Cisco Brothers Corp. Consumer Privacy Policy
Cisco Brothers is committed to respecting your private information and protecting it from misuse. Our Privacy Policy outlines our current policy on personally identifiable information concerning consumers and covers the operations of our stores and within our web site. We encourage you to read it whenever you visit our stores or web site, since we may change this policy from time to time due to enhancements to our systems or changes in the law. A copy of the current policy is always posted in our website.
By submitting your personal information to us, you are consenting to the collection and processing of your personal information in the United States and to our use of your personal information and any related information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. If you are submitting personal information of third parties to us, you warrant and represent you have their consent to provide their personal information to us and you will indemnify us and hold us harmless from and against claims by such individuals relating to our processing and use of such personal information within the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Cisco Brothers collects the following categories of personally identifiable information through our website and our stores: name, address, telephone number, and email address. We may collect your personally identifiable information across various devices you may use to access our website, like a mobile device, PC, or tablet, for example, and from our store operations. You may submit your credit card or financial account information to complete a purchase in our stores. While Cisco Brothers does not store or save credit card or financial account information, it or its third-party vendors use credit card or financial information you provide to process purchase transaction(s).
We may also obtain information such as name, and we may obtain data such as image, voice, signature, statements and quotes, stories or anecdotes, personal or commercial attributes or identifying features, interior or exterior photographs, videos, or other depictions of premises, home or office, images of family, friends, or pets, stories, commercial attributes or identifying features (collectively "Media") from individuals who send us such material or in connection with agreements with individuals. We may use Media for any lawful purpose, and Media is not considered personally identifiable information for purposes of this Privacy Policy.
We do not consider all information that we may gather or create in operating our business to be personally identifiable information. If information is not identity information or directly associated with identity information, we do not consider it to be personally identifiable information. For example, a database of our customers' purchases in aggregate which does not identify the individual customers would not be personally identifiable information.
We will use your personally identifiable information which we learn through our interactions with you only for the purposes you would reasonably anticipate us doing. This includes, but is not limited to, use to contact you to answer your questions, to fulfill orders, to obtain billing or payment information, to follow-up on prior orders or respond to your comments to ensure your satisfaction, and to contact you with additional information where you have permitted us to do so.
We do not share, sell or trade your personally identifiable information with third parties, except we may share some of your personally identifiable information with third party service providers as specified below.
We may disclose some of your personally identifiable information to one or more of our own service providers that we may use to fulfill services for you. We will reasonably assure that those service providers are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, and only use or disclose it for the purposes we hire them for or law enforcement purposes. You may also disclose some of your personally identifiable information directly to one or more of our own service providers that we may use to fulfill services for you. We will reasonably assure that those service providers are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, and only use or disclose it for the purposes we hire them for or law enforcement purposes. We may also disclose personally identifiable information to others if we are required to do so by law, to protect and defend the rights of Cisco Brothers, Inc., or in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event.
The security of your personally identifiable information is important to us. Although we cannot guarantee against loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or destruction of data, we use commercially reasonable security measures to protect you from such occurrences. If necessary, in accordance with the law, we will disclose to you any known or reasonably suspected breach in security involving your personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Policy is intended to comply with applicable United States laws and regulations, including the laws of states where our stores or customers are located. Our stores are in the United States and our web site is targeted only to residents of the United States. If you are not a resident of the United States, please note that our information gathering practices may not be compliant with your own country's laws and regulations, and you should not share your personally identifiable information with us unless you are willing and able to be subject to United States laws concerning such disclosures.
Store Operations
In addition to the above policies the following apply specifically to our Stores operations.
Our stores operations are available to you to discuss our products and services with a Salesperson or Design Associate, and you may place your orders through one of our Sales Persons or Design Associates in the stores, or via telephone. When we take your order, we will obtain some of your personally identifiable information including your payment information. We will only use that personally identifiable information from your order for purposes concerning the fulfillment of your order. In doing so, your personally identifiable information from an order may be used or shared among our different offices, representatives or service providers such as the store, our warehouses, our headquarters, the freight carriers used to deliver products to you, installers or designers we have engaged to assist with your order, or our credit card merchant banks or other bankers. We will share only that portion of your personally identifiable information with third parties that is reasonably required to fulfill your order, and those third parties will be contractually obligated to use the personally identifiable information only for order-fulfillment purposes.
