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Your privacy is very important to Accent Art & Frame (sometimes referred to
as "we", "us", or "Accent Art & Frame"), and we
are committed to respecting your privacy on this site. In order to provide
our Services, we will require information (including address and credit card
information) regarding our Users. We will maintain the confidentiality of information
provided in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we will provide notice
on this Web site regarding any changes to this policy.
1.Use of Information Except as disclosed
in this Privacy Policy, our current policy is to refrain from selling, leasing,
or otherwise transferring your personally identifiable information, however,
this policy does not apply in all cases and this policy may be changed in the
future. We describe below some of the situations in which such information
may be disclosed. Accent Art & Frame will never provide our promotional affiliates
with personally identifiable information which would permit them to communicate
with Users or their employees by email unless the User "opts-in" and
have not "opted-out", pursuant to our opt-out procedure, from receiving
communications. You may have the opportunity to ask us to provide your information
to these promotional affiliates. We expect those promotional partners with
whom we share information (with consent, as provided herein) to respect the
privacy of our Users in the same manner as we do. However, we cannot ensure
that they abide by our privacy policies. Accent Art & Frame is the sole owner
of information collected through the Service.
The information we collect may also include information you submit about others,
including the name, e-mail address or physical address of a gift recipient.
We only use information you submit about other people to deliver information,
products, or services specifically requested by you or to cooperate with law
enforcement officials in the investigation of alleged unlawful activities of
our customers.
2.Information That Is Personally Identifiable Our
registration format requests certain contact information from our Users. We
collect information that is personally identifiable through the registration
and purchasing process when processing your order. When a User completes an
order, the format will require personally identifiable information for each
User, including:
- Contact information (examples include name, home address, email address)
- Unique identifiers (examples include credit card numbers)
- Demographic information (examples include zip code, telephone area code,
age, birth date, gender, etc.)
The information we have obtained through this process may be used by
Accent Art & Frame, as well as by providers of related services, in connection with
processing your order. We also use contact information from the registration
format to send the User information about us and when otherwise necessary.
Such information may also be used to assess your satisfaction with and to obtain
feedback regarding the Service we provide and to tailor the visitor's experience
while visiting our Web site.
We may use the contact information we collect to provide, by means other than
email, information or offers which we believe will be of value to Users and
their employees and we may share contact information with other companies that
may want to provide our Users, by means other than email, information regarding
additional products and services. We may also use the contact information to
send our Users information or offers by email which we believe will be of value
to them and we may share email contact information with other companies that
may want to provide our Users or their employees information regarding additional
products and services. Such contact information may be shared based upon the
demographic information we collect. Users may opt-out of receiving future communications
at any time; see the section below regarding "Opt-out".
Finally, the information we collect will be maintained in a file that we may
need to review in a variety of other circumstances, such as enforcing our Terms
of Use for Users, analyzing and understanding our customers and their needs,
and for the administration and provision of our goods and services.
As a User of the Service, you consent to the aforementioned uses of such information
and the provision of information to service providers that facilitate the Service,
all in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
3.Aggregate Information Subject
to the other terms of our Privacy Policy, we may aggregate (i.e. assemble on
a basis that does not enable one to personally identify you) the data that
is acquired under or in connection with this site and/or related to ordering
our products and services, including, without limitation, data about the products
and services requested and purchased by our Users. Aggregated data may be used
by us to improve our Service and for marketing purposes, and may be shared
with and used by advertisers and other third parties. We may also use such
data to determine what types of policies are best suited for our customers
and what types of policies our customers request. If we provide aggregated
data to third parties, particular personal information (including birth date,
name, title, income, home address, dependent information and any other identifying
information) will not be individually identifiable in the aggregated data.
Notwithstanding anything in this privacy policy to the contrary, Accent Art & Frame
may contracted with third parties to provide tracking and analysis of
information and data collected from visitors to our website. Accent Art & Frame
reserves the right to provide that information and data to such third parties
for those purposes. Such information and data is provided on a basis that does
not enable a third party to identify you.
Your use of the Service constitutes your consent to the use of such data on
an aggregated basis.
4.Policy on Children's Use of the Site This
Site is, generally, directed at persons over the age of 18 who purchase items
with credit cards and we do not knowingly collect personal information from
or about children under the age of 18 except as relating to a specific order
for products or services. If we, at any time, learn that information relating
to a child under the age of 18 that we have obtained is other than as set forth
above, we shall immediately purge such information from our records.
