Foster Grant is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Foster Grant website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Foster Grant website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of Your Personal Information
Foster Grant may collect personally identifiable information, anonymous demographic information, and information about your computer hardware and software. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Foster Grant public message boards, such information may be collected and used by others. Foster Grant encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Foster Grant so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Foster Grant is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Foster Grant website.
Use/Security of Your Personal Information
Foster Grant may collect and use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Foster Grant or its affiliates. Foster Grant may also contact you via surveys to conduct research or to solicit your opinion on current services or new services that may be offered.
Foster Grant does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Foster Grant may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information would not be transferred to the third party. In addition, Foster Grant may share data with trusted partners to help Foster Grant or its affiliates perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Foster Grant, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Foster Grant may keep track of the links and pages that users access within the Foster Grant website, in order to determine what Foster Grant services are the most popular. This data may be used to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Foster Grant secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Foster Grant will not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your explicit consent. Foster Grant will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with legal process served; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Foster Grant; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Foster Grant website or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Foster Grant Web site uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk drive by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save your time. A cookie will tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Foster Grant pages, or register with the Foster Grant website, a cookie helps Foster Grant to recall your specific information on subsequent visits to the Foster Grant website. When you return to the Foster Grant website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Foster Grant features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Foster Grant website.
Changes to this Statement
Foster Grant will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy. Foster Grant encourages you to periodically review this Statement of Privacy to be informed of how Foster Grant is using and protecting your information.
Contact Information
Foster Grant welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Foster Grant has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Foster Grant at crinfo@fgxi.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.