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1.
What information of yours does Westinghouse-home.com
collect?
The goal of Westinghouse-home.com is to be your
favorite destination on the Internet by providing
you with the information, services and product
offerings that are most relevant to you. To achieve
this goal, Westinghouse-home.com needs to collect
information to understand what differentiates
you from its other unique users. We collect two
types of information from you, "anonymous
information" and "personally identifiable
information." Anonymous information refers
to information that cannot be tied back to a specific
individual. Each time a visitor comes to a Westinghouse-home.com
site, Westinghouse-home.com collects some information
to improve the overall quality of the visitor's
online experience. Westinghouse-home.com collects
the visitor's IP address (e.g., whether the user
is logged on from a .com, .gov or .edu domain),
referral data (e.g., the address of the last URL
a user visited prior to clicking through to a
Westinghouse-home.com site), and browser and platform
type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh
platform). Westinghouse-home.com also collects
aggregate search terms from search services for
internal reporting and targeted advertising. Westinghouse-home.com
collects this user information for purposes of
product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted
advertising.
In addition to this anonymous data, Westinghouse-home.com
may also collect personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information refers to
information that tells us specifically who you
are, such as your name and postal address. Wherever
and whenever Westinghouse-home.com collects personal
information through registration, we make an effort
to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that
page. Westinghouse-home.com collects personal
information in the following ways from the web
sites:
(a.) Most of the personal information is gathered
when you register with the Westinghouse-home.com
site. If you choose to register --and we hope
you do-- you may provide Westinghouse-home.com
with your name, postal address, email address,
birth date, gender, zip code, telephone number,
occupation, marital status and other information.
While not all of this information is required,
the more information you volunteer (and the more
accurate it is), the better we are able to customize
your experience. Once you register you are given
a Westinghouse-home.com ID and are able to take
full advantage of the many offerings around Westinghouse-home.com,
including personalization services. Westinghouse-home.com
finds that users who personalize their Westinghouse-home.com
experience come back more often.
(b.) In addition to registration for various services
on the Westinghouse-home.com site, Westinghouse-home.com
may ask you for personal information at other
times, including when you enter a sweepstakes,
contest or promotion sponsored by Westinghouse-home.com
and/or our partners. We also ask for information
when you make a purchase using Westinghouse-home.com.
The number and variety of useful services Westinghouse-home.com
provides continues to grow and so will your ability
to make use of these services if you choose to
register for them. You never have to register
for any of these services on Westinghouse-home.com.
This is true on any site on the Internet. If you
choose not to provide the requested information,
Westinghouse-home.com may not be able to offer
you some of the personalized services that depend
on this type of information to function.
(c.) If you contact Westinghouse-home.com, we
may keep a record of that correspondence. We do
not collect any email addresses of those who communicate
with Westinghouse-home.com via email. We use the
information provided so that we may respond to
the email.
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2. What are "cookies"
and how does Westinghouse-home.com use them?
In addition to the personally identifiable information
that Westinghouse-home.com collects, we also collect
information "anonymously" using "cookies."
Presently, "cookies" play an important
role in making the Internet work, but there is
much confusion among Internet users about what
cookies are and how they are used. A cookie is
a small text file containing a unique identification
number that is transferred from a web site to
the hard drive of your computer so that the web
site may identify you and track your activities
on the web site. This unique number identifies
your browser-- but not you -- to Westinghouse-home.com
computers whenever you visit one of the sites
in Westinghouse-home.com. A cookie will not let
a web site know any personally identifiable information
about you, such as your real name and address.
Westinghouse-home.com is not generally interested
in any one individual and does not collect personally
identifiable information about any one person
using cookies. The coding in the cookies Westinghouse-home.com
sets lets us know that you are using a particular
computer but nothing more. Since cookies are only
text files, they cannot run on your computer,
search your computer for other information or
transmit any information to anyone.
To help serve you better Westinghouse-home.com
generally uses cookies to:
Help us remember who you are through your browser
settings so that Westinghouse-home.com can offer
and provide personalized services, such as My
Westinghouse-home.com and Westinghouse-home.com
Rewards. Westinghouse-home.com uses cookies to
store and sometimes track information about what
you have seen and done across our network. Cookies
also allow us to save passwords and preferences
for you so that you will not have to reenter them
the next time you visit.
Help track business at the Westinghouse-home.com
store and process orders in individual shopping
carts.
Measure traffic patterns. Without cookies, it
could be difficult for Westinghouse-home.com to
know that certain services are more popular than
others. This information helps us to better understand
when to open up new services.
Estimate audience size. Cookies help us know whether
or not users have seen particular displays, including
advertising, so we do not bore you with the same
material over and over again.
Displaying advertisements. Third party advertising
networks for Westinghouse-home.com may issue cookies
when serving advertisements.
The use of cookies is now an industry standard,
and you will find them used on most major web
sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser
either to notify you when you have received a
cookie, or to refuse to accept cookies. You should
understand that while Westinghouse-home.com does
not require you to use cookies, certain sites
will not function properly if you set your browser
to not accept cookies.
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3. What organization
is collecting the information?
When you register information in any Internet
domain of Westinghouse-home.com, that information
is generally collected and maintained solely by
Westinghouse-home.com unless specifically stated
otherwise at the point of collection. For example,
some Westinghouse-home.com services are offered
in conjunction with a partner company. If data
is collected and/or maintained by any company
other than Westinghouse-home.com, we will tell
you at the point of collection. If you do not
want to share your information with that company,
you can choose not to use that service. Please
see the Section entitled "With whom does
Westinghouse-home.com share information that is
collected?" for a more complete list of companies
that Westinghouse-home.com works with to provide
you Products and Services.
