Privacy Policy
A. Purpose of Privacy Policy
This Site is owned by BJI, Inc., parent company of Brown
Jordan, Loewenstein, Charter, Lodging by Charter, Texacraft, Tropicraft, Vineyard,
Winston, Pompeii, Wabash Valley, Casual Living and Atlantis. This Privacy Policy
is designed to inform you of how this Site collects, uses, and discloses the
information you provide via this Site. By using this Site, you acknowledge
that you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. Do
not use this Site if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy and the Terms
of Use.
B. What our Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy pertains to this Site and all sites belonging to Brown
Jordan International, Inc.. Although this Site may provide you with links to
other websites, those websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy even
though those sites may be owned by business partners of or service providers
to BJI. BJI strongly encourages
you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit, including those
websites to which this Site provides links. Whenever you visit any other website
from this Site, you alone are responsible for any communication you may have
with that site.
C. Information Collection - Passive
This Site uses various technologies to passively collect information from
you while you are visiting (that is, you do not actively provide this information).
Such technologies allow the Site to collect a range of information, including
your Internet Protocol (IP) address (a unique identifier automatically
assigned to your computer when logging onto the Internet), the type of
Web browser and operating system you use, the date and time you visit the
Site, the specific pages you visit on the Site, session identifiers assigned
to your visit and the address of the website you visited before coming
to this Site – all
of which are nonpersonally identifiable information. We typically use such
passively collected information for a variety of purposes, such as to administer
the Site, customize the Site to your preferences, and compile aggregated
statistics for marketing and research purposes. We reserve the unrestricted
right to use this passively collected, nonpersonally identifiable information,
including, but not limited to, selling, leasing, permitting access to,
or otherwise transferring it to our affiliates, business partners, advertisers,
dealers, and other third parties.
Two types of passive information collection technologies deserve special mention:
1. Web Beacons
"Web beacons" (also known as single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible
GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs) are Internet tags that are smaller than cookies and
may tell the website server nonpersonally identifiable information such as
the IP address and browser type related to the user's computer. This Site does
not use "Web beacons."
2. Cookies
"Cookies" are small text files that store information about your
interactions with a particular website, either temporarily (known as a "temporary" or "session" cookie,
and deleted once you close your browser window) or more permanently on the
hard drive of your computer (known as a "permanent" or "persistent
cookie"). Cookies can make it easier to use a website by allowing
servers to access certain information quickly. Session cookies can be
used to help a user's browser navigate a website more smoothly. Persistent
cookies can be used to customize a website for a user, such as by storing
passwords, preferences, and registration and account information so that
users do not have to reenter them each time they visit a website.
This Site uses both session/temporary cookies and persistent/permanent cookies
to store information that allows us to serve you better. To make the Site easier
to use, we combine information collected via cookies with personally identifiable
information. Please understand that if you set up your browser to disallow
cookies, you might not be able to access important functions or areas of the
Site.
D. Information Collection – Active
Certain areas of this Site may ask or require you to provide certain kinds
of information, including personally identifiable information, such as
full name, address, phone number, e-mail address, etc. The Site usually
will indicate which information is required and which information is optional
at the information collection area in question. By providing data via an
active information collection point on this Site, you specifically consent
to the collection, use, and dissemination of such data in accordance with
this Privacy Policy.
Active information collection points at this Site may include:
1. Information Requests
This Site may include a form that you can use to request information about
us, our affiliates, or our or our affiliates' products and services, or to
request catalogs or brochures. In addition to asking you to identify the specific
information or materials you want, these forms may ask for, among other things,
your name, address, and e-mail address, so that we may send you the information
or materials you request. These forms might also request some personal information
about you to help us better serve your interests and needs.
2. Email Reply Systems
This Site may provide you with one or more e-mail reply systems through which
you may submit questions or comments. Information you provide via such e-mail
reply systems is typically all optional. We may use the information you provide
in your e-mail to respond to your inquiry, and we reserve the right to retain
whatever information you submit in your e-mail, including your name, e-mail
address, and any comments or other information that you send via the e-mail
reply system.
