Smithmyer’s Superette is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We’ve structured our web sites so that, in general, you can visit Smithmyer’s Superette on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.

Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your customer relationship with Smithmyer’s Superette.

This statement regarding the privacy of the personally identifiable information you provide online covers the five foundation principles of fair information: Awareness, Choice, Accuracy & Access, Security, and Oversight.

Awareness

Smithmyer’s Superette provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy, practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage.

What we collect

On Smithmyer’s Superette web sites, you can order products or services, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are name, contact and billing information, transaction, and credit card information.

How we use it

Smithmyer’s Superette uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on service and benefits, and to personalize our web sites for you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing, fraud protection, and are not retained for other purposes.

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact. We will also follow local requirements, such as allowing you to opt in before receiving unsolicited contact, where applicable.

Who we share it with

Smithmyer’s Superette will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others.

Choice

Smithmyer’s Superette will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us and we will do everything we can to honor such requests.

Accuracy & Access

Smithmyer’s Superette strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. We will provide you with access to your information, including making every effort to provide you with online access to your registration data so that you may view, update or correct your information at the Smithmyer’s Superette site where it was submitted. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections.

Links to third party web sites on the site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Smithmyer’s Superette site. Smithmyer’s Superette does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their privacy policy. Thus, Smithmyer’s Superette does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so at your own risk.

Security

Smithmyer’s Superette is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information. Preventing credit card fraud is important to protect your personal financial data security.

Oversight

If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please complete the “Contact Us” link, and select “Privacy” as your subject.

How Smithmyer’s Superette uses cookies

A cookie is a piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file. The purpose of a cookie is to help us analyze web traffic or let us know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. For example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easy to shop by allowing you to drop things into a shopping cart; the cart itself is not the cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your cart versus others’ in use at the same time.

Smithmyer’s Superette uses traffic log cookies to identify what pages are being used and which ones aren’t. This helps us aggregate and analyze data about web page traffic and make improvements to Smithmyer’s Superette web sites to better meet customer needs. In this case, Smithmyer’s Superette uses this information only for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

You may set your web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Mac Safari) to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contains cookies; those files are stored as part of your internet browser.