Privacy Policy

Updated: August 22, 2019

At Imperial Lighting Co., we are committed to protecting your personal information that you share with us. Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in our activities involving our customers and partners.

The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers’ needs.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

  1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide such as name, email and shipping address.
  2. Browser metadata such as country of origin, browser type, operating system, time of day, day of week, on-site click activity.

Web Site Use Information

Imperial Lighting Co. uses Google Analytics on this website. Learn how Google uses data when you visit our website.

Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?

Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers’ personal information. As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at any time, to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers, opt-out, and/or remove your personal information from our databases.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?

We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective customers. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site’s visitor capacity.

Independent Contractors

We reserve the right to use independent contractors to provide our service. In those instances, we will share only necessary information to complete your order.

Sharing Information with Affiliates

We share your personal information as it pertains specifically to order fulfillment, subscription management and opt-in based email marketing. Currently, the affiliate organizations who are exposed to your personal information are:

  1. J. W. “Bill” Courter, to fulfill your request regarding the newsletter subscription program.
  2. MailChimp (platform), for communicating to you, personally regarding newsletter subscription digital delivery and special offers designed for the subscription and website customer audience.
  3. Paypal.com, as it pertains to transactions during check-out.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

  1. Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
  2. Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by contacting us. Please ask for your account manager. You may be asked to send an e-mail confirmation from your registered address in order to authenticate your identity and obtain this information.

Disclosure of Information

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site which has a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and policies.

Your Consent

By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

For inquiries please contact:

Imperial Lighting Co.
Attn: Chief Privacy Officer
Email: rchris@imperiallightingco.com