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Privacy Policy

VISTAR Corporation (VISTAR), and any other operating units that may be considered subsidiaries of VISTAR, have a commitment to respecting your privacy. This web site is structured to that you can visit VISTAR on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you have our assurance that any information you provide will only be used to help us support your customer relationship with VISTAR.

Awareness
VISTAR Corporation has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. VISTAR provides this Online Privacy Statement to help your awareness of our privacy policy and practices. Additionally, VISTAR also provides you, by way of this Online Privacy Statement, information regarding the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. In the interest of promoting this awareness, we make our Online Privacy Statement available, not only on our home page, but also from the bottom of every page within the vistarvsa.com web site. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site. By way of this privacy statement, we agree to notify you of:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours or what third party information is collected from you through this web site.
  2. Who is collecting the information
  3. How the information may be used
  4. With whom the information may be shared
  5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
  6. What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under VISTAR's control
  7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you feel that VISTAR is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, please contact us at .


Information Collection and Usage
VISTAR is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different than what is described in this statement. VISTAR may collect information from our users at several different points within our web site. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information. Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and e-mail address), unique identifiers (like customer number), and occasionally, demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income evel). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Unique identifiers (such as customer numbers) are collected to verify the user's identity and for use as account numbers in our record system. Demographic and profile data may also be collected at our site. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information, and unique identifiers - but we encourage our users to provide this information, so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive, which contains information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Rejection of the cookie by the user does not prohibit them from using our site. Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. We use cookies to save your password so you don't have to reenter it each time you visit our site.

Surveys
From time to time, our web site may feature online surveys. At those times we offer them, our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their e-mail address), unique identifiers (like their customer number), and demographic information (like their zip code or age). We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Unique identifiers (such as customer numbers) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity and for use as account numbers in our record system.

How we use any information we may collect
VISTAR uses your information to not only help us understand your needs, but also to provide you with better service. We may also use the information you provide, to contact you for market research information, or to provide you with information we think would be of interest to you and your business. At the very least, we strive to give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact.

Who we share collected information with
VISTAR will not sell, rent, or lease any personally identifiable information that you provide, to others unless we have first obtained your permission or are required by law. We will only share the personal data you provide online with other VISTAR entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the uses described above.

Choice
VISTAR will not use or share the personally identifiable information you provide to us online, in any ways unrelated to the ones described above, without obtaining your permission. As previously stated, we also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us. In these cases, we will do everything we can to honor such requests. Should we ever share your information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed by our privacy policy, your permission to share your information is always secured first.

Accuracy and Access
VISTAR strives to keep any personally identifiable information you provide, as accurate as possible. Please be aware that this site contains links to other sites - VISTAR is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any web sites that may linked either to or from the VISTAR web site. Additionally, VISTAR may not have reviewed any third party sites linked to ours. VISTAR does not control , nor is it responsible for any of these sites, their content or their Privacy Policy. VISTAR does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. Please understand that by accessing any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk.

Security
VISTAR is committed to doing everything possible, to ensure the security of the information you provide on this web site. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Contacting VISTAR regarding Choice, Opt-Outs, Corrections, Updates, or questions regarding this Privacy Statement or this Web Site
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. Specifically, a check box is provided at each location information may be requested, allowing the visitor to opt-out of future mailings and communications. This site gives users the options listed below for removing their information from our database so as not receive future communications from us. Additionally, this site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided. Finally, if you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us the following ways:
  1. You can send e-mail to:
  2. You can visit the following URL: www.vistar.com
  3. You can send mail to the following postal address:
VISTAR Corporation
Attn: Marketing
12650 East Arapahoe Road, Bldg. D
Englewood, CO 80112-3901

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