Our Privacy Policy
TMS Enterprises has developed relationships with our
customers based on respect and integrity. We're aware of
the trust and confidence you demonstrate when you visit
our website and provide us with information. The Privacy
Notice below is posted to demonstrate our adherence to
the practices you'll find common to the best websites
online. We promise that we will treat your information
with the same honesty and sensitivity that we have
displayed throughout our company's history.
If you have any questions or concerns about our
Privacy Notice, please call us toll-free at:
1-888-698-TECH; e-mail us at
webmaster@TMSPC.com; or send a letter to: Privacy, 1
TMS Enterprises Park, 442C Bordentown Ave, South Amboy
NJ 08879.
TMSPC.com Privacy Notice
By visiting TMSPC.com you agree to accept the
practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Changes to this Privacy Notice, Conditions of Use
and Notices:
This Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use will change
over time and the use of information which we gather now
is subject to these Notices and Terms as modified.
Please check this page periodically as you continue to
use our site to see if any changes have been made. This
privacy notice was most recently changed on May 30,
2006. If you visit our Web site your visit and any
dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our
Terms of Use, including the application of the laws
of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Personal Information Collected By TMS Enterprises:
TMS Enterprises uses information that we collect from
our visitors to personalize and improve your visit at
TMSPC.com we gather the following types of information:
Information you give us: TMS Enterprises collects any
information which you enter on our Web site. This
information is normally provided when you search, buy,
participate in a contest, sweepstakes or on-line survey,
or when you communicate with any of our departments such
as customer service, sales or technical services through
our Web site, telephone, mail or fax. You also provide
information when you establish an account with us.
Examples of the type of information you may supply us
with include your name, address, telephone number,
credit card information, e-mail addresses, and financial
information such as your Social Security number.
Automatic Information collected by us: Whenever you
visit our Web site we collect and store information such
as "cookies" which remember information about a visitor
from one page to the next and from one visit to the
next. We collect and analyze the IP address used to
connect your computer to the Internet; login; password;
computer and connection information such as your browser
type and version; operating system and platform;
purchase history; confirmation when you open e-mail that
we send you; the URLs which lead you to and around our
Web site including the date and time; the pages and or
products you viewed or searched for and the phone number
used to call our voice telephone numbers. Your browser
allows you to reject cookies and software is available
from third parties which will allow you to visit our Web
site without providing this information. You are
welcomed at our Web site if you use this software but we
will not be able to offer you our personalized services.
Orders: If you place an order we use a secure order
form which requires you to provide contact, billing, and
financial information. This information is transmitted
to your credit card company to authorize your purchase.
At certain times we may offer financing options with or
without third party participation. If you use a
financing option information provided by you (such as
your address, birth date, social security number, and
credit card number) may be used to request a credit
report from third parties or may be sent to a third
party for processing.
Action Tags: TMS Enterprises's web pages may contain
action tags set by third party firms for the purpose of
collecting anonymous information about the usage of our
site by customers. Action tags are also known as web
beacons or 1 pixel gifs. Action tags are a technique
used to compile aggregated statistics about the
effectiveness of our web site. They do not use
personally identifiable information, such as names or
addresses, and do not link online actions to an
identifiable person.
Sharing of Information with third-parties:
Affiliated Businesses and TMS Enterprises
Corporation: We may share any information that you
supply to us with any affiliated business that is
substantially controlled by TMS Enterprises and TMS
Enterprises Corporation. Any information that is shared
this way will be subject to this Privacy Notice.
Independent Contractors: We may employ other
companies or individuals to provide certain services to
us such as sending e-mail, analyzing customer lists and
data, providing marketing assistance, or consulting
services. These third parties will have access to the
information needed to perform their functions but cannot
use that information for any other purpose.
DirecTV, XM Radio, SIRIUS, TiVo, MySony.com, Rainbow
DBS Company LLC (Voom), and other third party service
providers: Some of the products which we sell require us
to provide your name, address, phone number and product
serial number to the third party service provider that
requires this information to activate the service. These
third party service providers have their own privacy and
data collection policies which are not controlled by TMS
Enterprises. We have no responsibility or liability for
these policies and urge you to contact the third party
provider if you have any questions. We may occasionally
partner with MySony.com in various email programs. If
you link to TMSPC.com from any MySony.com website and
purchase a Sony product on TMSPC.com we will forward a
copy of your email address to MySony.com so that
MySony.com can assure that you are awarded the correct
points for your purchase and auto-register your purchase
in the MySony.com product locker. Please note that
MySony.com has its own privacy and data collection
policies which are not controlled by TMS Enterprises.
Orders and Catalog Requests: When you place your
order and/or when you request that we send you a catalog
from time to time we may share your name, mailing
address and purchase category information with a few
carefully selected marketing partners who may bring you
offers of interest. If you wish to opt out of sharing
this information with these companies, please call
1-800-955-9091 or e-mail
service@TMSPC.com. We will never share any telephone
number(s), or financial information which you have given
us with any marketing partner(s).
