| In order to make your visits to PatriciaKara.com as responsive as possible, we collect information when you visit us. To help ensure an enjoyable online experience for all of our visitors, we provide this summary of what information PatriciaKara.com collects online, and how PatriciaKara.com uses that information. This privacy policy statement applies only to the information collected online by PatriciaKara.com.
PatriciaKara.com is not directed at kids under the age of 13, and no one under the age of 13 should provide personal information on this Web site.
General Browsing:
PatriciaKara.com gathers navigational information about where visitors go on our Web site. This information allows us to see which areas of our Web site are most visited and helps us improve the quality of your online experience by recognizing and delivering more of the most desired features and services. Additional non-personally identifiable information (for example, domain type, browser version, service provider, IP address) may be collected which will provide information regarding the general use of our Web site.
Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information:
"Contact Us", "Help" or "Feedback"
If you complete a general "Contact Us", "Help" or "Feedback" form on our Web site, we may collect your name, e-mail address, mailing address and any information that you provide in the text of your message. You may also be given the option to sign up for our mailing lists when using these features.
If you use the "Contact Us" feature available in the Investor Relations portion of our Web site, we may collect your name, title, organization, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address and any information that you provide in the text of your message. The information collected in the Investor Relations "Contact Us" feature is only used to reply to visitors requests for financial information.
Sign Up for Mailing List:
If you sign up for our either our mailing lists, you will be asked to provide your name, postal address and e-mail address. You may also be given the option to sign up for our mailing lists when using other interactive features on our Web site such as the "Contact Us", features. Signing up for our mailing lists enable you to receive promotional materials from PatriciaKara.com via e-mail and regular postal mail. We do not make the names and postal addresses in our postal mailing list, available to our affiliates and other unaffiliated companies for their marketing purposes.
Registering with the Online Store:
Online visitors are given the opportunity to register with the PatriciaKara.com online store. Registering with the online store allows visitors to create an address book, make a wish list, and enjoy "quick checkouts" by having PatriciaKara.com automatically enter their billing address and preferred shipping information. Registering with the online store requires visitors to provide their name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
The information you provide when registering with the online store may be used for PatriciaKara.com marketing. For example, your name and postal address, which you provide when registering with the online store, as well as your purchasing information, may be added to our postal mailing list. Please be aware that we do not make the names and postal addresses in our postal mailing list.
Creating and Sending Wish Lists:
We do not offer this feature.
Purchasing at the Online Store:
If you purchase merchandise through PatriciaKara.com, we will gather personal information (i.e., name, billing and shipping address information, e-mail address, telephone number and credit card information), as well as information about your purchases on our Web site for the sole use of shipping your product and will not share any of your information with other companies, marketing sites or individuals.
PatriciaKara.com does not sell or rent your e-mail address to unrelated third parties.
Please be aware that PatriciaKara.com may use third parties to help provide services to you, such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, providing electronic online investor information, monitoring site activity, serving site content, organizing information, conducting surveys, and administering e-mails, drawings, or contests.
You should also be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site, the site or the public.
International Users:
If you are visiting PatriciaKara.com from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S., your orders placed through PatriciaKara.com will be accepted and fully processed in and shipped from the U.S. and all information you provide will be processed and maintained in our Web servers and internal systems located within the U.S.
Use of Cookies:
PatriciaKara.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which assigns a unique identification to your computer. The cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive. Information collected from cookies is used by PatriciaKara.com to evaluate the effectiveness of our Web site, analyze trends and administer the Web site. The information collected from cookies allows us to determine such things as which parts of our Web site are most visited and difficulties our visitors may experience in accessing our Web site. With this knowledge, we can improve the quality of your experience on our Web site by recognizing and delivering more of the most desired features and information, as well as by resolving access difficulties. In addition, PatriciaKara.com uses cookies to help keep track of items you put into your shopping cart and to tell us whether you have visited PatriciaKara.com in the past. This allows visitors registered with the online store to maintain shopping carts between visits.
Updating Personal Information:
We prefer to keep registered users' personal information accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information, including your billing address and preferred shipping information. Just log-on your account with your user name and password, and you'll see a menu where you can update your information.
Links:For your convenience and enjoyment, our Web site may contain links to other Web sites. PatriciaKara.com does not evaluate and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We would urge you to review the privacy policies on each link to ensure that you are comfortable with their privacy policies and practices.
Changes In Policy:
As we continue to offer our visitors new and different types of content and services, PatriciaKara.com may modify our collection and use practices. Should there be a material change to our information practices, it will be applied only to information collected on a going forward basis, and we will update this privacy policy statement.
Security:
PatriciaKara.com limits the number of employees that have access to the databases that contain personal data, and PatriciaKara.com employees are advised of the importance of confidentiality. In addition, it is our policy to never send your credit card number via e-mail. As an added safeguard, PatriciaKara.com does not store credit card information with your registered online profile.
We designed the PatriciaKara.com online store to accept orders only from Web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology; for example, 4.0 versions or higher of Netscape Navigator and versions 4.0 or higher of Internet Explorer. Browsers that do not meet this requirement will be prevented from navigating the online store section of the PatriciaKara.com Web site.
Questions/Contact Us:
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy practices, please contact us at the following e-mail address.
Customer Service
storeowner@patriciakara.com |