3. Restricted Access Forms
Because access to portions of this Site may be restricted to authorized users,
or allow personalized views of the site, you may be required to complete a
registration form. This form may ask you for a variety of information that
will help us to identify you and contact you, such as your name, business address,
office e-mail address, office phone number, and your relationship to us. Where
you could be using the Site to place orders, we will also ask you for billing
and shipping information. Registration information will be associated with
your username and password, without which you will not be able to access the
restricted portions of the Site.
4. Survey Forms
This Site may display a form for you to use in providing comments, questions,
surveys, evaluations and other responses about us, our affiliates, this Site,
our or our affiliates' products and services, and other topics. We use such
feedback information to improve this Site, and our or our affiliates' products
and services as well as for marketing and research purposes. Much information
you provide in such forms is optional, but you will need to provide at least
some personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, e-mail
address, and phone number, so that we can respond to your inquiry.
5. Employment
This Site may now or in the future provide links to third-party employment
websites for the purpose of submitting applications for available positions
of employment at our company. If you submit an online employment application,
you will be disclosing any personally identifiable information you have included
in your application to such third parties, which then share that information
with us. Even though the online employment application has our company logo,
you should be aware that the third party will use data you provide via any
online employment application in accordance with its registration instructions
and its privacy policy. Please be sure that you have reviewed, and agree to,
the terms of the third party employment company privacy policy before you submit
an online employment application. If you do not agree to those terms, do not
submit an online employment application.
The online employment application requests certain types of personally
identifiable information, including your name, address, and e-mail address,
as well as your previous work experience and salary expectations. We
may use and distribute this information internally and among our affiliated
companies as necessary to consider your application and to contact you
regarding our decision. We may also use this information from time to
time to inform you of other employment opportunities and related information
that may be of interest to you. We do not use or disclose this information
other than for the purposes described here. Please contact us at BJI Web Site, 475 West Town Place, Suite 201, St. Augustine, FL 32092. if you no longer wish to receive such
information from us or our affiliates or be considered for employment
opportunities with us or our affiliates. If you have any questions regarding
a thrid part employement site’s use of
information, please constact the third-party website.
To comply with various government recordkeeping requirements, the application
may also ask you to provide certain other optional categories of information
about yourself. Providing or not providing such information will not adversely
affect your employment prospects, and such information will not become part
of your employment application or our or our affiliates' employment files.
7. E-Mail Delivery
The Site may ask you to provide your e-mail address so that you can
receive e-mail newsletters, alerts, or reminders about us, our affiliates,
our Site, our or our affiliates' products and services, and other topics
of interest. If you no longer wish to receive such e-mails, please follow
the "unsubscribe" instructions
included in such e-mails or contact us as described below.
8. On-line Buying
This Site may allow you to purchase our products and services online.
As a result, the Site gathers certain personally identifiable information
(e.g., your name and address) and payment information (e.g., your credit
card number) to process your order. Specifically, we may: (i) use and disclose
the information you provide as necessary to process and ship your order
(e.g., by disclosing your name and address to fulfillment houses and delivery
services such as UPS or Federal Express, (ii) use the personally identifiable
information you provide to notify you about the status of your order, (iii)
retain this information to create an account for later use (so that you
do not need to re-enter the information for each subsequent order); (iv)
group your information, stripped of its personally identifiable information,
with that of other Site users to provide information to us about group
purchasing and preferences; and (v) share this information (other than
payment information) with our affiliates, business partners, and dealers.
9. Download Forms
This Site may include a form that you must complete before receiving a software
download from the Site. This form may request, among other things, your name,
address, and e-mail address. The form also requests certain information about
the computer systems you are using. We use this information to keep track of
software downloads and to learn more about what computer systems and configurations
visitors to the Site use. We also may use this information to send you updated
versions of the software as they become available and to notify you of problems
with the software.
