How We Use Your Information
ABC uses your information to provide requested
products and services and to support core business functions. These include
fulfillment, internal business processes, marketing, authentication and fraud
prevention, and public safety and legal functions. Some examples include:
- To
fulfill your requests for products and services and communicate with you
about those requests;
- To
register and service your account;
- To
administer surveys, sweepstakes, contests, and promotions;
- To
provide customer service and alert you to product information, including
recalls;
- To
help us improve and customize our service offerings, websites, and
advertising;
- To
send you information about our products, services and promotions;
- To
protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business; and
- With
regard to credit qualification and applications.
To accomplish these purposes, we may combine
personal and non-personal information we collect online with offline
information, including information from third parties. We may also share your
information within our family of corporate affiliates, to accomplish these and
our affiliates’ purposes. However, we do not share with affiliate’s information
that you provide to purchase a financial product or service like check cashing,
money orders, money transfers, or bill pay.
How We Share Your Information Outside ABC
ABC does not sell or rent your personal information
to third parties. We may share your personal information, whether you are a
current or former customer, only under the following limited circumstances.
Service Providers
We may share information about you with service
providers or suppliers that help with our business operations. Examples are
shipping vendors, billing and refund vendors, credit card processors, and
companies that help us improve our product and service offerings and our
websites. We require these service providers and suppliers to keep the
information secure. We also prohibit them from using your information for any
purposes other than those requested by us.
Credit Applications
If you apply for a co-branded or private label
card, we may share your information with the financial institution(s) that we
partner with to offer the credit card. Our partner may only use the information
you give to us to provide the credit card. Similarly, if you qualify for a
credit account and are not offered credit by ABC, we may share your information
with our partner so that they may extend the offer of credit as required by law.
Legal Requirements and Protection of Our Company
and Others
We may share your information in other special
circumstances. These include situations when we believe in good faith that the
law requires it or that the sharing is necessary to protect the safety,
property, or other rights of ABC, our customers, our associates, or any other
person. Examples include protecting the health or safety of customers, or
addressing crimes committed on ABC property. Data from in-store security
cameras may also be provided to law enforcement upon written request.
Marketing Purposes
Based only on your express consent, we may share
information with carefully selected vendors who may offer you products and
services of interest. You may opt-in to this sharing by request only.
Aggregate Information
We may share aggregate and statistical data that
does not identify you personally. We may do this for research and marketing
purposes, for instance to describe our services to prospective partners or
advertisers, and for other lawful purposes.
Business Transfers
In the unlikely event that ABC or substantially all
of its assets are acquired by an unrelated third party, your personal
information may be one of the transferred assets.