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PRIVACY POLICY
Effective June 28, 2008
Table Of Contents:
Our Commitment To Privacy
Terms Of Use And Applicability
The Information We Collect
Cookies
How We Use Information
Our Commitment To Data Security
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
How To Access Or Correct Your Information
How To Contact Us
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
Terms Of Use And Applicability
All statements, submissions and policies contained in this privacy policy are applicable to the business known as The Scrap Castle operating the Web site at www.thescrapcastle.com. Use of this Web site and it's associated policies are limited to, and applicable to, United States residents ONLY.
The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the www.thescrapcastle.com Web site. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, sign up to become a member and receive future communications. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
Email address: Used as your User ID and for various communications
Password: Used for membership log in credentials and for tracking orders. It is encrypted for enhanced security.
Birth Month/Year: Used to verify that you at least 18 years old.
Name: First and Last name.
Addresses: Billing and Shipping addresses for processing orders.
Phone number: (optional) For communications.
Credit Card Information: Only collected during checkout to process payment for orders. This data is NOT stored by The Scrap Castle.
User preferences: (Members Only) Used for marketing, program development and communications.
Cookies:
The use of cookies is employed on www.thescrapcastle.com in order to enhance your shopping experience. By recognizing returning users and/or members, it allows our Web site to know things like membership pricing and other benefits, to enhance site performance, and to simplify the checkout process. Certain personally identifiable information, provided by you directly and explicitly to www.thescrapcastle.com, is stored in a cookie upon the user actions of "Sign Up" and "Sign In." We therefore recommend and advise that you "Sign Out" prior to exiting our Web site to prevent any unwanted access to your personal information by another user of any computer used by you to access www.thescrapcastle.com.
The Way We Use Information:
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
You can sign up to become a member of The Scrap Castle on our Web site, if you would like to receive product discounts, various member benefits as well as updates on our new products and services, etc. Information you submit on our Web site as a non-member will only be used to complete orders you have submitted.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of SSL to encrypt both personal and financial information provided to the www.thescrapcastle Web site.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Web site from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our Web site is intentionally structured to attract, sell to, or market to anyone under 18.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access and maintain all of your personally identifiable information that we collect online using one of the following methods:
Members: Sign In with your email and password, then click "My Account" to access and/or edit your personal information maintained by The Scrap Castle.
Non-Members: All information stored by The Scrap Castle for our Guest users is ONLY used to process an order. If there is a need to change your information for a pending order, please send us an email at: privacy@thescrapcastle.com or call us at: (951) 283-3763 between 8:00AM ~ 6:00PM PST.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, or believe there is a security risk concerning your information, please send us an email at: privacy@thescrapcastle.com or call us at: (951) 283-3763 between 8:00AM ~ 6:00PM PST.
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