PinTreasures.com Privacy Policy
 

Last updated: May 05, 2004

While information is the cornerstone of our ability to provide superior product, our most important asset is our customers' trust. Keeping customer information secure, and using it only as our customers would want us to, is a top priority for all at PinTreasures.Com   Here then, is our promise to our individual customers:

This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting PinTreasures.Com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1.      We will safeguard, according to strict standards of security and confidentiality, any information our customers share with us.

2.      We will limit the collection and use of customer information to the minimum we require to deliver superior service and product to our customer, which includes advising our customers about our products, services and other opportunities, and to administer our business.

3.      We will permit only authorized employees to have access to that information. 

4.      We will not reveal customer information to any external organization unless we have previously informed the customer, been authorized by the customer, or are required by law. We will not sell, trade or in any other method, disclose this information otherwise.

5.      We will always maintain control over the confidentiality of our customer information. 

6.      We will attempt to keep customer files complete, up to date, and accurate. We will tell our customers how to notify us about errors which we will promptly correct.

7.   We will continuously assess ourselves to ensure that customer privacy is respected. We will conduct our business in a manner that fulfills our promise in the many nations in which we do business.

Online Data Policy

This explains our online data information practices and cookie policy when you visit the PinTreasures.Com website. This Online Data Policy may be modified in our sole discretion at any time by changing the notice you see here. This Online Data Policy is consistent with and remains subject to PinTreasures.Com Privacy Promise.

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at PinTreasures.com. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us.. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, improving our store, and communicating with you. You provide most such information when you search, buy, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order or purchase; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise. 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.

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 PinTreasures.Com.  Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; and the phone number you used to call our telephone number.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of alphanumeric information which a web server may place on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are commonly used by websites to improve the user experience and have not been known to transmit computer viruses or otherwise harm your computer. Many cookies last only through a single session, or visit. Others may have an expiration date, or may remain on your computer until you delete them.

How We Use Cookies:

We use cookies for a number of purposes - for example, to maintain continuity during a user session, to gather data about the usage of our website for research and other purposes, to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits, or to store a username or customer identification so that you do not have to provide this information every time you return to our site.

Our cookies will track only your activity relating to our online products, which are located at our website, and your online activity on our website. They will not track your other internet activity. Cookies set by us cannot be read by and are not shared with any website.

Our cookies typically do not gather personally identifiable information. However, if you agree, we may combine our cookie data with personally identifiable information which you provide to us (such as your email address) so that you may receive marketing offers specifically suited to your needs. 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 PinTreasures.Com's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does PinTreasures.com 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.

• Protection of PinTreasures.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of PinTreasures.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. This does not include selling, renting, sharing, trading or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
• 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.

Children

PinTreasures.com does not sell products for purchase by children. If you are under 18, you may use PinTreasures.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit PinTreasures.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of California . If you have any concern about privacy at PinTreasures.com, please send us a thorough description to info@PinTreasures.com, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail 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.

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