Privacy Policy

Thank you for reviewing the Privacy Policy for L.J. Smith.com, your web portal into The L.J. Smith Company ("L.J. Smith"). L.J. Smith is sensitive to the issue of confidentiality in online dealings and is committed to protecting individual privacy. This Private Policy is intended to inform users about the general approach L.J. Smith uses in collecting, using and disseminating user information via L.J. Smith.com.

Personal Information Collection

When you visit L.J. Smith.com and you have not otherwise identified yourself (e.g.., via registration with a L.J. Smith Site), our web server automatically recognizes your domain name, but not your e-mail address. We collect the domain name and monitor general site use and traffic patterns to improve our website and the products and services we offer. L.J. Smith uses web server logs to collect data for metric purposes. Examples of the types of data collected on the logs are IP addresses, referral pages, date and time of Site access, and Site visited. We may use collected data to customize the content and/or layout of our pages for each individual visitor.

The information you provide to L.J. Smith, as well as the information we have collected about you indirectly, may be used by L.J. Smith for marketing purposes. Before we do so, however, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether or not to have your information used in this way. You may at any time choose not to receive marketing materials for us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each e-mail you may receive, by indicating so when we call you or contacting us directly (please refer to "Questions and Contact" below).

In some cases, L.J. Smith requests personally identifiable information from you in order to satisfy the underlying transaction or purpose of your accessing the Site. Examples of personally identifiable information include names, e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, and the like. Please note that we do not consider aggregated information, from which personally identifiable information has been removed, to be private.

Cookies, Beacons, Tracers, and other Technologies

As mentioned above, we collect information from your visits to our Web sites to help us gather statistics about our Web sites usage and effectiveness, personalize your experience on our site, and tailor our interactions with you.

Cookies are small data files placed on your hard drive by a website server when your visit. L.J. Smith.com may use cookies for tracking purposes or to make the Site easier to use. Cookies are currently the only way to effectively identify a unique anonymous visitor and understand how they navigate our web site. An anonymous visitor to our web site remains anonymous in all cases. We do not attempt to identify visitors if they do not voluntarily submit personal information to us. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. If you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able, for instance, to add items to your shopping cart, proceed to checkout, or use any Web site services that require you to log in. If you turn off cookies, other technologies will still detect visits to these pages; however, they will not be associated with information otherwise stored in cookies. Cookies offer enhanced functionality to the user, but whether you allow a cookie to be placed on your computer is up to you.

In some instances, we use tracking scripts or tracers that recognize a unique identifier from a cookie placed on your hard drive by another website. These are used by L.J. Smith solely to gauge the success of our own advertising. For instance, we may use a tracer to determine whether you visit our employment pages after visiting a resume or career site where L.J. smith placed a banner ad. We do not use tracers to gather information on your use of the internet unrelated to L.J. Smith. Please note the L.J. Smith does not use tracers to identify your personal information, and you remain anonymous unless and until you choose to register.

Come of our business partners might set Web beacons and cookies on our site. We have no access or control of these third-party tracking technologies. 

Registration

Registration is allowed or required within certain portions of the L.J. Smith sites. L.J. Smith may collect registration data in order to monitor compliance with the terms of use governing the Site and to set up access permissions to certain portions of the L.J. Smith Sites.

If you request something from L.J. Smith, for example, a product or service, a callback, or specific marketing materials, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information with others, for instance, L.J. Smith's business partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, or postal or government authorities, such as Customs authorities, involved in fulfillment. In connection with a transaction, we may also contact you as a part of our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes. 

Security

We do not treat your general interaction with L.J. Smith.com (e.g.., submission of suggestions) as confidential. However, certain L.J. Smith sites do conduct transactions for which heightened security is appropriate. For instance, certain L.J. Smith sites ecrypt your personal information (e.g.., for transmission of credit card data), so that only appropriate personnel are able to decode your information. Note that most internet browsers also offer security alerts that permit you to determine whether your transmissions are protected.

We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its accuracy. L.J. Smith implements reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help us protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use an disclosure. For example, we encrypt certain sensitive personal information such as credit card information when we transmit such information over the Internet. We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

Disclosure of Information to others

We do not rent, sell, or trade any personally identifiable information about you (e.g.., e-mail addresses) to third parties. Certain L.J. Smith sites may disclose information to third parties assisting us in processing a transaction requested by you (e.g.., credit card service providers). In order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas, or court orders, to protect L.J. Smith and/or L.J. Smith's systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of L.J. Smith and/or L.J. Smith;s business and systems, L.J. Smith and/or L.J. Smith may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate under the circumstances.

