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Privacy Policy
CPO Commerce, LLC ("CPO") operates the websites located at www.cpooutlets.com and other websites on which a copy of this privacy policy appears (cumulatively the "CPO Sites") as a service to its customers residing in the United States of America, its territories and possessions. CPO is the owner or authorized user of the content displayed on the CPO Sites.
CPO has adopted this privacy policy to inform you of the following:
- How we collect information on the CPO Sites.
- The types of information we collect on the CPO Sites.
- How we use information we collect.
- The circumstances under which CPO may disclose information gathered on the CPO Sites to third parties.
- The choices available to you on the CPO Sites regarding the collection and use of your information.
- Security procedures that we have put in place to protect your Personal Information.
For the purposes of this privacy policy, "Personal Information" is personally identifiable information about an individual person, as more particularly described under applicable privacy laws. You should carefully review this privacy policy before using the CPO Sites.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy or the CPO Sites, you should contact us you should contact us (see section 12).
1. Policy Scope
This privacy policy applies to your use of the CPO Sites and CPO's treatment of information, including Personal Information, collected by or on behalf of CPO through the CPO Sites. Your use of linked or associated websites, or websites to which you may be directed, may be subject to different or additional terms, notices and policies, and such terms, notices and policies shall control as to those websites. For information regarding the collection and use of information on any of those websites or other third party sites, please refer to the terms of use and policies provided by those websites.
NOTE: THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE, EITHER VOLUNTARILY OR INVOLUNTARILY, THROUGH RESPONSES TO SOME SURVEY REQUESTS INITIATED AT THE CPO SITES. SOME OF THESE SURVEYS ARE CONDUCTED BY YAHOO! INC. AND OTHER THIRD PARTIES. SUCH INFORMATION WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE APPLICABLE PRIVACY POLICY(IES) OF YAHOO! INC. OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES.
2. Our Information Collection Practices
Automatically Collected Information. When you visit the CPO Sites to place an order, browse, read, or download information, we may automatically collect and store the following types of non-personally identifiable information:
- Information collected as server logs from information provided by your browser.
- Click-through statistics.
- Your IP address.
- The type of web browser you are using to access CPO Sites.
- The type of operating system you are using.
- The name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet.
- The date and time you access CPO Sites.
- The Internet address of the sites from which you linked directly to CPO Sites.
Personal Information Provided Voluntarily by the User. You can use portions of the CPO Sites without providing any Personal Information. However, in order to take advantage of the full capabilities of the CPO Sites and to obtain access to, and use of, many of the features found on the CPO Sites, including placing orders for products offered for sale on the CPO Sites and receiving CPO email exclusives, you must provide certain Personal Information. You may also provide Personal Information when you participate in various services and offerings on the CPO Sites. Personal Information may include, without limitation:
- Your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, fax number, billing information, and credit card number and related information.
- Information concerning your interests, occupation, product use and preferences.
You may also be asked to respond to additional questions to help us meet your needs. Certain functionalities on the CPO Sites, such as the "Email This Page to a Friend" feature, may require you to provide information regarding third parties. Similarly, if you request that an order or gift be sent directly to an individual other than yourself, you will also be asked to submit information about the recipient of the order or gift. This information may include a third party's name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, and other similar information.
3. Information Warranty
If you do provide Personal Information through the CPO Sites, including Personal Information regarding individuals other than yourself, you warrant that (i) you have the authority to provide that Personal Information and to grant CPO the right to use such Personal Information consistent with this privacy policy, (ii) you have provided that Personal Information voluntarily, and (iii) you consent to the use of that Personal Information consistent with this privacy policy.
4. Use and Disclosure of Information
Use of Automatically Collected Information. Information collected automatically through the CPO Sites provides us with information regarding your use of the CPO Sites, including which pages are the most popular with CPO Sites users. That information also allows us to determine if the CPO Sites are working properly and to make changes to the CPO Sites to allow the user to have a better experience on the CPO Sites. We do not use that information to identify a particular user.
We may aggregate and use certain non-personally identifiable information for research or marketing purposes and may share, sell and rent or trade that information and statistical information derived therefrom with our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties.
Use of Non-personally Identifiable Information Provided Voluntarily by the User. By remaining opted-in to our email list, you are acknowledging that we may sell, rent, share, trade or otherwise provide or transfer your non-personally identifiable information such as demographic and occupational information to third parties. Such third parties may use such information for whatever purposes they wish or may transfer such information to other third parties.
