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Terms, Conditions & Privacy
Know that you care
how your information is used, and we appreciate your trust that we will use it
carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting
us, you are accepting the privacy policy described below. |
1.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
- Information You Provide. We
receive and store information you enter. For example, when
you search for or buy a product or service, or when you supply information
such as your address, phone number or credit card. You can choose not to
provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage
of some of our features. We use the information that you
provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future
shopping for you, improving our website, and communicating with you.
In addition, if you choose, we may share your information with other
companies who provide goods or services that you are interested in.
Please see the "opt-in/opt-out" selection in Section 4 of this policy.
- Cookies. Like many websites, we use
"cookies". Cookies are small programs that we transfer to
your hard drive that allow us to recognize you and to provide you with a
customized shopping experience. If you do not want us to
use cookies, you can easily disable them by going to the toolbar of your web
browser, and clicking on the "help" button. Follow the
instructions that will prevent the browser from accepting cookies, or set the
browser to inform you when you receive a new cookie. In
addition, you may visit this and other websites anonymously through the use of
utilities provided by other private companies.
- Other Information: Every computer has an IP
(Internet Protocol) address. IP addresses of computers
used to visit this site are noted. In addition, we
automatically collect other information such as email addresses, browser
types, operating systems, and the URL addresses of sites clicked to and from
this site.
- Information from Other Sources.
We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to
our account information. This may include updated delivery
and address information from our shippers or other sources so that we can
correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more
easily.
2.
How Do We Use Your Information?
- Customized Shopping. We
use your information to better serve you by providing a customized shopping
experience. As noted above, you may "opt-out" of this
customization, or even visit and shop anonymously.
- Agents. We employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include delivering
packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, and processing credit card payments.
They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions,
but may not use it for other purposes.
- Special Offers. We may
send you special offers from time to time, unless you choose to "opt-out" of
receiving such offers. In addition, we may also send you
special offers from other companies. Again, you may
"opt-out". If we send you offers from other businesses, we
do not share your personal information with them. The
offers come directly through us. Please see the
"opt-in/opt-out" selection at the end of this policy.
- Business Transfers. As we continue to
develop our business, we might sell or buy stores or assets. In such
transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred
business assets. Also, in the unlikely event that we are acquired, customer
information will be one of the transferred assets.
- Law Enforcement. If we
receive a lawful court order to release account or other personal information
then we will comply with the law. We will also release
information when necessary to protect the life, safety or property of others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
3.
How Do We Protect the Security of Your Information?
- We work to protect the security of your
information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software,
which encrypts information you input.
- We use encryption to protect your information
contained in our customer list.
- We use a firewall to protect against unlawful
intrusion.
- We limit access to your information on a
"need to
know" basis.
- We reveal only the last five digits of your credit
card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire
credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order
processing.
- It is important for you to protect against
unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off
when finished using a shared computer.
- No system can guarantee absolute security, just as
the finest lock can not guarantee physical security.
However, we take every reasonable precaution to assure that your data is
secure.
4. Your Choice:
Opt-in or Opt-out.
It is your choice
whether to receive emails or special offers from us or others.
The following section provides you with this choice.
5.
Children
We do not sell products
or services to children. If you are under 18, you may use this site only with
involvement of a parent or guardian.
6.
Other Websites
Various Web sites may be
linked to from this site. If you link to another site, your
privacy depends on the policy of that site. We strongly urge
you to check their privacy policy. Not all sites guarantee
that they will not share your personally identifiable information with others.
You may also wish to consult privacy guidelines such as those recommended
by the Online Privacy Alliance (www.privacyalliance.org).
7.
Contact Us
If you would like to
learn more about our privacy policy, or to access your personally identifiable
information contained on our website, you may
contact us.
You will be required to provide identifier information to assure that
this information is not released to others. We reserve the
right to modify this policy in the future. If we do so,
notice will be posted on our home page.
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