What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We here at Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics, value the trust you place in us, and we want you to feel safe and confident in how we treat your privacy. In the policy below we will explain what information we gather about you and how we put that to use. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, Thank you.
Types of personal information we may gather:
In order for Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics to provide you with great service, and to provide offers on products and services that may interest you, optimize our communications with you, to further conduct business with you, and to help make your shopping experience with us better, we may collect certain information. Below are some examples of the personal information we might gather from your visit with us.
Purchases– When an order placed by you, you will provide your name, address, phone number and/or e-mail address along with your payment information.
Non-Purchases– In some cases you may not be making a purchase at Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics and you provide your name, address, phone number and/or e-mail address, and where applicable, payment information, or when somebody else gives us your name, address, phone number and/or e-mail address, and sometimes your payment information. Situations when this may happen is during an exchange or return of items, or if you enter a contest or promotion or offered to you by Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics.
Personal Account– In the event you may create a Personal Account with us for a more convenient shopping experience, you will authorize us to save your name and shipping address(es), and payment information on our servers. In the event you might want to edit or remove your account information it is best to send us an e-mail.
E-mail Updates– Subscribing with us in order to receive Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics e-mail updates offering exclusive deals, news about products, other exclusive discounts, promotional announcements and more, we will ask you to provide your e-mail address. To unsubscribe from these mailings you may click the link at the bottom of the email labeled “unsubscribe” at any time.
How we intend to use your personal information:
We may ask you for certain personal data in order to provide you with our services and to process and deliver your order timely and effectively. This is information that we ask you to provide to us or that we may obtain while you are visiting crookscustomaudio.com. Data collected from you may include information identifying you as a specific individual. Personal Data such as your name, address, phone number, credit card number, email address, age, date of birth, gender, username and password for crookscustomaudio.com and any other information we may ask you to provide either directly or through your use of social media sign-in features such as those offered by Facebook Connect or Google, etc., or any additional information we may ask you to provide in order for us to fulfill the services or products you request. Your personal information may also be used to provide you with custom communications in order to keep you up to date on our latest promotions and products we feel may be of interest to you.
While purchasing services or products as gifts for third parties we ask that you make sure that you have permission or authority to provide their Personal Information. For example their shipping address and name, and that those individuals accept the way Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics will use this data as put forth in this policy. The personal data of third parties collected from you may only be used for the purpose of providing such information to the appropriate third parties such as shipping couriers or similar third parties used for delivering said orders in an effort to fulfill the requested service, or otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.
Like many websites, we utilize the use of ‘cookies.’ Cookies do not gather any of your personal information. They do however, enable your interaction with our website and help us complete your transactions in a secure and orderly manner allowing us to provide you with a more personalized experience while visiting crookscustomaudio.com. We also collect non-personal information, such as your IP address, information related to specific searches, location, and other data used while interacting with our website. When non-personal data is collected from you, it will be treated as though it were personal data under this Privacy Policy.
In some cases we may display ads provided by third-party companies. These applications may use cookies or other methods to better understand effectiveness of these ads and to aid in the display such ads based on your own interests on our website, as well as third party websites you may have visited or may visit in the future. This collected data is always anonymous, and will not enable any third party a means to identify you personally or individually. By accepting this Privacy Policy you are agreeing to participate in these services.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies is a term used to describe small data files that web servers send to your devices web browser whenever you make a connection. The primary function of these cookies is to help us remember you by tracking your activity within our web site. This in turn allows us to collect non-personal information such as your IP address, browser type, and your domain name, etc. This way we can make your experience on our web site more personalized and relevent.
How we use cookies:
Cookies helps us provide you with a more personalized shopping experience as we process your order. You must have cookies enabled on your web browser in order for you to properly place an order and for Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics to complete your transaction on crookscustomaudio.com.
Cookies also help us in learning which features and tools you use, and which pages you visit on crookscustomaudio.com, remember which items you’ve placed in your shopping cart, and enable you to check out faster after creating a shopping account. Cookies can always be deleted from your browser cache if leaving cookies on your device for extended periods causes any concerns of privacy. Check your browsers preferences menu for these settings.
Additionally, if you leave a comment on our web site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
About our partners
It is necessary for us to use third-party companies to fulfill your order. These third parties provide services to us to deliver your order, transfer emails, marketing, processing credit card and debit payments, and more. Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics will only grant permissions to these third parties with restricted access to your personal information. This information will only be used for carrying out order related tasks and will not be used for soliciting unrelated services or products.
Security and encryption
The shopping cart and order forms on crookscustomaudio.com are SSL encrypted to keep your personal and financial data confidential. Our servers are kept in secure locations. We take extra precautions to keep our database safeguarded in order to prevent any misuse from outside sources.
Embedded content from other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites and/or services that are not owned or controlled by Crooks Custom Audio and Electronics. This includes links to shipping websites, advertisers/sponsors, and other partnering entities. Only data collected by our site will be covered under this privacy policy. These third party websites are not under our ownership or control. The use of these third party websites and their features are covered by the privacy policies provided by them. We will not be held responsible or liable for any business practices of the third party websites linked to crookscustomaudio.com or from the use of third party social media features and functionality that may be offered by crookscustomaudio.com for your convenience and ease of use. This includes but is not limited to services provided by websites such as Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, and YouTube.
By agreeing to this privacy policy you are thereby agreeing to use the services and functionality provided by these third parties’ websites at your own risk. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of any third party websites and/or services upon leaving crookscustomaudio.com, this includes links into our website from another website or any sign-in feature provided by Facebook Connect, Sign in with Google, or any Open ID providers, or when utilizing third party social media features and functionality available on crookscustomaudio.com.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to update our privacy policy. It is recommended that you read our privacy policy upon each visit to ensure the safety of both our customers and our business partners as well as ourselves.
This policy was revised and published on 10/20/2020