "http" which indicates a connection that is not secured.
COOKIES
CT2 collects information about the user and the use of the site through the use
of cookies. “Cookies” are small computer files that are stored by the user’s browser
on the user’s computer hard drive. Cookies contain no personal information and are
not used to monitor activity once you leave the CT2 website. Cookies are used to
determine whether a user is unique or whether the user has viewed the CT2 website
before. Cookies are required and the application will not run without them. The
information in the cookies is not stored in clear text. It is encrypted using an
encryption algorithm and then encoded.
CLEAR GIFs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ and/or our third party advertising partner(s) employ a software technology
called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content
on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics
with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track
the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a
user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are
about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information
gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable information.
SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
To opt-out of receiving communications you have expressly requested (such as e-mail
newsletters, product updates, etc.), please follow the opt-out instructions included
in each subscription communication; or return to the Web page(s) where you originally
registered your preferences and follow the opt-out instructions; or contact
privacy@ct2technologies.comand include your name, e-mail, and relevant
information about your subscriptions and registrations; or contact us by telephone
at 714.852.5300.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT YOU.
If you desire to review your own Personal information, to correct existing information,
or to remove your information, please contact CT2 via email at
privacy@ct2technologies.com
or telephone at 714.852.5300. If you request removal of your Personal Information,
you acknowledge that residual information may continue to reside in CT2’s records
and archives, but CT2 will not use that information for commercial purposes. CT2
reserves the right to maintain your Personal Information if CT2 has suspended, limited,
or terminated your access to our Site for violating the Terms of Use, which are
hereby incorporated by reference.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITE
You may be able to access Internet Websites owned by third parties ("Third Party
Sites") available through links from this Site. You understand and agree that your
use of such Third Party Sites will be governed by the privacy policies of those
sites and not by this Privacy Statement. CT2 shall not be responsible for the actions
of any Third Party Site operators.
PROTECTING CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
CT2’s products and services are not designed for or directed toward children. CT2
does not knowingly collect Personal Information from minor children. We encourage
parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help
enforce our Privacy Statement by instructing their children to never provide Personal
Information on this Site without their permission. CT2 respects national and international
laws, including the Children's On-line Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), which applies
in the United States.
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU
Any personally identifiable information you provide to CT2 via this Site is protected
by CT2 Technologies’ Privacy Statement. CT2 does not want you to, and you should
not, send any confidential or proprietary information to CT2 except as specifically
noted in CT2’s shopping areas and these Terms of Use. You agree that any information
or materials that you, or individuals acting on your behalf, provide to CT2 will
not be considered confidential or proprietary except as specifically noted in CT2’s
shopping areas. By providing any such information or materials to CT2, you expressly
grant CT2 an unrestricted, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use,
reproduce, display, publicly perform, transmit and distribute such information and
materials, and you further agree that CT2 is free to use any ideas, concepts or
know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to CT2.
USER REGISTRATION AND PASSWORD
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any password you may
receive. You are responsible for all uses of your password, whether or not authorized
by you. You agree to notify CT2 immediately of any unauthorized use of your password.
TELL-A-FRIEND
If you choose to use CT2’s referral service to inform a friend about our Site, products,
or services, CT2 will ask you for your friend's name and email address. CT2 will
send your friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the site. CT2 may store
this information for the purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and tracking the
success of our referral program. Your friend may contact the CT2 Webmaster at
privacy@ct2technologies.com
to have their information removed from CT2’s database.
CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy
Statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if
any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review
it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here,
by email, or by means of a notice.
CT2 may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site, including
the availability of any features of the Site, at any time. CT2 may also impose limits
on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or the entire
Site without notice or liability. CT2 may terminate the authorization, rights and
license given above and, upon such termination; you shall immediately destroy all
materials licensed to you by CT2 through your use of the Site.
CONTACTING CT2
If you have any questions about CT2, the Terms or CT2’s Privacy Statement, please
contact us by calling 714.852.5300, send us an email at
privacy@ct2technologies.com
or write to us at CT2 Webmaster, CT2 Technologies; 17581 Irvine Blvd., Suite 204;
Tustin, CA 92780. We use email links located on various areas of the Site to allow
you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read
every message sent in and will reply promptly to everyone. We use the information
you provide to respond directly to your questions or comments. We may also retain
your comments to help us improve the site and any programs offered on the Site.
Your personal information is only shared with persons not affiliated with CT2 with
your explicit permission.
UNSOLICITED E-MAIL
If you have received an unsolicited e-mail from CT2, you may have received it from
a third party not affiliated in any way with CT2. CT2 does not engage in, nor do
we condone the practice of sending out mass emails that are unsolicited by their
recipients. Unfortunately, some third parties and individuals can create e-mail
messages with forged addresses in the FROM: field. This can have the effect of making
the message look more legitimate. If you receive such an e-mail, please be aware
that these messages originate completely outside of CT2’s e-mail system and therefore
we have little or no control over them. In most cases we may not even know this
is taking place.
Please be sure that we are taking every measure available to us to prevent this
type of occurrence but, at this time we are unable to guarantee that it can be completely
eliminated. Additionally, if we do send e-mail to our customers, we will, where
appropriate, allow the recipient to request not to be contacted in the future.
If you wish to contact us about any e-mail issue that you feel is CT2 related, please
send your message to
privacy@ct2technologies.com
or call us 714.852.5300.
Last updated: December 2006
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