What Personal Information We Collect
K-Swiss, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, "K-Swiss" or "We") may
collect your personal information for various purposes when you visit
the K-Swiss.com website (the "Site"). For example:
Membership
If you want to register an account on the site, you will need to
provide us with certain contact details and other information about
yourself. We want you to know how we limit collection and use of this
information and how we restrict the collection of it. These same rules
and restrictions apply to all information that you give to us when you
place an order on this website.
Preferred Customers
In order to become a Preferred Customer, you must first complete the
registration form. During registration you are required to give
personal contact information (such as name and email address). This
information is used to reward loyal customers for their business. By
becoming a Preferred Customer, you are able to take advantage of
special offers we make available to Preferred Customers about new
promotions, fashion trends, etc. It is also more convenient for a
Preferred Customer to make purchases online.
Orders
We request information from you on our order form. Here you must
provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and
financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This
information is used for billing purposes and to fill customers'
orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact
information is used to get in touch with you.
If You Are Under 13 Years Old
If you are under 13 years old, please get the consent of your parent
or legal guardian before you give us any personal information about
yourself by way e-mail or any other Internet means. Your parents or
guardian can send us their consent by e-mail, although we may follow
up by phone or other means in some circumstances. They will need to
give us their name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number,
and any other identifying information that we may request. We need
this information in order to verify that they have provided the
necessary consent. Your parent or guardian should contact us by using
the e-mail address: kscs@k-swiss.com.
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OLD, DO NOT CONTACT US UNTIL AFTER YOUR
PARENT OR GUARDIAN HAS SENT US AN E-MAIL CONSENTING TO YOUR CONTACT.
K-Swiss Policy on Customer Information
We do not sell personal information to any third party, nor do we have
any plans to do so. However, we may share your personal information
with our agents, representatives, service providers and contractors
for limited purposes, including but not limited to, fulfilling
customer orders; offering certain products and services in connection
with this Site; communicating to customers; providing customer
service; enhancing and improving customers' shopping experience;
administering or facilitating surveys, contests or sweepstakes;
offering targeted marketing communications to users; providing a
personalized shopping experience; preventing fraud; and completing
payment processing.
Our database of personal information is a valuable asset. Therefore,
if we sell or transfer an affiliate, business or line of business, we
may transfer personal information used or held by that affiliate or
business or used in connection with that line of business to the
buyer, so long as the buyer agrees that the personal information we
transfer will remain subject to this privacy policy.
Of course, we may disclose your personal information if you give us
permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in
good faith that the disclosure is required to prevent harm or injury
(such as product recalls, fraud, claims or other liability), or to
comply with legal processes (subpoenas, warrants) or as otherwise
required by law.
By personal information, we mean information that we collect and store
in a way that allows us to relate it to you personally or to your
family, such as your name, e-mail address, mailing or billing address
and phone number. This privacy policy applies only to personal
information. We may freely use, disclose or sell information that is
not specifically associated with you personally or your family (such
as statistics or aggregate information about our customers or website
visitors.)
If our privacy policies change, we will post a notice here, so please
check this page regularly. You understand that the privacy policy in
effect at any time applies to all personal information held by
K-Swiss, whether or not that privacy policy was in effect when the
information was collected. For that reason, we will provide customers
with the means to let us know that they want us to delete information
about them from our database. You may feel free to contact us for
this purpose at kscs@k-swiss.com. You will need to give us your full
name and e-mail address.
Cookies and Other Computer Information
When you visit K-Swiss.com, you may be assigned a permanent "cookie"
(a small text file) to be stored on your computer's hard drive. The
purpose of this cookie is to identify you when you visit the Site so
that we can enhance and customize your online shopping experience and
gather information about your activities at our site that may allow us
to provide you with information and offers that we think may be of
interest to you. We may also collect other information relating to
you, your systems and your visit. All of this information may be
associated in our databases with your personal information.
You can choose to browse on K-Swiss.com without cookies. (Each browser
is different, so check your browser's "Help" menu to learn how to
change your cookie preferences.) However, without these identifier
files you will not be able to take advantage of certain features of
the Site.
We may contract with third parties to provide us with data collection
and reporting services regarding our customers' activities on the
Site; tracking and measuring performance of our marketing efforts and
your response to our marketing efforts; and the delivery of relevant
marketing messages. These third parties may use cookies and Web
beacons, and may receive information about your browsing and buying
activity on the Site.
Links to Other Sites
We may provide links to resources that you find useful or
interesting. Any links that we provide will lead you to sites that may
operate under different privacy practices. Our visitors are
responsible for reviewing the privacy statements for such other
websites. You should be aware that their privacy policies may be
materially different from ours, or that they may have no privacy
policies at all. We have no control over their policies or over their
use or disclosure of any information. We are not responsible for any
violations by the operator of any site to which we link you of any
privacy or other policy. We make no guarantees about any third party
sites.
