American Sun Components Inc. ("ASC") is committed to protecting the privacy of our website users ("Users") and ASC® members ("Members"). To that end, we offer this statement to inform our Users and Members of how we define, gather and utilize personally identifiable information. ASC shall take reasonable steps to protect Members' and Users' privacy consistent with the guidelines set forth in this policy and the law. ASC defines personally identifiable information as information that includes any combination of the following: a person's full name, street address, telephone number, date of birth, email address and/or the genre of products or components purchased by a person or company. ASC can gather information about our Users in two different ways: 1. A User supplies it in response to a request from us. i.e. ( RFQ ) 2. Cookie technology. ( If cookie permissions are enabled ) ASC collects personally identifiable information from Users when voluntarily submitted by a User, for example when a User participates in any special offers, purchases products online, or registers on americansuncomponents.com for an e-newsletter or other individualized services. We require that a User be 16 years of age or older to submit personally identifiable information. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from unauthorized or unlicensed manufacturers and/or distributors. We screen users who wish to provide personal information to prevent unauthorized users from abusing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from an unauthorized user, we will deny and delete such information from our records. We also do not knowingly distribute such information to third parties. We do not knowingly allow unauthorized users to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information. Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from unauthorized users, we do not condition the participation in online activities of a unauthorized user on providing personally identifiable information. ASC also utilizes cookie technology to process and identify order data. A cookie is a piece of information that is transferred to a user's hard drive for record- keeping purposes. If Users chooses to, they have the option to set their browser to refuse cookies. ASC, its affiliates and subdivisions (if permitted by ASC) may share and use personally identifiable information collected online to develop and improve the products, benefits and services we or selected business partners offer to our Members or Users. ASC, its affiliates and subdivisions (if permitted by ASC) also may share and use certain User and Member data in the ordinary course of their business, for example, for account maintenance and debt collection. Certain information collected in connection with product purchases may be provided to third parties for use in transaction authorization, fraud scoring and credit card fraud prevention modeling. Except as described above, ASC will not communicate with Users or Members by email or provide User or Member email addresses to business partners, unless the User or Member has provided express permission to ASC. Users and Members also have the chance to opt out of other opportunities to receive promotional communications, materials and products from (1) ASC, its affiliates and ASC subdivisions (if permitted by ASC) or (2) their business partners. With the exception of users exercising the opt out opportunity, ASC, its affiliates and subdivisions (if permitted by ASC) on occasion may disclose to their business partners certain data such as names and addresses and the genre of products purchased by a person or company, for the exclusive use of marketing goods and services directly to Users and Members. Under no circumstances will ASC disclose title-specific information to anyone except as allowed by law. How to Opt Out  1. Direct Mail If you wish to receive communications by means other than email from (1) ASC, its affiliates and permitted subdivisions and/or (2) their business partners, but you would like to change your election, please please contact the ASC Customer Service department by sending an email to: mg@asctoday.com . 2. Email Otherwise, to change your election regarding receipt of email from (1) ASC, it's affiliates and subdivisions if permitted by ASC and/or (2) their business partners, please contact the ASC Customer Service department by sending an email to: mg@asctoday.com . Secure online ordering is important to ASC. ASC utilizes SSL (secure socket layers) to protect your credit card and order information. SSL encrypts all of this data, such as your name and credit card number, so that it cannot be read in transit. In addition, ASC encrypts credit card information when it is stored in our databases.