9 Squared, Inc., a Zed Company doing business as ZED USA, and its affiliates (collectively, "ZED USA") understand your concerns about how your information is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience with our Services. Here are the types of information we gather:
Information You Give Us:
We collect, maintain and use information you give us as necessary to enhance and provide quality service and products. You provide us with information when you search, buy, participate in a contest or questionnaire. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; make an order; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, phone number and credit card information.
Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site; and products you viewed or searched for.
E-mail Communication:
If you chose to receive emails from us, we may send you emails describing special offers or services. At any time, if you do not want to receive future emails from us, please change your preferences in My Account Info.
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.
If your personal information is inaccurate or changes, please dial 611 from your U.S. Cellular® phone (always a free call) or call our toll-free number, 1-888-944-9400, to contact Customer Service.
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features. We use cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, and record past activity on a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our sites.
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.
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. ZED USA customers must opt to share their information. If you have opted to share your information, we only share information with ZED USA business partners who also respect privacy concerns.
We may release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of ZED USA, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, sending e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
In the event that ZED USA is acquired or acquires another company, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.
If you wish to unsubscribe to our service or opt-out of our information sharing program, update your preferences in My Account Info.
ZED USA protects your information by using industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data. When you place an order, the information you submit is encrypted to protect you from unauthorized access to the information.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your information and computer. Please be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
If you are under the age of 18, you may use our sites only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. We understand that parents may purchase products for use by minors and any information collected will appear to be that of the parent-subscriber and treated as such. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and ZED USA’s policy, ZED USA does not knowingly collect or share personal information from children under the age of 13. We believe that parents should supervise their children’s on-line activities and use a parental control tool to prevent children from disclosing personal information without parental consent. If a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information without the consent of a parent or guardian, please contact us at the addresses below. After verification of the information, we will delete the information from our records.
We periodically operate contests, sweepstakes, promotions and surveys that may require registration or the submission of personal information. Participation is voluntary and you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose information. If you choose not to provide your information, you may not be able to do certain things, like access enter a sweepstake or contest, request samples, or send us e-mails. If you choose to provide you information, we may use this information to contact you for winner notification, prize delivery confirmation or other related purposes, (see the rules of each contest for details about how your information will be used). We may also ask your permission to allow us to publicly post some of your information, such as on a winner's page, in the event you win a contest or sweepstakes. Except as required by applicable law, we will not post your information without your permission. Additionally, we may send offers to you on our or behalf or on behalf of our marketing partners. If you do not want to receive such offers, you may use the opt out method detailed in the email. You may be provided the opportunity to register to receive updates from certain applications within the Services. These updates may be in the form of text messages. This means you must be subscribed to Text Messaging to obtain these notices and you will be charged for all Text Messages in accordance with your subscription plan.
There may be occasions where you may choose to tell a friend about us and we may ask you for your friend’s name, phone number and/or email address. We may then contact your friend to provide information related to our Service. If your friend does not want to receive any further information, then your friend may use the opt out method detailed in our correspondence.
ZED USA is not responsible for content or privacy policies of other sites. We recommend that you review the content and policies of all sites that you visit.
By using our Services, you signify your agreement to the terms of our posted Privacy Policy. We may update or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in the future without notice. Any such updates or modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting on our sites. Please refer back to this page often for the latest information.
A California privacy law that went into effect on January 1, 2005, allows California residents to obtain specific information about a business's privacy practices if it shares information with other companies for those companies' direct marketing purposes.
As explained in this Privacy Policy, whenever you agree to let us collect personal information about you, we will always provide you with an option to prevent this information from being shared for non-administrative purposes with third parties. You can exercise this option at any time by following the steps outlined above.
Because this comprehensive Privacy Policy provides you with details on how you may opt-in / opt-out of the use of your personal information by third parties for direct marketing purposes, we are not required to provide you with this information.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you feel that we are not following the stated Privacy Policy, you may contact us by dialing 611 from your U.S. Cellular® phone (always a free call) or calling our toll-free number, 1-888-944-9400, to contact Customer Service.