Aggregate information: We provide aggregate
information to some of our business partners. This
information does not allow them to identify you
individually.
Vendors: We provide some of our vendors with your
contact information so that they may contact you
directly with product support information.
Credit card companies and shippers: When you buy
something from us we send your credit card information,
name, billing address and the amount of your purchase to
your credit card company to verify and authorize the
purchase. Your name, telephone number and shipping
information must be provided to third party shippers
such as UPS, Federal Express and the United States
Postal Service to deliver your purchase.
Third Party Transaction-Level Data: If you visit our
site from a third-party site the third-party site may be
able to access your individual transaction information.
In order to track and credit your transaction the
third-party site may give you a unique code, cookie or
graphic which will uniquely identify you. This will only
happen if you link directly from a third party site to
our Web site. Any transactions made at our Web site
while such a code is active will be reported back to the
third party site. We will only report non-personal
information to these sites such as the date of the
transaction, the product(s) purchased and the amount
spent. We will not report any information to these third
party sites that will allow them to personally identify
you, however based on information which may have
previously been collected from you by the third party
site they may be able to personally identify you by
combining the information they have gathered with the
information sent by us. You should read the privacy
policy posted by the third party site to see how they
may use this information. The presence of a 3rd party
navbar atop our site is an indication that the third
party site may be able to see your activity on our site.
Third Party Ads, Surveys and Promotions: We may use
third parties to display ads, surveys and various
promotions on our site. These will always be labeled
with the third party name. These third party
applications may contain cookies or other code which are
outside of our control. Although we will attempt to only
work with third parties who respect your privacy we are
not responsible or liable for any information collected
by these third parties or how it is used. You should
contact the third party directly or check the third
party's privacy Notice to see how any information that
they may gather will be used.
Link to Third Party Site: Our Web site contains links
to third party sites, such as our vendors. TMS
Enterprises is not responsible or liable for the privacy
practices or content found on these sites. We suggest
that you check the Privacy Notice of each site you
visit.
Third Party Checkout Links: If you use a third party
checkout link on our site such as the AOL Quick Checkout
Program or Microsoft Passport wallet service your name,
billing and shipping addresses and credit card
information is transferred to us from your account with
the third party to enable you to check out of our site
without having to re-enter certain information.
We contract with an outside service called
Coremetrics to help us better understand your use of
TMSPC.com places cookies on your computer to collect
various kinds of information for us related to the use
of our websites, so that we may continue to refine and
improve the sites and better serve you. We do not allow
Coremetrics to collect any credit card, user name or
password information, nor are they allowed to use data
that they collect for us for any other purpose.
Additionally, Coremetrics is contractually required to
maintain all the information collected for us in strict
confidence.
We contract with I-Media Insights to serve ads on our
behalf across the Internet and sometimes on this site.
They may collect anonymous information about your visits
to our Web site, and your interaction with our products
and services. They may also use information about your
visits to this and other Web sites to target
advertisements for goods and services. This anonymous
information is collected through the use of a pixel tag,
which is industry standard technology used by most major
web sites. No personally identifiable information is
collected or used in this process. They do not know the
name, phone number, address, email address, or any
personally identifying information about the user.
Law Enforcement and Protection of Users:
We will release personally identifiable information
to third parties and organizations when we believe it is
appropriate for us to do so to comply with the law. We
will also do so to cooperate with law enforcement
investigations, comply with court orders or subpoenas,
protect the legal rights of us and our users, or when we
believe it is needed for fraud protection and/ or credit
risk reduction.
Business Transfer:
TMS Enterprises has been in business independently
for years, and our intent is continue for many years.
However, in the unlikely event that TMS Enterprises is
sold, has substantially all of its assets acquired or
merges or becomes affiliated with any other individual
or entity any customer information owned or under the
control of TMS Enterprises may be one of the transferred
assets.
Security:
Our Web site protects the security of personal
information you transmit to us by using Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information you
input during the transmission to us. We do not reveal
your credit card number when we confirm your order. In
order to protect against unauthorized access to your
account you should sign off when you finish visiting our
site.
Choice/Opt-Out:
Our Web site gives you the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving communications from us. If you no longer wish
to receive communications from us you may opt-out by
calling 1-800-955-9091 or e-mail
service@TMSPC.com.
Children's Online Policy
TMS Enterprises is committed to the preservation of
online privacy for all of its web site visitors,
including children. Consistent with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act, we will not knowingly
collect any personally identifiable information from
children under the age of 13. TMSPC.com sells products
intended for purchase by adults. If you make a purchase
on TMSPC.com, you are representing that you are an
adult. If you are a child under the age of 13, you must
ask your parent or guardian to assist you in using
TMSPC.com.