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IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS POLICY WITH YOUR PARENTS AND
ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, PLEASE
GET YOUR PARENTS' PERMISSION PRIOR TO USING ANY WEB SITES OPERATED BY COSMI,
AND ESPECIALLY BEFORE GIVING OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS OR ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION
TO COSMI OR TO ANYONE ELSE ON THE INTERNET.
COSMI Corporation and its affiliates (collectively "COSMI") are committed to
protecting you and your family's privacy when you visit any of our family of
web sites, or use our electronic services, such as product registration,
promotional/newsletter signup, or technical support. COSMI does not require
anyone to register or share personal information to visit most of our web
sites. However, many of our sites and online products require registration to
access content or other privileges provided. We do not knowingly collect and
keep any of your personal information unless you volunteer it and are 18 years
of age or older. In addition, we do not knowingly collect and keep personal
information from visitors to our web sites that are under the age of 18. Please
review the information below to familiarize yourself with our policies on web
site privacy. By visiting any COSMI sites, you hereby agree to all the terms
set forth within this Privacy Policy and listed in the Terms
of Use section.
COSMI doesn't require anyone to share any personal information about them in
order to visit our web sites. We do not collect any personal information from
you unless it is provided voluntarily, for example: when you sign a guest book,
register for downloads, or free demos, complete our online customer surveys,
purchase products, etc. Visitors to our sites must be 18 years or older with a
valid credit card to purchase products. The personal information we may ask for
includes first and last name, mailing address, phone number, and an email
address (in addition we may collect credit card information and mailing and/or
shipping address information if you are purchasing products from one of our
sites). See below for how we use this information. We do not knowingly collect
personal information from visitors under the age of 18.
We use the personal information we collect for the purposes indicated at the
time you provide such information. For instance, if you purchase a product, we
will use the information to fulfill the order. With your consent at the time we
ask for information, we might also email or mail you to provide you with
information on upcoming COSMI products, web site updates, updates on your
order, and promotions. With your additional consent, we may also share
information with third parties so that they can inform you and your family
about their products, which might be of interest to you. COSMI never knowingly
promotes directly to children under the age of 18. In addition, we may disclose
personal information in the good faith belief that we are required to do so by
law, and/or in cooperation with law enforcement or other government officials
in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property
infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal
liability.
If you consent, COSMI may provide your information to outside companies that
offer products or services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer, we
will remove your name from the list we provide to outside companies. To do so,
please email us at
unsubscribe@cosmi.com and use the subject line "Outside Mailings." In
special circumstances, COSMI may give other companies access to our information
database, but only if necessary for database or server maintenance, security,
or other similar services. In addition, COSMI may employ other companies to
perform functions on our behalf. Examples include sending email, supplementing
information or removing repetitive or erroneous information from customer lists
and providing customer service. These entities have access to this information
to perform these functions on behalf of COSMI only and may not use it for any
other purpose. If we do provide access, we require those other companies to
sign confidentiality agreements promising to keep secret any information they
are given access. If COSMI believes that anyone's behavior on any of our sites
may damage us, our sites, or anyone else, we may disclose the relevant personal
information to relevant authorities or security professionals in order to
prevent harm. We may also disclose personal information if we believe that the
disclosure is required by law. In the event that any of the assets relating to
COSMI are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable
information may be transferred to the acquiring entity consistent with the
terms of such agreement.
If, at any time, you want to stop receiving such updates and product information
from COSMI or our affiliates, contact us to unsubscribe. It is recommended that
you use the links at the bottom of the email you last received for removal from
the email list.
Otherwise if you are receiving educator communications, contact us at
unsubscribe@cosmi.com. Please type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line of
the email.
For all other communications from COSMI or its affiliates, you can contact us
at unsubscribe@cosmi.com
to be removed from the list by typing "Unsubscribe" in the subject line of the
email. You can also visit us online to change your contact preferences (www.cosmi.com/OnlineStore/Login.aspx)
for your online account or remove your email address from our marketing lists.
We often have messages for our customers scheduled several weeks in advance, so
unsubscribe requests can take up to three to four weeks to process through our
system. Thank you for your patience.
We utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt the data you provide
to us while online placing an order.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small file that we save on your computer's hard drive which
contains non-personal information. These cookies help to give you faster access
to pages you have already visited; they allow you to personalize your pages;
and they help you to participate in some activities or events on the site and
optimize your shopping experience at our sites. We also use cookies to help us
figure out how many people visit our sites, which of our web pages they visit,
and how long they stay there. If you are visiting any of our shopping sites
cookies keep track of items in your shopping cart and wish list. This
information helps us figure out which of our web features are highly successful
and which sites might need improvement. You can disable cookies on your
computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your
browser. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but allow you to disable
them. However, if you elect to disable cookies many functions of the web sites
will not work properly.
Session IDs
We use "Session IDs" to also allow COSMI to identify a particular user across
multiple web page requests. This Session ID is maintained within your cookie
file, where possible. If cookies are not enabled, or if the user's internet
browser program does not support cookies then COSMI will place the Session ID
in the requested web page. This allows the end user to avoid having to
continually re-enter certain information such as account name and password for
every web page request. This Session ID "expires" whenever the user closes
their internet browser.
Web Site Tracking Reporting
Many of our web pages also contain special electronic images (called a
"single-pixel gif" or "gifs") that allow us to gather only non-personally
identifiable traffic statistics and other aggregate information about visitors
to our sites. We use this technology to collect and accumulate anonymous data
that helps us understand and analyze the experience of people visiting our web
sites and, along with other information you provide, customize your future
visits and improve our web sites. For example, we capture data on the type of
browser used, operating system software (e.g. Windows 95 vs. 98 or Macintosh),
cookie preferences (whether the user has them turned on or off), and search
engine keywords (what key words did a visitor use to get to our site). We also
record number of visits, paths taken, and time spent on sites and pages within
the COSMI family of web sites. Please keep in mind that none of this
information is personally identifiable and that we only distribute this
information to internal staff at COSMI and to partners that have signed
confidentiality agreements with us. Any information that we do share with
partners reflects overall web site or Internet usage trends, not individual.
Log Data
For administrative purposes, we collect IP addresses, which is the automatic
number assigned to your computer when you surf the web, as well as operating
system, browser, URL clickstream to, through and from our sites, reference site
domain name as well as log time and date every time you visit our sites. This
data is used to maximize the performance and efficiency of our sites. While the
cookie may store first name or user name in the cookie it does not collect any
personally identifiable or on-line contact information like a full name and
address, so you and your family remain anonymous.
Email Tracking
We, through our third party email provider, also include a small image in most
emails that we send to subscribers. As above, this allows us to gather only
non-personally identifiable traffic statistics and other aggregate information
about our email audience. These images notify special computers when you open
an email and if you clicked on a link within the email. This helps us measure
the effectiveness of our newsletters and other emails so that we can make sure
we're providing you with the information and content in which you are most
interested. In addition, some advertising networks that serve ads on our web
sites or within our emails may use similar images or other technology within
their banner advertisements to track traffic statistics. Naturally, once you
leave our web sites or emails by clicking on one of these advertisements, COSMI
does not have control over and is not responsible for the advertising networks
or other third parties and the data they collect.
Throughout our web site we include links to other web sites. Our privacy policy
does not apply to these external links. The privacy policy of the third party
web site governs the information collection and usage on such third party site.
Except in the circumstances described above, COSMI does not collect information
passively through cookies or other tracking mechanisms. Cookies DON'T contain
any personal information about a specific user. We don't use cookies or other
non-consensual methods to capture personally identifiable information. COSMI
doesn't use cookies for direct marketing or promotional purposes. Cookies are
not used to collect information specifically about you or your family for
sharing with third parties.
Most of our sites use the services of ad banner partners for the serving and/or
targeting of ads, promotions, and other marketing messages. These ads may be
provided, in some cases, by a third party ad service provider. The ad service
provider may place or utilize their own unique cookie on your browser, and may
use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our sites, such
as the number of times you have viewed the ad. COSMI is not responsible for the
collection of these cookies and is not responsible for the actions of the ad
service providers.
We may change our policy from time to time. When this happens we will notify you
of the new policy by posting it on our sites. Unless stated otherwise, our
current Privacy Policy applies to all information we have about you. Please
check our sites frequently to see any recent changes.
For more information on our privacy policy, please write to:
COSMI Finance, LLC.
18600 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90504
(310) 603-5800
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