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Privacy Policy
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, or
other information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
- 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 or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or
use certain other site features in the following ways:- To personalize your site
experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which
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, survey or other site feature.
- If you have opted-in to receive our e-mail
newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer
like to receive promotional e-mail 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 e-mail newsletters,
you will not receive these e-mails. 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
e-mail list and receive e-mail 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 orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server.
All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and
we DO NOT store your credit card information in our databases.
Do we use "cookies"?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard dritve through your
Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems 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 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.
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.
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 won't have access
to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services
will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by
contacting customer service.
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.
We DO NOT report any of your information to any goverment
agencies.
Third party links
In an attempt
to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our site.
These linked 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 linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).
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 Nov 25, 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.
Your consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
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