Effective Date: This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 1, 2007.

We value your patronage. So, we want to address any privacy concerns you may have.  We have set forth our privacy policy for handling the information you share with us online. 

8020Shortcuts.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We do not sell, rent, trade or share your name, email and other information to anyone.  

8020Shortcuts.com does NOT send unsolicited bulk email, "junk" email or spam. We may use email to communicate with our customers and affiliates as well as any associates. We may use email to respond to visitor's emails, to confirm requests placed online and to send information that a visitor has requested. If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can simply use the reply feature on your browser in order to ask us not to send you future emails.

Updating Our Privacy Policy

We may, from time to time, change our Privacy Policy.  We will notify you of any changes by posting our updated Privacy Policy on our website and inserting a new “Effective Date.”

How and Why 8020Shortcuts.com Collects Information

8020Shortcuts.com gets information supplied voluntarily by visitors. You can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.

When you visit our website, we may collect information about you that you VOLUNTARILY choose to share with us.  This identification information may include (but is not limited to) your name, your physical address, your e-mail address, your telephone and fax numbers, details of your needs as well as preferences and other details of your life.

What may be less obvious to you is that, when you visit our website, we may collect data involving your usage through the use of “cookies” (small text files placed on your computer by a website), web server logs and other web tools.  This technology allows us to customize your online experience as well as track your Internet use.  The tracking data we collect may include (but is not limited to) the date and time you visit, the time you spend, the web pages you view, the other websites you visit, your search queries, basic information about your computer, such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, your domain name, your browser type and the name of your Internet service provider.  You may deactivate cookies if you do not want your browsing to be tracked, but doing so may hinder your online experience.

When visiting our website, you may be directed, through hyperlinks, to other websites that are beyond our control.  Furthermore, when you are visiting our website  --  other companies, such as third party advertisers and sponsors  --  may be gathering information about you.  This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection of information by those other companies and websites.  Although we encourage third parties to provide their own privacy policies, we are NOT responsible for their activities, such as, how they handle the information they collect online.

Using Information Collected

We primarily use the identification information you VOLUNTARILY share with us to customize your online experience and to do what you have asked of us.  We also use your identification information to tell you about our products and services, but you may instruct us not to send communications to you by following the procedure indicated below under “Contacting Us.”  On occasion, we use your identification information to validate your identity.  As for usage tracking data, we primarily use that information to operate and improve our website and to further our marketing efforts.

As a general rule, we do not share your information with unaffiliated third parties.  We may, however, share your information with our associates who will be helping you with your transaction(s) or to answer your questions as well as our service providers to the extent necessary to fulfill your requests.  We may also share your information with our Customer Service team, but we will not share it with any unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes.  We reserve the right to disclose your information under limited circumstances, such as, to cooperate with law enforcement or judicial authorities as required by law or legal process, to protect our own legal rights, or to protect the public good.

Whenever you are online, you run the risk that the information you give out will fall into the wrong hands.  Although we implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to safeguard your privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you provide to us.  We accept no responsibility or liability for the activities of third parties.

Updating Information

If you would like us to update or change the information about you that we have collected through our website, you can make that request by following the procedure indicated below under “Contacting Us.”  We may require that you verify your identity before we process your request.

Surveys, Promotions and Correspondence

We may ask you for personal information at other times. This includes, but is not limited to promotions sponsored by 8020Shortcuts.com and when you contact 8020Shortcuts.com. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes only.

When you "Email or Tell a Friend" about this website, we ask for your name, your e-mail address and your friends' e-mail addresses. The information obtained will only be used for transmission of your referrals (to tell your friends) and will NOT be used for any other purpose.

8020Shortcuts.com will not disclose any of your personal information except when we have your permission or under unusual circumstances, such as, when the law requires it. 8020Shortcuts.com may preserve content and may disclose content if required by law or if preservation or disclosure is necessary to respond to any claims that any content violates the rights of other parties or to protect the rights, property or 8020Shortcuts.com, its users and the public. 

Please see the Terms of Service for more information about how your personal information may be shared.

Discussion Networks, Chat Rooms and Your Posting

Please be aware that when you VOLUNTARILY disclose any information online that is accessible to the public, such as, on discussion networks or in chat rooms, by posting a message, that information can be collected and used by others. This can result in your getting unsolicited messages from other parties. 

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we strive to protect your personal information, 8020Shortcuts.com can not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we strive to ensure its security on our systems.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any personal information. Please be careful whenever you're online.

Affiliates, Advertisers, Stores, Merchants, Links and Resources

Please be aware that 8020Shortcuts.com's affiliates, advertisers, stores, merchants or web sites and resources that have links on our site may collect information about you. The information practices of these web sites are not covered by this privacy policy. 8020Shortcuts.com is not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other web sites.

If you make a purchase from a store, advertiser or merchant in 8020Shortcuts.com, the information obtained during your visit to these stores, advertisers or merchants, such as, your contact information and credit card number, is provided by you, not 8020Shortcuts.com, to the stores, advertisers or merchants. Merchants, advertisers and stores listed in 8020Shortcuts.com have separate privacy policies and information collection practices. 8020Shortcuts.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent sites and their policies. For more information regarding any store, advertiser, merchant, affiliate, website link or resources and their privacy policy, go to their home page (if available) and click on their information link; you may also contact them to get information about their privacy policy.

Contacting Us

If you would like to send us a request as indicated above or if you have any other questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, you may contact us by e-mail: info(at)8020shortcuts.com.