Academic Furniture knows that you care how information about you is
used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so
carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy
policy. By visiting AcademicFurniture.com and you are
accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers
Does Academic Furniture Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps
us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience
at Academic Furniture. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We
receive and store any information you enter on our Web site
or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide
certain information, but then you might not be able to take
advantage of many of our features. We use the information
that you provide for such purposes as responding to your
requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our
stores, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive
and store certain types of information whenever you interact
with us. For example, like many Web sites, we may use
"cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when
your Web browser accesses AcademicFurniture.com. A
number of companies offer utilities designed to help you
visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to
provide you with a personalized experience at
AcademicFurniture.com if we cannot recognize you, we
want you to be aware that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications: To help us
make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a
confirmation when you open e-mail from
AcademicFurniture.com if your computer supports such
capabilities. We may also compare our customer list to lists
received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending
unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to
receive e-mail or other mail from us, please click on
unsubscribe from any email message. Though we make every
effort to remove your name from future email services,
Academic Furniture offers multiple email services and you may need to
unsubscribe from each one individually.
- Information from Other Sources: We
might receive information about you from other sources and
add it to our account information.
What About Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that
we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web
browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and
to provide useful features such as storage of items in your
Shopping Cart between visits.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most
browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from
accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you
when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full
advantage of some of Academic Furniture's best features, and we
recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does Academic Furniture Share the Information It
Receives?
Information about our customers is an
important part of our business, and we are not in the business
of selling it to others. We share customer information only as
described below and with subsidiaries Academic Furniture Time Company
controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or
follow practices at least as protective as those described in
this Privacy Notice.
- Affiliated Businesses We Do Not
Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses.
In some cases, such as Academic Furniture Authorized Dealers, these
businesses operate independent internet stores or sell
offerings to you at sites like eBay.com. In other cases, we
operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines on
sites like overstocks.com or eBay.com. You can tell when a
third party is involved in your transactions, and we share
customer information related to those transactions with that
third party.
- Agents: We employ other companies
and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples
include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending
postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from
customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing
assistance, providing search results and links (including
paid listings and links), processing credit card payments,
and providing customer service. They have access to personal
information needed to perform their functions, but may not
use it for other purposes.
- Promotional Offers: Sometimes we
send offers to selected groups of Academic Furniture customers on
behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give
that business your name and address.
- Business Transfers: As we continue
to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores,
subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions,
customer information generally is one of the transferred
business assets but remains subject to the promises made in
any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the
customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event
that Academic Furniture, or substantially all of its assets are
acquired, customer information will of course be one of the
transferred assets.
- Protection of
AcademicFurniture.com and Others: We release
account and other personal information when we believe
release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or
apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect
the rights, property, or safety of Academic Furniture, our users, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit
risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include
selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing
personally identifiable information from customers for
commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set
forth in this Privacy Notice.
- With Your Consent: Other than as
set out above, you will receive notice when information
about you might go to third parties, and you will have an
opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to protect the security of your
information during transmission by using Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- We reveal only the last five digits of
your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of
course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the
appropriate credit card company during order processing.
It is important for you to protect against
unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be
sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Which Information Can I Access?
Academic Furniture gives you access to a broad range of
information about your account and your interactions
with Academic Furniture for the limited purpose of viewing and, in
certain cases, updating that information. You may log into
AcademicFurniture.com and update or correct your account
information. Other forms of information may require a telephone
call to Academic Furniture at 800-432-6190.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As discussed above, you can always choose
not to provide information, even though it might be needed
to make a purchase or to take advantage of such Academic Furniture
website features.
- You can add or update certain information
on pages such as those on AcademicFurniture.com
accessed via the sign in feature. When you update
information, we may keep a copy of the prior version for our
records.
- If you do not want to receive e-mail or
other mail from us, please select unsubscribe from each
email service you receive. (If you do not want to receive
Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as
this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your
use of Academic Furniture services, and it is your responsibility to
review them for changes.)
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most
browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from
accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you
when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, you will not be able to use some
AcademicFurniture.com features if you do not use
cookies.
- Products exist to explore products that
offer anonymous browsing. In addition, the Federal Trade
Commission provides useful information about online privacy
on its own Web site,
Site Seeing on the Internet.
Children
Academic Furniture does not sell products for purchase
by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults.
If you are under 18, you may use AcademicFurniture.com
only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit
AcademicFurniture.com, your visit and any dispute over
privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use,
including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and
application of the law of the state of Georgia. If you have any
concern about privacy at AcademicFurniture.com, please
contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to
resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our
Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We
may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions,
unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our
Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated
otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information
that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the
promises we make, however, and will never materially change our
policies and practices to make them less protective of customer
information collected in the past without the consent of
affected customers.