This website is owned and operated
by Ashish Optics. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors
while they interact with the content, products and services on this site (the
“Site”). This Privacy Policy applies to the Site only. It does not apply to
other websites to which we link. Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we want you to understand what information we collect about
you, how we collect it, how that information is used, and how you can control
our disclosure of it. You agree that your use of the Site signifies your assent
to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do
not use the Site.
Information Collected –
We collect two types of information
from you: i) information that you voluntarily provide to us (e.g. through a
voluntary registration process, sign-ups or emails); and ii) information that
is derived through automated tracking mechanisms.
Voluntary Registration Information
–
In order to fully access this Site,
you must first complete the registration process, during which we will collect
personal information about you. The information will include your name,
address, and email address. We do not collect personally identifiable
information about you except when you specifically provide such information to
us on a voluntary basis.
By registering with us, you consent
to the use and method of disclosure as described in this Privacy Policy.
Voluntary Information for Services
and Features –
We also collect personally
identifiable information when you choose to use certain other features of the
Site, including: i) making purchases (regardless whether the transaction is
completed or not), ii) consenting to receive email about upcoming promotions,
iii) consenting to receive email, iv) participating in our blog, iv) submitting
product reviews, and others. When you choose to use these additional features,
we require you to provide your “Contact Information” in addition to other
personal information that may be required to complete a transaction such as
your phone number, billing and shipping addresses and credit card information.
Occasionally, we may also request information such as your shopping preferences
and demographics which will help us better serve you and our others users in
the future.
Cookies and Web Beacons –
Our site uses "cookies"
and other tracking technologies. Cookies enable us to serve secure pages to our
users without asking them to sign in repeatedly. Most browsers allow you to
control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove
them. If a user~s system is idle for a defined time, the cookie will expire,
forcing the user to sign in again to continue their session. This prevents unauthorized
access to the user~s information while they are away from their computer.
You may set most browsers to notify
you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your
browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you
will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to
certain parts of the Site.
Third-Party Cookies: In the
course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may
place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
We use web cookies/Beacons and
other similar technologies on this Site and in our emails. We work with third
party partners to track, collect and analyze information to help us improve
user experience and evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising and various
initiatives. This information includes, but is not limited to, your computer
type, browser type, operating system, date and time, the pages that you view,
features that you use, IP address, the amount of time you spend on the Site and
other site usage data.
Referrals –
You may choose to invite friends to
join this site by sending invitation emails via our invite feature. This Site
stores the email addresses you provide to send reminders of the invitations.
This site does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other
communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of
invitations may contact this site to request removal of their information from
our database.
How We Use Your Information –
This site only uses your personal
information for the original purposes it was given. Your personal information
will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without
your approval at the time of collection.
This site will not disclose, use,
give or sell any personal information to third parties for any purposes other
than to our suppliers and other third parties who need to know in order to
deliver services on behalf of this site unless required to do so by law.
Further, this site reserves the right to contact you regarding matters relevant
to the underlying service provided and/or the information collected.
Please note that personally
identifiable information is used only to provide you with a more enjoyable,
convenient online experience and to help us identify and/or provide
information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use your
personally identifiable information to support and enhance your use of the Site
and its features, including without limitation: fulfilling your order;
providing customer service; tracking email invitations you send; and otherwise
supporting your use of the Site.
This site may use your personal
information for target advertising toward you based on things such as region,
gender, interests, goals, habits, etc.
We may permit certain trusted third
parties to track usage, analyze data such as the source address that a page
request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of
the page request, the referring website (if any) and other parameters in the
URL. This is collected in order to better understand our Site usage, and
enhance the performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and
certain features on the Site. We may use third parties to host the Site; operate
various features available on the Site; send emails; analyze data; provide
search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
Also, we may share personally
identifiable or other information with our parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and
affiliates.
We may transfer personally
identifiable information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual
merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or
bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a
corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.
This site may disclose Contact
Information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosing
this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be violating our Terms of Use or may be causing injury or
interference with our rights, property, our customers or anyone who could be
harmed by such activities.
We are not liable or responsible
for the personally identifiable or other information you choose to submit in
forums such as a blog, product review or any other publicly accessible area of
the site.
You will receive notice when your
personally identifiable information might be provided to any third party for
any reason other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, and you will have an
opportunity to request that we not share such information.
We use non-identifying and
aggregate information to better design our website and for business and
administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any
purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.
How We Protect Your Information –
We are committed to protecting the
information we receive from you. We take appropriate security measures to
protect your information against unauthorized access to or unauthorized
alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorized access,
maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain
appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and
secure the information and data stored on our system. While no computer system
is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the
likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data
involved.
Third Party Advertising –
Advertisements appearing on this
Site may be delivered to you by Google or one of our web advertising partners.
Our web advertising partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the advertising
partners to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement.
In this way, they may compile information about where you, or others who are
using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which
advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising partner to
deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to
you. This site does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be
placed by the third party advertising servers of ad partners.
This privacy statement covers the
use of cookies by this site and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its
advertisers.
Accessing and Updating Your
Personal Information and Preferences –
We provide mechanisms for updating
and correcting your personal information for many of our services. If you are a
registered user, you may access and update your registration information and
your preferences to receive email or other communications from us by sending an
email to us.
Email Choice/Opt-out –
If you receive an email from the
Site and would prefer not to receive such communications in the future, you can
do so by following the instructions in the emails. In addition, you may send an
email to us. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to implement your
opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for
up to ten business days as we process your request.
Children~s Privacy and Parental
Controls –
We do not solicit any personal
information from children. If you are not 18 or older, you are not authorized
to use the Site. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools
available online that can be used to prevent children from submitting
information online without parental permission or from accessing material that
is harmful to minors.
Disclaimer to Security –
By consenting to the Terms of Use
of the Site and hence the Privacy Policy, you consent that no data transmission
over the Internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee or warrant the
security of any information you provide to us and you transmit such information
to us at your own risk.
Notification of Changes –
This site reserves the right to
change this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. If at some
point in the future, there is a change to our Privacy Policy, unless we obtain
your express consent, such change will only apply to information collected
after the revised Privacy Policy took effect. Your continued use of the Site
indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted.
If you have any questions or
concerns regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us.