What information do we collect?
- We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order; enter a contest or sweepstakes, raffle, or any other give-away; respond to a survey or communication such as email, or participate in another site feature.
- When ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, email address, mailing address, telephone 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 or advertising purposes.
- Like many websites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the "Do we use cookies'?" section below for information about cookies and how we use them.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, purchase products, enter a contest, raffle, promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication sent to you by email or directmail; surf the website, or use certain other website features in the following ways:
- To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings inwhich you are most interested.
- To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To quickly process your transactions.
- To administer a contest, promotion, campaign, survey or other website feature.
- If you have opoted-in to receive promotional email from us, please refer to the "How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?" section below. If you have not opted-in to receive email newsletters, you will not receive these emails. Visitors who register or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and "members only" content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our email list and receive email communications from us.
How do we protect visitor information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks, and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. When you place an order or access your personal information; we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive and credit related information you supply us is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.
Do we use "cookies"?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a website or its service providers use to transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the website's service provider's system to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about website traffic and website interaction so that we can offer better website experiences and tools in the future.
We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our website visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all your cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you will not have access to many features that make your website experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly on your computer when you are visiting us. However, you can still place orders by directmail by contacting our Order Fulfillment Center.
Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" is not included, and it also does not include website hosting partners and other 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 also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our website policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third Party Links:
In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our website. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any additional feedback about these linked websites (including if a specific link does not work or does not direct you where it should have.) We would like to know about it, so please Contact Us immediately when you first discover that a link is not working.
Changes To Our Policy:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this webpage, here at our website for your immediate review and knowledge. Randomly, from time-to-time; our Corporate Offices will administer new Policies, and we update our website accordingly. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on August 11, 2009.
Questions and Feedback:
We welcome your questions, concerns, and comments; about privacy and/or our Privacy Policy. Please send us any and/or all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue and we will review it and get back to you immediately. (Usually within a 24 hour period of less.)
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 of our website, and/or the "Terms & Conds" section; establishing use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
Your Consent:
By using our website, you consent to our Privacy Policy.
