Flick Your BIC - Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

1. Privacy Statement. flickyourbic.com is a website for adults over 19 years of age. flickyourbic.com is committed to protecting your online privacy when visiting our Website. The purpose of this policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather about you when you visit flickyourbic.com, how we use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of the information.

2. Use of Personal Information Which We Collect. In order to gain access to our website, we ask you for your birth date to confirm that you are at least 19 years of age. If you register for a BICPass and participate in our on-line sweepstakes, contests, or games, we will collect your personal information, including your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address and birth date, for the purpose of entering you in our sweepstakes, contest, or games and/or contacting you if you are eligible to receive a prize pursuant to the official rules. Access to such information is limited to only those employees and representatives of BIC who need to use it in the course of their assigned responsibilities.

Personal information will also be used to contact you if you request to receive BIC Lighter promotion e-mails and/or if you choose to participate in BIC Lighter surveys. The flickyourbic.com website may allow you to send, from the flickyourbic.com website, an e-mail inviting a friend to visit the Website (hereinafter "Electronic Messages"). Any names and/or e-mail addresses collected for Electronic Messages (data collected to deliver the Electronic Message to the recipient's e-mail addresses) are stored temporarily in a transaction log file for security purposes, and are deleted after a specified holding period. After that, all personally identifiable information relating to the transaction is deleted from our system.

3. Links to or From Other Web Sites. The flickyourbic.com web site may contain links to other web sites. BIC has no control over and assumes no responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of these web sites. You should review the privacy policies of each web site you visit.

4. How flickyourbic.com Uses Cookies. Like many other commercial sites, our site may utilize a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how our site is used. Cookies were designed to help a Website recognize a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was previously browsing the site. Our cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on a computer virus. Our Website may use cookies to enhance your visit. Cookies can securely store a user's password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of your preferences. Our cookies may collect a domain name and track a path through our Web pages. We only use cookies to gather the information indicated in this policy and do not use cookies to gather personal identifying information about you without your consent.

5. Disclosure To Third Parties. Except as specified herein, we do not share personal information about you with any third party without your permission.

6. Post Comments/Message Board Sections. In the Post Comments/Message Board Sections, registered users are identified by username. Visitors can see registered users' postings in the Post Comments/Message Board Sections and as such, we suggest designating only your first name or a fictitious name as your username. Please remember that any information that you disclose in the Post Comments/Message Board Sections becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in the Post Comments/Message Board Sections.

BIC shall have no liability related to the content of any Post Comments/Message Board Sections communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, harassment, discrimination, or otherwise. BIC retains the right to remove messages or material deemed by BIC to be abusive, defamatory, obscene, discriminatory, harassing or otherwise unacceptable. BIC also reserves the right to terminate access to the Post Comments/Message Board Sections or take other protective steps. Violations may be reported to privacypolicy@bicworldusa.com.

7. Contacting Us Regarding Your Personal Information. Questions regarding this Privacy Policy, the accuracy of your personal information or the use of the information should be directed via e-mail to privacypolicy@bicworldusa.com Any other questions regarding this Website may be directed to webmaster@bicworldusa.com or you may write to us at:

BIC Website Privacy. 1 BIC Way, Suite 1, Shelton, CT 06484

This Privacy Policy is subject to change at our discretion. All changes will be posted as soon as they go into effect.