PRIVACY POLICY
California Stage & Lighting, inc. 
(may be referred to herein as Cal Stage)
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THIS PRIVACY POLICY ("PRIVACY POLICY") GOVERNS YOUR PURCHASE OF ANY PRODUCT OFFERED BY CALIFORNIA STAGE & LIGHTING, INC. ON WWW.CALSTAGE.COM.  PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. IT CONTAINS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE WAY CAL STAGE TREATS AND PROTECTS YOUR VALUABLE PERSONAL INFORMATION. 

BY PLACING AN ORDER, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, ACCEPTED AND HAVE AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, WITHOUT LIMITATION OR QUALIFICATIONS. THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN NOTICE AND AT ANY TIME AT CAL STAGE'S SOLE DISCRETION. 

The privacy of your personal information is of the utmost importance to us at Cal Stage. Any information gathered by Cal Stage will be kept strictly confidential and will only be used or shared in ways for which you have specifically consented. Unless we have your express consent, Cal Stage will not sell, rent or trade your personal information to any third party. We will take special care to protect the privacy and security of your information.

This policy explains our information practices and the choices you can make about the way Cal Stage collects and uses your information. This Privacy Policy covers the information you provide to us offline and at Cal Stage Web sites (www.calstage.com).

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to third party Web sites that may be accessible through the Cal Stage Web site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those third parties to learn how they collect and use information about you.

To assist you with reading through our Privacy Policy, we have provided answers to questions that you may find most important, you may click the link to visit the response, click the 'TOP' link to return here.

--How does Cal Stage collect and use my information?--
--Do we use Cookies, Web Beacons, or Third Party Advertisers?--
--Does Cal Stage share my personal information?--
--Do I have a choice regarding how my information is used?--
--Can I Access, Update, or Delete my information?--
--How does Cal Stage secure my personal information?--
--Whom can I Contact if I have questions or concerns?--
--Will this Privacy Policy Change?--

 

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HOW DOES CAL STAGE COLLECT AND USE MY INFORMATION?

Cal Stage collects and uses your personal information to respond to your requests for information, products and services. Unless we have your express consent, your personal information will only be used or shared to fulfill your request.

Cal Stage collects personal information when you:

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DO WE USE COOKIES, WEB BEACONS OR THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS?

Cookies:
A 'cookie' is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and that your browser may then store on your system. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually refuse cookies, or selectively accept cookies, by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn cookies off, there may be some features of our site that will not be available to you and some Web pages may not display properly. You can find information about how you can adjust your cookie setting at the following Web sites:

Microsoft Internet Explorer:
 http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm


Netscape Navigator:
 http://www.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html

Web Beacons
The Cal Stage Web site does NOT use electronic images known as Web beacons, or clear GIFs to monitor the activity of our Web site. Used in combination with cookies, a Web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, which is placed on a Web site or in an e-mail that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the Web site or opening the e-mail. (To learn more about Web beacons, visit Webopedia).

Third Party Advertisers
Cal Stage does NOT use third party advertising companies to provide advertisements or allow third party advertisers to track your browsing activities on the Cal Stage Web site.
 

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DOES CAL STAGE SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Unless we have your express consent, Cal Stage will NOT sell, rent or trade personal information such as membership data or e-mail lists to any third party. We treat all information you provide as confidential. Occasionally, we may contract with other companies to provide limited services on our behalf such as packaging, mailing and delivering purchases and processing event registration.

From time to time, we may be required to provide personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. Unless prevented by law, we will notify you prior to the release of such information. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may release certain personal information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.
 

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DO I HAVE CHOICES REGARDING HOW MY INFORMATION IS USED?

You remain in control of your information. Cal Stage will NOT use or share the personal information we collect in ways unrelated to the purpose for which you provided the information without first obtaining your consent (opt-in). At the time you provide your information, you can choose whether you want to receive further communications about special offers, product information or other marketing messages. If you do opt-in to marketing communications from Cal Stage, you can opt-out at any time. All e-mail communications from us, such as newsletters, tell you how to stop receiving them.
 

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CAN I ACCESS, UPDATE OR DELETE MY INFORMATION?

Cal Stage wants your information and preferences to be accurate and complete. If you would like to access or update the personal information we maintain about you in our systems, please call 1-714.966.1852 or email us at sales@calstage.com.

You may use the same contact information above to send us a request that we delete personally identifiable information stored in the databases we actively use for daily business activities and other readily searchable media. Unless restricted by law, we will take all reasonable steps to functionally delete such information from our database(s). We will still retain such business records of any transactions as are required by law.

We will respond to your request to access, update or delete your information within five business days. Before we are able to provide you with any information, correct any inaccuracies or delete any information, however, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details (in a secure manner) to help us to respond to your request.
 

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HOW DOES CAL STAGE SECURE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Cal Stage uses a variety of safeguards to protect your information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. For example, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology supporting up to 128-bit encryption to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing any personal information transmitted to or from Cal Stage during your session at our Web site. We only provide access to your personal information to Cal Stage employees and other authorized parties on a "need to know" basis.

Please be careful whenever sending personal information to Cal Stage via e-mail. E-mail is commonly not a secure means of transferring information. We discourage the use of email to send sensitive information to us; we suggest calling in, visiting our shop in person, sending registered or similarly tracked postal service, or fax, any information that you are concerned about.
 

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WHOM CAN I CONTACT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?

Please contact our webmaster to report any known or suspected privacy or security breaches on our website or to submit privacy-related questions or complaints. After receiving your inquiry, we will respond within five business days. You may contact us in the following ways:

Postal Mail:
Webmaster
3601 W. Garry Ave.
Santa Ana  CA  92704

Email:
 sales@calstage.com

Phone:
 1-714.966.1852


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WILL THIS PRIVACY POLICY CHANGE?

If there are changes or additions to this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we collect online or offline, how we use it and what choices you have. Regardless of any changes we make to our Privacy Policy, we will only use your personal information in accordance with the version of the Privacy Policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you later give your express consent for us to do otherwise.

Last revision date: May 25, 2007