If you are one of our international guests, we realize that you may want to know whether your personal information will be transferred out of your country of origin. Please be aware that when you register or request a transaction on an L.J. Smith site, your personal data may be transferred to computers in the United States in order to process your request.

L.J. Smith is a global organization with business processes, management structures and technical systems that cross borders. As such, we may share information about you within L.J. Smith and transfer it to countries in the world where we do business in connection with the uses identified above and in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Our Privacy Statement and our practices are designed to provide a globally consistent level of protection for personal information all over the world. This means that even in countries whose laws provide for less protection for your information, L.J. Smith will still handle your information in the manner described here.

In some cases, L.J. Smith uses suppliers located in various countries to collect, use, analyze, and otherwise process information on its behalf. It is L.J. Smith's practice to require such suppliers to handle information in a manner consistent with L.J. Smith's policies. 

Children’s Privacy

L.J. Smith asks children under 13 not to transmit any information to the site. L.J. Smith welcomes the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 to use the site and provide any information, service, or product gained from the site to their child.

Other L.J.Smith Sites 

Through L.J. Smith.com, you may link to many networked web pages and websites operated by L.J. Smith and its subsidiaries and affiliates (together, the "L.J. Smith Sites"). Not all of them have adopted this policy. Individual L.J. Smith sites may adopt different privacy that fit transactions taking place on that L.J. Smith site. If an L.J. Smith site has its own privacy policy, the provisions of that policy will control if it conflicts with this general policy. Also, some L.J. Smith sites are intended to facilitate interaction with other businesses, and may not adopt a privacy policy for individuals. Users of those Sites should check with their employer regarding the employer's arrangements with L.J. Smith and applicable privacy practices. 

External Links

For the convenience of our Site visitors, L.J. Smith may provide links to third-party web sites that are external to L.J. Smith. These web sites are not operated or controlled by L.J. Smith, and L.J. Smith is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites.

Recruiting

In connection with a job application or inquiry, whether advertised on an L.J. Smith Web site or otherwise, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as a resume. We may use this information throughout L.J. Smith in order to address your inquiry or consider you for employment purposes. Unless you tell us not to do so, we may keep the information for future consideration. 

Social Computing

L.J. Smith might provide social computing tools on some of its Web sites to enable online sharing and collaboration among members who have registered to use them. These might include forums, wikis, blogs and other social media platforms.

When registering to use these tools, you will be asked to provide certain personal information. Registration information that is not automatically made available to other participants as part of your profile will be subject to and protected in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Any other content you post, such as pictures, information, opinions, or any other type of personal information that you make available to other participants on these social platforms, is not subject to this Privacy Statement. Rather, such content is subject to the Terms of Use of those platforms, and any additional guidelines and privacy information provided in relation to their use. Please refer to them to better understand yours, L.J. Smith's, and other parties' rights and obligations with regard to such content. You should be aware that the content you post on any such social computing platforms may be made broadly available to others inside and outside L.J. Smith.

Suppliers and Partners

If you represent an L.J. Smith supplier, you may visit L.J. Smith Web sites intended specifically for use by L.J. Smith suppliers. We may use the information provided on that site in connection with entering into or performing a transaction with you. For example, this may include sharing information with other parts of L.J. Smith, L.J. Smith's business partners, customers, shipping companies, financial institutions and postal or government authorities involved in fulfillment. It may also be used to administer and develop our relationship with you, the supplier you represent, and other L.J. Smith suppliers generally.

If you represent an L.J. Smith business partner, you may visit L.J. Smith Web sites intended specifically for L.J. Smith business partners. We may use information provided on that site to administer and develop our business relationship with you, the business partner you represent, and L.J. Smith business partners generally. For instance, this may involve using your information to send you details of L.J. Smith business partner programs. It may also include sharing certain information with other business partners (subject to any confidentiality obligations that may exist), or L.J. Smith customers or prospects. In connection with a particular transaction or program, we may also contact you as part of customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.

Updates

From time to time, L.J. Smith may revise this Privacy Policy at its discretion. L.J. Smith advises you to check back periodically to review the Privacy Policy because users of the Site will be prospectively bound by the then-current version of this Privacy Policy.

Questions and Contact 

If you have a question about this Privacy Statement or L.J. Smith's handling of your information, you can send an email to the L.J. Smith Web site coordinator at sales@LJSmith.com. You can also contact us at:

L.J. Smith's Corporate Office

35280 Scio-Bowerston Road, Bowerston, Ohio 44695
(740) 269-2221

Before L.J. Smith is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, however, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request. We will contact you within 30 days of your request.