BIC Warehouse is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes how BIC Warehouse collects and uses the personal information you provide on our website: bicwarehouse.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding BIC Warehouse's use of your personal information and the steps you can take to access this information and to request that we correct or update it.

BIC Warehouse is a Participant in the TRUSTe Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to advance privacy and trust in the networked world. This website has agreed to have its privacy practices monitored for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should first contact us at webmaster@bicwarehouse.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry, or if your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the website to resolve your concerns.

We collect the following personal information from you.

• Contact Information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number
• Billing Information such as credit card number, expiration date, billing address

We collect this information when you

• Purchase products
• Sign up for our newsletter or email list

We use this information to

• Fulfill your order
• Send you an order confirmation
• Send you requested product or service information
• Respond to customer service requests
• Administer your account
• Send you a newsletter
• Send you marketing communications
• Respond to your questions and concerns
• Improve our website and marketing efforts
• Conduct research and analysis

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties without first providing you notice and choice.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on our website) and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request.

In the event BIC Warehouse goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

PayPal

If you choose to use PayPal to finalize and pay for your order, you will provide your billing information, such as a credit card number, directly to PayPal. We will not have access to this information. PayPal's privacy policy will apply to the information you provide on the PayPal website.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

This site is hosted by Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and collects your billing information directly from you for the purpose of processing that information on our behalf. If you accessed bicwarehouse.com through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects non-identifiable information about your shopping experience to allows us better understand who visits the site. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information.

You may opt-out of receiving our newsletter or marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each newsletter or marketing email or you can contact us at unsub@bicwarehouse.com.

Cookies

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. We use cookies on our site to

• Keep track of what you have in your shopping cart
• Analyze which pages our site visitors visit
• Measure advertising and promotional effectiveness
• Make it easier for you to navigate our site

We use a service provider to place cookies on your computer to collect non-personally identifiable information to compile aggregated statistics about the visitors to our site and to determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

We are hosted by Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, which uses cookies and log files to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site. The statistics collected provide us information about website usage volume statistics, and we use that data to understand which web pages are most useful to our customers and to better understand their interests.

Log Files

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or page views.

We use this information, which does not usually identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We may record your IP addresses when you place an order through our site in order to detect and prevent fraud.

Web Beacons

A web beacon is an electronic image placed on a web page that can serve many of the same purposes that cookies serve, For example, recording the pages you visit on our site. We or third parties may use web beacons to track the traffic patterns of users from one page to another.

We or our third party service provider may use web beacons in some of our emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients or track click-through rates. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our communications to customers and our marketing campaigns.

To review and update your personal information to ensure it is accurate, contact us at bicwarehouse@bicwarehouse.com.

When we collect personal information directly from you, we follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. 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 website, you can contact us at webmaster@bicwarehouse.com.

In order to make a purchase from us, you must use our shopping cart provider to finalize and pay for your order. Its privacy statement and security practices will also apply to your information. We encourage you to read that privacy statement before providing your information.

We may update this policy from time to time as our information practices are modified or changed. If we make any material changes to this policy that affect your personal information, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.