We gather personal information to establish your account, process an online order and inform our customers of special discounts, offers and contests. Occasionally, we conduct market research including anonymous user analysis, web site administration and development. For these purposes, LightingCatalog.com contracts with third party service partners. These partners provide us with data collection, storage and reporting services only and are restricted from using your information in any way, other than to help us make our site more useful to our visitors. Service partners are required to sign confidentiality agreements and will abide by LightingCatalog.com's privacy policies.

Remember - any collection of personal information by LightingCatalog.com is done to make your shopping experience on our site more convenient and user-friendly.

The information we collect is described in the following three categories: transaction information, cookies and marketing.

When making a purchase on our site, we will collect your name, home and/or business address, telephone number, credit card information and e-mail address. This information is kept private and stored in a secure database. We may also use this information for research and development purposes, marketing and anonymous user analysis.

A "cookie" is a small file stored on your machine that serves as an identifier. When you visit a web site, your unique identifier is captured and used to notify the web site if you are either a new or return customer. Web sites may also send a cookie to your browser, which may then store it on your system. LightingCatalog.com uses cookies to maintain our shopping carts. You may set the browser on your computer to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to accept it or not.

As with most web sites, you have the option to register with LightingCatalog.com to receive product and service information, special offers, discounts, enter contests and giveaways, etc. If you choose to receive such information, we may ask for your name, home and/or business address, telephone number and e-mail address. If, at any point you choose not to receive information from LightingCatalog.com, you may opt-out of this usage.

As described above, we may use your personal information to complete your transaction, notify you of special offers, products and discounts, as well as inform you if you have won a contest on our site. Information used to conduct research and development, user analysis and web site / system administration is provided by third party service partners. These partners are restricted from using your information in any way, other than to help us make our site more useful to our visitors. Service partners are required to sign confidentiality agreements and will abide by LightingCatalog.com's privacy policies.