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, 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 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 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 then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as
stated above.
Do we use "cookies"?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a
site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive 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. The term
"outside parties" does not include . 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 site
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.
How can you opt-out, remove or
modify information you have provided to us?
To modify your e-mail subscriptions,
please let us know by modifying your preferences in the "My Account"
section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any
emails already in production.
To delete all of your online account
information from our database, sign into the "My Account" section of
our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment
information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual
sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.
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
August 6, 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.