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Privacy Policy
PREMIER3 respects your privacy. Our guidelines for protecting the information you provide us with during your visit to our web site are listed below.
Privacy Statement
This statement discloses the Internet Privacy Policy for the PREMIER3 website, PREMIER3.com. This site has been designed so that no personal identifying information is displayed online or is accessible to the general public. You can browse PREMIER3.com without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. To obtain access to special features such as our online catalogs product availability, contract pricing, and exclusive access to our information and services, we ask that you complete our registration requirements to gain access to our site.
Use of Data
1. Information collected during ordering and operations process - When you order and register with PREMIER3 on the web, we collect the following information: name, address, phone, email, payment method including credit card numbers, personal web settings and account numbers. We do not sell or distribute this information to any third party except to complete transactions with our freight companies and third party suppliers that are authorized to drop ship orders on our behalf. Location information is used by PREMIER3 for distribution purposes to allow us to provide the best possible service levels to our client base. Information such as name, phone number, and credit card numbers are collected by third party partners of PREMIER3, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express for the payment process.
When you register as a client and provide us with your email address, we will occasionally send you email with recommendations or notices of new products, prices, and services. This email may include paid or unpaid advertisements from authorized PREMIER3 third parties. Once you register, you will be given an opportunity to opt out of this service by changing the settings in your profile or via the first email you receive from us. If you do not initially choose to opt out, you may still block future email of this type, simply by following the instructions at the bottom of the update messages. Users also have the ability to turn off order related e-mails. The types of emails a user receives when ordering through the web site include:
• Order Acknowledgment
• Shipping Notices
• Order Approval E-mails
2. Information collected during promotional programs - Information may be collected from you via direct mail, electronic and internet campaigns as well as through e-newsletters, requests for literature and support, and client surveys. When you respond to a promotional campaign, PREMIER3 collects contact information as well as additional information to help us qualify the success of a promotion and to determine eligibility. Inclusion of your email address and contact information indicates permission to send notices of new products, prices and services, including paid advertisements from authorized PREMIER3 third parties. PREMIER3 will not sell or distribute names and mailing and email addresses and other contact information to third party advertisers except for the joint promotion of PREMIER3 and the third party. Your contact information, collected from the promotion, may be transferred to an authorized PREMIER3 third party when they are responsible for fulfillment of a free item, sample, information, etc. At any time you may request removal from our mail list, see instructions below. We also post surveys on our site. These surveys are optional. The information is collected for market research purposes to allow us to improve our service levels. From time to time, PREMIER3 may obtain email addresses from outside vendors and will send these obtained email addresses electronic marketing materials from PREMIER3. Removal from the PREMIER3 list can be accommodated.
Links
PREMIER3.com contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are leaving the PREMIER3 web site and entering a completely new web site. This new site may have a different privacy policy than PREMIER3.com and the content found on that site is not the responsibility of PREMIER3.
Cookies
PREMIER3.com uses software tags called "cookies" to identify clients and track shopping baskets when they visit our site. This benefits the client by allowing them to stay logged in during their visit so they do not have to continually log-in. It also allows selected products within a shopping basket to remain as a client goes to other areas to browse. To learn more about the two methods of cookie opt-out, and to exercise your choice, click here.
Log Files
PREMIER3 maintains log files of the traffic that visits our site. We do not link any information gathered in these log files to personally identifying information. Log files are used to manage traffic loads and help provide reliable service, all with no association to your personal identity. Information collected includes IP addresses, browser types and pages visited.
Feedback On Our Systems
Within your PREMIER3 shopping experience on PREMIER3.com, you have the opportunity to provide us with feedback. We collect user feedback to improve our systems.
Specific Client Questions
Users who would like a response to specific questions concerning their service are directed to the Contact Us section on our web site or our dedicated Client Service number at 888 734 7320. We read and review all of our client service queries and use the information contained therein only to resolve the question at hand.
Correct/Update/Delete User Information On PREMIER3.com
Users can update or correct, their personal information on PREMIER3.com by changing their profile information in "Client Login".
Removal from the PREMIER3 Mail List
Email your request to: PREMIER3 MailListManager@PREMIER3.com to be removed from our mail list.
Information Security
All information gathered on the PREMIER3.com site is stored and maintained in secure facilities. Our web site is regularly tested for potential security breaches. Our current security technology is Secured Socket Layer (SSL).
PREMIER3 reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. The revised policy will be posted on our website for visitors to review.
Data Theft Contingency Plan
PREMIER3 utilizes the Internet to provide a variety of features to our clients. In the course of conducting business functions via the Internet, we store data related to those functions within our systems. To protect the sensitive data that belongs to our clients, we have implemented a number of processes. These processes include, but are not limited to, encrypting data and utilizing Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS).
PREMIER3 makes every effort to ensure that data is secure. In the event that our processes fail to prevent the theft of sensitive data, we will undertake the following:
• Clients that may be impacted by any data theft will be notified.
• Notification that data has been compromised will be given to the vendor bank within 48 hours of obtaining this knowledge.
• At the request of the client, we will place on record the contact information for any impacted financial institution
(i.e. credit card issuer) and notify the institution within the same time frame as given above.
• We will communicate to the client whatever information may aid their efforts to prevent data theft from causing harm
to their organization. This may include an estimate of the number of records, users, or accounts involved.
