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Privacy and Security Policies
For Kathy's Curvy Corner
* We respect your privacy and do not rent or share your data with anyone.
* We only collect information needed to complete your transactions.
* We only use secured methods of transmitting sensative information.
* We respect your privacy and security at a higher degree than normal.
Respecting
and protecting the privacy of users of kathyscurvycorner.com (Our ''Site'') is of
great importance to us at Kathy's Curvy Corner. This notice describes our policies of
information collection and our use practices with respect to Our Site,
and highlights choices you may have about the way we use and share such
information. Please read and understand this policy so that you can
understand how we use your personal information. Please be aware that
if you use our Site, register in any fashion in connection with our
Site, or participate in a survey, contest, sweepstakes, or other
promotion available on Our Site, you are agreeing to both the terms of
our privacy policies and our Terms of Use on Our
Site, each as in effect from time to time. Please also be aware we
reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this policy at
any time, and all such changes shall be immediately applicable. Please
check this page periodically for changes. Our privacy policies and
information collection and use practices in connection with Our Site
may vary from related policies and practices related to our offline
activities such as our stores and our offline marketing activities.
Collection of Information
On Our Site, you may purchase merchandise, participate in our
community features like chat rooms or bulletin boards, become a
registered user, maintain a “wish list” or store other information on Our Site, enter sweepstakes and contests, participate in surveys and
polls, e-mail or instant message, subscribe to a service, or enroll to
receive certain entertainment or information. We may need or request
certain types of personally identifiable information (i.e. information
that can directly identify you or indicate where you might be
contacted, such as name, address, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and credit card
information) and collect it in connection with these various activities
and offerings. We do not consider indications of your interests, likes
and dislikes, or general characteristics such as clothing size or hair
color, to be personally identifiable information unless it is somehow
grouped with other information so as to permit identification of you
specifically; but from time to time we collect such information also,
in order to provide you better service or to get to know our user base
and its general traits.
Sometimes you can submit
information about other people. For example, you might submit a
person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic gift certificate
and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to a friend,
you might submit the friend's name and address, should we be offering
that service. The types of personally identifiable information that
may be collected about other people at these pages may include:
recipient's name, address, date of birth, e-mail
address and telephone number.
Use of Information
We
use personally identifiable information for various purposes. For
example, we may use information you provide to process your purchases
of merchandise or to provide for merchandise delivery to your home. As
a registered user, you provide us with information that we maintain and
reference as part of our attempts to provide better and more
personalized service to you. We might also use online registries or
other databases to permit you to use and participate in certain
portions in or features of our Site. We also use information users
provide to conduct sweepstakes and contests, notify you if you win, and
fulfill prizes or awards. In addition, unless you tell us not to, we
like to provide you with certain information about our merchandise,
sales or other offerings, and other marketing materials designed to
help you use our Site and visit our stores with more information. We
also use such information to make our online marketing and other
communications with you more efficient. Similarly, we may use
personally identifiable information in connection with certain of our
activities with our partners, such as marketing efforts,
co-sponsorships, and other initiatives. We also collect this
information as may be reasonably necessary for tracking/verifying
compliance with federal, state and local laws or for editorial and
feedback solicitation purposes.
We may from time to
time augment information you give us with information from other
sources, such as information validating your address. Thus, information
we obtain through Our Site may be intermingled with and used in
conjunction with information obtained through sources other than Our
Site, including both offline and online sources.
We never share personal information given to us with third parties except on the need to complete a transaction (ie: transfer to secure server to complete financial transaction)
We may offer e-mail services,
contests, sweepstakes, or promotions that are sponsored by or
co-sponsored with non-affiliated companies. Based on our agreement with
them, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable
information that site visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the
contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. We have no control over the use of
this information by these companies.
Opting Out
We
strive to make sure your preferences are respected. Therefore, you can
tell us if you don’t want us to share your personal information with
third parties (other than in connection with administration of Our Site
or use over which we have no control, as described above) and we will
do our best to respect that. In any event, when you receive e-mails or
other communications from us our our partners, you should have the
ability to “opt out” of receiving any further such communications, and
we encourage you to exercise those rights should you see fit. You can just tell us what you
want by contacting:
Kathy's Curvy Corner
a Division of KJH Enterprises
12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd.
Suite #200
Kent, WA 98030-7940
USA
(253) 218-7165 Fax
Cookies
You
should also know that, like many websites, our websites use "cookies,"
which are small amounts of data sent to your browser from a web server
that is stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to help
us “remember” who you are, to ease navigation of Our Site, and to help
target merchandise and other offerings to suit your personal interests,
as well as for more general reasons such as gauging audience size and
analyzing visitor patterns. We also may contract with third parties who
may use cookies and collect such information on our behalf. You can
usually set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when
you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not
to accept it. But be aware that if you disable cookies we may not be
able to provide you with service on our Site as tailored and targeted
as possible.
Security
We
are committed to treating your personal information with high standards
of information security. We work hard to maintain the security and
accuracy of personally identifiable information we collect, including
limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database
servers, as well as employing electronic security systems and password
protections that guard against unauthorized access. We use Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your credit
card information as it is transmitted to us. Our customer service center and
stores operate over a private, secure network. Please note that e-mail
is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of
transmitting credit card information.
Persons Under 13
Persons
under 13 are prohibited from providing personally identifiable
information on our Site
If you have concerns about this Site or its services with respect to
persons under 13, wish to find out if your child is a member or has
registered for one our services, please contact us.
International Users
If you use Our Site from outside of the United States, your
connection will be through and to servers located in the United States,
your orders placed through Our Site will be fully processed in and
shipped from the United States and all information you provide will be
processed and maintained in our web servers and internal systems
located within the United States. By using Our Site, you authorize the
export of personal information to the United States and its storage and
use as specified above when you provide such information to us. This
policy and our legal obligations are subject to the laws of the State
of Washington and the United States, regardless of the location of any
user. Any claims or complaints must be filed in the United States in
the State of Washington.
Links to Other Sites
You should be aware that when you are on Our Site you could be
directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to
other sites from pages on Our Site that take you outside our service.
For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement, or a link, the
"click" takes you off Our Site. We are not responsible for the content
or privacy policy of those sites. These other sites may send their own
cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information.
Please keep in mind that
whenever you give out personal information online -- for example, via
message boards -- that information can be collected and used by people
you don't know. While we strive to protect personal information
provided to us and our users’ privacy, we cannot guarantee the security
of any information you transmit online and you do so at your own risk.
Our policy does not extend to anything inherent in the operation of the Internet, and is therefore beyond our control.
This Privacy Policy was last amended in May, 2006.
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