Privacy Policy
At BikeWind.com and Potomac Industrial Importers, we recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of your personal information. In adopting this privacy policy, our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using personally identifiable information and your expectations of privacy.

What personally identifiable information do I provide to BikeWind.com?
BikeWind.com asks you to provide various types of personal information to enhance your experience on our site. Whenever you provide personally identifiable information to us, we will make an effort to link to our privacy policy. See below about "cookies" and what other information is collected.

How does BikeWind.com use my personally identifiable information?
Our primary goal in collecting personally identifiable information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you.
BikeWind.com uses the personally identifiable information you provide to us in several ways. Some examples follow:
A user's personally identifiable information may be used by BikeWind.com for marketing research purposes such as to contact you as part of an online survey. We may also use the information provided by you to contact you with legal notices, or to advise you of any material changes in our terms and conditions.
In order to provide better services to our customers, we may display advertisements. BikeWind.com delivers targeted advertisements on behalf of advertisers. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, males over 25 years old). We take the advertisement and display it to users meeting these criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. You will only receive special offers via e-mail from BikeWind.com consistent with your stated preferences. You can change your preferences at any time.

BikeWind.com also does research on our users' demographic information based on the information you provide to us through registration, on order forms, during a promotion, as well as from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis and BikeWind.com may share this aggregated data with advertisers or other businesses. In addition, under confidentiality agreements, BikeWind.com may match user information with third party data.

Do other companies or people have access to personally identifiable information I provide to BikeWind.com?
When you are at BikeWind.com and are asked for personally identifiable information, you are providing that information to BikeWind.com, its divisions or affiliates, or vendors providing contractual services for BikeWind.com (such as hosting vendors and list managers). If personally identifiable information is being provided to and/or maintained by any company other than these, our policy is that we will not transfer personally identifiable information unless notice is given prior to transfer. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service or by expressing this preference, if requested. Additional information about personally identifiable information follows.

Promotions. Promotions that run on BikeWind.com may be sponsored by companies other than BikeWind.com or may be co-sponsored by BikeWind.com and another company. Some or all personally identifiable information provided by you during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If information will be shared, we will disclose such sharing prior to the transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your personally identifiable information to be shared. In certain circumstances, you may not be able to participate in a particular promotion if you chose not to share personally identifiable information. Currently, most BikeWind.com promotions are limited to U.S. or North American residents.

Advertisers and Links. BikeWind.com advertisers, or Web sites that have links on our site, may also collect personally identifiable information directly from you. This privacy statement does not cover the information practices of companies collecting data on our site or Web sites linked to BikeWind.com.

Marketplace: If you make a purchase or request a service from a business in Marketplace, the information you provide for that transaction (as well as tracking information and cookies as described below) is provided directly to the Marketplace business. Businesses listed in BikeWind.com Marketplace have separate privacy and data collection practices. BikeWind.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the business and its privacy policy, go to that business' home page and click on the appropriate link.

Other: If we run competitions or contests on the site, you may be required to provide information such as your telephone number and address in order to participate. The exact rules may vary in each case but the specific rules for any contest will state how that information may be used. If you told us in your account preferences that you would be interested in receiving e-mail from us, we may send you e-mails about BikeWind.com products, promotions, or services as well as on behalf of other companies. You can change your account preferences at any time.
We do not control the privacy policies of our advertisers, sponsors or other sites or businesses to which we provide hyperlinks or access. Please visit the sites of these businesses to review their privacy policies. BikeWind.com users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.

Except as stated in this privacy policy or at the time of collection, a user's personally identifiable information will not be transferred to a party outside BikeWind.com, its divisions or affiliates, or its service vendors unless notice is given at the time of collection or prior to transfer. If you do not wish to receive any e-mail or to have us share such information with any another party, you may change your preferences for the future at any time by (I) clicking the box on the registration form requesting us not to e-mail you or to share such information, (II) e-mailing us at info@BikeWind.com or (III) contacting us by mail at 11602 Gainsborough Road, Potomac, MD 20854. BikeWind.com may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our User Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) BikeWind.com's rights or property, other BikeWind.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

Data Security. We have in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online. However, as effective as these measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.

What information do web servers collect?
Web servers serving BikeWind.com automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information, such as which pages each user visits and the domain name (e.g., earthlink.net) of visitors. This information is used for various purposes including internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors, and for traffic audits. We also provide this information (as well as information from third-party market researchers) about our users on an aggregated, anonymous basis to our advertisers.
Technology on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we need to change our policy in the future, we will post these changes as soon as they go into effect.

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