Business Uses of Information. CPO uses Personal Information you provide to us for internal business purposes, such as (i) for verification at login as a registered user, if applicable; (ii) for marketing purposes; (iii) to contact you regarding the products or services that you have ordered or requested and to provide the same; (iv) for fulfillment of promotions, including but not limited to sweepstakes, contests or subscriptions that you have entered; (v) to process and ship orders; (vi) to send order and shipping confirmations; (vii) to provide customer service, respond to your requests and inquiries and enhance product and service offerings; (viii) to keep records regarding orders, returns and exchanges; (ix) to protect both you and us against error and fraud; (x) to send information, product and service alerts and exclusive offers; (xi) to record usage of the CPO Sites; (xii) to adjust the CPO Sites to your personal preferences; and (xiii) to customize advertising and CPO marketing information regarding our products and services. We may also exchange information, including Personal Information, with other companies and organizations for credit fraud protection and risk reduction.
Service Providers and Vendors. We may also share your Personal Information with certain third parties that perform services for CPO. Those third parties may host the CPO Sites, operate certain features on the CPO Sites, print or send mailings, provide marketing materials for the CPO Sites, authorize and process your payments, provide customer service, analyze data and assist in fulfilling your orders, send emails on CPO's behalf, or otherwise assist CPO with the operation of the CPO Sites. Those third parties are not authorized to use or disclose your Personal Information for any purpose other than to perform the services designated by CPO.
Cooperative Database Services. We may participate in cooperative database services. These services help us to direct print mailings and other marketing initiatives to appropriate purchasers and website visitors. Names and mailing addresses may be shared between participating parties in the cooperative database services, but no credit card information or email addresses are provided to the cooperative.
Business Transfers. Automatically collected information and your Personal Information may be transferred as an asset in connection with a merger or sale involving all or part of CPO or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change of control.
Required Disclosures. CPO may also provide your Personal Information to a third party if CPO in good faith believes that access, use, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable government request. For example, CPO may be required to disclose your Personal Information to respond to a subpoena, court order or other legal process.
5. Consent to Processing and Transfers of Information
CPO may transfer information that you send to us, including, without limitation, Personal Information, to recipients in countries that do not provide the same level of legal data protection as the country from which you access the CPO Sites. By using the CPO Sites, you consent to those transfers and to the processing by CPO of that information.
6. Notice for Parents
The CPO Sites are considered to be general audience Sites and are not to be used by children. CPO does not sell products that are intended for children and does not intend to collect Personal Information from individuals under the age of eighteen (18). If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided personal information to us, please inform us as provided under Section 12 below, and we will delete that Personal Information.
7. Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive to identify previous visitors to the Sites. Cookies are text files that can be rejected or deleted by you at any time. You may disable cookies using your Internet browser settings. However, by deleting or rejecting cookies, you may inhibit the user experience on the CPO Sites and other sites. For example, in order to complete online transactions, cookies must be accepted.
CPO uses cookies to store information about your visit to the CPO Sites in order to enhance your visit to the CPO Sites. For example, storing that information will allow us to, on occasion, customize account pages for you. We also use cookies and tracking technologies to:
- Track user visits.
- Track your shopping cart and purchases.
- Determine what set-ups are most frequently rendered.
- Save your password so you do not have to provide it each time you visit CPO Sites.
In addition, we currently contract with several online partners to help manage and optimize the CPO Sites. We use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our sites. To do this, we use Web beacons and cookies provided by our marketing company on the CPO Sites. The type of information we collect includes which pages are visited, which products are put into the shopping cart, which orders enter the checkout process, which checkouts are executed with payment, etc. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Although our marketing company manages the information coming from our sites on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. If you do not want to help us learn how to improve our sites, products, offers and marketing strategy, you can "opt-out" of our ability to analyze such data by contacting us (see Section 12).
8. Security
CPO and authorized third parties employ reasonable measures, including administrative, technical, and physical measures, to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure. For example, any Personal Information you enter when you place an order for a product, including, without limitation, your credit card and other Personal Information, is encrypted before transmission to CPO Sites servers by using Secure Sockets Layer 128-bit encryption, if supported by your browser. In addition, we use reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of your Personal Information consistent with this privacy policy. However, your Personal Information can never be 100% secure: information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons. You can help us to protect your Personal Information by (i) not sharing your password or other account information with others, (ii) using a secure web browser, and (iii) changing your password frequently.
