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Privacy Policy Privacy Policy
Carole Shiber Designs is committed
to protecting your privacy when you use our on-line, telephone or other services
("Services"). In this policy we explain how and why we collect your
information, what we do with it and what controls you have over our use of it.
From time to time, we add or change functions, features or products to our Web
Sites or add or change Services. This, and our commitment to protecting the
privacy of your personal information, may result in periodic changes to this
Privacy Policy. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy
regularly to review any amendments.
a) The Information We Collect:
Your privacy is important to Carole Shiber Designs. Carole Shiber Designs does
not sell or license personal and identifiable information concerning its website
visitors to third parties. We may collect non-personally identifiable information
to improve the design and content of our site, to enable us to personalize your
Internet experience, or to analyze site usage. Carole Shiber Designs may offer
surveys, promotions, or contests. Participation in these surveys or promotions
is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose this information.
Carole Shiber Designs reserves
the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation
or legal request, to protect the integrity of the site, to cooperate in any
law enforcement investigation, or in connection with an investigation of fraud,
intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may
expose us to legal liability.
b) Submissions:
Carole Shiber Designs does not accept submissions and does not want to receive
creative proposals, or confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information
through this site. Any information sent to Carole Shiber Designs will be deemed
non-confidential.
c) Links to Third Party Sites:
Our site may contain links to other sites which are not maintained by Carole
Shiber Designs. The inclusion of any link to other sites does not imply endorsement
by Carole Shiber Designs of such sites. Linking to any other sites is at your
own risk and Carole Shiber Designs is not responsible for the privacy practices
or content of such sites.
Any questions regarding our Privacy
Policy should be directed to info@caroleshiber.com
or alternatively see the section "Comments" below.
Your
acceptance of these Privacy Statement terms
By using any of the sites within our web site network ("Web Sites")
or our Services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
What
data do we collect and how do we use it?
Carole Shiber Designs collects and processes information about you in order
to:
- Identify you each time you visit the Web Site or wish to have a Service
provided;
- Process orders or applications submitted by you;
- Improve our Services and Web Sites;
- Customize your experience, for example, provide advertisements that we
think are relevant to you and which support any specific requests for information
you may make through keyword searches; ;
- Carry out research on the demographics, interests and behavior of all of
our customers; and
- Send you information we think you may find useful, including information
about new Company Name products and services.
You may be
asked, either when you register with us, or at other times, for information
about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone
number. You may also be asked to share with us your interests, hobbies and preferences.
In addition, when you order certain goods or services from our Web Sites, we
will need to know your credit/payment card number and expiration date. You are
under no obligation to provide this information, but if you don't then we may
not be able to provide you with certain services or personalize your experience
and tailor our Services for you (for example, tell you about special offers
on things you're interested in).
Log
files/IP addresses
When you visit our Web Sites, we automatically log your IP address (the unique
address which identifies your computer on the internet), which is automatically
recognized by our web server. We use IP addresses to help us administer our
Web Sites and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. We
do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.
Non-personal
information
We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the
type of internet browsers you use or the site from which you linked to our Web
Sites. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to
assist us in providing an effective service on our Web Sites. We may from time
to time supply the owners or operators of third party sites from which it is
possible to link to our Web Sites with information relating to the number of
users linking to our Web Sites from their sites. You cannot be identified from
this information.
Use
of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web Site transfers to your hard drive
to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that.
However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a Web Site if you do
so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed
by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around
the web. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally
identify customers or passwords. Credit card information is not stored in cookies.
We use cookies for the following reasons:
- To identify who you are and to access your account information;
- To estimate our audience size and patterns;
- To ensure that you are not asked to register twice;
- To control how often visitors see similar ads;
- To track preferences and to improve and update our Web Site; and
- To track the progress and number of entries in some of our promotions and
contests.
With
whom is the information shared?
Carole Shiber Designs will not share, sell or rent your personal information
to third parties. However, we may disclose your personal information to third
party suppliers who provide services on our behalf (ie. shipping information
for FedEx or UPS or USPS).
Carole Shiber
Designs may disclose aggregate statistics about our sales, our Web Site visitors
and customers of our telephone services in order to describe our services to
prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for
other lawful purposes, but these statistics will not include personally identifying
information.
Carole Shiber
Designs may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if
it believes that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights,
property or personal safety of company name and its Web Sites, visitors to the
Web Sites and customers of our Services. Our Web Site contains links to the
sites of third parties. When you visit these sites, we suggest that you read
their privacy policies. Carole Shiber Designs is not responsible for the privacy
policies or the content of such sites.
We will only sell or rent your
personal information to a third party either as part of a sale of the assets
of a Carole Shiber Designs or having ensured that steps have been taken to ensure
that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Information about products
and services
It is very important to us that we provide you with the highest level of service.
In order to help us do this, from time to time Carole Shiber Designs may send
you details of our products and services which we think may be of interest to
you. If at any time you do not wish to receive these details, please e-mail
us at info@caroleshiber.com.
Security
Carole Shiber Designs places a great importance on the security of all information
associated with our customers. We have security measures in place to attempt
to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our
control. For example, our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed
and enhanced as necessary and only authorized personnel have access to user
information. With regard to our Web Sites, we use secure server software (SSL)
to encrypt financial information you input before it is sent to us. While we
cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not
occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this.
Where is the information
stored?
Information which you submit via our Web Sites or our telephone services is
stored on a computer located in North America.
Specific Services
Please e-mail any questions, concerns or comments you have about our Privacy
Policy to info@caroleshiber.com or
write to us at: Carole Shiber Designs, Carole Shiber Designs, 156 Pearl Street, Kingston, NY 12401
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