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Our Privacy Policy

Introduction Crutchfield values its relationship with its customers and is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of their personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines: (a) how we will collect your personal information, (b) how we will use your personal information; (c) to whom we may disclose your personal information; and (d) how you can verify and correct your personal information.

Organizations covered by this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to and governs the activities of Crutchfield Corporation in the Dominion of Canada.

Definition

"Personal Information" means information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the contact information of an employee of an organization (such as name, title, business address, business telephone number or business email address). Personal Information also does not include anonymous or non-personal information (information that cannot be associated with or traced to a specific individual).

Identifying Purposes

We collect, use and disclose Personal Information concerning our customers for the following purposes:

  • To develop, implement, market, promote and sell products, services and special offers.
  • To measure and improve the effectiveness of our Web Sites or our marketing endeavors.
  • To manage our business and provide day-to-day services including, but not limited to, ordering, shipping, delivering, invoicing, collecting, establishing credit arrangements, administering rebates, discounts, and special programs, processing payments, managing accounts and supply chain activities.
  • To measure and improve the effectiveness of our Web Sites or our marketing endeavors.
  • To investigate and respond to customer inquiries and complaints.
  • To establish customer relationships and to communicate with customers.
  • To research, develop and improve existing and new technologies and services.
  • To provide information for existing and new products and services of Crutchfield.
  • To manage and promote the business activities of Crutchfield.
  • To review and assess market trends and activities impacting the business of Crutchfield.
  • To meet requirements imposed by law.
  • To tailor our online offerings to your preferences.

Our Website

While using our website, you may be asked to voluntarily provide certain personal information (such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, or credit card information). We use this information to complete your transaction and to apply for access to certain special features and functions of the websites. If you choose not to provide requested personal information, you may not be able to use certain features of the websites and you will not be able to engage in transactions through the websites.

With any of the services on our websites, we may also use your personal information to contact and correspond with you and to respond to your inquiries. With your consent, we may send to you, from time to time, email or other communications regarding goods or services we believe will interest you. Information Crutchfield collects automatically.

Information Crutchfield collects automatically

Like many other websites, we automatically collect certain non-personal information regarding website users that does not identify you. Examples include the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access the website, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to the website, the operating system you are using, the sections of the website you visit, the website pages read and images viewed, and the content you download from the website.

Cookies

The website uses "cookies", a technology that installs a small amount of information on a website user's computer to permit the website to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of the website. For example, the information provided through cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of the website, to offer personalized web page content and information for your use, to track your activity at the website, to respond to your needs, and to otherwise facilitate your website experience. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of the website and your ability to access certain features of the website or engage in transactions through the website.

Tracking information

We may use non-personal information to compile tracking information reports regarding website user demographics, website traffic patterns, and website purchases, and then provide those reports to others. None of the tracking information in the reports can be connected to the identities or other personal information of individual users. We may also link tracking information with personal information voluntarily provided by website users. Once such a link is made, all of the linked information is treated as personal information and will be used and disclosed only in accordance with this Policy.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites or Internet resources. When you click on one of those links you are contacting another website or Internet resource. Crutchfield has no responsibility or liability for or control over those other websites or Internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those other sites to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Disclosure to service providers

Crutchfield may share your personal information with certain service providers in order to provide products and services to you, to verify and validate information, and to address customer service matters. Examples of service providers include credit card issuers, product service depots, warranty providers, and delivery services. To reduce the risk of fraud or misuse of personal information, Crutchfield may also verify your personal information, including but not limited to your address and credit card information, with third party service providers.

We will use reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal information is used in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. If you do not wish us to provide your personal information to those service providers, we may be unable to process your transaction.

Supplementing information

From time to time we may supplement information you give us with information from other sources, such as information validating your address or other available information you have provided us. This is to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect and to help us provide better service.

Orders and Catalog Requests

When you place your order and/or when you request that we send you a catalog from time to time we may send you future catalogs and other marketing information from us that we think will be of interest to you. We may share your name, postal address, demographic information, past purchase history and purchase category information with other marketing partners who may bring you offers of interest. If you wish to opt out of sharing this information with these companies, please contact our Privacy Officer at Privacy_Officer@crutchfield.ca. We will never share any telephone number(s), or financial information which you have given us with any marketing partner(s).