9. Managing Your Information
CPO reserves the right to retain any Personal Information reasonably necessary to appropriately document its business activities and for archival and record retention purposes. We will store your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this privacy policy. You may find out more details regarding this privacy policy by contacting us (see Section 12).
You may "opt-out" of receiving future email or other communications from us by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email that you receive from us, or by contacting us (see Section 12). Please note that removal of your Personal Information from our database or "opting-out" will not stop (i) marketing or advertising content that is ready to be mailed or is queued for transmission to you prior to the time when we can implement your request, or (ii) the use of your Personal Information by third parties with whom CPO may have already shared your information.
10. Updates and Changes to Policies
CPO may change this privacy policy from time to time by posting updated versions of the privacy policy here. As we may make changes to this privacy policy at any time without notifying you, we suggest that you review this privacy policy each time you access or use the CPO Sites. Please note that our rights to use your Personal Information will be based on the privacy policy in effect at the time the information is collected.
11. Contact CPO
If you have questions regarding the CPO Sites, the privacy policy or your privacy on the CPO Sites, you can send a request with any further questions to our Customer Service Department by email to privacy@cpooutlets.com or by mail to:
CPO Outlets
P.O. Box 50768
Pasadena, CA 91115
California Privacy Rights
Under California Law, California residents have the right to request that CPO not share his or her personal information with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing use. To make such a request, email us at privacy@cpooutlets.com or by mail to:
CPO Outlets
P.O. Box 50768
Pasadena, CA 91115
Effective December 31, 2007
THE EXPERT’S GUIDE TO BUYING A SAW
As all experienced tradespeople or woodworkers know, multiple types of saws can be used for the same job. However, some saws get the job done better and faster than others.
As America’s leading retailer of tools and equipment, CPO is trusted by both experts and DIYers. We put this guide together as a resource for choosing the best saw for the work you’ll be doing. It examines key differences between types of saws within major categories and recommendations on the features and differences that set them apart.
CIRCULAR SAWS
Today’s tradesperson has more options to consider than ever before when buying circular saws, with features like enhanced maneuverability for those hard-to-reach areas, as well as extended battery life on corded models.
If you’re in the market for a new circular saw, it’s a good idea to list your specific needs and shop accordingly. Factors like power rating and blade material can make two circular saws wildly different in terms of how they perform and the tasks for which they’re best suited. Most standard circular saws are 15-amp, but you’re definitely going to want something more powerful if you plan to cut through tougher materials like brick, stone, or concrete. Likewise, tungsten carbide tipped blades are great for cutting wood, while masonry and tile require diamond blades.
MITER SAWS
While beginners may believe they’re ready for any project with their trusty circular saw by their side, experts know a good miter saw is essential. You can certainly use a circular saw to cut at an angle, but a miter saw features an oscillating swing arm to make it much easier to adjust the blade to the exact angle you need. For the precisely angled crosscuts required by crown molding, door frames, window casings, and similar tasks, a miter saw is key.
Compound or sliding? That’s the big question when it comes to miter saws. Compound miter saws have arms that can be titled to angles other than 90 degrees, allowing you to make bevel cuts as well as miter cuts. A sliding miter saw is nearly identical except for the fact that it can slide forward or backward on rails. This makes it easier to cut wider or thicker material. If you’re cutting baseboard molding or picture frames, a compound miter saw will likely suffice. Projects involving boards wider than around 8 inches will require a sliding miter saw.
TABLE SAWS
CPO knows no workshop is complete without a table saw, especially if you specialize in furniture or cabinetmaking. Though certainly a workhorse when it comes to ripping boards, a table saw can handle crosscuts, miter and bevel cuts, and a variety of other tasks as well. Contractors and homeowners will prefer a portable table saw that will easily fit in a garage or that they can take with them on the go. New features and improvements to table saws are worth exploring as you consider adding to your collection.
RECIPROCATING SAWS
The bread-and-butter tool of home demolitions projects, reciprocating saws have earned a place in just about everyone’s collection. For those tasks that don’t require precise cuts or a more delicate touch, the reciprocating saw is what you’ll reach for.
