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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 number |
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Other
personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name) |
Email 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.
2. 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@dragontearcreations.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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