Privacy and Security
Old Blueprint's Customer Privacy Policy covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by Old Blueprints anytime you interact with Old Blueprints, such as when you visit our website, when you purchase Old Blueprints products and services, or when you call our sales or support associates. Please take a moment to read the following to learn more about our information practices, including what type of information is gathered, how the information is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we safeguard your personal information. Your privacy is a priority at Old Blueprints, and we go to great lengths to protect it.
Why we collect personal information
We collect your personal information because it helps us deliver a superior level of customer service. It enables us to give you convenient access to our products and services and focus on categories of greatest interest to you. In addition, your personal information helps us keep you posted on the latest product announcements, software updates, special offers, and events that you might like to hear about.
If you do not want Old Blueprints to keep you up to date with Old Blueprints news, software updates and the latest information on products and services please contact us.
What information we collect and how we may use it
There are a number of situations in which your personal information may help us give you better products. For example:
- When you interact with Old Blueprints, we may collect personal information relevant to the situation, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and contact preferences; your credit card information and information about the Old Blueprints products you own, such as their product numbers and date of purchase; and information relating to a support or service issue.
- We may use personal information to provide products that you have requested as well as for auditing, research, and analysis to improve OldBlueprints's products.
Your Old Blueprints ID and related information
The Old Blueprints website, allows you to create an "Old Blueprints ID" based on your personal information. This convenient service saves you time and allows for easier use of our web services. Here's how it works: You create a personal profile - providing your name, phone number, email address, and in some cases your mailing address or a credit card number - and choose a password and password hint (such as your pet's name) for security. The system saves your information and assigns you a personal Old Blueprints ID - in many cases simply your email address, because it's unique and easy to remember. The next time you order from the Old Blueprints Store or register a new product, all you need to do is enter your Old Blueprints ID and password; the system looks up the information it needs to assist you. In addition, if you update the information associated with your Old Blueprints ID it will be available for all your transactions with Old Blueprints globally.
Publicly displayed information is public
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on an Old Blueprints website you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. Old Blueprints is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information, which was previously non-public, available by enabling certain user features, Old Blueprints will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become publicly available.
When we disclose your information
Old Blueprints takes your privacy very seriously. Old Blueprints does not sell or rent your contact information to other marketers.
How we protect your personal information
Old Blueprints takes precautions - including administrative, technical, and physical measures - to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
The Old Blueprints Online Store use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is required. To make purchases from the Old Blueprints Online Store you must use an SSL-enabled browser such as Safari, Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later, or Internet Explorer. Doing so protects the confidentiality of your personal and credit card information while it's transmitted over the Internet.
You can help us by also taking precautions to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often using a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure web browser like Safari.
Integrity of your personal information
Old Blueprints has safeguards in place to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date for the purposes for which it is used. Naturally, you always have the right to access and correct the personal information you have provided. You can request a copy of your personal information, your product registration history, and your interactions with our sales and support agents by contacting us at the email address below.
Cookies and other technologies
As is standard practice on many corporate websites, Old Blueprints' website uses "cookies" and other technologies to help us understand which parts of our websites are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how much time they spend there. We also use cookies and other technologies to make sure that our online advertising is bringing customers to our products and services. We use cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on our website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our customer communications. And we use cookies to customize your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us.
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data.
We use this information, which does not 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. Old Blueprints will not use the information collected to market directly to that person.
In some of our email messages we use a "click-through URL" linked to content on the Old Blueprints website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through our web server before arriving at the destination web page. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked simply avoid clicking text or graphic links in the email.
In addition we use pixel tags - tiny graphic images - to tell us what parts of our website customers have visited or to measure the effectiveness of searches customers perform on our site.
Pixel tags also enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read. And they tell us whether emails have been opened to ensure that we're sending only messages that are of interest to our customers. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a customer. We store all of this information in a secure database located in Cupertino, California, in the United States.
Our companywide commitment to your privacy
As we said, Old Blueprints takes protecting your privacy very seriously. To make sure your personal information is secure; we communicate these guidelines to Old Blueprints employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company. In addition, Old Blueprints supports industry initiatives, such as TRUSTe, to preserve privacy rights on the Internet and in all aspects of electronic commerce.
International users
Old Blueprints abides by the safe harbor framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information collected from the European Union. The following link provides more information about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program. Note that personal information regarding individuals who reside in the EU is jointly controlled by Old Blueprints Sales International in Cork, Ireland, and by Old Blueprints UK Limited in Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
OldBlueprints's website has links to the sites of other companies. Old Blueprints is not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.