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At Bi-Tron , we value every
customer and member. We want your online experience to be the best. To
insure integrity, Bi-Tron will use customer information collected by only
for identification and contact purposes and/or for demographic information
to be used by our staff. This information will be used to help Bi-Tron
ensure that present and future services are best designed to meet its
customers' and members' changing needs. Bi-Tron does not sell, trade or
rent your personal information to any third party.
We at Bi-Tron know that these issues are essential to making this site
a success for us and our members. Rest assured that privacy, security
and integrity are first and foremost at Bi-Tron .
1. What data we collect and why
2. How your information is used
3. Who sees your personal information
4. How we keep your information
secure
5. Your privacy with Bi-Tron
6. Your privacy with our partners
and advertisers
7. Our policies on email
8. Cookies and how are they
used
9. Your choices and responsibilities
10. Serving of advertisements
to our site
11. Third-Party Relationships
12. Use of IP Address
1 What data we collect and why
Our vision at Bi-Tron is to maximize the services for all of our customers
and members.
When first registering with Bi-Tron, you will be required to give your
basic personal information only. After you have become a member you may
be asked to provide some additional demographic information through surveys.
Your name, address, hobbies, income, age, marital status and occupation
may be asked. This information helps us understand your interests and
to develop an understanding of what might appeal to you. Based on these
demographics, we are able to determine what types of products and specials
would benefit our members most. Any information that we collect for demographic
purposes will not be used outside Bi-Tron in any way that could identify
you.
As with any other information that you supply to Bi-Tron, none of the
information that we collect will be released in any personally identifiable
way, only in aggregate or anonymous form.
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2 How your information is used
We collect information to provide better, more relevant offers to you,
whether it is targeted advertising, new products and services that we
think our members may like, or choosing new partnerships. In no instance
will your personal data be shared with any outside agencies.
We may provide aggregate statistics about our members, site traffic, sales
or other related information; however, none of these statistics will ever
be able to be identified as having come from you.
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3 Who sees your personal information
Only a very limited number of Bi-Tron employees ever have access to your
personal information. Primarily this information is accessed to provide
customer service or to send you your commission checks.
We may use contractors or vendors to help us provide some of the services
at our site. If we need to disclose personal information for them to provide
the services, it is with the requirement that the information is kept
confidential and is used only for those services.
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How we keep your information secure
Bi-Tron uses a secure, encrypted connection (called an SSL connection)
on all pages where you transmit personal data to us. Whenever you access
any of your account pages or change any of your user information, it is
done over an SSL connection to Bi-Tron. In spite of the fact that all
important data is sent over an SSL connection, you may notice that on
merchant pages, the "padlock" icon in the corner of your browser
sometimes does not appear. This is a display issue only, and is caused
by the fact that the merchant session is running inside a frame. Rest
assured that any time you enter your credit card information at a merchant
site, it IS an SSL connection secure connection.
Bi-Tron fully GUARANTEES the use of your credit cards when shopping through
Bi-Tron. If, as a direct result of your shopping through Bi-Tron, someone
uses your credit card information to make fraudulent purchases, Bi-Tron
will reimburse you for any costs the credit card company charges you.
Please refer to the terms/user agreement for complete information.
Additionally, all of our database servers that contain customer information
reside only on Bi-Tron's physically secured premises or in our equally
secured locations at our service provider.
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5 Your privacy with Bi-Tron
Bi-Tron will never ask for your username, password or any other personal
information in an unsolicited phone call, email or letter.
Further, any contact with Bi-Tron customer service in which personal information
is exchanged with a customer service representative will be used only
for the purpose of satisfying that request. Any personal information you
provide will not be recorded or used for any reason beyond that of the
stated request without your consent.
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Your privacy with our partners and advertisers
Bi-Tron contains links to various other sites. Each of these sites has
a privacy policy that may differ from that of Bi-Tron. The privacy practices
of other websites linked to Bi-Tron are not covered by this privacy policy.
Bi-Tron will not disclose any of the personal information supplied upon
registration to our partners or advertisers. The only information that
may be shared between Bi-Tron is information that pertains to orders.
Order information, including order numbers and amounts, may be available
to either Bi-Tron, or third party affiliate program management companies
for accurate commission tracking purposes. This information will not be
released by Bi-Tron to other parties unless required by law or to protect
Bi-Tron and its members from losses.
Bi-Tron does not record any personal information passed from our members
to our third-part partners, including credit card information or passwords.
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Our policies on email
Regarding e-mail, Bi-Tron does not send unsolicited or "spam"
e-mail. Bi-Tron uses e-mail addresses collected for a number of e-mail
alerts and newsletters which are used to communicate new information,
special offers and new products to our members and customers. All members
and customers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time. Bi-Tron
does not sell or rent its e-mail lists. It is against Bi-Tron's policy
to provide any customer information to any third party without the member's
or customer's prior permission. However, as part of Bi-Tron's business,
content provided by third party sites such as online classifieds and others
for third party individuals, Bi-Tron disclaims any responsibility for
the actions of these third parties. Bi-Tron strongly encourages all of
its partners to post their privacy policies on their sites and to subscribe
to the same high standard as is stated here.
