EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 2018
It is important for you
to understand that we use third party contractors to help us operate our
business, such as operating the server for the Site, performing delivery and
shipping services, and sending postal mail and email, and may share your
information with these contractors for those limited purposes. We generally
require that contractors do not disclose personally identifiable information or
use it other than as necessary to perform services for us.
Because we care about
your privacy, we will not give your personally identifiable information to
third parties, such as marketers or retailers, for them to use to contact you
about offers or promotions of their own (other than, of course, in connection
with the sale of our business), unless you allow us to. If you would like us to
share your personally identifiable information with third parties so that you
may receive these special offers and promotions, indicate that we may do so at
the point where you give us such personally identifiable information. Please
note that changes to your preferences may not be effective immediately.
In the event that all of
our business assets are transferred to or acquired by another company, customer
information will be one of the transferred assets. We will divulge your
personal information to law enforcement officials if required to do so by law.
HOW WE COLLECT
INFORMATION
We will collect
personally identifiable information from you when you actively give us the
information. Examples of this may include when you order products, register for
gifts, fill out online site registration forms, enter contests or sweepstakes,
and request that we send you information, newsletters or catalogs, participate
in community features, or respond to our surveys or other requests for visitor
responses.
Like many other
commercial Web sites, we collect non-personally identifiable information from
you by "passive" means, in other words by tracking your use of the
Site, often through the use of cookies. That information includes, among other
things, the type of computer operating system and net browser that are being
used and the domain name of your Internet service provider, as well as some of
the information described below. We use this information for internal purposes
and to help us interact with visitors to the Site. We may also share this
information in the aggregate form with third parties to illustrate trends and
patterns.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small data
file that is placed on your computer's hard drive that may contain information
(such as a unique user ID) that a Web site may use to track certain things. We
may use cookies in order to improve your shopping experience. The cookie helps
us track the pages of the Site that you visit, tells us whether you have been
to the Site before and tells us which Web site you visited immediately before
visiting the Site, but does not tell us about your use of any other Web sites.
Sometimes advertisers and other third parties on the Site may also use cookies.
You can keep us from using cookies by turning them off in your browser.
However, if you turn off your cookies then you will not be enabled to make
purchases from the Site or to access your account information.
SPECIAL POLICIES FOR
CHILDREN IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS UNDER AGE 13
This Site is not
intended for use by children. We will not knowingly collect any personally
identifiable information submitted by visitors to the Site who are under the
age of 13.
LINKS
The Site contains links
to other sites, including, among others, those of advertisers, other third
parties and companies whose trademarks may appear on the Site. Sometimes
promotions, contests or sweepstakes advertised on the Site might be sponsored
by third parties. The other sites and third parties maintain their own privacy
policies that may be different from ours. Visitors using such links or pursuing
or entering such contests or sweepstakes should consult the privacy notices
associated with those links, promotions, contests or sweepstakes. We do not
control this collection of information and are not responsible or liable for
the privacy policies maintained or actions taken by third parties with regard
to your information. Our Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is
inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our control.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online-for
example, via message boards or chat rooms-that information can be collected,
intercepted and used by people you do not know. You should use such community
functions at your own risk.
SECURITY
Protecting your order
information is important to us. We use the industry standard Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your online order
information. SSL encryption is a method by which information is encrypted while
being transmitted over the Internet. To check the security of your connection,
look at the lower left-hand corner of your browser window after accessing the
server. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your
browser), then SSL is active. You can also double-check by looking at the URL
line of your browser. When accessing a secure server, the first characters of
the Site address should change from "http" to "https." Some
versions of browsers and some firewalls don't permit communication through secure
servers. In that case, you won't be able to connect to the server and therefore
won't be able to place an order through an insecure connection. While no method
is completely impenetrable, our SSL is verifiable. Unfortunately, no data
transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while we are committed to protecting your personally identifiable
information, we along with our third party provider(s) cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to us.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE
TERMS
By using the Site, you
indicate your agreement with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, then do not use the Site. We
reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time and
with or without notice. Your continued use of the Site following any changes to
this Privacy Policy will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such
changes. Please check this page regularly for any changes.