What information do we collect?
- We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature.
- When ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
- We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes.
- Similar to numerous websites, we employ “cookies” to improve user experience and collect data about visitors to our websites. For details on cookies and how we use them, please see the section below titled “Do we use ‘cookies’?”
How do we use your information?
The following are some of the ways we might use the data we get from you when you register, buy something, participate in a promotion or contest, reply to a survey or marketing message, browse the website, or use specific other features:
- to allow us to deliver the kind of content and product offerings that most interest you and to customize your experience on our site.
- to enable us to handle your customer service requests more effectively.
- to handle your transactions as soon as possible.
- to manage a survey, promotion, competition, or other website feature.
- In the event that you have chosen to receive our email newsletter, we might occasionally send you emails. Please see the section below titled “How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?” if you would like to stop receiving promotional emails from us. You won’t receive these emails if you haven’t chosen to receive email newsletters. Upon registering or engaging with other site features like marketing campaigns and “members-only” content, visitors will be offered the option to opt-in to our email list and receive correspondence from us via email.
How do we protect visitor information?
We employ a range of security protocols to ensure the protection of your private data. Your personal information is kept private behind secured networks and is only available to a select group of people who are obliged to maintain the information’s confidentiality and have special access rights. We provide the use of a secure server for placing orders and accessing your personal data. Your sensitive credit information is encrypted and sent to us through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology so that it can only be accessed as mentioned above.
Do we use “cookies”?
Indeed. If you agree, a website or its service provider may place little files called cookies on your computer’s hard drive. These files help the website’s or service provider’s systems identify your browser and store and retrieve specific data. For example, cookies enable us to store and manage the products in your shopping cart. In order to give you better services, they are also used to assist us in understanding your preferences based on past or present site activity. In order to provide users with improved site experiences and tools in the future, we also use cookies to help us gather aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction.
In order to help us better understand our site visitors, we might enter into contracts with outside service providers. The information gathered on our behalf may only be used by these service providers to support and enhance our business operations.
You have the option to disable all cookies or to have your computer notify you each time one is sent. You access the settings of your browser (such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) to accomplish this. Because every browser is a little bit different, check the Help menu to find out how to change your cookies in the right way. Some of our services won’t work properly and you won’t be able to access many features that improve the efficiency of your site experience if you disable cookies. However, by calling customer service, you can still place orders over the phone.
Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?
With the exception of the situations listed below, we never sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to unaffiliated third parties without first giving you notice. The $(CompanyNameLegal) is not included in the definition of “outside parties”. Additionally, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential, it excludes website hosting partners and other parties that help us run our business, manage our website, or provide services to you. Additionally, we might disclose your information if we think it’s necessary to abide by the law, uphold our site’s policies, or safeguard the safety, property, or rights of others.
Non-personally identifiable visitor data, however, might be given to other organizations for advertising, marketing, or other purposes.
How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?
Please let us know by changing your preferences in the “My Account” section if you want to change your email subscriptions. Please be aware that you might receive emails that are already in production because of email production schedules.
Go into the “My Account” area of our website and remove your billing, shipping, and payment information if you want to remove all of your online account data from our database. Please be aware that for record-keeping and service purposes, we might keep information about a specific sales transaction.
Third party links
We might put links to external websites on our website in an effort to give you more value. The privacy policies of these linked websites are independent and separate. As a result, we disclaim all liability and responsibility for the actions and material on these linked websites. However, we work hard to maintain the integrity of our website and appreciate any feedback regarding these linked sites—including if a particular link is broken.
Changes to our policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on August 6, 2003.
Questions and feedback
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.
Online Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
Your consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.