OE

Privacy Policy

OE knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate you trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for OE. By visiting oegear.com, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy replaces all previous disclosures we may have provided you about our information practices. We reserve the right to change this policy and to apply any changes to previously collected information as permitted by law. If our information practices change in the future, we will notify you by posting the changes on our website. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 10/29/2007.

Your Personal Information
OE will not sell, loan, rent, lease, barter or publish your personal information to a third party. All data that we keep on you is kept strictly for OE business use to assist you in your current or future purchases or in analyzing sales trends. The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at outsideelectronics.com.

Here are the types of information we gather:
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses oegear.com. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit web sites anonymously. Although we may not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at oegear.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Cookies and IP Numbers
OE privacy policy shows our firm commitment to customer privacy. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information. Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart.

We may use cookies for other purposes such as site personalization. You can reject cookies and still use the OE site. However, it will disable the ability for the site to recognize your cart, your account and any personalization efforts.

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of OE best features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

External Links
OE reserves the right to link to other sites. OE is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Address Information
Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products and services. We collect visitor's contact information including but not limited to addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and financial information (account or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders, information about our company, and can be used to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings. Information is gathered by OE is for the sole benefit of OE. Financial information that is collected by OE is used to bill the user for products and services. WE DO NOT STORE CREDIT CARD NUMBERS. We reserve the right to conduct online surveys that ask visitors for contact information (typically the customer's email address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). We reserve the right to use contact data from our surveys to send the user promotional material from OE. The user has the ability to opt out of any communication from OE at any time.

Customer information is considered to be an asset of OE and as such may be transferred to another company as part of an acquisition of OE.

Secure Transactions
You can enter your credit card number on a secure (https) form and transmit the form over the Internet to a secure server without risk of an intermediary obtaining your credit card information. The security features offered by your web browser technology protects commercial transactions, as well as all other communications, from misappropriation and fraud that could otherwise occur as information passes through Internet computers.

With SSL implemented on both the client and server, your Internet communications are transmitted in encrypted form. Information you send can be trusted to arrive privately and unaltered to the server you specify (and no other).

SSL uses authentication and encryption technology. For example, your browsers export implementation of SSL (U.S. government approved) uses a High-grade, 128-bit key size. The encryption established between you and a server remains valid over multiple connections, yet the effort expended to defeat the encryption of one message cannot be leveraged to defeat the next message.

Your browser and secure servers deliver server authentication using signed digital certificates issued by trusted third parties known as certificate authorities. A digital certificate verifies the connection between a server's public key and the server's identification (just as a driver's license verifies the connection between your photograph and your personal identification. Cryptographic checks, using digital signatures, ensure that information within a certificate can be trusted.

You can tell when you have a secure connection by looking at the location (URL) field. If the URL begins with https:// (instead of http://), the document comes from a secure server. To connect to an HTTP server that provides security using the SSL protocol, insert the letter "s" so that the URL begins with https://. You need to use https:// for HTTP URLs with SSL and http:// for HTTP URLs without SSL.

Only your computer and the server can encrypt and decrypt your information. In transit, the information is an unreadable jumble. An intermediary can continue to route the data, and even make copies of it, but the information cannot be decrypted and remains private and safely communicated.

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Remember, in the event of unauthorized use of your credit card number, you must notify your credit provider in accordance to the reporting rules and procedures listed in your account agreement.

Supported Browsers
oegear.com is designed for Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2. Other browsers should display the site properly, and the site is secure for all browsers and transactions.