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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
WEATHER EVERY WINTER STORM WITH SNOW BLOWERS, SHOVELS, AND MORE
Depending on where you live, winter and its snowstorms can be absolutely brutal. Perhaps you expect one or two big storms per season, or maybe weekly snowfall is simply a way of life in your region. No matter how often you anticipate snow, it’s important to be prepared with the right tools to stay safe before, during, and after any storm. These include winter essentials like snow shovels, snow blowers, and ice scrapers.
Each of these tools has a specific function for dealing with winter conditions, but not all of them may be appropriate for every situation. In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at each item, explain how it’s used, and present examples of products you may want to incorporate into your winter preparations.
CLEAR THE WAY WITH SNOW SHOVELS
If you’re a homeowner in the Northeastern U.S., Upper Midwest, or anywhere else it snows often, there’s a very good chance you have at least one snow shovel in your garage or tool shed. A good shovel is the most straightforward way to remove snow from your driveway or sidewalk. Just pick one up and start clearing the area.
Of course, as anyone who has shoveled snow will tell you, it can be back-breaking work. Wet snow is heavy and when there’s a lot of it, even the strongest person will tire quickly and struggle to lift another shovelful of the white stuff.
Fortunately, there are high-quality shovels designed to minimize strain on the user, like the Snow Joe 16 in. Back-Saving Snow Shovel. This shovel features a handle that improves posture and reduces the need to bend while you shovel. It directs lifting leverage to the lower hand, letting your upper body muscles do the heavy lifting. The spring-loaded, ergonomic grip uses energy from throwing the snow to quickly return and reset the shovel so you’re ready for the next load. It’s a great way to make shoveling less strenuous while decreasing the risk of injury.
LET A SNOW BLOWER DO MOST OF THE WORK
For very long driveways, wide sidewalks, or other expansive areas, a snow shovel may simply not be feasible. In these situations, a snow blower is the better bet. Snow blowers, also known as snow throwers, are machines that remove snow from an area by picking it up with a spiral blade or auger and tossing it to the side.
Using a snow blower allows you to clear snow much more quickly and with less physical strain on your body than a hand-operated shovel. All you need to do is remove any branches or other obstacles, start the blower, and push it through your desired path, making sure the snow is being thrown away from the area you wish to clear.
TYPES OF SNOW BLOWERS
Snow blowers are available in a few different varieties, including single-stage snow blowers, two-stage snow blowers, and electric snow throwers. Each has its own unique capabilities and is suited to a particular type of snow removal. You can find a diverse set of options from top brands like Snow Joe, Briggs & Stratton, Honda, Ariens, and Detail K2.
Here’s an overview of the main types of snow blowers so you can determine which is best for your needs.
Single-Stage Snow Blowers
A single-stage snow blower throws snow once by pulling it in with an auger and then projecting it outward through a discharge chute. It’s smaller, more lightweight, and easier to control than its two-stage counterpart. As a result, single-stage snow blowers are only recommended for clearing snow levels up to 8 inches deep. They work best on level, mid-sized paved driveways and walks. You shouldn’t use one on loose gravel, as small stones can be picked up and tossed by the blade, creating the potential for injury. Single-stage snow blowers are available in gas- and electric-powered models. They take up around the same amount of space as a lawn mower, so they’re easy to store.
If a single-stage snow blower is right for you, one popular option is the Honda 20 in. 187cc Single-Stage Snow Blower with Dual Chute Control and Electric Starter. It offers high-capacity snow removal up to 55 tons per hour at a 33-foot discharge distance. The discharge and director controls allow you to set the precise direction and distance of the snow discharge with just two levers.
Two-Stage Snow Blowers
When you need more power to contend with much higher snow levels, a two-stage snow blower will do the job. Two-stage snow blowers are larger than single-stage blowers. They feature an auger to pull in the snow, along with an impeller to launch it out of the top discharge chute. They can clear snow drifts, mounds, and other large expanses of snow over 6 inches deep. This makes them best-suited for clearing long driveways and level concrete where a significant amount of wet, heavy snow has fallen. A two-stage blower can also remove snow from gravel since the augur doesn’t touch the ground.
Two-stage snow blowers are only available with gas engines and are great for both residential and commercial use. Those needing the extra power of a two-stage blower may consider the Ariens Deluxe 28 254cc 2-Stage Electric Start Gas Snow Blower with Headlight. It moves fast and efficiently through large amounts of snow with a 14-inch steel auger and 28-inch clearing width. Auto-turn steering allows you to control the blower precisely and effortlessly. The included headlight also makes it easy to clear snow at night or when visibility is severely limited.
Electric Snow Throwers
An electric snow thrower is ideal for those who need to remove light amounts of snow (less than 6 inches) but don’t want to use a traditional shovel. They’re excellent for clearing driveways and sidewalks around small, single-family homes. Electric snow throwers are very convenient due to their compact size and quiet operation. They don’t have driven wheels but are instead propelled by a rubber-tipped augur. You can choose from either corded or cordless options, though corded models offer limited maneuverability.
If you’re looking for an electric snow thrower, the Snow Joe Ultra Series 15.0 Amp 18 in. Electric Snow Thrower with Light is an excellent choice. Its switch lever provides an instant start, and with no need for gas, oil, or regular maintenance, you can pull it out of the garage and get right to work when those unexpected snow showers hit.
Check out our convenient chart to easily compare the features of each type of snow blower:
SNOW BROOMS AND ICE SCRAPERS
If you park your car outside, a snow broom and ice scraper is an absolute necessity. There’s nothing worse than getting ready for work after an overnight snowstorm only to find your vehicle covered with snow and ice. While you’ll likely need a shovel to dig your car out of significant snowfall, a snow broom and ice scraper will make sure your windshield and windows are clear of snow and ice so you can drive safely.
The Snow Joe Snow Broom with Ice Scraper offers an efficient way to free your car from snow and ice. It features a patented dual-purpose design with a broom head on one end and a built-in scraper on the other, so you can easily push heavy snow off your car and clear ice from the windshield without causing damage. It’s also conveniently sized to fit in your trunk, so you’ll be prepared if it snows while you’re out during the day.
BE READY WHEN THE FIRST SNOWFLAKE FALLS
Winter snow can be beautiful but it also causes its share of problems for your everyday routine. Reduce the frustration by being prepared with snow shovels, a snow blower, ice scrapers, and anything else you need to make sure you can safely venture outside your home no matter how much snow has fallen.
You can find a large selection of high-quality snow removal products from leading brands at CPO Outlets. Whether you’re a new homeowner buying your first snow blower or need to upgrade from an older model, we have plenty of options. If you need help finding the perfect item, don’t hesitate to contact us and get advice from our experts.
Best of luck this winter!