Consent

We will collect, use and disclose your Personal Information only with your consent, except where obtaining such consent would be inappropriate, or as permitted or required by law. Depending on the sensitivity of the Personal Information that we collect from you, your consent to our collection, use and/or disclosure may be express or implied.

Usually, we will seek your consent to use and/or disclose your Personal Information at the time of collection. In some circumstances, we may seek consent after we have collected your Personal Information but before we use it (for example, if we want to use the Personal Information for different purposes than previously identified).

You may withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. All communications with respect to the withdrawal of your consent or any change to your consent must be in writing and addressed to our Privacy Officer.

We assume that, unless you advise us otherwise, by receiving or reviewing this Privacy Policy or by continuing to conduct business or communicate with us, you have consented to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Limiting Use of Personal Information, Disclosure and Retention

We will use your Personal Information:

  • for purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
  • for any other purposes for which we have obtained your consent (either express or implied); or
  • as required or permitted by law

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties in the following circumstances:

  • You have provided your consent.
  • We may disclose your Personal Information to our affiliates and subsidiaries for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
  • We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties who provide services to us or on our behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
  • We may disclose your Personal Information as required or permitted by law, including but not limited to, complying with a court order, complying with a statute or regulation, and assisting with investigations by law enforcement authorities.
  • We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties in emergency situations that threaten the life, health or security of an individual, the community or the environment.
  • In the event of a change of ownership, sale, merger, liquidation, reorganization or acquisition of Crutchfield, your Personal Information may be transferred as part of the transaction, as long as, the party acquiring your Personal Information agrees to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
  • In the event that one of our vendor requires it to inform you of a product recall or to inform you about any potential problems with, upgrades or modifications that you may want to know about related to any product and/or services which you purchased from Crutchfield.
  • We will retain your Personal Information only as long as necessary to fulfill the identified purposes or as required or permitted by law.

Withdrawing Your Consent

If you have "opted in" or subscribed to one of our newsletters or mailing lists, we will always provide you the opportunity to "opt out" or unsubscribe. For example, each email we send you will tell you how to decline further email. You can also request that we remove your information from our records. Subject to our requirements for continued retention of your information, for example, for billing, audit, or warranty purposes, we will make every reasonable effort to honour your request.

Security

We will protect your Personal Information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Our methods of protection will include physical measures (for example, locked filing cabinets and restricted access to offices or designated areas), organizational measures (for example, security clearances and limiting access on a "need-to-know" basis) and technological measures (for example, using passwords, firewalls and encryption).

Accuracy

We will use our best efforts to ensure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up to date as necessary for the purposes for which it will be used.

If your Personal Information changes, please keep us informed of such changes.

Individual Access

Upon written request to our Privacy Officer, we will inform you of our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information and we will give you access to your Personal Information. You may challenge the accuracy and completeness of your Personal Information and have it amended as appropriate.

We will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time.

As permitted or required by law, we may refuse or not be able to provide you with access to all of your Personal Information. This may occur in a variety of situations, including but not limited to, when the information contains references to other individuals or contains confidential business information which cannot be severed from the record; when the information is collected in the course of investigating a breach of an agreement or federal or provincial laws; when the information is collected in the course of a formal dispute resolution process; and when the information is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

In some circumstances, your Personal Information may have been destroyed, erased or made anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices.

If we cannot provide you with access to your Personal Information, we will inform you of the reasons, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

Accountability, Openness and Compliance

We are responsible for all Personal Information under our control.

We have designated a Privacy Officer who is accountable and responsible for compliance with this Privacy Policy and addressing inquiries and concerns. If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy and our procedures, or you want to review or modify your information, please contact our Privacy Officer at Privacy_Officer@crutchfield.ca.

Amendments to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy in advance on our website at www.crutchfield.ca. We encourage you to refer to it on a regular basis.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 13, 2007

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