At Schewel Furniture Co., lnc. (“Schewels”), we recognize that our relationship with you – our current and prospective customers – is based on integrity and trust. At the same time, the very nature of our business sometimes requires that we collect or share certain information about you on a limited basis. We are committed to the privacy of any personal information we obtain, and we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect it.
We collect only information that is needed to serve you and administer your account with us, and we carefully limit and control the sharing of that information. We limit access to our customers' personal information to those employees who have a business need to know it, and we strive to maintain accuracy.
We may collect personal information about you from the following sources:
- Information we receive from you on applications or other forms and in interviews with you.
- Information we receive from consumer credit reporting agencies, governmental agencies, or employers.
- Information about your past transactions with us (e.g. how you perform on your account).
We may use personal information in the following ways:
- For identification purposes to protect your accounts.
- To help us identify and reduce potential risks or losses to Schewels.
- To determine whether our current and prospective customers would benefit from new products or services.
- To comply with legal requirements.
In the limited circumstances when we do share personal information, we require anyone to whom we disclose it to protect its confidentiality and use it solely for the purpose for which it is disclosed. We may share personal information about you on a limited basis to the following:
- To one or more other Schewels locations where you might have applied to open another account.
- To carefully chosen companies that provide support services for us, such as the company that processes advertising mailing for us.
- To a consumer credit reporting agency.
- To governmental agencies as required or permitted by law.
Thank you for choosing Schewels for your home furnishing needs.