Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes our practices regarding personal and account
information collected through our Web site. In this policy, “personal and account
information” means your name, company name, account number, address, telephone number,
and e-mail address plus other information that identifies you, including your industry,
the number of employees at your company, and purchase history, and “we” and “us” means
PC Service Depot as well as its affiliated companies.
Your IP address. We collect your IP address to measure our Web site traffic
and to help provide a relevant shopping experience
Referral Web site. If you come to our Web site via a link, we collect the
location of the link that referred you.
Browser type. We collect information about the browser you are using to help
optimize our Web site for visitors.
Navigation on the Web site. We keep track of pages you visit to help
provide you with a more personalized shopping experience.
We collect your name, address and payment information to process your order.
However, you may provide credit card and purchase order numbers by telephone.
We collect information contained in “cookies,” such as your purchases and log in data,
to personalize your shopping experience. Your browser must be set to accept cookies
if you wish to add items to a shopping cart, PC Builder or our on-line wish list.
We collect your user name, password, e-mail address, to protect your account.
You can help us ensure your privacy by not sharing your user name or password.
When you e-mail product information to a friend or colleague through
our Web site PCSD.ca collect's your e-mail address and the e-mail address
of the person to whom you are sending the product information.
When you communicate with us through our Web site we collect your e-mail
address and the other information that you provide in order to respond to your communication.
When you enter contests, participate in surveys, or register for other activities on
our Web site we collect your name, e-mail address and telephone number, and the other
information that is required for entry or participation, which varies depending on the activity.
In any of the situations where we do collect your e-mail address related to customer service,
orders, and other such correspondence, we will automatically subscribe you to our weekly newsletters.
We may occasionally send you promotional or product information.
If you do not wish to receive promotional or product information, you may opt out of future
communications by clicking here and unsubscribing to our e-mail subscriptions.
We may use your personal and account information to provide products
or services you have requested, respond to a communication from you,
contact you, and as otherwise described in this policy.
We may also analyze and act upon your personal and account information as
part of our standard business practices. We occasionally purchase from third parties
commercial information such as company size, number of employees and annual sales of
other companies. We may use this commercial information along with your personal and
account information to customize our offerings to you, as well as for our internal use.
If you become our customer, we may send you periodic updates on important information
about our company and services.
We restrict access to your personal and account information to those who need access
to use it as set forth in this policy. Only authorized PCSD.ca personnel are permitted
to see your account password.
We use 128-bit encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”) in all areas where
your personal and account information is required. Our Web site is certified by VeriSign,
which verifies that our Web site is authentic and that we use SSL security.
To view our VeriSign certificate, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key
at the bottom of your browser window. Our Web site security information will appear.
In addition, your personal and account information and transaction history are kept behind our
firewall on separate servers. All transaction information is processed under encrypted channels,
although you may choose unencrypted processing.
PCSD.ca reserves the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time.
You should visit our Web site periodically to review any changes.
