Privacy Notice
Privacy Notice
Kivuko respects your privacy and takes your online safety
seriously. In order to provide you with the best products, efficient
customer service, and timely updates, we record a variety of
information from your visit to our site. To better protect your
privacy, we provide the notice below explaining our online information
practices and the choices you can make about the way your information
is collected and used.
Kivuko's Privacy Policy
Thank you for accessing the website ("Site") of kivuko online,Limited. ("kivuko online," that's us). We respect your privacy and
want to protect your personal information. To learn more, please read
our Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, and (under certain
conditions) disclose your personal information. This Privacy Notice
also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal
information. Finally, this Privacy Notice explains your options
regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal
information. By visiting our Site, you accept the practices described
in this Notice.
This Privacy Notice applies only to this Site. This privacy policy does
not necessarily apply to our offline collection of your personal
information. Please see below for details. We are not responsible for
the content or privacy practices on any non-kivuko.com website
to which this Site links or that links to this Site.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
1. Information Collection. We collect information from you in several
different ways on this Site. One goal in collecting personal
information from you is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and
customized experience. For example, we can use your personal
information to:
* Help make this Site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once.
* Help you quickly find information, products, and services.
* Help us create content on this Site that is most relevant to you.
* Alert you to new information, products, and services that we offer.
(a) Registration and Ordering. Before using certain parts of this Site
or ordering products, you must complete an online registration form.
During registration, you will be prompted to provide us with certain
personal information, including but not limited to your name, shipping
and billing address(es), phone number, email address, and credit card
number. In addition, we may also ask you for your country of residence
and/or your organization's country of operation, so that we can comply
with applicable laws and regulations, and for your gender. These kinds
of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfill your
orders, to communicate with you about your order and our site, and for
internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing
your order, we may use the personal information you provide us with to
contact you.
(b) Email Addresses. Several locations of the Site permit you to enter
your email address for purposes including but not limited to: to
register for free promotional notices; to request us to notify you when
we receive a new brand, or new product style; to sign up for our email
newsletter. Your participation in a contest is completely voluntary,
and you may choose whether to participate and disclose information to
us. We use this information to notify contest winners and to award
prizes. We may post the names and cities of contest winners on our Site.
(c) Cookies and Other Technology. Like many sites, this Site employs
cookies and web beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or "action
tags") to speed your navigation of the Site, recognize you and your
access privileges, and track your Site usage.
(i) Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text
files by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Most
Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your
browser to refuse cookies from websites or to remove cookies from your
hard drive, but if you do, you will not be able to access or use
portions of this Site. We have to use cookies to enable you to select
products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those
products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity
and purchase. THIS SITE'S COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFILTRATE A USER'S
HARD DRIVE TO GATHER A USER'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Our cookies are
not "spyware."
(ii) Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine
whether a web page on this Site has been viewed and, if so, how many
times. For example, any electronic image on this Site, such as an ad
banner, can function as a web beacon.
(iii) We may use third-party advertising companies to help us tailor
site content to users or to serve ads on our behalf. These companies
may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness
(such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased and
in what amount). Any information that these third parties collect via
cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal information
collected by us.
(d) Log Files. As is true of most websites, the Site server
automatically recognizes the Internet URL from which you access this
Site. We may also log your Internet protocol ("IP") address, Internet
service provider, and date/time stamp for system administration, order
verification, internal marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes.
(An IP address may indicate the location of your computer on the
Internet.)
(e) Age. We respect children's privacy. We do not knowingly or
intentionally collect personal information from children under age 13.
Elsewhere on this Site, you have represented and warranted that you are
either 18 years of age or using the Site with the supervision of a
parent or guardian. If you are under the age of 13, please do not
submit any personal information to us, and rely on a parent or guardian
to assist you.
(f) Product Reviews. You may choose to submit a product review. If you
post a review, we will ask for your email address and geographic
location. If you submit a review,your name will be visible to other users,your email address will be kept private. Also,
any personally identifiable information that you submit as part of the
review can be read or used by other visitors to the Site. We are not
responsible for any personally identifiable information that you choose
to submit as part of your review. We believe you can post a helpful
review without disclosing any personal information.
2. Information Use and Disclosure.
(a) Internal Use. We use your personal information to process your
order and provide you with customer service. We may internally use your
personal information to improve our Site's content and layout, to
improve our outreach and for our own marketing efforts (including
marketing our services and products to you), and to determine general
marketplace information about visitors to this Site.
(b) Communications with You: We will use your personal information to
communicate with you about our site, and your orders and deliveries.
