Your privacy is important to us. We will not share any personally identifiable information with anyone for any reason without your explicit permission. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. How We Use Your Information When ordering, you will create a personal account. Through this account, you provide certain types of information such as physical address, telephone number, email address, credit card information (by PayPal). Without this information, an order cannot be shipped and or billed. An email may be sent to you, or a phone call made if there is any trouble processing your order. Personal demographic data, such as age and gender are optional. They are not required to browse the site, create an account, or to order from us. This information is stored and viewed collectively. The data allows us to better understand your interests, and provide better service and more appropriate product offerings. We may at times share aggregated demographic information with carefully selected partners and advertisers. This data is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. Correcting and Updating Your Information If there is a change to be made to your personally identifiable information such as a zip code, email address, or area code changes such editing may be done by accessing My Account and clicking on Edit. Opting-Out You are given the opportunity to opt out of having information used for purposes not directly related to this site at the point where the information is asked. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or e-mail you may opt out of receiving these communications by following the specific directions included in every email message. You can also unsubscribe from our email newsletters or from our catalog by updating Your Preferences under My Account. Newsletter or Catalog Registration In addition to special announcements and offers exclusive to email recipients, the newsletter allows you to edit account information, change the type of announcements and offers received, and change the format of the message (from text only to text and graphics). Each message also allows you to immediately unsubscribe from future email messages. This option may always be edited at the catalog or newsletter sign-up page. Security We take every precaution to protect your privacy. When you submit sensitive information via the website, the information is protected both online and offline. When sensitive information such as a credit card number by PayPal is required, that information is transmitted under their security system and their privacy policies, click the next link to check it: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside All personal information is protected offline as well in our restricted offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a billing specialist or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers on which information is stored are kept in a secure and closely monitored environment. Log Files For each visitor to our site, the web server automatically recognizes and collects, where possible, the domain name and IP address, pages visited, length of visit, and other general usage data. This information is not linked to personally identifiable information. It is collected and stored with the same information from all visitors in a log file. This log file is then used to determine general site usage patterns and to analyze trends so that a more useful, streamlined experience may be provided. Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive. Cookies allow us to optimize your experience on the site. For instance, by setting a cookie, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on this site. Once you close you browser, the cookie simply terminates. If you reject the cookie, you may still use this site. However, your usage in some areas of the site may be limited. When Leaving This Site This web site contains links to other, non-affiliated sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you when you leave this site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site. Take Privacy Seriously We believe our Policy provides you with the safest shopping experience possible. Since offerings and technologies change, we reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of our Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. If policy changes are substantial, we will do our best to notify you. If you have any questions about the security of our website, or your privacy, please contact us. |