Bi-Tron does not support spamming by our members and we explicitly prohibit
it in our member agreement . If you would like to report an incident of
spamming, please contact abuse@Bi-Tron.com. We will investigate and take
suitable action at our discretion.
We ourselves send out three kinds of emails. Our members may receive:
1) email essential to the maintenance of your account (most commonly when
we need your address to mail you a check);
2) email notifying you about credits and debits to your account (most
commonly when we credit you with a commission or rebate); and
3) email newsletters and special offers from Bi-Tron and our other partners.
You always have the option of opting out of types 2 and/or 3 here.
Please understand that, though we may have some small influence over our
members, we fundamentally cannot control the online or offline actions
of our members or other parties, especially when it comes to their use
of email or participation in moderated or unmoderated newsgroups. While
we will investigate complaints sent to abuse@Bi-Tron.com and take appropriate
action with our members, we will typically not provide any information
to third parties about our conversations with our members. We encourage
people to resolve disputes directly with each other and discourage people
from attempting to use Bi-Tron to police their mailbox or newsgroup.
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Cookies and how are they used
Cookies are small text files that a web site can write to your computer.
We may use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in once to Bi-Tron's
member section and to shop without having to log in again.
Bi-Tron requires its members to have cookies enabled in order to track
their purchases and orders for commissions.
Generally, we use cookies to:
(a) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored
on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized
service.
(b) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Bi-Tron is given
a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage,
usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help
target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
(c) Assist us to track and to process the items in your shopping basket.
(d) Measure certain traffic patterns, and areas of our network of web
sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We
use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different
from one another so that we can make each new experience a better one.
We may use this information to better personalize the content and promotions
that you and other users will see on our sites.
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Your choices and responsibilities
Periodically we may send you emails on new Bi-Tron features or special
offers. On every one of these emails you will be given the choice to unsubscribe
from Bi-Tron mailings. Choice of membership is yours at all times, and
you are free to remove yourself as a member of Bi-Tron at any time. Simply
follow the directions in any of our emails.
You may also choose to what degree you would like us to contact you. When
we ask for your account info, you may choose that we contact you with
special offers, contact you about your orders, or not contact you for
either.
It is the member's responsibility to update and maintain accurate contact
information in their account. You can make changes by visiting your account
page and entering corrections. Email and street addresses that are entered
into a member's personal profile page are the addresses that will be used
for all contact including the mailing of commission checks. Bi-Tron is
not responsible for checks that are sent to incorrect addresses, if the
address in question was the address listed in that member's account at
the time of issuance.
We will post all changes to this Privacy Agreement here at our site. Please
check for revisions when you visit our site again so that you will always
be aware of our policies and any changes that might occur. Bi-Tron reserves
the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without notice.
All changes will be posted to this page.
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10 Serving of advertisements to
our site
Bi-Tron uses one or more third party companies to serve advertisements
at our site. These companies may use cookies to ensure that you do not
see the same advertisements too often, but they also may collect information
about you when you view or click an advertisement at our site. Cookies
that are received with advertisements are read and placed by one of our
advertising companies, and Bi-Tron does not have access to them, nor can
we control how they are used. Cookies may also be collected by Bi-Tron
partners on co-branded web sites, so please be aware of this as you visit
these sites.
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Third-Party Relationships
In order to provide you with new products and features that makes your
time more enjoyable at Bi-Tron, Bi-Tron has relationships with many of
the best media companies throughout the world. You can recognize these
sites by the joint branding.
Whenever you provide registration information on co-branded sites, that
data may be shared with our media partners. You should make every effort
to read these privacy policies, and make an informed decision on your
own whether or not to continue based upon these sites' privacy practices
and your own discretion. However, we will make every effort to ensure
that you have the ability to opt out of the sharing of such data with
our media partners.
In addition to finding co-branded sites, you will find direct links on
our site to sites offered by third parties. Some of these sites are authorized
to use the Bi-Tron brand and/or logo. We carefully evaluate all parties
that are authorized to use our brand and/or logo, and believes that all
such sites have adopted acceptable privacy policies. Again, you should
read these privacy policies, and make an informed decision on your own
whether or not to continue based upon these sites' privacy practices and
your own discretion. No third-party sites are covered by this Privacy
Policy.
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12 Use of IP Address
An IP address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you log in to your internet service provider or through
your company's LAN or WAN. Web servers - the big computers that provide
web pages for viewing - automatically identify your computer by the IP
address assigned to it during your session.
Bi-Tron may collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration,
to report aggregate user information to our advertisers, and to audit
the use of our site. We do not ordinarily link a user's IP address to
anything personally identifiable to that user, which means that your session
will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. However, we can and will
use IP addresses to identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary
to enforce compliance with our site's terms of use or terms of service,
or to protect our service, site, or other users.
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