SPC Card Privacy Policy
1. General
SPC Card International Inc, owner of spccard.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This Privacy Policy is applicable to this Website.
You can visit this Website without disclosing any personal information about yourself. However, under certain conditions (card registration & contest entry) we will need you to share with us certain personal information about yourself. The personal information we collect may include, but is not limited to, full name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number(s) (e.g., home, work, mobile and/or fax) and birth date. If you submit any personal information to us, be assured that we will not sell, lease, or share your personal information with or to anyone else, except as follows: (1) to certain third parties, but only so that they may help us provide services you've requested and/or in certain circumstances to provide you with related offers or content; (4) on occasion, we may offer a special promotion (such as a sweepstakes or contest) on this Website in conjunction with a third-party service provider, sponsor, or promotional partner, and share your information with that service provider, sponsor, or promotional partner so that it can send you other special promotions it offers, but only if you give us permission to do so.
Special Offers and Promotions.
With your permission, we may also send you communications with special offers and promotions. If you don't want to receive these, you may change your preferences by notifying us at questions@spccard.com.
2. Information Automatically Collected; Cookies; Web Beacons
We may use automatic methods such as cookies (small amounts of data, which often include an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive), single-pixel GIF images ("web beacons") or similar technologies, alone or in combination with personally identifiable information you choose to provide us, to make our Website work better, to understand Website usage and trends, to deliver a more personalized experience and to improve and deliver certain content and offerings. Examples of the information we collect and analyze using such methods include, without limitation, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; e-mail address; login name and password; operating system type, version and computer platform; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, on, and from our Website, including date and time; cookie information; and products you viewed or searched for. We may also use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page.
We do not transfer cookies associated with our Website to any other company, nor do we authorize any other company to access those cookies for any purpose other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy. We may allow certain third parties, such as those who deliver advertisements, content or provide other services associated with our Website, to set and/or access cookies, web beacons and/or similar technologies associated with certain of our pages and/or certain emails sent by us.
Third-party companies that manage and deliver advertisements on our Website and other websites are commonly referred to as "network advertisers." These network advertisers may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your visits to our Website in order to tailor certain advertisements and content delivered on our Website and on other websites within such network advertiser's ad network. If you would like to obtain more information about common industry practices of network advertisers and/or make choices about their use of your information, please click here.
We do not install any spyware or adware in connection with our Website, or distribute any commercial message, or authorize any third party to distribute any commercial message, by means of spyware or adware. "Spyware" or "adware" is any software which has been downloaded to and/or installed on an Internet user's computer, without the user's actual consent, and facilitates the distribution of any commercial message to the user. If you feel you may have spyware from another company installed on your machine, there are various anti-spyware/adware software applications available on the Internet to identify if this has occurred.
Aggregated Demographic Information.
We may share aggregated demographic information with third parties, but this information is not linked to any personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner.
Business Transfers.
As time passes, SPC Card International, Inc may be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which customer information is one of the business assets transferred. In such a case, the customer information which we have gathered may be one of the business assets we transfer.
Disclosure for Legal Purposes.
We may be required to share your personal information and non-personal information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants, or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use, disclose, and/or share your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this Website's Terms of Use or as otherwise required by law.
3. How You Can Review Your Personal Information
If you want to review or revise the personal information you provided during registration on this Website, and whether you want to receive communications from us, you can either (1 contact us at questions@spccard.com, or (2) call SPC Card Customer Service at 1-800-267-9730. If you want to have us delete the personal information (except for information that we keep for record-keeping purposes), you should contact SPC Card Customer Service at 1-800-267-9730.
4. Choice
Our registration form contains a box for you to indicate whether or not you consent to receive special offers and promotions from us. Unless you give us your consent to use your personal information for these purposes, we will only use it to provide the service or product you have requested. If you indicate that you consent to receive communications or solicitations, but you later change your mind, you can revise your preferences by contacting questions@spccard.com.
5. Special Rules For Children
Because of federal law, we cannot knowingly collect any personal information from a child under the age of thirteen without the consent of that child's parent. The statements in this Privacy Policy generally about our collection and use of personal information also apply to our treatment of personal information from children under the age of thirteen.
6. Contact Us; Privacy Administrator
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
SPC Card International Inc.
Privacy Administrator
999 Edgeley Blvd, Unit 1
Vaughan ON, L4K 5Z4
Emailing questions@spccard.com or by calling 1-800-267-9730
9.Notification of Changes
If we make an important change to this Privacy Policy, we will post a notification and link on our homepage so that you can review the updated policy.
Last updated and effective date: July 27, 2011 .
