Use of Cookies
Most standard Web browsers contain a feature called "cookies," which allow a Web site to place information about a user's visit to that Web site in a small data text file that is stored on the user's computer. Our use of cookie technology will likely be transparent to you and is used to recognize you and hold information from one visit to the next in an effort to increase your ease of use of COMFORTER-SETS.NETand to allow us to better understand how people use our site through click-stream analysis. For example, cookies are used to store your membername and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit. Another example is that we may use cookie technology to control the number of times you see a particular advertisement while visiting COMFORTER-SETS.NET. You can turn the cookies feature off by using your browser preference options, but doing so will severely limit your access to COMFORTER-SETS.NETand may prevent you from registration.
Some of COMFORTER-SETS.NET’s third party content providers also may place a cookie on the user’s computer. If a user chooses to monitor or restrict cookies that are placed on his computer, the user can determine the Web site that is attempting to place a cookie. Those cookies are controlled by the content provider, and users should refer to that provider’s privacy policy for further information regarding its use of cookies.
We use software developed by several other companies to display advertising on COMFORTER-SETS.NET, and we may use cookies in conjunction with displaying those ads. In addition, advertisers may elect to use other advertising companies to serve their ads on COMFORTER-SETS.NET, and advertisers themselves may also place a cookie on a user’s computer. We do not have access to the cookies or their contents that are placed by advertisers or by third-party advertising companies.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information may be accessed by the user who entered it and by COMFORTER-SETS.NETpersonnel, and by certain third parties, such as those who provide technical support or content services to COMFORTER-SETS.NET. We ask these third parties to keep any personal information supplied by us confidential. We also endeavor to keep your Personally Identifiable Information inaccessible to other users or advertisers of COMFORTER-SETS.NET. Note that your first name may be displayed on COMFORTER-SETS.NETwhen you visit COMFORTER-SETS.NETas a logged in member. We will also display your e-mail address and contact information in your Member Center. We make every effort to make the Member Center secure, such that; it can only be accessed by logging in with your member name and password.
We also reserve the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information when deemed necessary or appropriate to comply with the law, respond to claims, protect our computer systems and customers, ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, or protect the rights, property or safety of COMFORTER-SETS.NET, its affiliates, or others.
We will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information without your advance permission except as explained in this privacy policy or as explained at the time the information was collected.
Use of Aggregated information
In order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and others, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information to create a compiled, aggregate view of the COMFORTER-SETS.NETaudience and their usage patterns. We use Aggregated Information to operate our services and to better understand our audience as we develop new content and services. Aggregated Information may also be shared with third parties we contract with to provide content and services on COMFORTER-SETS.NETas well as advertisers so that they can better understand our audience. For example, we might disclose that a certain percentage of our users are female or within a certain age range or live within a cluster of zip codes.
Children's Privacy
COMFORTER-SETS.NETis particularly concerned with providing a safe online environment for children. Children under the age 13 will not be allowed to register and become a member of COMFORTER-SETS.NETin order to access general COMFORTER-SETS.NETcontent, features and services.
In the near future, parents and legal guardians of children under age 13 who register are able to establish a member account for their child by accessing the Member Center. Other areas and services operated by COMFORTER-SETS.NETthat do not require registration but that ask for Personally Identifiable Information from children under age 13 will require a parental consent before collecting the information. Further, we limit most of our contests to people who are at least 18 years of age, making children ineligible to enter.
Parental consent to collect information about children can be provided in two ways: (1) Fax a copy of a completed Parental Consent Form, including your signature, to the facsimile number provided on the Parental Consent Form. This form will be available in applicable areas of our site. (2) Mail a completed Parental Consent Form to the address indicated.
COMFORTER-SETS.NETwill not knowingly disclose personal information about users under the age of 13 without prior parental or legal guardian consent, except as required by law.
COMFORTER-SETS.NETstrongly recommends parental supervision when a child uses the Internet, particularly when a child enters a forum or uses e-mail. We also encourage parents to instruct their children not to give out personal information in these areas.
