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We collect customer information in an effort to improve your
shopping experience and to communicate with you about our products,
services, contests, and promotions. We recognize that it must maintain
and use customer information responsibly. We do not sell or rent the
information you provide to us online to third parties.
If our information practices change in the future, we will let you
know by posting the policy changes on our Web site. You will have the
opportunity at that time to opt out of any new use of your information.
We collect information (such as your name, e-mail
address, mailing address, and phone and credit card numbers) that you
provide when you place an order, register with us or participate in a
contest, promotion or survey. We also maintain a record of your product
interests and your purchases online.
When you make a purchase from us, we use your
information to process your order. We will also send you e-mails to
confirm your order, and we may need to contact you via phone, postal
mail or e-mail if we have other questions regarding your order. When you
register with us or participate in a contest or promotion you may
choose to receive e-mails from us regarding our products, services,
contests, and promotions. From time to time, we may also send you
e-mails to help us learn more about your shopping preferences. In
addition, we may use information about your product interests and
purchases to help us improve our site design and your shopping
experience.
We want to communicate with you only if you want
to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive information from us,
either through e-mail, postal mail or by phone, please let us know by
sending us an e-mail.
Please note that such requests may take up to 2 weeks to become
effective. In addition, if you ask us to remove your name and address
from our e-mail or postal mailing lists, we will maintain your name in a
"do not mail" file to ensure that we can honor your request. Please
also note that when you make a purchase, we will send you e-mails to
confirm your order and may also need to contact you via phone, postal
mail or e-mail if we have other questions regarding your order.
Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior
verifiable parental consent.
If we become aware that a subscriber is under the age of 13 and
has registered without prior verifiable parental consent, we will remove
his or her personally identifiable registration information from our
files.
Please note: we may nevertheless maintain a
record of that person's name and address in a "do not register" file to
avoid subsequent registration by a child under the age of 13.
A cookie is a small data file that Web sites
often store on your computer's hard drive when you visit their sites. A
cookie may contain information (such as a unique user ID), that is used
to track the pages of the sites you've visited. We use cookies but do
not store personally identifiable information in your cookie.
We use cookies in order to improve your shopping
experience. When you visit our site, your cookie helps us keep track of
your order as you shop at our site. If you are a registered customer,
your cookie allows us to recognize you when you return to our site and
provides you with access to your account information. If you register
with or order from us, we also use cookies to monitor and maintain
information about your use of our site. If you have not registered with
or ordered from us, we may monitor and maintain information about your
use of our Web site in a manner that does not identify you. In either
case, this information helps us serve you better by improving our site
design, as well as our products, services, contests, and promotions.
We also use cookies to track and maintain the
identity of the Web site you visited immediately prior to ours to
further improve our site design and to fulfill contracts with our
business partners. We do not otherwise track any information about your
use of other Web sites.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in
your browser. If you turn off cookies, though, we will not be able to
track your order or enable you to make a purchase from our site. Nor
will we be able to recognize you as a registered user to allow you
access to your account information.
Protecting your order information is a priority
for us. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect the
security of your online order information.
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 and the server is secure. 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 will 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. If you cannot access the
secure server for any reason, please print our order form and place your
order by phone.
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