5.Cookies Like most other Web sites,
Accent Art & Frame's servers may automatically track certain information about activity
on our Web site. This information allows us to keep our Web site running efficiently.
This information may include: the browser being used (such as Netscape, Internet
Explorer, etc.); your operating system (such as Macintosh, Windows 98, etc.);
your IP address; and the referring URL and all company URL's you visit. We
use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer
our Web site, but your IP address is not connected to information that is personally
identifiable.
In addition, Accent Art & Frame may use "cookies" on certain pages
of our Web site to automatically collect information from a visitor to our
Web site and transfer this information to the visitor's hard drive. Cookies
help us recognize repeat visitors, allowing communication of a personalized
welcome message and tailoring of content to match particular interests.
We also may use outside advertising companies to display advertisements on
our site. These advertisements may also contain cookies. Some customer data
may be shared with the advertising affiliates on an aggregated basis in accordance
with the other terms of this Privacy Policy. Because cookies are stored on
your hard drive, not on our Web site, you are always free to set your browser
to decline cookies and you can delete them from your computer. If you decline "cookies" or
delete them from your computer, you will still be able to access our Web site,
but you may find that some areas do not work as smoothly as when cookies are
enabled on your system.
6.Other Use It is possible that Accent Art & Frame,
its business and/or assets, its present or future subsidiaries, joint
ventures or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired in one
or more types of transactions by another business entity or entities. Should
such transaction(s) occur, Accent Art & Frame has your permission to share some
or all of your information in order to, among other things, facilitate continuation
of one or more services similar to all or a portion of the Service. Notice
of such an event (to the extent that it takes place) will be posted on this
Web site and we will require that the new combined entity adhere to the practices
disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
7.Disclosure for Legal Purposes Given the
government's current interest in Internet regulation, you hereby authorize
us to disclose information pursuant to judicial and administrative proceedings,
and in connection with law enforcement activities and as otherwise may be permitted
by law, to law enforcement or government agencies if we believe the disclosure
is necessary or appropriate. You also authorize us to disclose information
if we believe the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in the event of an
investigation of improper or illegal conduct in connection with our Web site,
such as fraud, misrepresentation, intellectual-property infringement, or other
activity that may put us at risk for liability. We will, whenever we believe
reasonably possible, use our reasonable efforts to inform a User whose information
may be so revealed.
8.Other Parties and Your Information This
policy only relates to our collection and use of your information, except as
otherwise provided. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices
of promotional affiliates or other third parties to which we may provide links.
Accent Art & Frame does not have control over the privacy policies applied by
any other party that you may disclose information to when linking to from our
Web site. If you would like information on any other party's privacy policy,
you should contact that party directly, and we encourage you to do so.
9.Security Accent Art & Frame employs standard
industry measures to protect and ensure the confidentiality of your personally
identifiable information, including the use of firewalls and SSL encryption.
Despite these efforts, we cannot guarantee the security of your information
given the current state of the Internet. We also do not undertake to maintain
information about you for a duration greater than as provided by law, rule
or regulation.
Accent Art & Frame engages in other security measures, as follows:
- Physical security of the systems against theft and damage
- Software integrity to ensure that only authorized personnel can implement
or modify software
- Data integrity to check the validity of certain data
- Data security administration procedures to ensure proper monitoring and
auditing
We believe we employ security measures that adequately address the security
needs of Accent Art & Frame customers.
10.How You Can Modify Information, Opt Out, or Contact
Us You can review and modify (or remove) the information you provide
us in the order or registration process if this information changes. The
information that you may change (or remove) includes any information provided
on our order or registration format. To make any of these changes, you may
log on to this site and make the changes directly after you have received
an identification and password for the transaction or for the individual
order.
After either completing your first purchase at Accent Art & Frame or otherwise
using our registration module, your registration on our Web site will be confirmed
by an email correspondence to your email address. If you do not object to such
email within three days, it will constitute your consent to receive email notices
and other email communications from Accent Art & Frame and its advertisers and
promotional affiliates. In the event you no longer wish to receive such email
notices or other email communications from us, you may opt-out by removing
yourself through our opt-out procedures. You may also contact us at info@accentartandframe.com if
you no longer wish to be enrolled as a User.
To contact us with questions about this policy or other inquiries send us an
email at info@accentartandframe.com and
write "Privacy Policy" in the subject line.
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