This Privacy Statement is
intended to describe Rhinestone Wear's privacy practices and provide information
about the choices you have regarding the ways in which information collected by
Rhinestone Wear is used and disclosed.
Please note that our
co-branded websites (websites where Rhinestone Wear has presented content
together with one or more of our business partners) may be governed by
additional or different privacy provisions.
At Rhinestone Wear, your
privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we have provided
this Statement explaining our information practices and the choices you can make
about the way your personal information is collected, used and disclosed. To
make this Statement easy to find, we have made it available on our homepage and
at every location where personally-identifiable information may be requested.
This Privacy Statement
applies to all information collected by or submitted to Rhinestone Wear,
including personal information. "Personal information" is data that reasonably
can be used to identify or describe an individual.
Rhinestone Wear collects
personal information when:
you create a user account to become a member of RhinestoneWear.com .
you make online purchases;
you register products online;
you request support for a Rhinestone Wear product;
you request information or materials (e.g., whitepapers);
you participate in surveys and evaluations;
you participate in promotions, contests or giveaways;
you submit questions or comments to us.
Rhinestone Wear also
collects personal information from individuals (with their consent) at
conventions, trade shows and expositions.
The types of personal
information collected may include (but are not limited to):
your first and last name;
your title and your company's name;
your home, billing, or other physical address (including street name, name
of a city or town, state/province);
your e-mail address;
your telephone number;
any other identifier that permits Rhinestone Wear to make physical or online
contact with you;
any information that Rhinestone Wear collects online from you and maintains
in association with your account, such as:
Rhinestone Wear uses the
personal information you provide to:
create and maintain your accounts;
process, fulfill, and follow-up on your orders;
register your products;
answer your questions;
register you in programs (per your request);
send you information;
send you surveys.
We also use this personal
information to provide you with information related to your account and the
products or services you purchased from us, to better understand your needs and
interests, to improve our service, and to personalize communications.
Unless you assent,
Rhinestone Wear will never share the personal information you provide to us
except as described below.
Rhinestone Wear may
disclose your personal information to third parties under any of the following
circumstances:
As
may be required to fulfill orders, to conduct billing/credit card
processing, to provide service, and for e-mail housing (as a consequence of
uses already described in this Privacy Statement).
As
required by law (such as responding to a valid subpoena, warrant, audit, or
agency action, or to prevent fraud). For research activities, including the
production of statistical reports (such aggregated information is used to
describe our services to current and prospective partners and other third
parties, and is not used to contact the subjects of the report).
In
the context of a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition,
consolidation, or divestiture (pursuant to a pledge of confidentiality under
which the recipient agrees to use the information for no purpose other than
carrying out the transaction).
Rhinestone Wear makes
every effort to provide you with the ability to opt-in and opt-out of receiving
communications from Rhinestone Wear and/or its partners.
Rhinestone Wear may send
you e-mail about your account, about the products you have purchased, or in
response to your questions. Rhinestone Wear may also send you e-mail with
information and/or special offers about products and services that may be of
interest to you, unless you indicate that you do not want to receive them. In
addition, with your assent, our business partners may send you such information.
You may let us know
whether or not you would like to receive information, special offers, and
promotional materials from Rhinestone Wear or our business partners when you
create a RhinestoneWear.com account, when you register for a service, when you
provide us with your personal information, or when we send you e-mail. Please
note that if you choose not to accept promotional e-mails, you may not receive
special offers that may be of value to you.
Rhinestone Wear will
provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of any of our direct marketing
communications at any time. All promotional e-mail sent from Rhinestone Wear
will contain a provision allowing you the option to decline receiving future
promotional e-mail. You may unsubscribe to an e-mail communication by contacting
Rhinestone Wear at either of the addresses provided below and requesting that
you be unsubscribed from that specific communication:
For your protection,
Rhinestone Wear may contact you in the event that we find an issue with a
product or service you have purchased that requires your immediate attention.
Our website automatically
captures IP addresses. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our
server, to administer our website, and to help ensure the security of your
interaction with the website. Your IP address is used to help identify you and
your shopping cart.
As part of offering and
providing customizable and personalized services, Rhinestone Wear uses cookies
to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount
of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your
computer's hard drive. All sections of RhinestoneWear.com where you are prompted
to log in or that are customizable require your browser to accept cookies.
If you do not want your
personal information to be stored by cookies, you can configure your browser so
that it always rejects these cookies or asks you each time if you accept them or
not. However, you must understand that the use of cookies may be necessary to
provide certain products or services, and choosing to reject cookies will reduce
the performance and functionality of the site. Your browser documentation
includes precise instructions explaining how to define the acceptance of
cookies.
Rhinestone Wear trains
its employees on our privacy policy guidelines and makes our privacy policy
available to our business partners. Our website uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
technology, which encrypts your personal information when you send your personal
information on our website. In addition, Rhinestone Wear and its business
partners enter into confidentiality agreements which require that care and
precautions be taken to prevent loss, misuse, or disclosure of your personal
information.
This site often makes
chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users.
Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes
public information. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information. Although we value individual ideas and encourage free expression,
Rhinestone Wear reserves the right to take necessary action to preserve the
forum's integrity, such as removing any posting that is vulgar or inappropriate.
Out of special concern
for children's privacy, Rhinestone Wear does not knowingly accept online
personal information from children under the age of 13. Rhinestone Wear does not
knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to become registered members of our
sites, or buy products and services on our sites. Rhinestone Wear does not
knowingly collect or solicit personal information about children under 13.
In the event that
Rhinestone Wear ever decides to expand its intended site audience to include
children under the age of 13, those specific web pages will, in accordance with
the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), be
clearly identified and provide an explicit privacy notice addressed to children
under 13. In addition, Rhinestone Wear will provide an appropriate mechanism to
obtain parental approval, allow parents to subsequently make changes to or
request removal of their children's personal information, and provide access to
any other information as required by law.
This site contains links
to other sites. Rhinestone Wear does not control the information collection of
sites that can be reached through links from RhinestoneWear.com. If you have
questions about the data collection procedures of linked sites, please contact
those companies directly.
Rhinestone Wear gives you
the ability to access, modify or update your information at any time. You may
log in and make changes to your login
information (change your password), your contact information, your general
preferences and your personalization settings. If necessary, you may also
contact us and describe the changes you want
made to the information you have previously provided.
If you have any questions
about any of these practices or Rhinestone Wear's use of your personal
information, please feel free to contact us
by web, or by mail at:
Rhinestone Wear
250 Emery Hwy.
Macon, Ga.31217
Rhinestone Wear will work
with you to resolve any concerns you may have about this Statement.
Rhinestone Wear reserves
the right to change this policy from time to time. If we do make changes, the
revised Privacy Statement will be posted on this site. A notice will be posted
on our homepage for 30 days whenever this privacy statement is changed in a
material way.
This Privacy Statement
was last amended on 10-27-06.
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