U.S. Computer Corporation has created
this privacy question and answer page in order to disclose our
information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
You can also review our formal U.S. Computer Corporation
privacy statement.
Is my visit to this web
site anonymous?
Your visit to our site is
anonymous (no personal information about you is recorded or
gathered) unless you place an order, fill in a survey or other form
requesting information, pick up or view a gift certificate or view a
warranty extension agreement, view past invoices or access or attempt
to access a password protected or restricted area of this site or do
something that alerts our fraud control or access control systems.
How do you use my IP
address?
We use your IP address to help diagnose
problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP
address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to
gather broad demographic information and to verify that it is you
accessing your information, gift certificate, or warranty extension.
Your IP address is also used as part of our fraud prevention and
access control systems.
Do you use cookies to
obtain visitor specific identifying information? If so, can I disable
cookies?
Our site uses small text files often
called cookies to keep track of your shopping cart, purchase and
accounting information. We also use cookies to deliver content
specific to your interests and for record keeping and related
purposes. You may turn cookies off by setting your browser preferences
if you wish but doing so may impair or disable some of the functions
we offer on this site such as online shopping, gift certificates, and
warranty extension agreements.
Do you use other
technology to obtain visitor specific identifying information? If so,
can I disable that technology?
As part of our fraud control and
security methods we use other technology to record your visit if you
attempt to access password protected or restricted areas of our web
site or you attempt an illegal act such as credit card or other
payment fraud. In addition to protect customer privacy and security we
record information if you view past invoices online, view a gift
certificate online, view a warranty extension online, make a purchase
online, or check our fraud control information. This technology cannot
be disabled by our visitors.
What information about
me is collected when I place an order or fill in a form? How is
this information used?
Our site uses an order form for
customers to request information, products, and services. We may
request visitor's contact information (like their email address),
unique identifiers (like their drivers license number when paying by
check or international card), and financial information (like their
account or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order
form is used to send orders, information about our company, and
promotional material from some of our partners to our customers. The
customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the
visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future
mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information
that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.
Unique identifiers (such as social security numbers or drivers license
numbers) are requested from some Web site visitors to verify the
user's identity.
Our online surveys asks visitors for
contact information (like their email address), unique identifiers
(like their social security number), and financial information (like
their account or credit card numbers). We use contact data from our
surveys to send the user information about our company and promotional
material from U.S. Computer Corporation. Users may opt-out of
receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Financial information that is collected from our users is used to bill
the user for products and services. Unique identifiers (such as social
security numbers and drivers license numbers) are requested from Web
site visitors to verify the user's identity. Other routine data such
as "how did you find our site?" and similar questions are
used for our internal purposes only and not released to 3rd parties
except as may be required by law.
Do you share my payment
information with any third parties?
Order payment information is shared
with the check or credit card processing companies and banks as
necessary to properly process, authenticate, verify, and guarantee
your payment to us. If the information you provide is false or
fraudulent we may share any and all of your information with law
enforcement agencies, financial agencies, and other as appropriate. In
addition information such as tax information may be reported to comply
with existing Federal, State, or Local law.
Do you
share information about the individual products I buy with any third
parties?
Product
name, price paid, total spent, tax information and so on may be
shared as required by law or contract. Except as noted elsewhere this
information does not include your name, address or personal
information.
Do you share my email
or other personal information collected by you with any third parties?
If you sign up for one of our services
or free offerings such as free email, your information is shared with
the company providing the service. Otherwise except as noted, all your
personal information remains with U.S. Computer Corporation and is not
shared with anyone other than as stated unless you perpetuate or
attempt to perpetuate an illegal act.
What about my visits to
other sites you may link me to?
This site contains links to other sites
and is itself linked to from other sites. U.S. Computer Corporation
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such
Web sites. Certain products offered on our site may be from links to,
from or on other sites who may via their site, collect payment and
other information. At the present time we have associations with
Amazon.com, IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Learning University, PC Flowers
& Gifts, Prodigy, J.C. Penny, Cybergate and 100's of other
companies. Information collected by these partners, associates and
affiliates is controlled solely by their policies and privacy
statements which are available on their sites.
What security measures
do you have in place?
This site has security measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. For additional information on our security
measures. check this information on privacy and security secure transactions credit
card fraud secure shopping electronic
shopping policies international customers other
policies.
Do you gather
supplementation information from third parties about your site
visitors?
This site supplements the information
that you provide with information that is received from third parties.
An example would be verification of your credit card billing address,
zip and phone with the credit card company or bank.
Can I choose or opt
out of mailings, etc?
Our site provides users the opportunity
to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we
request information about the visitor. Placing your name on our email
lists is voluntary by you and you can opt out if you change your mind.
This site gives users the following
options for removing their information from our database to not
receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
- You can go to remove.htm and remove your name / email address.
- For legal reasons if you have made a
purchase from us your name cannot be removed.
Can I change or modify
my address or other information?
This site gives users the following
options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
- You can go to remove.htm and remove your old email address and add your new one.
- If you have made a purchase
from U.S. Computer Corporation you can add/update your address
info at removestore.htm.
Who can I contact if I
have further questions about privacy on this web site?
If you have any questions about
this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings
with this Web site, you can check these related information
pages formal U.S.
Computer Corporation privacy statement, privacy and security secure
transactions, credit card fraud, secure shopping, electronic
shopping policies, other policies, international
customers or write to
U.S. Computer Corporation 13553 66th St N. Ste 102
Largo, FL 33771