Westinghouse-home.com runs many promotions and
sweepstakes. These promotions may be sponsored
or co-sponsored by third-parties. Data collected
during a promotion is typically shared with the
sponsor or co-sponsor. Westinghouse-home.com will
inform you at the point of collection whether
or not we are sharing your personal data as a
result of your participation in a promotion or
sweepstakes. If you do not want to have Westinghouse-home.com
share your data, you can choose not to participate
in the promotion or sweepstakes.
Be aware that Westinghouse-home.com sponsors and
other advertisers have links on our sites that
take you to other sites that may collect personally
identifiable information about you. Westinghouse-home.com
hopes that all third parties involved adhere to
our policies regarding the privacy of our users.
However, this Westinghouse-home.com Privacy Policy
does not cover third party data collection practices
and Westinghouse-home.com does not assume any
responsibility for any actions of third parties.
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4. How does Westinghouse-home.com
use the information it collects?
Any personal information you provide to Westinghouse-home.com
when registering for Products and Services at
any of its sites is maintained and accessible
only by Westinghouse-home.com unless specifically
stated otherwise. Westinghouse-home.com requests
information from its users so that users can enjoy
customized experiences across Westinghouse-home.com,
including personalization services, interactive
communications, games, online shopping and many
other types of content and services. Most of these
Products and Services are free to you.
The following are examples of how Westinghouse-home.com
may use the information it collects:
Westinghouse-home.com offers its users the ability
to personalize content.
Westinghouse-home.com uses the aggregate data
to perform statistical analyses of the collective
characteristics and behavior of our registered
users and visitors, to measure user demographics
and interests regarding specific areas of Westinghouse-home.com
and to analyze how and where best to use our resources.
Without such data, we would not know what the
most popular areas of Westinghouse-home.com are,
and we would not be able to change and update
the content and services appropriately.
Westinghouse-home.com may, from time to time,
use your information to contact you about changes
or enhancements to Products and Services on Westinghouse-home.com.
If you told Westinghouse-home.com that you were
interested in receiving offers or information
from selected Westinghouse-home.com products and
services, Westinghouse-home.com will send you
email about products and services that we feel
may be of interest to you.
Westinghouse-home.com sometimes uses an individual
registered user’s data to "pre-populate"
forms that are displayed for the purpose of collecting
individual data by Westinghouse-home.com.
If you enter a sweepstakes or a contest on Westinghouse-home.com,
we will use the information you provided to contact
you in the event you win.
Westinghouse-home.com may be required by law enforcement
or judicial authorities to provide information
on individual users to the appropriate governmental
authorities.
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5. With whom does Westinghouse-home.com
share the information that is collected?
Westinghouse-home.com.
Please note that, when you purchase goods or services
through Westinghouse-home.com, your credit card
and identifying information will be provided to
third parties in order to verify the credit card
data. Because we take your privacy and security
concerns seriously, Westinghouse-home.com took
action to ensure that, when you use the Westinghouse-home.com (mtx-sales.com)
Shopping Cart, the personal data you submit (including
your credit card number, billing, and shipping
information) is passed through "secure servers."
Westinghouse-home.com accomplishes this through
technology provided by CyberCash (VeriSign).
6. How can you access,
edit or delete your information?
Westinghouse-home.com provides its registered
users the ability to access and edit the personal
information in their user profiles.
7. What is the opt-out
policy for Westinghouse-home.com?
Westinghouse-home.com offers you the ability to
opt-out of receiving information on Westinghouse-home.com
updates and new services. This is done at the
point of initial collection of information and
during the editing or updating process. All Westinghouse-home.com
newsletters and direct email communications have
easy-to-follow unsubscribe instructions at the
bottom.
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8. What kinds of security
procedures are in place to protect against the
loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
Westinghouse-home.com has security measures in
place to attempt to protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of your user data under
our control. Only authorized employees have access
to the information you provide us and strict rules
on Westinghouse-home.com employees who have access
either to the databases that store user information
or to the servers that host our services. While
we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration
to data will not occur, we make every effort to
prevent such unfortunate occurrences. Any other
particularly sensitive information, such as your
credit card number collected for a commerce transaction
at mtx-sales.com, is encrypted prior to
transmission.
You are ultimately responsible for the security
of your Westinghouse-home.com ID and password.
Please take care when using and storing them.
Westinghouse-home.com recommends that you do not
divulge your password to anyone. You should log
out of your browser at the end of each computer
session to ensure that others cannot access your
personal information and correspondence, especially
if you share a computer with someone else or are
using a computer in a public place like a library
or Internet cafe.
9. What you can do to
better protect yourself on the Internet?
Know the risks.
When you communicate with others online, you should
be aware that, when disclosing personal information
such as one's actual name, member name, email
address, etc., on a web page, in a newsgroup,
chat room or forum, that information may be collected
and used by others to send that person unsolicited
email from other parties, outside Westinghouse-home.com.
Some of the email you receive may be useful to
you, but some may not. In an effort to curtail
unsolicited email, Westinghouse-home.com blocks
certain email addresses and domains from sending
email to email addresses at our domains.
Educate yourself.
Search the Web for as much information as you
can about how to protect your privacy. Look for
a privacy statement in the sites you visit. Please
visit the Federal Trade Commission’s web
site and read information on being a Savvy
Internet Traveler and other privacy
initiatives.
Use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) http://www.pgp.com
or another encryption program.
Last updated March 4, 2008.
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