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OUR PRIVACY COMMITMENTS
Crystal Clean Team respects the privacy of every person who
visits our web sites or responds to our interactive advertisements. This
Privacy Statement outlines the information Crystal Clean Team will collect and how we will use that
information. This Statement will also tell you how you can verify the
accuracy of your personal information submitted to Crystal Clean Team through our web sites and interactive
advertisements and how you can request that we delete or update your
personal information.
We've developed our privacy policy from industry guidelines and
standards, and local, national, and international laws and requirements.
All privacy practices and methods described herein only apply insofar as
permitted by the applicable standards, laws and requirements and as
limited by the web site or interactive banner you are visiting. In
addition to the privacy commitments outlined below, Crystal Clean Team complies with your country's privacy regulations. Thanks again
for placing your trust in Crystal Clean Team.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AND HOW WE USE IT
WHAT WE COLLECT
Crystal Clean Team
primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to give you
a meaningful, enjoyable and customized experience while using our web
sites and interactive banner ads, and to allow us to develop new
products and services which are relevant to consumers like you. Personal
information also allows us to provide services and features that most
likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your online
experience smooth and efficient.
Personal information received from you online will only be used by Crystal Clean Team, all products contained herein, without your
consent, unless required by law or as disclosed to you when the
information is collected., except as otherwise required by law or as Crystal Clean Team discloses to you when the information is
collected.
a)
Personal Information
When you visit Crystal Clean Team
web site or interactive advertisements, we will not collect any personal
information about you (including but not limited to your name, address,
telephone number, Email address, and credit card number if you place an
order with us) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you opt not
to provide us with personal information you can still access our web
sites; however you may be unable to participate in certain promotions or
receive product information offered through Crystal Clean Team
web sites or interactive advertisements.
b)
Aggregate and
Statistical Data
Crystal Clean Team
may collect certain aggregate data called web log information (such as
your web browser, operating system, pages visited, etc.) and use cookies
when you visit many of our web pages. For instance, when you visit one
of our web sites, our web server will automatically recognize some
non-personal information, including but not limited to the date and time
you visited our site, the pages you visited, the referrer (the web site
you came from), the type of browser you are using (i.e. Netscape,
Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (i.e.
Windows '95 or Mac OS), and the domain name and address of your Internet
service provider (i.e. AOL). Neither our cookies, web beacons or web log
information collects any personal information. They do not contain
personal information such as your name or email address. In some cases
we may also collect information about you that you voluntarily submit
and which is not personal, such as general statistical information
like age, gender, household size, zip/postal code, preferences and
interests.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Crystal Clean Team
does not require visitors to our websites to provide personal
information in order to obtain access to any of our sites. Crystal Clean Team
collects personal information (including but not limited to your name,
address, telephone number, and Email address) from our visitors only on
a voluntary basis. You are in control of the personal information you
provide to Crystal Clean Team
online. You may:
1. Ask
for a copy of your personal information
2. Ask
for your personal information to be corrected or updated
3. Ask
us to remove your personal information from our records
To do this, please
contact us
using the links provided and contained
further within this statement.
Crystal Clean Team
will use reasonable efforts to fulfill you request.
At some
Crystal Clean Team
sites you can order product samples, enter contests, vote in polls or
otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as
newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities.
These programs require you to submit some information in order to
participate. These programs and the types of information required are
described in more detail below.
Registration/Subscriptions/Product Samples
Requests:
To
fully use our websites, visitors may need to register using our online
registration forms, where visitors will be required to provide us with
their personal information. Visitors may also be asked to select a user
ID and password. Further, to register for certain services or become a
member of certain communities, we may ask visitors to submit their name,
Email address, home address, and zip/postal code. In addition, we ask
for country of residence and age so that we can comply with all
applicable privacy regulations. You can further make choices about
receiving Email newsletters and promotions from Crystal Clean Team
special offers. You can always decide not to receive or stop receiving
any Email from Crystal Clean Team
if you desire.
Contests/Sweepstakes:
Crystal Clean Team
may run contests, sweepstakes and other promotions on its Site or
through interactive banner ads, web pages, etc. These events which may
ask you to provide personal information which is needed in order to
administer the contest, sweepstakes or promotions and to notify winners.
Referrals:
Occasionally, visitors will have the opportunity to forward product
sampling opportunities or other information on the web site to
friends/relatives or to send messages from our web sites or interactive
advertisements to friends/relatives. This personal referral information
you provide to facilitate this communication is used on a one-time basis
or stored only for analysis purposes, and is not further used by Crystal Clean Team
to re-contact referred individuals, except in circumstances where we
obtain consent from the people you have referred to receive
communications from us.
