THE TORO COMPANY
PRIVACY POLICY Our
Commitment to Your Privacy
The Toro Company respects your privacy. We are particularly sensitive
to privacy issues on the Internet and therefore we provide this Privacy
Policy so you know about our online information practices and understand
how we treat the information we receive about you from the Internet.
The Information We Collect
In general, you can browse our Web site without telling us who you are
or revealing any personal information about yourself. We are, however,
able to determine your IP address. We use your IP address to help diagnose
problems with our server, to administer our Web site, to measure the use
of our Web site and to improve the content of our Web site. In short we
use your IP to gather aggregate demographic information. There are a few
places where we give you an opportunity to provide us your personal
information. This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of
who you are. When you engage in certain activities on our web site, such
as ordering a product, entering a contest or sweepstakes, filling out a
survey, sending us feedback, requesting owners and parts manuals or
registering your product online, we may ask you to provide certain
information. If you choose to share any personal information with us, you
will see that the amount and type of personal information we request
depend on how you use our Web site. It is completely optional for you to
engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities,
however, we may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your
first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), email address,
telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal identifying
information. When ordering products on our web site, you may be asked to
provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity, some of the
information we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as
voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a
particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
The Way We Use Information
We may use your personal information for particular purposes such as
processing your order or for marketing research and other marketing
purposes and for providing you with the latest product and promotional
information and other information that might be useful to you. We may use
your personal information to deliver information to you and to contact you
regarding administrative notices. We may share this information with
Toro's affiliates, dealers or other business partners to support your
customer relationship with The Toro Company. We must release your credit
card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment for products
purchased on our web site; release your address information to the
delivery service to deliver products that you ordered; and provide order
information to third parties that help us provide customer service. We
will not give or sell this information to any other company for its use in
marketing or solicitation. Updating and
Correcting Your Personal Information
You may access and correct your personal information by writing us at:
The Toro Company Attn: Privacy Compliance/Legal
Department 8111 Lyndale Avenue South Bloomington, MN
55420
Please include your name, address, and/or email address when
you contact us.
We encourage you to promptly update your personal
information if it changes. Your Choice on
Collection and Use of Your Information
We may, from time to time, send you mailings regarding our products and
services. We will send you these mailings only if you indicated that you
do not object to these offers. If you do not wish to receive further
information from Toro you can send us an e-mail at privacy@Toro.com and tell us that you
do not want to receive future communications. You may ask to have the
information on your account deleted or removed, however, because we keep
track of past transactions, you cannot delete information associated with
past transactions on our web site. In addition, it may be impossible to
completely delete your information without some residual information
because of backups.
We will encourage our service partners to adopt
and post privacy policies. However, the use of your personal information
by our service partners is governed by the privacy policies of those
service partners, and is not subject to our control. The Toro Web site
contains links to other non-Toro Web sites. Toro is not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites and you should
exercise your best judgement when sharing personal information on these
Web sites. Our Commitment to Security of Your
Personal Information
We want you to have continuing trust in The Toro Company and in our
products and services and, so, we have put in place reasonable physical,
electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal
information.
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card
transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third party
banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the
information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other
payment information and to process and ship your
order.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any
wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while
we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a)
there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are
beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity and privacy of any and all
information and data exchanged between you and us through our web site
cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed
or tampered with in transit by a third party.
By using this Web site you
are agreeing to the terms of the Toro Privacy. We reserve the right to
modify our privacy policy as business needs require. We will post such
changes on our Web site.
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