Privacy Notice
We know that you care
how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your
trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes
our privacy policy.By visiting this site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What personal information about customers does this site gather?
The
information we learn from customers helps us personalize and
continually improve your shopping experience at this site. Here are the
types of information we gather:
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Information You Give Us:We
receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us
in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information,
but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our
features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as
responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you,
improving our stores, and communicating with you.
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Automatic Information:We
receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact
with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies" and we
obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses this
site. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit
Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with
a personalized experience at this site if we cannot recognize you, we
want you to be aware that these tools exist.
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Information from Other Sources:We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
What about cookies?
- Cookies
are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your
browser and to provide features in the purchasing process, personalized
greetings, and storage of items in your shopping cart between visits.
- The
Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to
prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage
of some of this site's coolest features and we recommend that you leave
them turned on.
Does this site share the information it receives?
Information
about our customers is an important part of our business and we are not
in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information
only as described below controls that either are subject to this
Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those
described in this Privacy Notice.
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Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control:We
work closely with our affiliated businesses. You can tell when a third
party is involved in your transactions and we share customer
information related to those transactions with that third party.
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Agents:We
employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our
behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages,
sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from
customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance,
providing search results and links (including paid listings and links),
processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They
have access to personal information needed to perform their functions,
but may not use it for other purposes.
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Promotional Offers:Sometimes
we send offers to selected groups of customers on behalf of other
businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and
address.
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Business Transfers:As we continue
to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or
business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is
one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the
promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course,
the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that we
are acquired or assigned, customer information will of course be one of
the transferred assets.
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Protection of Our Store and Others:We
release account and other personal information when we believe release
is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms and
Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights,
property, or safety of this company, our users, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however,
this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise
disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for
commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this
Privacy Notice.
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With Your Consent:Other
than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about
you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to
choose not to share the information.
How secure is information about me?
- We
work to protect the security of your information during transmission by
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information
you input.
- We reveal only the last five digits of your
credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit
the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company
during order processing.
- It is important for you to
protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your
computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Which information can I access?
This
site gives you access to a broad range of information about your
account and your interactions with this site for the limited purpose of
viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.
Children
This
site does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell
children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you
may use this site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If
you choose to visit this site, your visit and any dispute over privacy
is subject to this Notice and our Terms and Conditions of Use,
including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and
application of the law of this state. If you have any concern about
privacy at this site, please contact us with a thorough description and
we will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly
and our Privacy Notice and the Terms and Conditions of Use will change
also. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and conditions,
unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site
frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current
Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and
your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will
never materially change our policies and practices to make them less
protective of customer information collected in the past without the
consent of affected customers.
Information You Give Us
You
provide most such information when you search, buy, bid, post,
participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer
service. For example, you provide information when you search for a
product; place an order through this site or one of our third-party
sellers; make an auction bid or purchase; provide information in your
account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than
one email address when shopping with us) or about you; communicate with
us by phone, email, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest
entry form; provide employer information when opening a corporate
account. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such
information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card
information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including
addresses and phone number; people (with addresses and phone numbers);
email addresses of other people; content of reviews and e-mails to us;
and financial information, including Social Security and driver's
license numbers.
Automatic Information
Examples
of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol
(IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login;
email address; password; computer and connection information such as
browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase
history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from
other customers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream
to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie
number; and products you viewed or searched for. During some visits we
may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect
session information, including page response times, download errors,
length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such
as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away
from the page.
Information from Other Sources
Examples
of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery
and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which
we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or
communication more easily; account information, purchase or redemption
information, and page-view information from some merchants with which
we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical,
fulfillment, advertising, or other services; search results and links,
including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links from Google); and
credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help
prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial
services to some customers.
Information You Can Access
Examples
of information you can access easily at this site include up-to-date
information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable
information (including name, email, password, communications
preferences, and address book); payment settings (including credit card
information and gift certificate, gift card, and check balances); email
notification settings; guides, and personal profile.