Privacy Notice

We are committed to your privacy…
At Zinky Electronics, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and the users of The Smokey Amps Online Store. This Privacy Policy Statement sets out our policy on the gathering and use of information on our website. Please note that although there may be links from our website to other websites, this Privacy Policy applies only to our website and not to websites of other companies or organizations to which our website is linked. Zinky Electronics does not control or endorse the content of third party websites or otherwise accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites. Although registration is not required to access our website, you may be asked to provide us with personal information or register when you visit certain sections of our website. Any consumer information gathered on our website may be used by Zinky Electronics for market research, promotional purposes, future improvement of our website and to better meet your needs. If you choose to opt in to our mailing list we may use the information gathered about you for the following purposes: to send to you or, where appropriate, your organization, information about us and promotional material about our products together with details of any offers we may have available from time to time. Additionally we may use this information to monitor interest in our products and to assist us to tailor the content of our site to your needs by collecting information about your preferences through tracking patterns of page views on this site; and to create a profile relating to you in order to show you the content that might be of interest to you and to display the content according to your preferences. We may use your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our site as well as to gather broad demographic information.

Use of your information…
We do not exchange, sell or otherwise give away any of your personal information to any other companies or individual – ever. BUT…On December 13th 2003 US President George W. Bush signed into law portions of the expanded USA Patriot Act (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004). The Act included a simple, yet insidious, redefinition of “financial institution,” which previously referred to banks, but now includes stockbrokers, car dealerships, casinos, credit card companies, insurance agencies, jewelers, airlines, the U.S. Post Office, and any other business “whose cash transactions have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory matters.” In other words, even though we claim that you have privacy, the US Federal government can demand that we supply your information to them at any time, without a warrant, and that we can not inform you or we can/will face criminal prosecution (yes, those are really the rules). Actually, if you read the law, you have no privacy. We just wanted to make sure that you were aware of it and that we have no control over it at all. So, other than that, we will continue to do all we can to protect your privacy in every other way.

Who else will see your information?
For the sole purpose of completing your order, we have to pass some of your information to other companies. These are – the credit card processor, and parcel courier services used in shipping your order. The information passed to these companies is used only for the purpose of completing your order – e.g. delivering your order!

How are “cookies” used on store.smokeyamps.com and www.smokeyamps.com?
Smokey Amps and Zinky Electronics, like many other website operators, may use standard technology called “cookies” on our sites. Cookies are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit a particular website. We use cookies to store visitor preferences; record session information, such as items that you add to your shopping cart; record user- specific information on what pages users access; alert visitors to new areas that we think would be of interest to them; record past activity at a site in order to provide better and more personalized service when visitors return to our site. You can disable cookies by turning them off in your browser, however, some areas of our websites may not function properly if you do so.

Your credit card information…
For your increased security (and our peace of mind!) Zinky Electronics does not collect or store customers credit card information – this is collected by credit card processor.

Security
Our websites incorporate safeguards using industry standard technology to heighten the security, accuracy and privacy of any personal information we have collected, and we have put in place reasonable precautions to protect information from loss and misuse. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as may be appropriate.

Policy Changes at Smokey Amps…
We may modify this privacy policy at any time. If we alter our privacy policy, any changes will be posted on this web page so that you are always informed of the information we collect about you, how we use it and the circumstances under which we may disclose it. Please check back from time to time to ensure you are aware of our current privacy policy.