Questionnaires, Surveys and Profile Data:
Crystal Clean Team
may occasionally ask visitors to complete surveys and opinion polls
about their interests, needs, and attitudes. Surveys help us provide
better services and products that meet customer needs. Participation is
completely voluntary and these surveys are optional.
Consumer Services and Contact Information:
If you provide our consumer service representatives with feedback on
your experiences with our products/services or otherwise submit
questions to our consumer service representatives or web masters, you
will be asked to supply personal information for our record keeping and
follow-up.
Employment Information:
Personal information you may submit in connection with employment
inquiries will be used only for recruitment and future internal
consideration. It will be accessible solely by persons responsible for
recruitment for Crystal Clean Team
entities. This information will be kept no longer than 3 years.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
a) Personal Information
We may use your personal information to contact you. For example, we may
send you marketing or promotional materials including Emails or other
information; we may respond to your comments or requests for
information; or we may contact you if needed in the course of processing
or shipping your order for products or services offered through our web
sites. We may also enhance or merge personal information with data
obtained from third parties for the same purposes. We also use personal
information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts;
to statistically analyze site usage; to improve our content and product
offerings; and to customize our sites' content, layout and services. We
may also use your information to deliver information to you that, in
some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted banners, new
services and promotions. We believe these uses allow us to improve our
site and better tailor it to meet our visitors' needs. Crystal Clean Team
does not collect personal information automatically, but we may combine
non personal information collected automatically (e.g., through cookies)
with your previously submitted personal information. Crystal Clean Team
occasionally sends visitors who have opted-in Emails describing new
products, promotions or events. These services are optional and you may
opt-out of these services completely, at any time. We will only store
your personal information for a reasonable period of time.
b) Aggregate and Statistical Data
Crystal Clean Team
uses web log information (such as your web browser, operating system,
pages visited, etc.) to help us design our web site, to identify popular
features, and for other managerial purposes. However, web logs may be
used if necessary to help identify any person attempting to break into
or damage our web site. We may share web log information with law
enforcement agencies if we believe that we have evidence of a violation
of computer security or related laws.
DATA SHARING AND TRANSFER
a) How We May Share Information
We will not share, trade or sell personal information of our visitors
for use by any business, other than the product (s) to which you
submitted your information in reference to Crystal Clean Team
products, without your consent. However, aggregated and statistical data
from our visitors may be shared with our partners. For example, we may
let a partner know that approximately "15,000 people visited a web page
regarding a specific joint promotion." If you do provide us with consent
to share your information with other companies, we may share your
information with companies who offer products and services that may be
of interest to you. These companies may then contact you directly with
product or sample offers, personalized offers and information, or to ask
for your feedback on products and programs that they think may be of
interest to you. Occasionally, we may share personal information from
you (such as name, mailing addresses and Email addresses) with vendors,
contractors or partners of Crystal Clean Team
in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform
for or with Crystal
Clean Team.
These vendors, contractors or partners are restricted from using this
data in any way other than to provide services for Crystal Clean Team
and they may not share or resell this data. The services they provide
for Panda Limited Trading include mailing product samples, or contacting
the winners of
Crystal Clean Team
contests. Crystal
Clean Team
also reserves the right to share the information to respond to duly
authorized information requests of governmental authorities or where
required by law.
b) Data Transfers
Your personal information will generally be stored in our Crystal Clean Team
databases, which are located in various geographies, including the
United States and the European Union. For easier processing of Email
campaigns or other marketing purposes, your personal information may
however be sent, usually on a temporary basis, to countries outside the
United States or the European Union. Crystal Clean Team
data protection standards are the same, regardless of where your
personal information is stored. Crystal Clean Team
adheres to US/EU Safe Harbor principles. If you feel that Safe Harbor
privacy principles may have been violated by Crystal Clean Team,
you may contact Panda Limited Trading, the U.S. Direct Marketing
Association, or the Better Business Bureau Online with your complaint.
Personal information submitted online during an employment application
process will be stored in a database located in Denmark for European
applicants, and in Arizona for US applicants.
COOKIES
AND WEB BEACONS
When you view one of our web sites or interactive advertisements, we may
collect some non personal information about you. The collection of this
non personal information is done either through the "cookie" technology
or with "web beacons" (also called "single-pixel gif" or "web pings").
Neither our cookies nor web beacons nor web log information collects any
personal information.
a) Cookies
When you view one of
our websites or interactive advertisements, we may store some
information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a
small text file, also called a "cookie". Cookies help us in many ways to
make your visit to our website more enjoyable and meaningful to you. For
example, cookies avoid you having to log in every time you come back to
one of our websites. They also allow us to tailor a website or
advertisement to better match your interests and preferences. Most
browsers can be configured not to accept cookies or to indicate when a
cookie is being sent.
b) Web Beacons
Web beacons are site instrumentation that help us to determine, for
instance, whether a page has been viewed or not and, if so, how many
times. When you ask us to send you information on a promotion or a
newsletter, we may use web beacons to establish how many of the emails
are actually opened. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of
a web page, including an ad banner, can act as a web beacon. Third party
advertising networks that serve ads onto any Crystal Clean Team
web site may use cookies and/or web beacons in their advertisements. Crystal Clean Team
retains no control over such third party cookies and/or web beacons and
does not have access to the information related to third party cookies
and/or web beacons.
