Schoos takes your privacy seriously.
This Privacy Statement describes the information that Schoos and our affiliates
(collectively "Schoos" or "we") collect through our website
located at www.Schoos.com (the "Site") and how we use that
information. Please read this Privacy Statement carefully prior to using the
Site. Your use of the Site signifies your agreement with the contents of this
Privacy Statement.
Information
Collection and Use
Schoos gathers "Personally
Identifiable Information," "Site Usage Data," and "IP
Addresses" through this Site. Personally Identifiable Information is
information that identifies a person as an individual, such as your name,
company, and title, postal address, telephone number, or email address. Site
Usage Data is aggregated information, demographic information, and any other
information that does not reveal a person’s specific identity. An IP Address is
the Internet Protocol address of the computer that you are using. Schoos may
use your information for the following general purposes: to customize the
advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and
services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide
anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
- Personally Identifiable
Information.
You do not have to provide us with your Personally Identifiable
Information to use this Site. However, certain services to which you may
subscribe through the Site (e.g., email forms and newsletter subscriptions)
may require you to provide Personally Identifiable Information. We collect
Personally Identifiable Information from you only when you voluntarily
provide it to us. If and when it is collected, Schoos may use Personally
Identifiable Information in the following ways:
- Fulfillment of Requests and
Communication. We process Personally Identifiable Information to comply
with your requests, respond to your inquiries, and send you newsletters,
publications or other information that you request. If you contact us by
email through the Site, we may keep a record of your contact information
and correspondence, and use it to respond to you. We will further use
Personally Identifiable Information to fulfill any other purposes for
which it was provided, and as disclosed at the time the data are
collected.
- Internal Business Purposes. We
may also use Personally Identifiable Information about you for our
internal business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, and other
similar purposes.
- Services. In addition to the
purposes mentioned above, we may use Personally Identifiable Information
for the purposes of providing interior design, consulting, and related
services or events ("Services").
- Site Usage Data. When you visit and interact
with the Site, Schoos and third parties with whom Schoos has contracted to
provide services to Schoos may collect Site Usage Data (for example, a
catalog of the Site pages you visit). Such non-Personally Identifiable
Information may include your MAC address, your computer type, screen
resolution, OS version, and Internet browser. Site Usage Data may also
include demographic data, such as your location. To enhance your
experience on the Site, Schoos and our service providers may use ‘cookies’
on the Site. Cookies are data that a web server transfers to an
individual’s computer for recordkeeping and other purposes. We use cookies
and other technologies to facilitate users’ ongoing access to and use of
our Site. We and our service providers may also use various Internet technologies
such as "pixel tags," "action tags," "web
bugs," ".gif tags," "JavaScript" or similar
technologies (together, "Tracking Tools") in connection with
Site pages and email messages in certain formats to, among other things,
track the actions of Site users and email recipients, to determine the
success of marketing campaigns and to compile aggregate statistics about
Site usage and response rates. Tracking Tools allow us to count users who
have visited certain pages of the Sites, to deliver branded services, and
to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising
campaigns. When used in email messages in certain formats, Tracking Tools
can tell the sender whether and when the email has been opened. Schoos
uses these technologies to customize and enhance the Internet experience
of individual users. When you revisit the Site, we may recognize you by a
Tracking Tool and customize your experience accordingly. For example, once
you have completed the registration process, a Tracking Tool or cookie
will be used to avoid having you register again. Because Site Usage Data
does not personally identify you, we may use such information for any
purpose. In addition, we reserve the right to share such Site Usage Data
with third parties for any purpose. As an example, we may use aggregated
Site Usage Data to help us improve the Site and the services that we
provide through the Site. Please note that to the extent any Site Usage
Data is linked with Personally Identifiable Information, such linked
information will be treated as Personally Identifiable Information as long
as it is linked.
- IP Addresses. When you visit and interact
with the Site, Schoos and third parties with whom Schoos has contracted to
provide services to Schoos may collect Internet Protocol ("IP")
addresses. Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to
the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. This
number is identified and logged automatically whenever you visit the Site,
along with the time(s) of your visit(s) and the page(s) that you visited.
Disclosure
of Personally Identifiable Information
Schoos does not rent, sell, or share
personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies
except to provide products or services you’ve specifically requested, or under
the following circumstances:
- We may provide your information
to third parties who work on behalf of or with Schoos under
confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal
information to help Schoos communicate with you about our services.
However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this
information;
- We also may use and/or disclose
Personally Identifiable Information to any third party if we believe that
we are required to do so for any or all of the following reasons: (i) by
law; (ii) to respond to requests from governmental or public authorities;
(iii) to prevent, investigate, detect, or prosecute criminal offenses or
attacks on the technical integrity of the Site or our network; and/or (iv)
to protect the rights, privacy, property, business, or safety of Schoos
and its affiliates, their partners and employees, the users of the Site,
or the public.
By
using the Site, you acknowledge and consent to the fact that Personally
Identifiable Information provided by you or collected by us through your use of
the Site may be stored and processed by us in the United States, which may
provide a different level of data protection than that provided by your country
of residence. You also acknowledge and consent to the fact that we may, at our
discretion, store and process such data in other countries and will endeavor to
protect the Personally Identifiable Information under our control wherever it
is processed or stored.
Your
Options
- Opting Out. We may from time to time send
you updates and mailings relating to Schoos events that we think may be of
interest to you. If you would prefer not to receive marketing mailings
from us, you may unsubscribe from these marketing mailings by following
the unsubscribe instructions in any such message or by contacting us by
email at contact@schoos.com.
- Reviewing, Changing, or
Suppressing Personally Identifiable Information. To the extent permitted by the
laws of your country, you may request to review, correct, update,
suppress, or otherwise modify any Personally Identifiable Information that
you have previously provided through the Site, or object to the use of
such Personally Identifiable Information by Schoos. You may exercise these
rights by contacting us at contact@schoos.com.
For your protection, we may need to
verify your identity before implementing your request. We will endeavor to
comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
Please note that we may need to
retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, and there may also be
residual information that will remain within our databases and other records,
which will not be removed therefrom. Finally, we are not responsible for
removing information from the databases of third parties (such as service providers)
with whom we have shared Personally Identifiable Information about you.
Confidentiality
and Security
Schoos has physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you. Unfortunately,
no data storage system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security
of our servers, the means by which Personally Identifiable Information is
transmitted between your computer and our servers, or any Personally
Identifiable Information provided to us or to any third party through or in
connection with the Site. If you believe your connection to our Site is no
longer secure, please notify us as soon as possible.
Changes to
this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to change this
Privacy Statement at any time without notice. Please check this page
periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site signifies your
agreement with the contents of this Privacy Statement. Your use of our Site
constitutes your acceptance of the contents of the Privacy Statement as amended
or revised by us, and you should therefore review the Privacy Statement
regularly to ensure that you are aware of its terms.