This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personally identifiable information. By accessing our website, you accept and agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy. In particular, you consent to our collection and use of your personally identifiable information as described in this privacy policy.
Our privacy policy is part of, and subject to, our website’s terms and conditions of use. You may view these terms and conditions on our website here
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Information that identifies you may be collected from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.
When ordering or registering on our site, the kind of information that you may be asked for includes your name; e-mail address; mailing address; phone number; and bank account or credit card information.
USE OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
The information that we collect from you may be used the following ways:
1) To process transactions
The information that you provide to us such as your name, address, email address and credit card information is used to create an account and/or to process your transaction.
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, or transferred to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of completing the transaction requested.
2) To send periodic promotional emails
In addition to being used for sending you information and updates pertaining to your order, the email address you provide for creating an account and/or for order processing may be used to send you occasional promotional emails such as newsletters, discounts and special offers, related products or services information, etc.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving periodic promotional emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each promotional email.
3) To personalize your experience
Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
4)To improve our website
We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from our customers.
5) Customer service
Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
6) To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
HOW YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IS PROTECTED
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information (credit card numbers, bank account information, etc) is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway provider’s database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
No sensitive/credit information is ever stored on our servers.
USE OF COOKIES
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
Cookies may be used to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart; understand and save your preferences for future visits; to serve and administer special offers; and / or to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly.
NON-DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We may release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our rights or the rights of others, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
This policy was last modified on 2011-01-05.