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Privacy, Security, and Fraud policy:
1. Email and Data
Privacy: Your email address and other contact information
will never be
sold or
knowingly given to advertisers or third parties*; the only exception to
this is
appropriate law enforcement agencies in the event such data are
required by
them. In the event that any item in our catalog must be sent
directly to you by an outside company, your shipping address and phone
number may be given to the supplier and freight carrier in order that
the shipment can get to you.
2. Cookies, Spyware,
and Invasive Applets: Our website does not utilize any
type of "spyware" or other invasive
applets. The only information we obtain is that which you, the
customer, enter
when making a purchase, signing up for the Newsletter, or otherwise
contacting us. Please note that your real name and
complete,
verifiable address are required for security purposes when making a
credit card
purchase.
The only use of cookies on this site is for the automated shopping cart
to
remember what items you've chosen. We do not take information
from
these for
any purpose but to process your order and / or verify its validity.
The Company (see Definitions as outlined in Terms
of Use) shall not be responsible for cookies or other tracking
techniques used by third-party sites. We cannot control what
other companies do, although we are in principle opposed to the use of
tracking or data mining instruments to invade the privacy of
individuals.
The credit card information that you enter when making purchases in our
shopping cart is transmitted via secure means (128-bit SSL
encryption). This information is not revealed to any third parties** outside the Company
and its payment processor / payment gateway. It
is not
used in any way other than to process your transaction(s). Our shopping
cart
service provider is SecureNetShop;
they are certified by Thawte, Inc.
The Company has no control over the policies and data-use practices of
any third parties with which it deals; however, the Company will
not knowingly sell or offer customer data to any third party outside
the confines of normal order processing and fraud investigation, unless
a law enforcement agency requires such information.
3. Fraudulent
Websites and other Criminal Activity: The Company
disclaims any and all responsibility for the activities of persons or
entities not in its direct control, including but not limited to
criminal activity.
The Company conducts Internet business through its website at
http://www.crscientific.com/. Any outside website purporting to
be CR Scientific but having a different web address should be reported
immediately to us.
As much as the Company would like to see spammers, scammers, and
identity thieves defeated once and for all, it is unfortunately not
within the scope or ability of the Company to track down and thwart
these criminals. It is up to the User to learn to avoid
fraudulent websites, "phishing" scams, and other criminal tactics which
may happen in connection with Internet access.
Because there are criminals and other dishonest individuals who are
able to use various forms of electronic communication, emails
purporting to originate from the Company are not guaranteed to be
authentic; they may in fact originate from parties intending to
deceive and defraud. Malicious computer programs (viruses, etc.)
can also falsify the originating email address. In any event,
the User must not give out passwords, banking, or credit card
information via email. CR Scientific will not ask for passwords
or other sensitive information via email.
Though every reasonable attempt is made to maintain customers' data
security, the Company disclaims any responsibility for consequences
that may arise from security breach or data theft. No
electronic network, even the most sophisticated one known, is 100% safe
from cracking or data theft.
*Every
reasonable effort is made to protect your data. However, we
disclaim any and all responsibility for the effects of viruses,
worms, spyware, trojan horses, network intrusions, theft, fire, flood,
and other unwanted or unexpected events.
**It
is the customer's responsibility to make sure his or her computer is
free of viruses, spyware, or trojan horses that could compromise
security at
that end. The best way to do this is get a virus scan / security
suite program from one of the well-known manufacturers. Run
a full system scan periodically and make sure your virus definitions
are up to date. Also clean your system regularly with a
comphrehensive spyware remover such as Spybot Search and Destroy (by
Patrick Kolla) and / or AdAware (by LavaSoft).
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