CHOICE
Our
sites allow you to choose to receive or stop receiving communications
from us. If you would like to be removed from Crystal Clean Team
programs you enrolled in or prevent further use of your personal
information, please click on the link below.
To Prevent Further Use of Your Personal
Information You will be asked for your country of residence, then provided with a
way to remove yourself from Crystal Clean Team
online programs.
ADVERTISING PARTNERS
Crystal Clean Team
has selected Doubleclick to provide online advertising services for many
of its web sites. Doubleclick may use cookies to track the activities of
anyone who clicks on links within email messages or online
advertisements it delivers. This information may be used to provide Crystal Clean Team
with aggregate statistics about Email and online advertising response
rates, or to better tailor future email messages or online
advertisements you receive to your interests. The Double click privacy
policy explains its use of cookie technology when sending email messages
and online advertising. You may in addition disable the "cookies"
function in your browser. Please check your browser Help section for
details. In all instances, the information provided through us to our
partners will only be used for the purpose for which it was supplied and
is not otherwise used or disclosed.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Crystal Clean Team
believes that it's especially important to protect children's privacy
online and encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with
their children to participate and monitor their Internet activity. Crystal Clean Team
respects all applicable national and international children's privacy
regulations. Crystal Clean Team
does not intend to collect personal information from children, except on
some of our children's web sites, in which case we will collect such
information in accordance with local laws and regulations on children's
privacy. If we collect personal information from children, we ask only
for the information necessary to participate in the program for which
the child is registering. Where appropriate, Crystal Clean Team
will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on
our web sites and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure parental
consent to such submission. For instance, we may ask for a visitor's
age, birthday, or birth year in order to determine whether or not the
visitor is a child. If the birthday or birth year entry reveals a child
is under the age limit as defined by the applicable local or national
law, we will not allow the child to continue without the guardian's
consent. If a child has provided us with personal information, a parent
or guardian of that child may contact us at the Email address or address
listed at the bottom of this Privacy Statement if they would like this
information deleted from our records. We will use reasonable efforts to
delete the child's information from our databases. We do not filter
advertisements or other content that children may view through our
sites, and they could receive content and materials from the Internet
and/or advertising that are inappropriate for children. If you would
like to contact us about your or your child's personal information, or
to find out how you can have your child's personal information removed
from our database, please see the 'Access To Your Information and
Complaints' section later in this document.
DATA SECURITY AND
RESPONSIBILITY
Crystal Clean Team is
committed to keeping the data you provide us secure and will take
reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss,
misuse or alteration. Vendors, contractors, or partners of Crystal Clean
Team who have access to your personal information in connection with
providing services for Crystal Clean Team are required to keep the
information confidential and are not permitted to use this information
for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing
for Crystal Clean Team.
We use secure connections on our web sites to protect credit card
information during its transmission. The security of your personal
information is important to us. Our web site protects sensitive
information such as your login and credit card information using
Internet industry standard encryption protocols to encrypt the
information in transit. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while
we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our
Web site, please
contact us for
answers.
ACCESS
TO YOUR INFORMATION AND COMPLAINTS
If
you have submitted personal information to Crystal Clean Team
through a Crystal Clean Team web page or interactive advertisement,
or if someone else has submitted your personal information through a Crystal Clean Team
web page or interactive advertisement you can:
a) Access, Correct, Update Your Personal
Information
Crystal Clean Team
will use reasonable efforts to supply you with the information you
requested to access and to correct any factual inaccuracies in this
information.
b) Complaints
Crystal Clean Team
is committed to working with consumers to obtain a fair and rapid
resolution of any complaints or disputes about privacy. Please click
here
to send us your questions or comments
regarding our privacy practices, or send us a letter via mail service or
courier to:
Crystal Clean Team, Attn: Privacy Team
3053 Rancho Vista
Blvd., #180,
Palmdale,
California 93551
(USA)
Crystal Clean Team
will be happy to respond to your questions and comments. Please feel
free to use your native language when contacting us at this address.
If you do not receive a response to your inquiry - or if you feel your
inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed - Crystal Clean Team participation in 3rd party privacy trustmark
programs provides you with another avenue to submit a complaint. See the
section below titled "Participation in Privacy Trustmark Programs" for
more information.
