RHEEM WATER HEATING DIVISION OF RHEEM SALES COMPANY
ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting the website of Rheem Water Heating Division of Rheem Sales Company, (“Rheem
Water Heating”). This Privacy Policy
contains information about Rheem Water Heating’s commitment to your privacy,
including:
· The information we collect and how we use it;
· Your rights to access or update your
personally identifiable information;
· Your right to opt-out of receiving unsolicited
communications from us; and
· Our pledge to have reasonable security
measures in place to protect against
the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under our control.
Note: This Privacy
Policy applies only to websites operated or controlled by Rheem Water Heating,
and not to Rheem Water Heating offline practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the
websites of other companies, individuals, or organizations to which we may
provide hyperlinks or that Rheem Water Heating may be affiliated with but are
not directly under Rheem Water Heating operation or control. These websites may have different policies
relating to your privacy and the information they collect about you. Visitors should consult the privacy policies
of such websites, as Rheem Water Heating has no control over information that
is submitted to, or collected by, third parties.
Our website collects two kinds of information from you: (1)
personal information that you submit to us; and (2) non-personal information, such
as the pages you visited on our website and your IP address. To learn how to opt-out of receiving further
information from Rheem Water Heating, see the section marked “CHOICE” below.
1.
Personally
Identifiable Information
We collect and
use personally identifiable information about you when you submit feedback,
questions, product ideas, or requests for information about Rheem’s Water Heating products and
services. We may request your name,
mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address in order to
respond to your inquiries. Rheem Water Heating may collect
and store the information you choose to provide us in order to answer your
inquiry and to send you information about Rheem Water Heating from time to
time.
2.
Non-Personally
Identifiable Information
We may collect
and use non-personally identifiable information about you in the following
ways:
A cookie is a
piece of data placed on your hard drive when you visit a site. Cookies help website operators track traffic
to its website, helping it identify what
Rheem Water Heating may also
collect information through “referrers,” IP addresses, and various
environmental variables. A “referrer”
is information the web browser passes along to the Rheem Water Heating web
server that references the URL from which you came. An “IP Address” is a number used by computers
on a network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to
you. An “environmental variable” may
include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the
time you accessed our website, the type of web browser and operating system or
platform used, the Internet address or the website you left to visit our
website, the pages you visit while at our site, and the Internet address of the
website you then visit. Rheem Water Heating
may collect IP Address information in order to administer our website and to
gather broad demographic information.
3. Information
Sharing
We share very
limited personal information with third parties or other parties whose products
or services we believe may be of interest to you in order to respond to your
requests for information. If you do not
want us to share your information in this manner, please see the “CHOICE”
section below. This might inhibit our
ability to provide answers to some of your inquiries. Rheem Water Heating also reserves the right
to disclose your personal and non-personal information if Rheem Water Heating reasonably
believes it is required to do so by law, to protect Rheem Water Heating or to
protect the rights of another user, to reduce the risk of credit or other kind
of fraud, or to comply with a court order.
Rheem Water Heating
may also share your personally and non-personally identifiable information with
third parties that help manage our website, databases, order fulfillment, and
shipping, as well as with our third party affiliates, partners, sponsors, and
distributors.
4. Third
Party Links
This website
may contain hyperlinks to other websites.
Additionally, third parties may from time to time provide hyperlinks to
our website. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE ARE
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OR PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTY WEBSITE. We encourage our users to read the privacy
policies of each and every website that they visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to
websites operated or controlled by Rheem Water Heating.
Rheem provides you with the following choices regarding the use
of your information:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the
practices of our website, please visit http://waterheating.ruud.com/dotcomWeb/pageflows/contactus/ContactUsController.jpf.
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post
those changes here so you will always be aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with
the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. If, at any point, we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at
the time it was collected, we will take reasonable steps to notify you by
e-mail. You will then have a choice as
to whether or not we may use your information in this manner.
SPECIAL POLICY WITH REGARD TO CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN
Our website is not targeted to children under the age of
thirteen, and we do not knowingly ask for, collect, or use personally
identifiable information from any child under the age of thirteen.
We make every effort to have reasonable security procedures
in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our
control.