EZIT Online Privacy Notice
At EZIT, we are committed to protecting your privacy online. Our pledge is to safeguard any personal information that you provide us, and to make every reasonable effort to use this information only as you choose. We at EZIT are taking a leadership role in assisting our customers and other businesses in understanding the importance of using your personal information appropriately.
Scope of This Notice
The goal of this Privacy Notice is to advise you of the online privacy practices of EZIT.ie. The Privacy Notice also describes the choices you have about the information collected on this site and how it is used. For information about other offline data collections, use our online contact form.
Your Personal Information
EZIT's primary goals in collecting personal information about you are, first, to give you a meaningful, enjoyable, and personalized website experience and, second, to facilitate the development of new products and services relevant to consumers like you. Personal information also allows us to provide better service to you by tailoring our communications to match your interests and deliver more of what you want and less of what you don't want. Here are the types of information we gather.
Information You Explicitly Provide:
In order to establish your account, register products, or to participate in various online programs offered through EZIT.ie, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information to us such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number. You can choose not to provide this information but then you might not be able to participate in some of our services or offerings. There are a number of ways that customers may pay for EZIT products. One option is to pay by credit card on our site. If you choose this option, you will be asked to provide a valid credit card number and expiration date along with billing and shipping address information.
Information We Automatically Collect:
We use common internet technologies such as cookies to ensure the integrity of our site and to customize portions of the site for you.
Cookies: Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive, at a web site's request. EZIT cookies do not contain any personal information, but are used primarily as follows:
- to keep track of temporary information;
- to register you in programs, such as EZIT.ie Support. Cookies allow us to remember you when you login to the places on our site that require membership;
- to help us understand the size of our audience and traffic patterns;
- to collect and record information about what you viewed on our Web site and what you viewed in our e-mail;
- to manage and present site information, and
- to deliver information specific to your interests.
Disabling Cookies : If you are uncomfortable with the collection of such information through the use of cookies, we recommend disabling these features through your browser preferences, though please understand this will limit the performance and functionality of EZIT's Web site. Your browser documentation should provide specific procedures for disabling cookie support.
IP Address : We analyze IP addresses in the aggregate for system administration purposes and to gather broad demographic information. We do not link IP addresses to your computer's User ID, with the following exception: when you place an order using our online checkout process we record your computer's IP address with your order to help us identify fraudulent credit card use. We may share this information with the financial institution that issued the credit card with which an order was placed, or with law enforcement authorities if we determine, or are notified, that the use of the credit card was fraudulent.
Using your Information
EZIT only uses your personal information to conduct business with you. Some examples include :
- registering you in programs
- creating and maintaining accounts
- processing, fulfilling, and following up on orders
- answering your e-mail
- communicating with you
- sending colleagues information on your behalf
- sending surveys
- registering products
- notifying you about promotions and other information regarding our products and services (see the section below entitled "Your choices about receiving e-mail") to help prevent fraud and to protect the rights of EZIT
We also use this personal information to provide you with information related to your account, the products or services you purchased from us, to better understand your needs and interests, to improve our service and to personalize communications and your web experience.
Does EZIT.ie Share Your Information?
Your personally identifiable information will not be rented or sold to any third party without providing you notice or obtaining your consent. EZIT may share your personal information as follows:
- Companies who work on our behalf : We contract with other companies to perform business support functions on our behalf, which may involve limited access to your personal information. We require these companies to use the information only to provide the contracted services; they are prohibited from transferring the information to another party except as needed to provide those services. Some examples of these business support functions include order fulfillment, customer survey execution; and information systems management.
- EZIT's subsidiaries and joint ventures : A subsidiary or a joint venture is an organization in which EZIT owns at least a 50% interest. If EZIT shares your information with a subsidiary or joint venture partner, EZIT will require that they not transfer your information to another party for marketing purposes without providing you notice AND obtaining your consent.
- Business Transfers :EZIT reserves the right to transfer your personal information in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets.
- Legal Obligation: EZIT may disclose personal information to third parties without your consent for any of the following reasons: to comply with any law, regulation or court order, to cooperate with Government investigations, to help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect the rights of EZIT.
Your Choices about Receiving e-mail
EZIT may send you e-mail about your orders or your account and in response to your questions. EZIT may also send you e-mail with information and/or special offers about products and services that may be of interest to you, unless you indicate you do not want to receive them.
Under most circumstances, we will give you an opportunity to let us know your preference regarding the receiving of promotional e-mail. This option applies to promotional e-mail only, as we may find it necessary to send you e-mail relating to your account, order, product or pricing changes.
Promotional e-mail that you receive from EZIT will tell you how to decline receiving future promotional e-mail.
Protecting Your Information
EZIT implements a variety of administrative, managerial, and technical security measures to help protect your personal information. EZIT has Internal Control Standards which relate specifically to the handling of personal information. These include certain controls to help safeguard the information we collect online.
EZIT employees are trained to understand and comply with these controls and we communicate our Privacy Notice, practices and guidelines to our employees. However, while we strive to protect your personal information, you must also take steps to protect your information. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal information while you
EZIT reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice from time to time, by posting a prominent announcement on this page or, in the event of a material change, by notifying by e-mail all customers whose personal information we have retained.
This Privacy Notice was last amended on Sepember 7, 2011
