What we collect
On www.tobaccoreviews.com, you can order products or services, make requests,
and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected
at these pages are name, contact and billing information, transaction, and
credit card information. On the reviewer accounts, you supply the personal
and business contact information you choose.
In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously
improve our products and services (including registration), we may also ask you
to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional
interests, demographics, experience with our products, and more detailed contact
preferences. Some electronic newsletters record anonymous data about articles
you have expressed interest in.
We also use cookies
A cookie is a piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer's
hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file. The
purpose of a cookie is to help us analyze web traffic or let us know when you
visit a particular site. Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an
individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the
web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. For
example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easy to shop by
allowing you to drop things into a shopping cart; the cart itself is not the
cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your cart
versus others' in use at the same time.
www.tobaccoreviews.com uses traffic log cookies to identify what pages are
being used and which ones aren't. This helps us aggregate and analyze data about
web page traffic and make improvements to www.tobaccoreviews.com to better meet
customer needs. In this case, we use this information only for statistical
analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. That is the case
of many of our support and information-sharing pages and forums. Denial of a
traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using one of these sites.
We use temporary cookies as part of the customer web navigation experience,
tracking unique IDs for that particular web site session only. Examples are
product registration sites. This cookie, by itself, only tells us that a
previous www.tobaccoreviews.com visitor has returned. If you deny the cookie,
you can still use the site anonymously.
Overall, cookies help us give you a better web site to use, by letting us
monitor what's working and what isn't through site traffic analysis. We want to
be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your
computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to
share with us. This practice is strictly enforced. We know that a lot of people
have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our customers, we
believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. We
value the relationships we have with our customers, so we respect these
concerns. HP works to continuously improve the www.tobaccoreviews.com web
experience and personal data privacy policy and practices.
You may set your web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator) to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies
completely. You can delete the files that contains cookies; those files are
stored as part of your internet browser.
How we use it
www.tobaccoreviews.com uses your information to better understand your needs
and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to
help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on
service and benefits, and to personalize our web sites for you. Credit card
numbers are used only for payment processing, fraud protection, and are not
retained for other purposes.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market
research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of
particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to
opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact. We will
also follow local requirements, such as allowing you to opt in before receiving
unsolicited contact, where applicable.
Who we share it with
www.tobaccoreviews.com will not sell, rent, or lease your personally
identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are
required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with
other entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the
uses described in "how we use it". Such HP entities and/or business partners,
including those in the United States and/or any other countries, are governed by
our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the
appropriate confidentiality agreements.
Security
www.tobaccoreviews.com is committed to ensuring the security of your
information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data
accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place
appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and
secure the information we collect online.
