PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting the website of In The Word. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. To assure you of your privacy, we provide this notice to help you understand our commitment to security, what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit our website, how we may use that information, and how you can correct the information.
Information We Collect
Automatically Collected Anonymous Information
When you visit the ITW website, certain anonymous information about your visit is automatically logged as it is at most websites, which may include information about your IP address, domain name, browser type, mobile device type, access time, and referring website address. This information is not personally identifiable and is only used in aggregate (not in any way that personally identifies you).
Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is any information about you as an individual that would enable someone to contact you; for example, your name, address, telephone number, or email address. We may ask for such information when you subscribe to an email newsletter, order a product or service, participate in an online survey, post a comment, or use a service or tool such as emailing a page.
We will not collect any PII about you unless you provide it. Providing any PII to us is voluntary. If you do not want us to obtain any personally identifiable information about you, do not submit it.
On the ITW website it may be possible for you to submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a recipient's name and address to send a gift. We will use this information only to fulfill your request and for no other purpose.
You can visit and browse the ITW website without revealing any PII, but you may not be able to access certain content, features or services if you choose not to disclose PII.
How We Use This Information
Aggregated information may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about the usage patterns of our visitors to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated information may occasionally be shared with our business partners, but it cannot be used to contact you individually.
PII you provide voluntarily may be used to improve the content of our website, to fulfill your requests for our products and services, to correspond with you about your purchases or notify you of updates to our website, shared with agents or contractors who assist in providing support for our internal operations, transferred to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other corporate change respecting our website, used by us to contact you for our or other reputable organizations' marketing purposes, and shared with third-parties for marketing purposes. (Email marketing promotions are sent via our own system rather than sharing email addresses with third parties.)
ITW may use PII to provide Internet security and to meet legal requirements. As a result, ITW reserves the right to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the investigation of alleged unlawful activities committed on or through our website. ITW may disclose PII in the course of officially authorized law enforcement investigations or as required to comply with a current judicial proceeding, court order, warrant, subpoena or other legal process served on ITW. Further, in the event of a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent our website’s security with the intent to gain unauthorized access or to do physical damage, ITW may share PII about a suspected intruder with law enforcement officials. ITW shall have no legal liability for such disclosures. Notwithstanding any of the above, ITW reserves the right to challenge the validity of any subpoena, court order, warrant or other legal process, in its sole discretion.
If you choose to post comments to a blog or article, any information you submit may become public. It may become accessible through search engines or, if you sign in using credentials from a third-party social networking service, it may become accessible to users on that service. Unless otherwise noted, we do not limit the distribution of information that you share using these features. ITW is not responsible for any personal information you choose to make public via these forums, and you agree that such sharing will be deemed to have been permitted by you, not ITW. If you prefer not to have your information published, do not submit it.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a letter to the editor), we may publish any information you have provided to us. If you prefer not to have your PII published, do not include it in your submission.
If you wish to opt out of the use of your PII for marketing purposes, please let us know via the following links:
Email Newsletter Subscribers: Click "unsubscribe" in the bottom of your email.
Print or Site Subscribers, Online Store Customers and Other Information Sources: Contact Customer Care.
Cookies & Web Beacons
Cookies are a technology that helps us serve you better. Our cookies collect no personally identifiable information. We use cookies to help us know when and how many people visit our websites; to store your personal preferences for paid online subscription services you may subscribe to, in order to provide you with the best experience possible; and to record session information, such as items that you add to your shopping cart.
For example, we may use Google Analytics and Advertising cookies to perform statistical, demographic, interest and marketing analyses for product development, to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our customers and to improve customer relationships. This information is not personally identifiable and is only used in aggregate.
Our third party service providers and advertisers may also use cookies to manage and measure the performance of advertisements displayed on or delivered by or through our websites and to provide more relevant advertising. See "Collection of Information by Third-Parties, Ad Servers, and Sponsors" below for more information.
ITW, our third party service providers or advertisers may use web beacons (clear .gifs) or similar technologies, which are small pieces of code placed on a web page or in an email newsletter, to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing the web page or email newsletter. For example, web beacons may be used to count the users who visit a web page, open an email newsletter or deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing a web page.
You have the choice to set your browser to accept all cookies, notify you when a cookie is set, delete cookies periodically, or reject all cookies. You may also opt-out of Google Analytics’ cookies here. Generally, deleting or rejecting cookies also disables web beacons. Please be aware that rejecting all cookies may prevent you from enjoying the full features offered through ITW's and other websites. Check the "Help" section of your browser for more information.
Collection of Information by Third Parties, Sponsors and Ad Servers
Business partners and websites that have links on our websites may collect information directly from you if you click an advertisement or link to visit another website. This Privacy Policy applies only to information you provide to us and not to any information you may provide to a third party. Please consult the privacy policy of any other website you visit to know what information they may collect and how they may use it.
ITW sometimes partners with third parties that operate websites and services you can use. For example:
A website may be cobranded. When you provide personal information via a cobranded website, you may have the option of providing it to either or both parties.
An online store may be hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate, according to the Privacy Policy posted on Yahoo! Stores. You may read an example here.
Use by Minors
ITW's website is a general audience website, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. Any information collected online by ITW from children under 18 is used only for the purpose of delivering the requested product or service. Please instruct your children to ask you for permission before providing any information about themselves to ITW, and visit the Federal Trade Commission website for more information about safe online surfing.
Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 requires ITW (1) to enable its customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes or (2) to offer the opportunity for customers to opt out of having their personal information disclosed to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. We have always offered the second option, as described above in the "How We Use This Information" section. If you prefer not to receive such direct marketing offers, please feel free to make your request known as explained above.
Beginning on January 1, 2014, an amendment to Section 22575 of California's Business and Professions Code requires ITW to disclose to its customers who are California residents how it responds to Web browser do not track ("DNT") signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across third-party Web sites or online services. ITW's website does not currently respond to any DNT signals.
International Transfer
This website is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States of America (USA). ITW makes no representation that this website is governed by or operated in accordance with the laws of other nations. By using this website and submitting any personal information, visitors from outside of the USA acknowledge that this website is subject to USA law, consent to the transfer of personal data to the USA, and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws. If you do not want your personal information transferred to the USA, do not provide it on this website.
Our Commitment to Security
ITW has appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in place at its physical location to help protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of any information you may provide via our websites, including address information and credit card numbers. We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our websites. When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our website. Please note that no security system is impenetrable. As effective as these measures are, we cannot guarantee the security of our database nor that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet.
How to Update Your Information
You may access and update the personal information you have provided to us by choosing an option below:
Store Purchases: Login to your account here.
E-newsletter Subscriptions: Click "unsubscribe" in the bottom of your email.
If you do not want to receive email from us in the future, please click "unsubscribe" in the bottom of your email.
Updates to Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. We will post any such policy changes on our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check our website periodically.
We welcome your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.
In The Word
P.O.Box 19142
Newbury Park, CA 91319