We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit or debit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. However, if you issue a chargeback on any transactions that are initiated against your account, PhoneShark.com® is hereby released from any privacy restrictions and is hereby authorized to use any legal means necessary to collect lost goods, services, chargeback fees, legal fees and any other collection fees incurred while pursuing payment.
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. You must accept cookies to access the site as a registered user. We simply store a cookie that is a unique ID for you that links up to your shopping cart on our site. We do not store any other information in this cookie. Cookies cannot be accessed by any other site than the one that created the cookie.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, process credit or debit cards to bill for goods and services.
We 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.
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we at The Kilby Group, Inc. (dba PhoneShark.com®) are 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.
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via 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 (such as zip code, age level). 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.
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The Kilby Group, Inc. (dba PhoneShark.com®) will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. The Kilby Group, Inc. (dba PhoneShark.com®) stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
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 (such as credit or debit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL 128-bit key. 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'. To learn more about SSL, follow visit Verisign at this address http://www.verisign.com
While we use SSL encryption to protect 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 screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as 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 customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, in a locked server cages.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to Security@PhoneShark.com.
Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
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 by emailing our Customer Support. [Some sites may also provide telephone or postal mail options for updating or correcting personal information].
Our users are given the opportunity 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' mechanism 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 going here.
Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
If changes are made to our privacy policy, this page will reflect those changes with a revision date so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Usage of this website constitutes acceptance of this agreement and the latest posted revision by the user. Revised 2:51 PM 8/4/2005.