• Following any event that involves compromised data, we will collect feedback from the impacted clients. This feedback
will be used to adjust this process to better serve our clients in any future event.
This statement discloses the Internet Privacy Policy for the PREMIER3 website, PREMIER3.com. This site has been designed so that no personal identifying information is displayed online or is accessible to the general public. You can browse PREMIER3.com without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. To obtain access to special features such as our online catalogs product availability, contract pricing, and exclusive access to our information and services, we ask that you complete our registration requirements to gain access to our site.
Use of Data
1. Information collected during ordering and operations process - When you order and register with PREMIER3 on the web, we collect the following information: name, address, phone, email, payment method including credit card numbers, personal web settings and account numbers. We do not sell or distribute this information to any third party except to complete transactions with our freight companies and third party suppliers that are authorized to drop ship orders on our behalf. Location information is used by PREMIER3 for distribution purposes to allow us to provide the best possible service levels to our client base. Information such as name, phone number, and credit card numbers are collected by third party partners of PREMIER3, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express for the payment process.
When you register as a client and provide us with your email address, we will occasionally send you email with recommendations or notices of new products, prices, and services. This email may include paid or unpaid advertisements from authorized PREMIER3 third parties. Once you register, you will be given an opportunity to opt out of this service by changing the settings in your profile or via the first email you receive from us. If you do not initially choose to opt out, you may still block future email of this type, simply by following the instructions at the bottom of the update messages. Users also have the ability to turn off order related e-mails. The types of emails a user receives when ordering through the web site include:
• Order Acknowledgment
• Shipping Notices
• Order Approval E-mails
2. Information collected during promotional programs - Information may be collected from you via direct mail, electronic and internet campaigns as well as through e-newsletters, requests for literature and support, and client surveys. When you respond to a promotional campaign, PREMIER3 collects contact information as well as additional information to help us qualify the success of a promotion and to determine eligibility. Inclusion of your email address and contact information indicates permission to send notices of new products, prices and services, including paid advertisements from authorized PREMIER3 third parties. PREMIER3 will not sell or distribute names and mailing and email addresses and other contact information to third party advertisers except for the joint promotion of PREMIER3 and the third party. Your contact information, collected from the promotion, may be transferred to an authorized PREMIER3 third party when they are responsible for fulfillment of a free item, sample, information, etc. At any time you may request removal from our mail list, see instructions below. We also post surveys on our site. These surveys are optional. The information is collected for market research purposes to allow us to improve our service levels. From time to time, PREMIER3 may obtain email addresses from outside vendors and will send these obtained email addresses electronic marketing materials from PREMIER3. Removal from the PREMIER3 list can be accommodated.
Links
PREMIER3.com contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are leaving the PREMIER3 web site and entering a completely new web site. This new site may have a different privacy policy than PREMIER3.com and the content found on that site is not the responsibility of PREMIER3.
Cookies
PREMIER3.com uses software tags called "cookies" to identify clients and track shopping baskets when they visit our site. This benefits the client by allowing them to stay logged in during their visit so they do not have to continually log-in. It also allows selected products within a shopping basket to remain as a client goes to other areas to browse. To learn more about the two methods of cookie opt-out, and to exercise your choice, click here.
Log Files
PREMIER3 maintains log files of the traffic that visits our site. We do not link any information gathered in these log files to personally identifying information. Log files are used to manage traffic loads and help provide reliable service, all with no association to your personal identity. Information collected includes IP addresses, browser types and pages visited.
Feedback On Our Systems
Within your PREMIER3 shopping experience on PREMIER3.com, you have the opportunity to provide us with feedback. We collect user feedback to improve our systems.
Specific Client Questions
Users who would like a response to specific questions concerning their service are directed to the Contact Us section on our web site or our dedicated Client Service number at 888 734 7320. We read and review all of our client service queries and use the information contained therein only to resolve the question at hand.
Correct/Update/Delete User Information On PREMIER3.com
Users can update or correct, their personal information on PREMIER3.com by changing their profile information in "Client Login".
Removal from the PREMIER3 Mail List
Email your request to: PREMIER3 MailListManager@PREMIER3.com to be removed from our mail list.
Information Security
All information gathered on the PREMIER3.com site is stored and maintained in secure facilities. Our web site is regularly tested for potential security breaches. Our current security technology is Secured Socket Layer (SSL).
PREMIER3 reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. The revised policy will be posted on our website for visitors to review.
Data Theft Contingency Plan
PREMIER3 utilizes the Internet to provide a variety of features to our clients. In the course of conducting business functions via the Internet, we store data related to those functions within our systems. To protect the sensitive data that belongs to our clients, we have implemented a number of processes. These processes include, but are not limited to, encrypting data and utilizing Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS).
PREMIER3 makes every effort to ensure that data is secure. In the event that our processes fail to prevent the theft of sensitive data, we will undertake the following:
• Clients that may be impacted by any data theft will be notified.
• Notification that data has been compromised will be given to the vendor bank within 48 hours of obtaining this knowledge.
• At the request of the client, we will place on record the contact information for any impacted financial institution
(i.e. credit card issuer) and notify the institution within the same time frame as given above.
• We will communicate to the client whatever information may aid their efforts to prevent data theft from causing harm
to their organization. This may include an estimate of the number of records, users, or accounts involved.
• Following any event that involves compromised data, we will collect feedback from the impacted clients. This feedback
will be used to adjust this process to better serve our clients in any future event.