PRIVACY POLICY

Components On-line makes a commitment to guarantee your on-line privacy. Read the policy below to understand how your personal information will be treated while you are using our resources. Above this, remember that some products or services mentioned specifically in this policy are not applicable to all Compon´s international sites. This policy can be often changed, so check it occasionally.

Which information collected by COMPONENTS ON-LINE can identify me?

Components On-line collects information in different ways. All your personal information is obtained when you sign up. During the registration, Components On-line asks your name, e-mail address and other personal and company related information. The more information you provide spontaneously (and the more precise it is), the better will be your experience´s personalization. After the registration, you will not be an anonymous to Components On-line anymore - you will get identification, an Components On-line ID and a password. You will also be able to get the benefits of all available resources.

Besides the registration, we might ask you for personal information at different moments, such as when you are buying through Components On-line Shopping. If you get in touch with Components On-line, we may keep a record of this mail. Occasionally, Components On-line can ask its users to answer surveys, with the purpose of internal research. At any place where Components On-line collects personal or business information, we will always try to include a link page to the Privacy Policy´s page.

What are COOKIES and how are they used?

The use of cookies to load and, sometimes, to trace down information about you makes part of the offer and the supply of Components On-line´s Personalized Service. A ´cookie´ is a little amount of data sent from a Web server to your browser and loaded in the hard disc unit of your computer. All the sites of Components On-line which you need to perform login or which can be personalized require that you accept the cookies, otherwise, a logon screen will ask for your login data.

Usually, we use cookies to:

• Remind us of who you are and access the information of your account (loaded in our computers), in order to offer you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is defined when you register or "Connect" and it is changed when you "Disconnect" from our services.
• Calculate the size of our public. Each browser that accesses Components On-line receives an exclusive cookie, which is used to determine the extension of the repetitive use, of the use performed by registered user (VIP) versus the use performed by a non-registered user and to help to target the ads based on our interests and on the user's behavior.
• Help Components On-line´s businessmen to track visits and business at their stores and to process the items of your shopping basket. These informations collected by cookies sometimes are called "click sequence" or "click track" and it also can describe which pages you´ve visited in each businessman's store.
• Control the development and the number of your participation in any of our promotions and contests. When a promotion organized by Components On-line uses cookies, the information recorded in the cookie shows the stage of the participant in the promotion and it can be used to trace down his participation, messages which were sent and the status of the prizes.
• Measure some traffic patterns, which areas of Components On-line Web sites you´ve visited and your visit patterns in general. We use this research to understand how the habits of our users are similar or different from one to another, in order to allow us to make the best each new experience at Components On-line. We can use this information to personalize the content, the banners and the promotions that you and other users see at our site.

The nets of advertising that provide ads to Components On-line also can use their own cookies.

Components On-line also collects addresses IP to the system administration and to transmit attached information to our advertisers.

How does COMPONENTS ON-LINE use my information?

The main purpose of Components On-line when collecting personal information is to provide you, user, a personalized experience in our sites. This includes personalization, interactive communication, on-line shopping and many other kinds of services. Having more information about you, we can offer more interesting ads and contents and, as a consequence, we can offer you better services.

In the activity of providing directed ads, Components On-line is the mediator. The advertisers provide us an ad and let us know the kind of audience they wish to reach (for example, industries of integrated circuits). Components On-line shows the ad to the users who fulfill these discernment. In this process, the advertiser never has access to the information about the individual account. Only Components On-line can access these accounts. This kind of definition of ads is made with banners, as well as with promotional e-mail through Components On-line. It´s possible to change your account´s preferences at anytime you want.

Components On-line performs internal researches of demography, interests and our users´behavior, based on the information provided at the registration, during a promotion or using our users´ log files . We do that in order to know and serve our users better. This research is compiled and analyzed conjunctly.

Who is collecting information?

When you are asked for personal information at one of our sites, this information is being shared only with Components On-line and partner companies, unless we are told otherwise. If the data is being collected and/or kept by any other company besides Components On-line and its partners, you will be warned before we receive or transfer the data. If you don´t want to share your data, you´ll be able to choose not to allow the transfer, avoiding using this specific service.

The promotions carried out at Components On-line can be sponsored by companies which are different from Components On-line or can be sponsored by Components On-line and other company. Some or all the data collected during a promotion can be shared with the sponsor. If the data is shared with the sponsor, you´ll be warned before we receive or transfer the data. Thus, you´ll be able to decide not to take part in the promotion, if you don't want your data to be shared.

Be aware that the Components On-line´s advertisers or the Web Sites that have links at our site can collect information that can identify you. The practices of collecting information of these Web sites connected to Components On-line are not covered by this declaration of privacy.

Who does COMPONENTS ON-LINE share more information with?

As a general rule, Components On-line will not make the information that can identify you public, except when we have your permission or in special situations, such as when it´s required by law or in the situations described below. Here you will find a description of some forms of making your information public.