Member Mail and E-mail Offers
COMFORTER-SETS.NETdoes not rent, sell, barter or give away its user or member lists or its users' or members’ names, e-mail addresses or mailing addresses for use by advertisers and other third parties for the purpose of solicitations, unless the user has previously given his or her consent at the time of general registration or registration for a specific contest or service. If a user granted permission to receive solicitations (referred to as E-mail Offers) at the time of registration but subsequently wishes to opt out from receiving such solicitations, the user may go to the Member Center and change one or more of the category-specific permission related to receiving e-mail from TCOMFORTER-SETS.NETadvertisers.
All registered users will receive periodic Member Mail via e-mail related to their membership account or various features and services on COMFORTER-SETS.NETthat their membership entitles them to access. Because Member Mail is an important part of our service to you, users cannot opt-out of receiving Member Mail.
When a user specifically authorizes e-mail solicitations we make available the user names and other Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with the applicable license.
Our HTML-encoded e-mail messages may include graphic files, which we use to gather information about e-mails sent our members. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient’s computer accesses our server to retrieve the graphic file, and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient’s e-mail address, and other standard logging information. These HTML-encoded e-mail messages may also read cookies.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements
COMFORTER-SETS.NETexpects its partners, providers of content and services and advertisers to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, providers of content and services, advertisers and others accessible through our site may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to COMFORTER-SETS.NETyou may link to, or view as part of a frame on a COMFORTER-SETS.NETpage, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also through COMFORTER-SETS.NETyou may be introduced to, or be able to access information, services, Web sites, features, contest or sweepstakes offered by other parties. COMFORTER-SETS.NETis not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
Electronic commerce with COMFORTER-SETS.NET
For certain electronic commerce services on COMFORTER-SETS.NET, such as placing classified ads electronically we require additional information. To complete these transactions, we may collect information from you such as your name, credit card number and other financial or Personally Identifiable Information. We endeavor to protect the security of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which encrypts information you submit. We use the credit card and shipping information for the purpose of completing the transaction and does not provide this information to third parties except for the issuers of credit cards in order to process the transaction, or as otherwise set forth in this policy.
Changing your personal information
In general, a registered member may return to his or her account information page in the Member Center to update the information he or she previously provided to us. To prevent minors from improperly entering contests for which they are not eligible, we may require additional proof from people asking to change their birth date information. Information you provide to COMFORTER-SETS.NETmay be stored by us for an indefinite time. This information includes the registration data as well as information provided in conjunction with various membership services, contests or features available on COMFORTER-SETS.NET
You can delete your COMFORTER-SETS.NETmembership account in Member Center by clicking on the link labeled “delete my account.” By doing so, all but a transactional record of your membership account will be removed from our databases, though some records may remain on back-up media. Note that by deleting your account, you will cancel your membership and no longer be able to access COMFORTER-SETS.NET.
Remember the risks when you use the Internet
You should know that when you voluntarily disclose personal information on the COMFORTER-SETS.NETWeb site (for example, in the discussion forums), that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot be responsible for information that you choose to publicly disclose. Further, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information we collect in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public and to work with responsible third parties, we cannot guarantee complete security for your information.
In addition, our advertisers, content providers, partners and other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through COMFORTER-SETS.NEThave separate data and privacy practices that are independent of us, and we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those sites directly if you have questions about their privacy policies.
International users
If you are an international user, by using COMFORTER-SETS.NETor by registering for any of its services, you agree that COMFORTER-SETS.NETmay collect, use and transfer your personal information as described in this privacy policy, including transfers outside the country where you live. If you reside in a country in the European Union or other jurisdiction that provides access rights under law, you may access your personal information or have it corrected or updated by going to your account information page and personally updating the information. in accordance with applicable law by contacting us. In some jurisdictions, you may be charged a reasonable fee for access to information.
Platform for Privacy Preferences.
COMFORTER-SETS.NETsupports P3P, the Platform for Privacy Preferences, which allows us to convey our privacy policies, to the extent possible, in standardized, machine-readable code. While our site supports P3P, the resulting code has inherent limitations such that it does not fully and may not accurately express all of our data practices. Some P3P-enabled browsers may interpret the same P3P code in different ways, while others may interpret P3P code in a manner inconsistent with the original intention. Accordingly, your browser’s interpretation of the P3P code should only be considered as a short-hand expression of our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy remains our primary policy, and takes precedence over the P3P code for all purposes.
General
COMFORTER-SETS.NETendorses and abides by the privacy principles approved by the Interactive Services Association and the Direct Marketing Association. |
