The Topps Company, Inc. ("Topps") respects the privacy rights of our users and recognizes the importance of protecting the information we collect about you. Our Privacy Policy will inform you on how we collect, use, and disclose the information you provide to us through the Topps Website, including etopps.com (collectively, the "Site"). If you do not feel comfortable with the Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site or allow your children to use it.
Before you use the Site, please read the following Privacy Policy carefully to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. From time to time, Topps may revise this Privacy Policy. Therefore, you should review it periodically so that you are up to date on our policies and practices. If you want to communicate with us about our Privacy Policy, please email us at [email protected].
This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding the use of our Site:
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What information is collected from you;
Where we collect information from you and how we use it;
Additional information.
1. WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED FROM YOU?
Topps may collect Personally Identifiable Information from you (i.e. your name, address, telephone number) when you register on either topps.com or etopps.com, engage in a transactions on the Site, participate in contests or sweepstakes on the Site, request to be on our mailing list, or when you submit employment applications to us via e-mail. Further detail on what Personally Identifiable Information is collected from you and how it is used appears below.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Non-Personally Identifiable information does not by itself identify a specific individual. In order to better provide you with certain products and services, Topps collects "Non-Personally Identifiable Information" from our users. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our Site. We gather certain information about you based upon your use of our Site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis, and it may include the Website's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL you will go to next, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. A URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks like the Web use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.
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2. WHERE WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU AND HOW WE USE IT.
We keep all information we collect on a secure server.
Cookies and Site Navigation
Our site uses small text files called "cookies" that provide both Personally Identifiable and Non-Personally Identifiable Information to us regarding the visitors to our Site. In addition to the URL and IP addresses of our visitors, cookies may gather the date and time of all visits to our Site, as well as the state, and telephone area code where the servers are located. We may also track the pages of our Site that users viewed during their visit, or track search terms entered on our Site by that visitor. This helps us keep track of the number of visitors to our Site and allows us to gauge the areas that are of the most interest to our visitors. This information is analyzed periodically and is used to gain a broader picture of usage patterns at our sight. We also use cookies to personalize the Site for each visitor, and to make the Site easier to use during each session. Non-Personally Identifiable Information gathered through use of cookies may be shared with our advertisers and/or business partners, in order to make the Site as user-friendly as possilble.
Online Surveys and Polling
In order to improve our services to you, we ask some of our customers to voluntarily complete surveys. Individual survey answers are confidential, although Non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected and may be disclosed to third parties. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, simply decline to participate when asked.
Contests
From time to time, Topps may offer contests on our site. When you enter contests on Topps.com, we request Personal Identifying Information from you, including your full name, email address, and telephone number. We will use the information you provide for the purpose of conducting the promotion (for example, to contact you if you have won). We may also use it for internal purposes and to send you email updates from us about important functionality changes, special offers from us and our partners, new Topps services and other news items. Our goal is that you will find these updates interesting and informative. Each email from us includes instructions on how to unsubscribe from our mailing list. The information we receive may be shared with our affiliates and service providers if necessary (i.e. in order to send you a prize).
Registration/Transactions On The Site
If you register on topps.com or etopps.com, we will ask for Personally Identifiable Information from you including, without limitation, your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. We will also ask you to choose a user name and password. This information enables us to fulfill any purchase or transaction orders you request via our Site, and to track the delivery, payment etc. for such transactions. We may use a third party to help us provide customer service, fulfillment, and payment processing. In order to help you most effectively, we provide them with your order information. These third parties have agreed to use your information for the Company's purposes only, and have agreed to keep all such information confidential and secure.
In addition, we may use this information for internal purposes, and to send you e-mail updates from us about important functionality changes, special offers from us and our partners, new Topps services and other news items. Our goal is that you will find these updates interesting and informative. Each email from us includes instructions on how to unsubscribe from our mailing list.
If you decide to sell any of your etopps cards on the special etopps trading floor on eBay, we will ask you for your eBay user name and password. That information will allow us to list your items for sale on eBay, and to track the auction for you. We will transmit your eBay user name and password to eBay for you in encrypted form, and will discard your eBay user name and password after your auction ends.
Contact Information, Employment Applications and Third-Party Data
If you contact Topps through the Job Opportunities section of the Site, you will be asked to provide personal information including your name, address, and telephone number. Any information you supply in response to the Job Opportunities section of the Site will be used for Topps human resources internal purposes only, and will not be shared with any third parties.
If you contact our customer service representatives by telephone, email, or letter, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our Site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service representatives, we may ask for your name and email address in order to send you a reply. If other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or purchases on our Site, we may keep the information in a file specific to you.
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3. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bankruptcy
In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used. Therefore, you should know that in such event, your personal information may be treated like any other asset of the Company, and sold, transferred or shared with third parties, or used in ways not contemplated or permitted hereunder, without notice to you or your consent.
Transfer of Site or Control
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the following parties and entities shall not be considered third parties: entities into which Topps is merged or with which it is combined; entities which acquire substantially all of the assets of Topps, or its business as a going concern; corporate affiliates, shareholders or equity holders of Topps or entities to which the operation of the website Topps.com is transferred, partners who provide fulfillment or payment collection services . By consenting to the use of your personal information by Topps, you are expressly consenting to the transfer, sharing and use of your personal information with any of the forgoing.
If you have a question that was not addressed in this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].
The Topps Company, Inc.
One Whitehall Street
New York, NY 10004
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PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
This Privacy Policy was last changed on April 12, 2002. If Topps makes changes to any terms or conditions of the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we may disclose it. We may change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Policy at any time. The continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept such changes.
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