Business partners and sponsors: Components On-line can make your personal information public to the business partners or sponsors, although this is specifically described to you before we receive or transfer the data. The details of shared use can be found in the Service Conditions or in the Contracts of specific use and also in the rules of bets and promotions. Some or all the data collected during a Components On-line promotion can be shared with a sponsor. If we share data which can identify you, you´ll be warned before we receive or transfer the data.

Many promotions offer opportunities of asking additional information about the sponsors. When you ask for more information, you give Components On-line the permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor, so it can satisfy your requirement. In many cases, only your e-mail address will be shared. If other information is shared with the sponsor, you´ll be warned before the transfer.

Components On-line Shopping: if you bought something in a store sponsored by Components On-line or by a Compon´s Shopping reseller, the information obtained during your visit to these stores and the information that you provided, such as your credit card number and the information used to contact you, are provided to the traders. This happens in order to allow such deals to be performed.

The businessmen listed in Components On-line Shopping have separated privacy and collection of data procedures. Components On-line is not responsible for these independent policies. In order to get more information about the businessman, his/her store and privacy policies, go back to the home page of the store and click on the respective link of information.

Third party's data and conjunct data: Under agreements of confidentiality, Components On-line can compare information about the users with third party's data. Besides it, Components On-line shows statistics of the registered user (for example, 45% of our users are women) in order to describe our services to probable partners, advertisers and others, as well as with other legal purposes.

Others: Components On-line can also show information about the user in special cases in which we have reasons to believe that the announcement of this information is necessary to identify, get in touch or act legally against someone that can be causing harm or interfering (on purpose or not) with the rights or with the Components On-line´s property, other Components On-line users or any person that is harmed by such activities. Components On-line can show information about the user when law requires it and with administrative purposes or other purposes that we consider necessary to keep and improve our products and services.

Which are my options about the collection, the use and the distribution of information?

If, when you sign up, you made clear you are interested in getting offers or information from Components On-line and from our partners, we can occasionally send you messages via e-mail about products and services which may be interesting to you. Only Components On-line (or Components On-line´s agents and under confidentiality agreements) will send you this Self Mailers, and only if you mentioned that you are not against these offers. If you don't want to get this mail, just let us know it when you provide your personal information. Or, at any moment, you´ll be able to easily edit the information about the account of Components On-line in order to don´t get these offers and mails anymore. It´ll be necessary to provide your identification and password to access your information about the Components On-line´s account.

In some kinds of Components On-line´s promotions, we will ask your e-mail address to give you update information on your score, your participation and your status about the prizes. When you take part in this kind of promotion, you automatically receive e-mails related to the current promotion, unless you choose the option without e-mail offered by some promotions.

Occasionally, these e-mail messages related to the promotion can include targeted ads. You also have options regarding the cookies. By changing your browser preferences, you have the option of accepting all the cookies, of being warned when a cookie is defined or of rejecting all the cookies. If you choose to reject all the cookies, you´ll not be able to use the Components On-line services that require registration in order to participate.

Components On-line doesn´t sell or rent information about the users to anyone. At the moment of providing or transferring data, we will warn you in case your data are shared with third parties and you´ll always have the option of not allowing the transfer. If you don't want your data to be shared, you´ll be able to choose not using a specific service or not taking part in certain promotions and contests.

What is the COMPONENTS ON-LINE policy regarding the permission of updating, correction and exclusion of information that may identify me?

You can edit your information about the account of Components On-line at any moment, using your identification (ID) and password at Components On-line.

Your Components On-line´s account can be excluded or made inactive if you wish, but it´ll become impossible for you to access private areas which are only for Compon´s members.

If you are taking part in a Components On-line´s promotion and you wish to update your e-mail address in the list of addresses of the promotion, or if you wish to give up taking part in it and stop getting e-mail messages related to the promotion, contact us by: compon@compon.com.

Which are the safeness cares available to protect of my information in case of loss, missuse or alteration?

The information about the Components On-line´s account is protected by a password in order to guarantee that only you´ll have access to this personal information. You can edit the information about the account of Components On-line using your identification and password at Components On-line.

We recommend you not to tell anyone your password. Components On-line will never ask for your password on a not required telephone call or an e-mail. Remember also to disconnect from your account of Components On-line and close the window of your browser when you finish your work. This procedure guarantees that other people will not have access to the personal information and mail, in case you share your computer with someone else or you are using a computer in a public place, such as a library or a Cyber Cafe.

Unfortunately, no broadcast of data through the Internet has 100% safeness guarantee. As a consequence, although we try very hard to protect your personal information, Components On-line cannot assure or guarantee the safeness of any information that you send us or from our on-line products or services. So, it´s your choice to take the risk. After we receive your broadcast, we will do as much as we can to assure your safeness in our systems.

What else should I know about my privacy?

Remember that every time you give personal information on-line - for example in message boards, through e-mails or chat rooms - this information can be collected and used by other people. In brief, if you publish personal information on-line which are accessible to the public, you can get not required messages from other people.

Summarizing, you are the only responsible for the maintenance of the privacy of your passwords and/or any information about your account. Be careful and responsible every time you are on-line.

Additional information

The doubts regarding this declaration must be sent to compon@compon.com.