This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for
http://www.holidaygalorestore.com. This privacy statement will inform and notify
you of:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party
personally identification is collected from you through the web site.
2. The organization collecting the information.
3. How the information is used.
4. With whom the information may be shared.
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and
distribution of the information.
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under holidygalorestore.com's control.
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you feel that this company is not abiding by its
posted privacy policy, you should first contact the Security & Privacy
Department of Holiday Galore Store by emailing info@holidaygalorestore.com
. Information Collection
and Use Holiday Galore Store is the sole owner of the information collected
on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others
in ways different from what is disclosed in this
statement. holidaygalorestore.com collects information from our users at several different points on
our website. We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user
must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and
financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is
used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have
trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with
the user. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to
any personally identifiable information while on our site. For instance, by
setting a cookie on our site, the user's preferences would be saved, thereby
saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still
fully use our site.
Log Files:
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track
user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We will
share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This
is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual
person. We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card
processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not
retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any
secondary purposes. We partner with another party to provide specific services.
When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact
information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except
for the purpose of providing these services.
Links:
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we,
holidaygalorestore.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to
read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by this Web site.
Mailing List:
If a user wishes to subscribe to our mailing list, we
ask for contact information such as name and email address. From
time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user
therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information
requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information
will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be
used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this
site.
Tell-A-Friend:
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend
about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address.
Holidygalorestore.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email
inviting them to visit the site. Holidaygalorestore.com stores this information
for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and is immediatley removed
from our database.
Security:
This website takes every precaution to
protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the
website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our
registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit
card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best
encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our
order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to
un-locked, or open, when you are just surfing. While we use SSL encryption to
protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to
protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the
sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our
billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected
screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter
their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees
are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as
well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or
reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to
ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we
store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure data center.
If you have any questions about the security at our
website, you can send an email to info@holidaygalorestore.com
. We send all new members a
welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will
occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a
newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to
not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out
below.
Site and Service Updates:
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members
are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important
information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested
services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes
(such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data
provided to us. This can usually be done from the account page or by
emailing our Customer Support. Choice/Opt-out Our users are given the
opportunity to opt-out of having their information used for purposes not
directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For
example, our order form has an opt-out mechanism so users who buy a product from
us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of
our lists. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional
materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by
following the instructions in the email or by emailing us at optout@holidayglorestore.com
. Users of our site
are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside
parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they
should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point
we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an
email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in
this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy
policy under which the information was collected.