Reciprocating saws can also be enhanced with a variety of accessories that expand their versatility. For instance, by removing the saw blade and replacing it with a scraper blade, you can use your reciprocating saw to more easily scrape up linoleum floor tiles, wallpaper, drywall, and other stubborn materials. Struggling to remove hardened grout from between bathroom shower tiles? Swap the saw blade for a grout rake. Other popular attachments include wire brush, wood rasps, files, saw guides, sanding pads, and much more. These accessories turn an already useful saw into a truly invaluable multi-purpose tool. We recommend taking a look at available attachments regularly: You never know when you’ll discover a new one that meets your needs.
CHAIN SAWS
How much power do you need from your chain saw? It’s a question you’ve likely had to ask about every other type of saw you’ve had to purchase, but it’s no less relevant here. As usual, there is a trade-off between portability and power. Battery-powered chain saws provide the most freedom, but you’re limited by the life of the battery, of course. Corded-electric models remove this concern and provide more power, though you need to make sure you can plug in from where you’re working.
If you’re planning to tackle heavy-duty landscaping jobs, a gas-powered chain saw may be your only viable option. They offer the most power by a significant margin, but they’re larger, heavier, noisier, and more difficult to maintain. (Not to mention more expensive.) In general, you should use a battery-powered chain saw for minor trimming and pruning around the yard, and a corded-electric saw for cutting moderately sized branches and shrubs. Go with a gas-powered chain saw for safely and efficiently cutting thick branches, or even cutting down a tree itself. As always, check the amperage to make sure it’s sufficient to your needs.
JIG SAWS
When using a jig saw, you know how important it is to maintain control of the tool so you can make curved or irregular cuts with maximum precision. Woodworkers, hobbyists, and other users who need to create intricate details should prioritize comfort and ease of use when looking for a new jig saw. Fortunately, there are several features available in jig saws designed for this very purpose.
Finding a grip that works for you is the most immediate way to ensure you get top-notch results from your jig saw. Most jig saws feature ergonomic designs that fit naturally in your hand so you won’t experience any discomfort when making a very precise, delicate cut. For even more precision, you may prefer a jig saw with a barrel grip. Instead of a D-shaped handle on the top, these are held directly by the barrel. Many users feel that gripping the jig saw with their hand closer to the blade allows them to better control the tool, and therefore cut with greater precision.
BAND SAWS
A band saw isn’t the only tool that can cut irregular shapes, but it should be your saw of choice when you need to make these types of cuts through thick materials. Though not able to make inside cuts or create some of the intricate details a scroll saw can provide, you may find a band saw easier to use. It’s also more versatile, as it can admirably handle crosscuts, miter cuts, straight cuts, and other types of cuts as well. A band saw is particularly good for cutting through large pieces of lumber that your table saw can’t accommodate. Even if you’ve used your band saw for years, there’s a chance you still haven’t experienced its full potential.
From benchtop and floor models to portable band saws you can take on the go, there are many options to consider including a few recommended models here.
SCROLL SAWS
Scrolls saws and jig saws are sometimes referred to as the same tool, but as any avid trade or craftsperson knows, they’re very different saws. Both are used for cutting curved lines into material, but the similarities end there.
While a jig saw is definitely the better choice in terms of portability and convenience, a scroll saw is better suited to making small, delicate cuts in thin pieces of material 2 inches thick or less. It’s similar to a table saw with a tiny blade in the center that can effortlessly make the most intricate designs. You can also make a plunge cut much more easily with a scroll saw than a jig saw. At-home DIYers will almost certainly get more use out of a jig saw, but woodworkers who put a lot of artistry into their pieces will want to have a scroll saw in their shop.
PANEL SAWS
Panel saws are a common sight in cabinet and sign shops for their ability to cut sheets of wood, plastic, laminate, and other materials into specifically sized pieces or panels. Vertical panel saws are becoming more popular over traditional sliding table models because they take up significantly less space on the shop floor. You can place one right up against the wall, which is perfect for smaller work areas.
That’s not to say that horizontal panel saws aren’t without their advantages. Vertical panel saws can only cut materials at 90 degrees in a vertical or horizontal direction. Some vertical models come with a tilting apparatus of some kind, but these can be tricky to use compared to a horizontal panel saw, which can make miter and bevel cuts quickly and accurately. Keep this in mind when deciding which panel saw is right for you.
A SAW FOR EVERY NEED
We hope this guide has given you some great ideas for purchasing your next saw. If you have questions or need more information about specific products, contact the CPO Outlets team.
