Your use (accessing, browsing, buying, etc.) of this site is your legal agreement to the policies, terms and conditions below. Sonic Impact Technologies does not rent, sell or otherwise forward your name to other companies. Sonic Impact Technologies is required by law to collect sales tax on all purchases made at our website si-technologies.com.

Sonic Impact Technologies knows that giving us information about yourself, or making an on-line purchase is a decision that requires a great deal of trust, and it is our goal to earn and maintain your trust. We promise you that we will respect your privacy and maintain the security of any information you share with us. We believe that it is your right to know, before you register or shop with us, what information we collect from you, how we use it, who else sees it and how we can both protect it. We've outlined the details of our commitment to you, our valued customer, here.

The information we collect is designed to help us personalize and improve your experience at our Sonic Impact Technologies stores and Sonic Impact Technologies website. The information we may gather includes:

Registration Information: When you choose to register with Sonic Impact Technologies, we may ask you to provide us with contact information (like your name, mailing address and e-mail address), and demographic information (like relationship and interests). Sonic Impact Technologies won't send you any content unless you have specifically told us that you were interested in receiving it.

Order Information: When you choose to make a credit card purchase at a Sonic Impact Technologies store or website, we may gather your name, billing address, ship to address, phone, fax, email address, password (if using website), order detail information and credit card information. All the information is stored except your credit card information, where only the 4 last digits are stored. During the checkout process this information is handled as follows: Billing information is sent to a third party credit card processing agent for verification. After authorizing your purchase, this company stores information in their database for future reporting purposes. Your shipping address and the shipping addresses of people to whom you send gifts are received by the Sonic Impact Technologies retail store fulfilling your order. On-line, this information is sent in an encrypted and secure format.

If you ordered on-line, once your order has been processed, Sonic Impact Technologies will send you an e-mail confirming your order.

Automated Information: We track IP addresses online, however are not currently using them for any purpose. We will disclose to you, in advance, if this changes. Like many sites, Sonic Impact Technologies does use cookies to track your shopping cart, deliver content and product information to you, and save your shopping basket, and other services we individualize for you. A "cookie" is a small, unique identifier text file that is stored on your hard drive. With the cookie on your drive, we will recognize you when you return to our site, and can offer you these custom features. You should know that you have the ability to "turn off" cookies so that we cannot collect this information. You can do that through your web browser (check the HELP option on the menu bar) or via utilities that are on the market today to let you browse the Web anonymously. If you choose to turn off cookies, certain features of our Web site will not function, such as our catalog pages and shopping.

The voluntary information you provide us with allows us to enhance your shopping experience. We may use it to send you news items you have requested, send you money-saving coupons, or let you know when we are having a sale or promotion. The most basic uses of your information will simply be to ship your merchandise you purchased online, bill your credit card for purchases, respond to emails you send us, and confirm orders. Always remember that at any time, you may remove yourself from our communications to you.

Contest Information: Contact information collected on this site during a contest may be used to send you information about our company, as well as some promotional materials. This information is also used to contact contest winners. We do not share this information with third parties. Additionally, there is a box on all contest forms that allows you to opt-out of receiving any further information about this contest.

We often receive e-mails from customers or interested parties that request information. We respond as quickly and effectively as we can and do not share the content or address information with third parties.

We do not share your information with anyone else outside of the Sonic Impact Technologies family. It's as simple at that. Sonic Impact Technologies does not sell, rent, or share our customers' personal information with any outside sources. Our site does collect demographic and profile information, but it is used internally, to tailor your visit to Sonic Impact Technologies. This information helps us deliver content and products specific to your interests and needs.

We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of this Web site, our users, or others.

If our policy ever changes, you will receive notice when information about you might go to a third party and you will have the ability to choose not to share this information.

When you Sign-Up with us, you told us you would like to receive on-line newsletters from us. You also had the option to add your mailing address so that your local store may send you catalogs or sale information by mail. If you no longer wish to receive information from Sonic Impact Technologies, you may cancel your subscription by going to "Sign Up!" in the black wave on our home page and use the "Remove" button at the bottom of the screen to remove yourself from our database. Simply enter your e-mail address and click REMOVE. Anytime you wish to be added to our database to receive information again, simply Sign-Up again.

To prevent unauthorized access to our system, we have put in place all the appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect on line.

Sonic Impact Technologies protects your personal financial information by encrypting it with Verity software, an industry approved method. We then provide your credit card information to a third party credit card processing agency that has additional security measures in place.

To be sure no one can read the communications between our customers and us during transmission, we use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software. These are standard capabilities on Netscape Navigator (version 2.0 and above), AOL (3.0 and higher), and Microsoft Explorer (3.0 and higher).

This Web site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these sites, you are moving to another Web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

We will notify you directly if there is a material change in our privacy practices. We will take commercially reasonable measures to obtain written or active e-mail consent from the user if Sonic Impact Technologies is going to be using the information collected from the user in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection. We will also post the changes in our privacy statement 30 days prior to a change.