Our Privacy Policy
The Welcome Bag Company LLC (the �WBC�)
has created this privacy statement outlining your privacy rights in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for this website which can be
found at Welcomebags.com (the
�Site�).
The WBC is the sole owner
of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent to or share
this information with others in ways different from what is disclosed in this
statement.
The following links are made available to help you find what
you are looking for in our statement of Your Privacy Rights:
Service Partners and Affiliates
In
certain circumstances, the WBC may share
your information with trusted service providers that need access to your
information to provide us with data collection, storage, and reporting services.
To ensure the confidentiality and security of your information, service
providers must agree to safeguard your information in strict compliance with our
policies. As a result of your accessing our Site, the trusted service providers
may, on our behalf, collect information
about you. Your first name and email address (if you provide them) as well as
your navigation path through the Site will be collected. We may also ask them to
store, on our behalf, similar information that we collected prior to our
relationship with them. This will enable the WBC
to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our Site, and
to help make our Site more useful to our visitors.
How And When We Collect Information / Information We Collect
We collect
�personal� information from you when you provide it to us. For example, if you
purchase an item from us, we may collect your name, mailing address, telephone
number, credit card number and email address. Contact information from your
online registration is used to ship products. The contact information is also
used to get in touch with you when necessary. Financial information that is
collected is only used to bill you for the products you purchase. Our Site�s
registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name
and email address). If you select to
receive information from the WBC, we will
use customer contact information from the registration form to send you
electronic newsletters or similar types of information. Your contact information
is also used to contact you when issues arise with online orders. If you sign
up to receive a newsletter, we will collect your email address. If you utilize
services or take advantage of special offers made by us or our marketing
partners, we may collect other personal information about
you.
Demographic and profile data is also collected at our Site and is
currently solely used by the WBC to
improve and manage the internal operations of our Site.
We also collect
personal information to provide you with an efficient, customized
experience.
How We Use Your Information
We
collect, store and process your personal information on servers located in the
United States. We use the information we collect about you in order 1) to
provide our services and process your transactions, 2) to provide customer
service, 3) to determine your eligibility to receive offers for special features
or products, and 4) to improve our products and services.
The WBC will not sell or rent any of your
personally identifiable information to third parties. The WBC will not share any of your personally
identifiable information with third parties except in the limited circumstances
described below, or with your express permission. These third parties are
limited by law or by contract from using the information for secondary purposes
beyond the purposes for which the information is shared.
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The practices described above are in accordance with federal law. In addition, if specific U.S. states in which the WBC operates adopt privacy restrictions more restrictive than those under Federal law, we will comply with those applicable provisions.
Updating Personal Information
If you
are a registered user you can update the information you entered by clicking on My
Account at the top of this
page.
Are Children Allowed to Use
Welcomebags.com?
The WBC does
not sell products for purchase by children. We sell products for purchase by
adults only. If you are under 18, you may use our Site only with the involvement
and supervision of a parent or guardian.
Security
The WBC has partnered with Authorize.net to offer safe and secure credit card transations for our customers. For more details, please review our Secure Shopping Statement.
For your security, orders
on our site are encrypted with SSL technology on both the client and server
end. GeoTrust has issued the WBC a unique ID, which assures visitors that
they have reached our authentic site, thereby allowing communications to be
encrypted. The WBC endeavors to make sure
that every transaction with the Site is 100% safe and secure. In order for SSL
to work, though, you must have a browser that supports SSL
technology.
This Site takes every commercially reasonable precaution to
protect our users� information. When users submit sensitive information via the
Site, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our
registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as
credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the
standard encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page the
lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator, Microsoft
Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked, or
open, when you are just �surfing�.
While we use SSL encryption to protect
sensitive information online, we also protect user-information off-line. All of
our users� information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is
restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Our employees are frequently notified and/or reminded about the
importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers�
information is protected. Finally, the servers on which we store personally
identifiable information are kept in a secure environment, with access
restricted.
Please note that e-mail may not be encrypted and cannot be
considered a secure means of transmitting credit card numbers. The WBC will never ask you to submit your credit
card information via e-mail.
Collection and Use of IP Addresses
We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user�s movement, and
gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not
linked to personally identifiable information.
Abuse of Terms & Conditions
We have the right
to share your name and contact information with our attorneys and law
enforcement officials, if needed, in the event we believe you have breached our
Terms & Conditions Agreement or otherwise
harmed us in any way.
We disclose information in response to subpoenas,
warrants, court orders, levies, attachments, orders of a court-appointed
receiver or other comparable legal process, including subpoenas from private
parties in civil actions. You authorize us to disclose any information about you
to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion,
believe necessary or appropriate, including in connection with an investigation
of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other illegal activity.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data
file that certain web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A
cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to
track the pages you�ve visited. The only personal information a cookie can
contain is information you supply yourself. The information stored by one site
into a cookie cannot be read by another web site.
We use cookies to
provide you a richer, personalized experience on our Site, to customize your
shopping experience, and to remember who you are when you revisit our site. We
do not store any personal information about you in the cookie. We use this ID to
track the pages you visit on our Site.
Linked Sites
Our Site may contain
links to other sites. Please be aware that the
WBC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by the WBC.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our Site provides
you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. The WBC gives you the following options for
removing your information from our database so that you do not receive future
communications.
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By following the above outlined cost-free procedures, you may prevent disclosure of personal information.
How We Use Email
Occasionally, we
send out email updates on products, sales, special events, and promotions.
Customers whom we think might be interested in learning about this information
will receive these emails. Email offers that you receive from the WBC will tell you how to decline further
email offers.
We also use email as a means of communicating with our
customers. We love to hear from you, and we encourage you to email us with your
questions, suggestions or comments.
Declining Email Offers
The WBC provides customers with a means of
declining email offers. Although most customers tell us they appreciate
receiving notice of these opportunities, we recognize the importance of
providing you with choices. At any time, you may request to discontinue
receiving these offers from us by simply following the instructions contained in
the email about how to inform us of your preferences.
Changes to Privacy Statement
We
may occasionally change our Privacy Statement. If we do, we will post the new
statement of Your Privacy Rights on the Site. The changes will take effect as
soon as posted.
The Site is owned and operated by The Welcome Bag Company LLC located in Lafayette, Colorado 80026
Effective Date: 06/2008