Also, we may send you a confirmation email when you register with us.
We may send you a service-related announcement on the rare occasions
when it is necessary (for example, if we must temporarily suspend our
service for maintenance.) Also, you may submit your email address for
reasons such as to request us to notify you when we receive a new
brand, new product style, or product; to sign up for our email
newsletter and special offers. If you submit your email address, we
will use it to deliver the information to you. We always permit you to
unsubscribe or opt out of future emails (see opt out section below for
more details). Because we have to communicate with you about orders
that you choose to place, you cannot opt out of receiving emails
related to your orders.
(c) External Use. We want to provide you with excellent service and to
offer you a great selection — we primarily sell merchandise, not
information. We do not sell, rent, trade, license, or otherwise
disclose your specific personal information or financial information to
anyone, except that:
(i) As do most catalog and Internet wholesalers, we sometimes use
others to perform specific functions on our behalf. When we disclose
information to these service providers, we disclose information to help
them to perform their service. For example, in order to deliver
products to you, we must share some information. We partner with third
parties (such as DHL, and UPS) to ship products, to ensure delivery,
and so that we can obtain feedback, improve the quality of our service,
and measure and improve the quality of the service of the third party.
In the example of shippers, we provide them some personally
identifiable information such as your name, shipping address, email,
and phone number.
(ii) Similarly, to help you buy products and provide customer service
to you, we must provide your credit card number to financial-services
corporations such as credit-card processors and issuers. When we submit
your credit card number for authorization, we use state-of-the-art data
encryption to protect your information. (More on this below in the Data
Security section.)
(iii) We may be required to disclose such information in response to
requests from law-enforcement officials conducting investigations,
subpoenas, a court order, or if we are otherwise required to disclose
such information by law. We also will release personal information
where disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, enforce our
Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect ourselves or others.
For example, we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud or if
someone uses or attempts to use our Site for illegal reasons or to
commit fraud.
(iv) We will not sell (or trade or rent) personally identifiable
information to other companies as part of our regular course of
business. However, it is possible that we might acquire or merge with
or be acquired by another company or that we might dispose of some or
all of our assets. If that happens, your personal information may be
disclosed to another company, but that disclosure will be subject to
the Privacy Notice in effect.
(v) We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily
visitors to a particular web page, or the size of an order placed on a
certain date) with third parties such as advertising partners. This
information does not directly personally identify you or any user.
DATA SECURITY
This Site incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative
procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal
information, including Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") for all financial
transactions through this Site. We use SSL encryption to protect your
personal information online, and we also take several steps to protect
your personal information in our facilities. Access to your personal
information is restricted. Only employees who need access to your
personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to
your personal information. Finally, we rely on third-party service
providers for the physical security of some of our computer hardware.
We believe that their security procedures are adequate. For example,
when you visit our Site, you access servers that are kept in a secure
physical environment, behind a locked cage and an electronic firewall.
While we use industry-standard precautions to safeguard your personal
information, we cannot guarantee complete security. 100% complete
security does not presently exist anywhere online or offline.
OPT OUT/CORRECTIONS
Upon your request, we will (a) correct or update your personal
information; (b) stop sending emails to your email address; and/or (c)
disable your account to prevent any future purchases through that
account. You can make these requests at the customer information
section, or by telephoning, or emailing your request to Kivuko.com’s Customer Support department at support@kivuko.com
Please do not email your credit card number or other sensitive
information.
OFFLINE COLLECTION, USE & DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
As you might expect from kivuko.com, the majority of information
that we collect is obtained through our Site, and this Privacy Policy
applies only to that online collection of personal information. We also
try to protect the privacy of you personal information that is
collected offline. For example, customers may call us to place an order
or to ask questions. During the call, we will ask only for the personal
information we need in order to place the order or to answer the
question. When we need to store information (such as order
information), we will enter it into our database through SSL encryption
(See the Data Security section above for more information). There are
other ways we could learn of personal information offline (for example,
we suppose someone could send us a letter including some return address
information), and this Policy does not discuss or try to predict all of
those methods or uses. As mentioned, we primarily sell merchandise, not
information, and we will try to treat offline collection, uses, and
disclosures consistently with our relevant online practices.
UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
If we change or update this Privacy Notice, we will post changes and
updates on this Site so that you will always be aware of what
information we collect, use, and disclose. We encourage you to review
this Privacy Notice from time to time so you will know if the Privacy
Notice has been changed or updated. If you have any questions about the
Privacy Notice, please contact us at +8615811138367