LINKS TO
OTHER SITES
Crystal Clean Team
web site may contain links to other web sites. Crystal Clean Team
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web
sites. We recommend you carefully read the privacy policies of each site
you visit.
PARTICIPATION IN PRIVACY TRUSTMARK PROGRAMS
Crystal Clean Team
participates in 3rd party trustmark programs as a means to increase your
confidence that we protect the privacy and security of the information
you share with us.
Crystal Clean Team is proud to be a member of
the
Internet Alliance,
organization that are dedicated to protecting consumer privacy, curbing
unsolicited commercial email (or "Spam").
By clicking on link (s) provided above, you will be taken to more
information about the third party trustmark program listed, and how you
can request assistance or submit a complaint if you are not satisfied
with Crystal Clean Team privacy practices. Crystal Clean Team plans to expand third party privacy trustmark
programs to cover other countries in the future.
CRYSTAL CLEAN TEAM
COMMUNICATION
We shall have the right to communicate with you via email, receipt of
which by you is considered by Crystal Clean Team essential to our
provision of service. You may unsubscribe from such communication at any
time.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We will not disclose personally identifiable information about you or
your private communications (i.e., content transmitted on private,
non-public lists) to third parties, without your permission, unless we
believe such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (1) comply with the
law or legal process; (2) protect or defend our rights or property or
that of others; (3) enforce this Agreement; (4) respond to claims that
the contents of any communications violate the rights of others; or (5)
as otherwise provided in the Agreement. From time to time, we will
disclose aggregate user demographic data to third parties. We may access
your Lists and related communications for technical processing and to
address technical problems or service complaints. For more information
on disclosures please read our Privacy Policy.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
We will not sell, trade, rent, lend or give email addresses that you
supply us to anyone else for any purpose, nor will we use the addresses
you supply us for any purpose other than supplying Ordered Products to you
or Monthly Special and Quarterly Newsletter email alerts.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
WE DO NOT MAKE ANY
WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS, OR
THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE,
NOR DO WE MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM
THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY
SERVICE OBTAINED THROUGH CRYSTAL CLEAN TEAM. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION,
WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU, FROM US, OR THROUGH THE
SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. SOME
JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME
OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. WE DO OFFER A 100%
SATISFACTION GUARANTEE. PLEASE SEE
OUR SERVICE COMMITMENT FOR
FURTHER DETAILS.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL
CRYSTAL CLEAN TEAM
OR ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS,
EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, RESULTING FROM THE USE OR
THE INABILITY TO USE OF THE SERVICES OR FOR THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE SERVICES PURCHASED
THROUGH THIS WEB SITE, INCLUDING CARPET CLEANING, DETAILING, CLEANING, OR ANY OTHER
SERVICE OR PRODUCT OFFERED BY CRYSTAL CLEAN TEAM. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT
ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless
Crystal Clean Team,
its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees,
agents, and suppliers, and their respective affiliates, officers,
directors, employees, and agents, from any claim, action, demand, or
damage, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party
arising out of or related to your use of the Services or your violation
of this Agreement, including without limitation the infringement by you
or any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other
right of any person or entity. We may, at our sole discretion, assume
the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to
indemnification by you. The assumption of such defense or control by us,
however, shall not excuse any of your indemnity obligations.
GENERAL
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of California, without giving effect to its conflict of
laws provisions. You agree that you will bring any claim or cause of
action arising out of your use of the Services or this Agreement in the
Courts located within the county of Los Angeles, in the City of Los
Angeles and you
also agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of those
courts. You agree that any claim or cause of action arising out of your
use of the Services or this Agreement must be filed within one year
after such claim or cause of action arose or it shall be forever barred,
notwithstanding any statute of limitations or other law to the contrary.
If any provision contained in this Agreement is determined
unenforceable, then such provision will be severed and replaced with a
new provision that most closely reflects the intent of the original
provision, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain in
full force and effect. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement
shall be effective except pursuant to a written instrument signed by us
waiving compliance, and any such waiver shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose stated in such writing.
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency
relationship exists between you and us as a result of this Agreement or
your use of the Services. You shall not assign this Agreement or any
right, interest or benefit under this Agreement without our prior
written consent. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement between
you and us, and supersedes any and all prior communications and
proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between you and us with
respect to the Services. A printed version of this Agreement and of any
notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or
administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Agreement to
the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business
documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed
form.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES
By using this web site or
any other Crystal Clean Team web site or interactive banner ads, you
therefore signify your full acceptance of our Privacy Statement, and you
adhere to the terms and conditions posted on the web site. This clause
is not enforceable in member states of the European Union. Please check
back for updates to our Privacy Statement and this Executive Summary.
Last Updated: April 27,
2007
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