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Privacy, Monitoring and Disclosure.
Housewares Value Seekers seeks to meet privacy requirements under applicable law. Please note, therefore, that Housewares Value Seekers, its agents and representatives collect personal and commercial information in a number of circumstances in the course of its business and in the supply of products and services to consumers, retailers and other parties in the food-service industry. Housewares Value Seekers generally uses personal information for the following purposes: (a) identification; (b) establishment and maintenance of our relationship with you; (c) to provide you with ongoing service and respond to your requests and inquiries; (d) to protect you and Housewares Value Seekers against error and fraud; (e) for marketing purposes; (f) to manage accounts; (g) to meet legal, regulatory, insurance, security and processing requirements; (h) to help fulfill orders made by you via the Site, and (h) otherwise as permitted or required by law.
Without guarantee of any kind as to results, Housewares Value Seekerstakes reasonable steps to help protect your personal information using physical, electronic or procedural security measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information in Housewares Value Seekers custody or control, which may include attempted safeguards to protect against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
Although Housewares Value Seekers has no obligation to monitor any information you provide to the Site, Housewares Value Seekers reserves the right to monitor, retain, and disclose that information if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary (a) to comply with legal requirements; (b) to respond to claims that any information violates the rights of third parties; (c) to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Housewares Value Seekers, its users or the public; (d) to comply with a court order; (e) to comply with local, federal or foreign regulations or a legally permitted inquiry by a government agency; or (f) to collect a debt owed to Housewares Value Seekers.
From time to time, Housewares Value Seekers uses “cookies” on the Site. A cookie is a small text file loaded onto your hard drive so that the Site can recognize you as a repeat user of the Site, track your use of the Site and target advertising to you. That allows for personalization of certain aspects of your visit to the Site, including, without limitation, session information; information on preferences, and past activity at the Site. Housewares Value Seekersuses cookies in part to help provide better service when you return to the Site. Information gathered from cookies is only used on an aggregate basis. Unless you specifically provide your identity to Housewares Value Seekers(e.g., by registering at the Site, providing information through an online form or sending Housewares Value Seekers correspondence from the Site), Housewares Value Seekers will not know your identity. You can disable cookies using your Internet browser settings, but if you disable cookies, certain features of the Site may not function properly.
Any websites liked to the Site, including, without limitation, distributor and retailer websites, are governed by their own terms of use, confidentiality provisions and privacy provisions, which may differ from the provisions governing the Site. Housewares Value Seekersis not responsible for the operation of those websites and expressly disclaims any liability related to those websites, including, without limitation, any liability with respect to any terms of use, confidentiality provisions or privacy provisions that govern them.
Housewares Value Seekers shall not be liable to you or any third party for any of the foregoing. The provisions of this Agreement that, by their nature, should survive termination of this Agreement shall so survive any termination of this Agreement or discontinuation of the Site.
Exclusive jurisdiction of courts in the State of New York, United States of America. Housewares Value Seekersmakes no representations or warranties that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use in any particular location; accessing the Site from any territory in which its content is illegal is not permitted or sanctioned by Housewares Value Seekers
This Agreement was last modified December 15, 2004. Please check back periodically for updates and changes
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