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Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an
extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality
products and services with the highest level of integrity in dealing
with our clients and partners. The
Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use
and safeguard the personal
information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed
decisions when using our site and
our products and services. This statement will be continuously assessed
against
new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may
provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an
individual basis and Web site use information collected on an
aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to
Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or
services from us or our partners, you may need to give
personal information and
authorization to obtain information from various credit services.
For
example, you may need to provide the
following information:
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Name |
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Mailing address |
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Email address |
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Credit card number,
Expiration Date, and Mailing Address |
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Home and business phone
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Other personal information
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2. E-mail Information
In addition to providing the
foregoing information to our partners, if you choose to correspond
further with us through email, we may
retain the content of your email messages together with
your email address and our responses.
We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the
maintenance of information received by mail and
telephone.
3.
Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web
sites, our Web site may utilize a standard technology called
"cookies" (see explanation below,
"What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect
information about how our Web site is
used. Information gathered through cookies and Web
server logs may include the date and
time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site,
and the Web sites visited just before
and just after our Web site. This information is collected on
an aggregate basis. None of this
information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We
Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal
information for purposes of administering our business
activities, providing customer service and making available other
products and services to our
customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the
information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find
valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are
developed and managed under our
traditional company standards designed to safeguard the security and
privacy of our customers’ personal
information. As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at
least
once annually, to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are
Cookies?
Cookies
are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to
recognize the computer used to access a
Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored
by a user’s Web browser on the user’s
hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user
accesses on one Web page to simplify
subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same
user or to use the information to
streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This
makes it easier for a user to move from
Web page to Web page and to complete commercial
transactions over the Internet. Cookies
should make your online experience easier and more
personalized.
How Do We
Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools
such as cookies and Web server logs to gather
information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to
constantly improve our Web site
and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design
and arrange our Web pages in the
most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to
better meet the needs of our
customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important
business and technical statistics. The information in the
cookies lets us trace the paths followed
by users to our Web site as they move from one page to
another. Web server logs allow us to
count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our
Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not
use these technologies to capture your individual email
address or any personally identifying
information about you although they do permit us to send
focused
online banner advertisements or other such responses to you.
Sharing
Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers
from outside companies advertised on our Web site. We
take measures to select product or service providers that are
responsible and afford privacy
protections to their customers. However, we cannot make any
representations about the
practices and policies of these
companies.
Sharing
Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing
alliances or partnerships with third parties who may be
given access to personal information including your name, address,
telephone number and email for the
purpose of providing you information regarding products and services
that we think will be of interest
to you. In connection with strategic marketing alliances or
partnerships, we will retain all
ownership rights to the information, and we will not share information
regarding your
social security number or other personal
financial data.
Notice of
New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the
information we collect to notify you about important changes
to
our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find
valuable. As our client, you will
be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive
these offers by
clicking on a response box when you
receive such an offer or by sending us an email request at:
webmaster@babybeltsusa.com.
How Do We
Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal
credit card information to us on our Web site, a secure
server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you
input before it is sent to us.
The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our
Web site. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless
we advise you that security
measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information.
For that reason, we ask that you
do not send confidential information such as Social Security or account
numbers to us
through an
unsecured email.
How Do We
Protect Your Information?
Information Securit y.
We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the
confidentiality,
of personal information we collect, from
unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss,
alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection
Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business
practices are reviewed for compliance
with company policies and procedures governing the
security,
confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and
Expectations .
Our
company values, ethical standards, policies
and practices are committed to the
protection of customer information. In general, our business
practices limit employee access to
confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of
such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
Do We
Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information
about our customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and
related Web site information to our
affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will
not
include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in
this Privacy Policy.
What About
Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally
compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good
faith,
believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal
rights.
What About
Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices
employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site
nor the information or content contained
therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided
solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link
to go from our Web site to another Web site, our
Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.
Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site,
including Web sites which have a link on
our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and
policies. Please
read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your
Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our
collection and use of your personal information as
described in this Privacy Policy and in our
Terms of Use
Agreement. If
we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post
those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we
collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
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