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At
Bi-Tron , we value every customer and member. We want your online
experience to be the best. To insure integrity, Bi-Tron will use
customer information collected by only for identification and
contact purposes and/or for demographic information to be used by
our staff. This information will be used to help Bi-Tron ensure that
present and future services are best designed to meet its customers'
and members' changing needs. Bi-Tron does not sell, trade or rent
your personal information to any third party.
We at Bi-Tron know that these issues are essential to making this
site a success for us and our members. Rest assured that privacy,
security and integrity are first and foremost at Bi-Tron .
1. What data we collect and why
2. How your information is
used
3. Who sees your personal
information
4. How we keep your
information secure
5. Your privacy with
Bi-Tron
6. Your privacy with our
partners and advertisers
7. Our policies on email
8. Cookies and how are
they used
9. Your choices and
responsibilities
10. Serving of
advertisements to our site
11. Third-Party
Relationships
12. Use of IP Address
1 What data we collect and
why
Our vision at Bi-Tron is to maximize the services for all of our
customers and members.
When first registering with Bi-Tron, you will be required to give
your basic personal information only. After you have become a member
you may be asked to provide some additional demographic information
through surveys. Your name, address, hobbies, income, age, marital
status and occupation may be asked. This information helps us
understand your interests and to develop an understanding of what
might appeal to you. Based on these demographics, we are able to
determine what types of products and specials would benefit our
members most. Any information that we collect for demographic
purposes will not be used outside Bi-Tron in any way that could
identify you.
As with any other information that you supply to Bi-Tron, none of the
information that we collect will be released in any personally
identifiable way, only in aggregate or anonymous form.
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2 How your information is
used
We collect information to provide better, more relevant offers to
you, whether it is targeted advertising, new products and services
that we think our members may like, or choosing new partnerships. In
no instance will your personal data be shared with any outside
agencies.
We may provide aggregate statistics about our members, site traffic,
sales or other related information; however, none of these
statistics will ever be able to be identified as having come from
you.
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3 Who sees your personal
information
Only a very limited number of Bi-Tron employees ever have access to
your personal information. Primarily this information is accessed to
provide customer service or to send you your commission checks.
We may use contractors or vendors to help us provide some of the
services at our site. If we need to disclose personal information
for them to provide the services, it is with the requirement that
the information is kept confidential and is used only for those
services.
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4 How we keep your
information secure
Bi-Tron uses a secure, encrypted connection (called an SSL
connection) on all pages where you transmit personal data to us.
Whenever you access any of your account pages or change any of your
user information, it is done over an SSL connection to Bi-Tron. In
spite of the fact that all important data is sent over an SSL
connection, you may notice that on merchant pages, the "padlock"
icon in the corner of your browser sometimes does not appear. This
is a display issue only, and is caused by the fact that the merchant
session is running inside a frame. Rest assured that any time you
enter your credit card information at a merchant site, it IS an SSL
connection secure connection.
Bi-Tron fully GUARANTEES the use of your credit cards when shopping
through Bi-Tron. If, as a direct result of your shopping through
Bi-Tron, someone uses your credit card information to make fraudulent
purchases, Bi-Tron will reimburse you for any costs the credit card
company charges you. Please refer to the terms/user agreement for
complete information.
Additionally, all of our database servers that contain customer
information reside only on Bi-Tron's physically secured premises or
in our equally secured locations at our service provider.
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5 Your privacy with Bi-Tron
Bi-Tron will never ask for your username, password or any other
personal information in an unsolicited phone call, email or letter.
Further, any contact with Bi-Tron customer service in which personal
information is exchanged with a customer service representative will
be used only for the purpose of satisfying that request. Any
personal information you provide will not be recorded or used for
any reason beyond that of the stated request without your consent.
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6 Your privacy with our
partners and advertisers
Bi-Tron contains links to various other sites. Each of these sites
has a privacy policy that may differ from that of Bi-Tron. The
privacy practices of other websites linked to Bi-Tron are not covered
by this privacy policy.
Bi-Tron will not disclose any of the personal information supplied
upon registration to our partners or advertisers. The only
information that may be shared between Bi-Tron is information that
pertains to orders. Order information, including order numbers and
amounts, may be available to either Bi-Tron, or third party affiliate
program management companies for accurate commission tracking
purposes. This information will not be released by Bi-Tron to other
parties unless required by law or to protect Bi-Tron and its members
from losses.
Bi-Tron does not record any personal information passed from our
members to our third-part partners, including credit card
information or passwords.
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7 Our policies on email
Regarding e-mail, Bi-Tron does not send unsolicited or "spam" e-mail.
Bi-Tron uses e-mail addresses collected for a number of e-mail alerts
and newsletters which are used to communicate new information,
special offers and new products to our members and customers. All
members and customers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at
any time. Bi-Tron does not sell or rent its e-mail lists. It is
against Bi-Tron's policy to provide any customer information to any
third party without the member's or customer's prior permission.
