Western Wares is committed to honoring your privacy, and to offering special protections and access to your registration information at our website.
The document you are reading is our privacy policy for our Web sites that are accessible by the general public, and it describes what information we may collect about you, what uses we may make of it, how you can tell us what to do with your information, and what precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information.
This privacy policy applies only to our Web sites that may be used by consumers and that provide sales and support information for our products.
Western Wares' website is accessible using either of these domain names:
westernwares.com cc-rider.com
When we refer to ourselves as "we", "our" or "Western Wares," we mean our company, whose legal name is "Western Wares LLC".
This privacy policy only applies to Western Wares Web sites as listed above. You should read the privacy policy at each Web site that you visit after you leave one of our sites. We are not responsible for how other Web sites treat your privacy, once you leave a Western Wares site.
As our privacy policies change in significant ways, we will make every effort to notify you of the changes. Minor changes to the policy may occur that will not affect our use of specific information. When the privacy policies change in a way that significantly affects the way we handle personal information, we will not use the information we have previously gathered without obtaining consent from the appropriate individual. We will post privacy policy changes on our Web sites in a timely manner.
In this section of our privacy policy, we discuss the different types of information we may collect about you, and the ways in which we collect them.
Visitors to each of our Web sites can access the Web site's home page, and browse some areas of the site, without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We do track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from (known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. To download files from our site, you must register with us.
Persons registering for support and downloads on our Web sites are asked to provide us with certain identifying information, such as email address, name, company, address, contact information, and other identifying information. On our registration screen, we clearly label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional and may be given at your discretion. You will also be given a choice about whether or not you want to receive newsletters or emails from us. Western Wares' web sites will ask for the customer's consent before collecting personally identifiable information.
In some cases we may ask customers for information after they register, such as credit card information. Where necessary (for example, to process an order for a purchase), our Web sites may contact financial or credit organizations to confirm customer credit card information. In no other case will credit card information be shared, or even stored, on our web server.
When you visit our site, we gather information about you that is automatically collected by our Web server, such as your IP address and domain name. Western Wares will use this information to generate certain statistics to evaluate the usage of our web server, for example what sections of the website are more popular.
Cookies are a technology used by the web sites to identify a visitor. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer's hard drive that identifies the computer you are using. Although we do not currently use cookies at our website, we may use cookies in the future to personalize the web site.
Western Wares's Web sites are designed and intended for use by adults, and are not intended for, nor designed to be used by children under the age of 18. Minors under the age of 18 may register for our Web sites that collect or present personal information only with the prior written consent of their parent or legal guardian, and then only under the direct supervision of that parent or guardian. The parent or guardian is responsible for providing supervision to ensure the minor's authentication information is kept secure and the credibility of the record is maintained. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we know is a child under the age of 13.
In this section of our privacy policy, we identify the ways we may use information about you that we have collected.
The primary use for registration data provided by users is to facilitate communication by Western Wares with the user in order to provide support, product updates and informational newletters.
We may share some kinds of information with third parties as described below.
Other Companies: We may have links on our website to other companies' websites. When you are interacting with those companies, different rules and privacy policies may apply. We do not control the collection or use of information you provide to these other companies, but we do require that those companies clearly state their policies so you can decide whether to give them any information.
Companies and People Who Work for Us: We may contract with other companies and individuals to help us provide services. For example, we may host some of our Web sites on another company's computers, hire technical consultants to maintain our website, or work with companies to remove repetitive information from customer lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, and provide customer service. In order to perform their jobs, these other companies may have limited access to some of the personal information we maintain about our users. We require all such companies to comply with the terms of our privacy policies, to limit their access to any personal information to the minimum necessary to perform their obligations, and not to use the information they may access for purposes other than fulfilling their responsibilities to us. We use our best efforts to limit the use of other companies in areas where personally identifiable information may be involved.
Promotional Offers: We will not provide your personal information to another company for the purpose of promotional offers from a company other than Western Wares.
Business Transfers: If we transfer the business or an asset (such as a Web site) to another company, we will require them to honor the applicable terms of this privacy policy.
Legal Requirements: We may release personal information when we believe release is required to comply with law.
When we share information with third parties, we ask that they agree in writing to abide by Western Wares's privacy policies. If we discover that a third party inadvertently disclosed personal information about any of our customers, we will take immediate action to prevent further occurrences.
Other than the cases described above, Western Wares will not release personally identifiable information to a third party without the customer's consent.
In this section of our privacy policy, we discuss the security measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.
We have implemented technology and security policies, rules. and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also protect your information by requiring that all our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality.
Western Wares uses security methods to determine the identity of its registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Western Wares uses both email addresses and serial numbers to authenticate users.
Personally identifiable health information you share with us is stored on our database servers at our office or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data centers are physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Physical access to the servers requires individual authorization and authentication. Information in our servers is backed up routinely, in order to aid in the recovery of information in the event of accidental damage of information or due to a natural disaster. The backup media is stored in a physically secure storage facility.
In this section of our privacy policy, we tell you how to obtain and correct information we have about you, and how to choose what types of information you may share with us.
If you believe that non-medical registration information collected by our Web site(s) is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like. You can directly edit your user profile on our Western Wares.com Web sites, and you can ask for your record to be deleted by emailing: ccrider@westernwares.com requesting deletion and giving the email address that you have registered under.. Entries you make yourself into your user registration record can be corrected and updated by you.
You can get a copy of your on-line record information from your Web browser.
Western Wares employees are required to keep customer information private, as a condition of their employment with the company. Only selected, authorized Western Wares employees are permitted to access your information. All employees and contractors must abide by our privacy policy.
Revision date: July 4, 2001.