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Last updated: March 1, 2003 BabyBlossoms.com knows that you care how information about you is used and
shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.
This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting BabyBlossoms.com, you are
accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice. What Personal Information About Customers Does BabyBlossoms.com Gather? The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and
continually improve your shopping experience at BabyBlossoms.com. Here are the types
of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store information you
enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide
certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage
of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for
such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping
for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store
certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like
many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information
when your Web browser accesses BabyBlossoms.com.
- E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful
and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail
from BabyBlossoms.com if your computer supports such capabilities. If
you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please change
your Account Profile.
What About Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's
hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize
your browser and to provide features such remembering your login and
storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will
tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have
the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of
BabyBlossoms.com's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does BabyBlossoms.com Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business,
and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer
information only as described below .
- Agents: We employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling
orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing
repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing
assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service.
They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but
may not use it for other purposes.
- Protection of BabyBlossoms.com and Others: We release
account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate
to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the
rights, property, or safety of BabyBlossoms.com, our users, or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
- With Your Consent: Other than as set out above,
you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties,
and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me? - We work to protect the security of your information
during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which
encrypts information you input.
- We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card
numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card
number to the appropriate credit card company during order
processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to
your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished
using a shared computer.
Which Information Can I Access?
BabyBlossoms.com gives you access to a broad range of information about
your account and your interactions with BabyBlossoms.com for the limited
purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information,
even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage
of such BabyBlossoms.com features as Customer
Testimonials.
- You can add or update certain information on pages such as those listed
in the "Which Information Can I Access?" section above.
- If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please
adjust your Account Profile or email info@babyblossoms.com.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how
to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether.
Children BabyBlossoms.com does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell
children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use
BabyBlossoms.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit BabyBlossoms.com, your visit and any dispute
over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms
and Conditions, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes,
and application of the law of the state of California. If you have any
concern about privacy at BabyBlossoms.com, please send us a thorough description
to info@babyblossoms.com, and we will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Terms
and Conditions will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders
of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but
you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless
stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information
that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises
we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices
to make them less protective of customer information collected in the
past without the consent of affected customers.
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