OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Effective Date: December 24, 2017
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for ApplianceGeneral.biz. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:
-What information we collect;
-With whom it is shared;
-How it can be corrected;
-How it is secured;
-How policy changes will be communicated; and
-How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via phone/email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to repair appliances. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:
-See what data we have about you, if any.
-Change/correct any data we have about you.
-Have us delete any data we have about you.
-Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (we do not collect credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, next to url, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only the Manager or the Owner who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g, billing, offers or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept offsite at our host who maintains a secure environment.
Notification of Changes
As of this version we now email our customers of material changes to ApplianceGeneral.biz Privacy Policy.
Other Provisions as Required by Law
Numerous other provisions and/or practices may be required as a result of laws, international treaties, or industry practices. It is up to you to determine what additional practices must be followed and/or what additional disclosures are required. Please take special notice of the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), which is frequently amended and now includes a disclosure requirement for “Do Not Track” signals. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at (909) 569-9427 or via email brad@appliancegeneral.biz.
Registration
In order to review our services or this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name, gender, age, location and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
Orders
We request information from you on our registration form to review and receive discounts, but currently we do not sell online products. To buy our services you only have to call/email us. Your name, address, phone number are requested to perform service calls. The personal data is then entered into our business system. Currently, we do not send ads, offers specials etc. etc., we only ask for a review at time of service (and on printed invoice). Reviews on google.com, yelp.com and other websites is via their site, we do not speek for their companies privacy policies nor do we send information to them. We have future plans to request reviews via email. To review our site you must register then follow the link to review. You must provide contact information (like name, phone, email and address). We do not ask for financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). The information is used only to prove validity of reviews to authorities (have not been asked yet) and may result in request to review us at other sites.
Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site. None of our business partners use cookies on our site. TheWidgetGeneral.com and other versions of TheWidgetGeneral (.us, .biz, .net) is the same owner. You may receive solicitation in the future for computer services from TheWidgetGeneral.biz if you agree to receive solicitation from ApplianceGeneral.biz.
Sharing
We are TheWidgetGeneral.biz so TheWidgetGeneral.biz does have the same personal data. We do not share information with anyone else. Future plans to sell on ebay.com, amazon.com etc. etc. may involve drop shipping from third parties and those customers who buy products from us may have data sent to the third party suppliers for shipping; curently this does not apply. Plans to accept PayPal in the future will result in transaction knowledge to be passed to PayPal (see PayPal for their policy).
Links
This web site contain links to other sites other than California Department of Consumer Affairs, Better Business Buare, Homeadviser.com, Google.com, Yelp.com, Facebook.com and others. We recommend you copy the links to these sites and log off Appliancegeneral.biz/TheWidgetGeneral.biz before following these links for maximum security.
Surveys, Discount Offers & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or offers for discount on repairs. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey's and request for review information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
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