We will comply with our credit card merchant banks' requirements for the use and storage of your credit card information, such as obligations concerning the security of your credit card numbers, as well as any laws that apply to that information's use and storage.
Web Site
In addition to the policies discussed above, the following policies apply specifically to our web site www.ciscohome.net.
You may create a personal account in our web. When creating an account, you will be asked to provide contact information and select a username and password. This personally identifiable information may be used to provide you with specific services from us. You may also use the account for personalized features. Submitting contact information and creating an account are strictly voluntary and are not required to use our web site. To protect your information, we do not store your credit card (or similar) data on our web site.
Our web site is not targeted to persons under the age of 13 and is not permitted to be accessed by children under 13. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from persons under age 13.
Anonymous, non-personally identifiable information such as your IP address, domain server, type of computer or device, type of web browser, and addresses of referring site, also known as traffic data, may be collected and used for web analytics, to approximate a user's location and to diagnose problems with our server and administer our site. We may have functionality on our web site that is provided, in whole or in part, by a third-party service provider. You can usually identify such third-party functionality by a trademark not owned by Cisco Brothers on or near the functionality. When you use that specific functionality, you become subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of this third party in addition to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of our web site. In some cases, you may need to visit that party's web site and locate the terms of use and privacy policy.
We may also use cookies and other similar tags to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your computer when you visit a web site. A persistent cookie stores information so when you end a session visiting a web site and return to the same web site later the cookie information is still available. Cookies and tags allow us to compile statistics and other information about how you use our site. We may use this data to personalize your browsing experience based on your prior visits to our web site. We may also use this data to analyze trends and improve the usability of our site as well as to administer the site and gather broad demographic statistics. We may also share such non-personally identifiable information with third parties on an aggregate basis.
In addition, we may use third-party service providers to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. They may collect anonymous information about your visits to our web site, and your interaction with our products and services. They may use cookies and other online tools such as pixel tags, action tags and similar tags to serve ads and personalize your web browsing experience based on your prior visits to our web site. They may also use information about your visits to our web site and other web sites to target advertisements for products and services. This anonymous information is collected through cookies. No personally identifiable information is collected or used in this process. These third-party service providers do not know your name, phone number, address, email address, or any other personally identifying information about you. If you would like more information about this practice and to opt out of having this anonymous information used by our third party service providers, visit the Network Advertising Initiative's Consumer Opt-out page.
Our site responds to a web browser's block of persistent cookies by refraining from using our anonymous cookie.
Our site may contain links to other Internet web sites that we think you may find of interest. We are not responsible for the content of these sites, nor do we control, sponsor, endorse or approve them. Your use of those links is at your own risk.
Opting out of Cisco Brothers Communications
We will send you communications, including emails, relating to order confirmation and shipping information. If you request to receive promotional advertising from us either online or by hard copy such as an in store request or by telephone, you have given us permission to communicate with you about that promotional advertising either by postal mail, e-mail or telephone. Further, if you are engaged in transactions with one of our associates and choose to use e-mail or telephone for communications about that transaction, you have given us permission to communicate with you about that transaction. Separately, we may send you commercial communications that promote a commercial product or service and may target such communications based on behavior, geographic location, wish list or cart activity, for example. You may opt-out of receiving future commercial communications from us by following the instructions at the bottom of each commercial email you receive, or visit the following URL: www.ciscohome.net/unsuscribe/ or you can also call our Customer Service telephone line at (323) 778 8612 to be removed from either our email or postal mail lists.
Notice to California Customers – Your California Privacy Rights:
California's "Shine the Light" law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, gives California residents the right to ask companies once a year what personal information they share with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes. If applicable, this information would include the categories of personal information defined in that law, and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared personal information for the immediately prior calendar year.
Alternately, businesses may have in place a policy not to disclose personal information of customers to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes if the customer has exercised an option to opt–out of such information–sharing. We have such a policy in place.