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
e-mail, 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 the state of
Washington. 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 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.
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 e-mail address when
shopping with us) or about you; communicate with us by phone,
e-mail, 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); e-mail 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; e-mail 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; 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, e-mail,
password, communications preferences, and address book); payment
settings (including credit card information and gift
certificate, gift card, and check balances); e-mail notification
settings; guides, and personal profile.