However, as part of Bi-Tron's business, content provided by third
party sites such as online classifieds and others for third party
individuals, Bi-Tron disclaims any responsibility for the actions of
these third parties. Bi-Tron strongly encourages all of its partners
to post their privacy policies on their sites and to subscribe to
the same high standard as is stated here.
Bi-Tron does not support spamming by our members and we explicitly
prohibit it in our member agreement . If you would like to report an
incident of spamming, please contact abuse@Bi-Tron.com. We will
investigate and take suitable action at our discretion.
We ourselves send out three kinds of emails. Our members may
receive:
1) email essential to the maintenance of your account (most commonly
when we need your address to mail you a check);
2) email notifying you about credits and debits to your account
(most commonly when we credit you with a commission or rebate); and
3) email newsletters and special offers from Bi-Tron and our other
partners. You always have the option of opting out of types 2 and/or
3 here.
Please understand that, though we may have some small influence over
our members, we fundamentally cannot control the online or offline
actions of our members or other parties, especially when it comes to
their use of email or participation in moderated or unmoderated
newsgroups. While we will investigate complaints sent to abuse@Bi-Tron.com
and take appropriate action with our members, we will typically not
provide any information to third parties about our conversations
with our members. We encourage people to resolve disputes directly
with each other and discourage people from attempting to use Bi-Tron
to police their mailbox or newsgroup.
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8 Cookies and how are they
used
Cookies are small text files that a web site can write to your
computer. We may use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in
once to Bi-Tron's member section and to shop without having to log in
again.
Bi-Tron requires its members to have cookies enabled in order to
track their purchases and orders for commissions.
Generally, we use cookies to:
(a) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information
(stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and
more personalized service.
(b) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Bi-Tron is
given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of
repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered
user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and
behavior.
(c) Assist us to track and to process the items in your shopping
basket.
(d) Measure certain traffic patterns, and areas of our network of
web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the
aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits
are similar or different from one another so that we can make each
new experience a better one. We may use this information to better
personalize the content and promotions that you and other users will
see on our sites.
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9 Your choices and
responsibilities
Periodically we may send you emails on new Bi-Tron features or
special offers. On every one of these emails you will be given the
choice to unsubscribe from Bi-Tron mailings. Choice of membership is
yours at all times, and you are free to remove yourself as a member
of Bi-Tron at any time. Simply follow the directions in any of our
emails.
You may also choose to what degree you would like us to contact you.
When we ask for your account info, you may choose that we contact
you with special offers, contact you about your orders, or not
contact you for either.
It is the member's responsibility to update and maintain accurate
contact information in their account. You can make changes by
visiting your account page and entering corrections. Email and
street addresses that are entered into a member's personal profile
page are the addresses that will be used for all contact including
the mailing of commission checks. Bi-Tron is not responsible for
checks that are sent to incorrect addresses, if the address in
question was the address listed in that member's account at the time
of issuance.
We will post all changes to this Privacy Agreement here at our site.
Please check for revisions when you visit our site again so that you
will always be aware of our policies and any changes that might
occur. Bi-Tron reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at
any time, with or without notice. All changes will be posted to this
page.
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10 Serving of advertisements
to our site
Bi-Tron uses one or more third party companies to serve
advertisements at our site. These companies may use cookies to
ensure that you do not see the same advertisements too often, but
they also may collect information about you when you view or click
an advertisement at our site. Cookies that are received with
advertisements are read and placed by one of our advertising
companies, and Bi-Tron does not have access to them, nor can we
control how they are used. Cookies may also be collected by Bi-Tron
partners on co-branded web sites, so please be aware of this as you
visit these sites.
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11 Third-Party
Relationships
In order to provide you with new products and features that makes
your time more enjoyable at Bi-Tron, Bi-Tron has relationships with
many of the best media companies throughout the world. You can
recognize these sites by the joint branding.
Whenever you provide registration information on co-branded sites,
that data may be shared with our media partners. You should make
every effort to read these privacy policies, and make an informed
decision on your own whether or not to continue based upon these
sites' privacy practices and your own discretion. However, we will
make every effort to ensure that you have the ability to opt out of
the sharing of such data with our media partners.
In addition to finding co-branded sites, you will find direct links
on our site to sites offered by third parties. Some of these sites
are authorized to use the Bi-Tron brand and/or logo. We carefully
evaluate all parties that are authorized to use our brand and/or
logo, and believes that all such sites have adopted acceptable
privacy policies. Again, you should read these privacy policies, and
make an informed decision on your own whether or not to continue
based upon these sites' privacy practices and your own discretion.
No third-party sites are covered by this Privacy Policy.
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12 Use of IP Address
An IP address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to
your computer whenever you log in to your internet service provider
or through your company's LAN or WAN. Web servers - the big
computers that provide web pages for viewing - automatically
identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your
session.
Bi-Tron may collect IP addresses for purposes of system
administration, to report aggregate user information to our
advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. We do not ordinarily
link a user's IP address to anything personally identifiable to that
user, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain
anonymous to us. However, we can and will use IP addresses to
identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary to enforce
compliance with our site's terms of use or terms of service, or to
protect our service, site, or other users.
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