10. Credit Applications
The Site may post an online credit application for businesses interested in
buying or leasing our products. Among other things, this application asks for
your business's name, address, and phone number, the nature of the business,
certain insurance information, background and credit information about the
officers and owners of your business. We use the information you provide to
evaluate, and contact you regarding, your credit application. Brown Jordan
International does not share this information with any third party without
your express permission except as necessary to review your credit application
or to perform related tasks.
11. Other Features
This Site may offer tests, quizzes, search functions, calculators, or conversion
tools that help you learn more about various topics. We use the information
you input while using these functions to provide you with immediate feedback.
E. Who Should Use this Site
The Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not
intend to retrieve and collect personally identifiable information from children
under the age of 13.
F. Other Disclosures and Uses of Information
Unless otherwise provided above, we may also use personally and nonpersonally
identifiable information you submit via this Site in the following ways:
to tell you about new products and services or other information we think
may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive such notifications
or updates, please contact us at the BJI Web Site, 475 West Town Place, Suite 201, St. Augustine, FL 32092
and let us know which notifications or updates you do not
wish to receive; to conduct marketing research; and to improve the Site’s
features and usability.
From time to time, our service providers may have access to information
you submit via the Site to provide operational or other support services
for the Site (e.g., Web hosting or database services). We have put in
place agreements with such service providers requring them to protect
the confidentiality of Site information, account information and personal
communications to the fullest extent possible and consistent with the
law. To protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of information that
is collected from customers, our service providers have appropriate physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures in place.
Except as otherwise provided in the "Information Collection - Active" section
above, we also reserve the right to sell, lease, provide access, or otherwise
transfer personally identifiable information you submit via this Site to
our business partners (including e-mail delivery services and content providers),
affiliates, and dealers for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or elsewhere
on this Site, we reserve the right to share or transfer any information
you submit via this Site to another person or company in connection with
the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this Site and/or
BJI; to respond to law enforcement requests; or
where required by applicable law, statute, regulation, ordinance, subpoena,
or court order. By submitting personally identifiable information via this
Site, you consent to such disclosures in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
G.
Information Maintenance
We take reasonable measures to ensure that personally identifiable information
that we collect from you via this Site is accurate, current, complete, and
reliable for its intended uses. If you wish to update or otherwise correct
personally identifiable information you have provided to us, please resubmit
the applicable form on the Site with the updated information or contact us at BJI Web Site, 475 West Town Place, Suite 201, St. Augustine, FL 32092.
We will make reasonable attempts to respond to your inquiry, but we may require
authenticating contact information to allow us to verify that you are the person
that is allowed to obtain the data being sought. We may, at our discretion,
disallow you access to specific data if, in our view, to provide such access
would jeopardize another person's privacy; would violate any applicable federal,
state, or foreign law, regulation, or directive; or would require unreasonable
services or unreasonably affect performance at this Site.
H. Protection of Information
Although we take steps to protect personally identifiable information you
provide via this Site from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration, this and
any web site is dependent upon mechanical and technological processes that
are not 100% secure or error-free. Therefore, while we make conscientious and
reasonable efforts to prevent compromise of our policy, we do not, and cannot,
guarantee the security or accuracy of the information we collect via this Site,
and you acknowledge that you are assuming the risk in transmitting any information
to us.
It is your responsibility to safeguard any usernames and passwords you use
to access portions of this Site and to notify us if you suspect that these
usernames or passwords have been obtained or used by unauthorized parties.
You specify that you and you alone are responsible for any unauthorized use
of this Site conducted using your username or password.
I. Changes to this Policy
If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised Policy will be posted here and
the date of the newest version will be posted below. Please check back frequently,
especially before you submit any personally identifiable information at this
Site, to see if the Privacy Policy has changed. If you have any questions about
this policy, you may contact us by writing us at BJI Web Site, 475 West Town Place, Suite 201, St. Augustine, FL 32092.
This Privacy Policy was last revised on March 22, 2007.
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