Your Privacy Is Very Important To Us.
We want to make your experience on the Internet as enjoyable and rewarding as possible, and we want you to use the Internet's vast array of information, tools, and opportunities with complete confidence.
We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy describes how our company collects information from all end users. This Policy also explains what we do with the information we collect, and the choices Visitors and Members have concerned the collection and use of such information. We request that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Personal Information Our Company Collects and How It Is Used
Introduction Customers may be asked to provide certain personal information when they place an order including name, address, telephone number, billing information (such as a credit card number). The personal information collected from Customers (or at any other time) is used primarily to fulfill your order. Your information will never be licensed or sold to any third party. However, we may make limited disclosure of personal information under the specific circumstances described in the "Disclosure" section below.
Disclosure
We may disclose Member and Visitor information to the following third parties, under the following circumstances:
Co-branded and Partner Pages: Our Company may share information with partner companies who jointly present special offers or promotions on cobranded pages within our site. You will be notified of this sharing when you are asked to furnish personal data on such a page. The partner's use of any information you submit will be governed by the partner's own privacy notice, which you can review before submitting your information.
• Business Transfers: Our Company reserves the right to transfer your personal information in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets. If the business is sold or transferred, our Company will give you an opportunity to tell us not to transfer your personal information.
• Law Enforcement: Our Company may disclose personal information to third parties without your consent for any of the following reasons: to comply with any law, regulation, or court order, to cooperate with Government investigations, to help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect the rights of our Company or its subsidiaries.
• With Your Consent: In all other cases, our Company will obtain your express consent before sharing your information with third parties.
Online Shopping
If you order products directly from our Company, we will use the personal information you provide only to process that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Privacy and Terms of Use policies of any other company(ies) whose web sites you may access from our site.
Online Advertisements
Our company may display our online advertisements. In those cases, we share aggregated and non-identifying information about our Visitors and Members collected through the registration process as well as through online surveys and promotions with these advertisers.
Additionally, in some instances, we use this aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver tailored advertisements or joint ventures. For instance, an advertiser or joint venture company tells us the audience they want to reach and provides us with an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the. aggregated and non-identifying information we have collected; we may then display or send the advertisement to the intended audience. Our company does not share personal information about its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or joint venture companies. Information about how to opt-out of online advertisements you may receive from our Company will be contained in the ads themselves.
Responses to Email Inquiries
When Visitors send email inquiries to our company, the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry we receive. Our company does not use the return email address for any other purpose and does not share the return email address with any third party.
Automatic Collection of Information
Cookies: Our Company may use "Cookies" to collect information. Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive, at a web site's request. Our Company Cookies do not contain any personal information, but are used primarily as follows:
• to keep track of temporary information. For example, Cookies allow us to keep track of the pictures you upload and download; • to register you in special programs. Cookies allow us to remember you when you login to the places on our site that require an account.
• to remember your country and Language preferences.
• to help us understand the size of our audience and traffic patterns.
• to collect and record information about what you viewed on our Web site and what you viewed in our e-mail.
• to manage and present site information and pictures.
Web Beacons: We may also place small "tracker gifs" or "beacons" on many of the pages on our website, in online advertising with third parties, and in our email. We use these beacons, in connection with Cookies, to collect non-personal data on the usage of our site including but not limited to the date and time of the visit, the pages visited, the referring web page, the type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, NetScape), the type of operating system (e.g., Windows, Unux, or Mac), and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider (e.g., AOL). This information is collected about thousands of site visits and analyzed as a whole. This information is useful in, for example, tracking the performance of our online advertising such as online banner ads and to determine where to place future advertising on other web sites.
Disabling Cookies and Beacons: If you are uncomfortable with the collection of such information with Cookies and Beacons, we recommend disabling these features through your browser preferences, though please under- stand this will limit the performance and functionality of our Company's Web site. Your browser documentation should provide specific procedures for disabling cookie and beacon support.
Child Privacy
Protecting the online privacy of children is especially important, and those under the age of 13 are protected by federal law. For that reason, our Company does not knowingly permit children under the age of 13 to become registered members of our sites, or to buy goods and services on our sites, without verifiable parental consent. Our Company does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information about children under 13, except with their parent's express consent.
If we ever include children under the age of 13 as part of our intended site audience, those specific web pages will, in accordance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), be clearly identified and provide an explicit privacy notice; and we will provide processes to obtain parental approval, provide access to information and allow parents to request removal of their children's personal information. Our Company encourages parents and guardians to spend time with their children online and to participate in their interactive activities and interests.
Our Company's Commitment to Data Security
We implement a variety of administrative, managerial, and technical security measures to help protect your personal information. Our Company has various internal control standards which relate specifically to the handling of personal information. These include certain controls to help safeguard the information we collect online. Our employees are trained to understand and comply with these controls and we communicate our Privacy Notice, practices and guidelines to our employees. However, while we strive to protect your personal information, you must also take steps to protect your information. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal information while you are on the Internet. Services and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse; and alteration of the information under our control. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.
Where to Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us through the contact information provided on this Web site. Revisions to This Policy Our Company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our terma of use and service agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating this posting.