Privacy Statement
stylishaddiction.com has created this privacy and security policy to let
you know why we collect information from you and what we do with it. It
applies to our apparel industry specific site at www.stylishaddiction.com,
any subsections of this site, and to any future domains under which we
operate our existing business. If at any time you have questions, please
do not hesitate to contact us directly. We are firmly committed to
maintaining your privacy through the highest level of security. We pledge
that we shall not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others
unless you have granted us explicit consent to do so. Information
Collection and Use When you visit the stylishaddiction.com site, you may
provide some or all of the following information:
• Anonymous information
• Aggregate data
• Any personally identifiable information you knowingly provide us
Information Collection Personally Identifiable Data and Information
• stylishaddiction.com collects personally identifiable data from you when
you order stylishaddiction.com products in order to process the
transaction; provide you with the support and tools required to maintain
and modify your directory listings; and to contact you about specials and
new products.
• stylishaddiction.com collects personally identifiable data from you when
you request corrections to, or deletions of, directory listings in order
to process your request.
• You can change or correct information about yourself and your account by
contacting us at the email address: info@stylishaddiction.com.
• stylishaddiction.com collects personally identifiable data in other
situations in which you knowingly provide us with such information; for
example, when completing online surveys, participating in a sweepstakes or
contest, registering for newsletters or communicating with customer
service. Anonymous and Aggregate Data
• In an effort to provide maximum benefit to you we collect information,
not about you personally, but about your visit. We are constantly
monitoring information in order to produce aggregate reports for internal
use and for use by third parties, including advertisers. This information
provides us with valuable feedback we can use to improve our site and
services. For example, we can inform advertisers how many people saw or
clicked on an ad and additionally, how many people saw or clicked on ads
in different portions of our service. Where available, we may offer
information about aggregate viewer characteristics. We do not include
personally identifiable information about you or your online usage
patterns.
• stylishaddiction.com collects information about your site usage through
the use of cookies and through our server log files, including IP
Addresses. stylishaddiction.com does link IP Addresses to any personally
identifiable information.
• Cookies allow us to customize portions of our content according to your
preferences. Cookies also allow us to target our advertisements and limit
the number of times you see an advertisement on our site. However, cookies
tell us nothing about you personally unless you specifically give us
additional information. The stylishaddiction.com web site is viewable even
if you disable the cookie function however you may lose the ability to use
some of our advanced features.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is linked to any personally
identifiable information while on our site. We use both session ID cookies
and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the
browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text
file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time.
Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file
directions. By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log
in a password more than once, or refill a non-checked out shopping cart,
hereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may
still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be
limited in some areas of our site. Persistent cookies enable us to track
and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site. See the “Profile” section.Some of our business partners use cookies
on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or
control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set
cookies for advertising. Third Party Advertising Some of the ads appearing
on this Web site are delivered to users by third parties as selected by
our advertisers. Information about users visit to this site, such as
number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or
other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by stylishaddiction.com
only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes
internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider
(ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of
clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in
the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to enable our
Web based service. We use a tracking utility called WebTrends that uses
log files to analyze user movement. Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs) We
employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web
Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what
content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the
online movements of Web users. The main difference between the two is that
clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size
of the period at the end of this sentence. Clear gifs are not tied to
users’ personally identifiable information. Clear Gifs can "work with"
existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same Web site or
advertising company. That means, for example, that if a person visited
“www.companyX.com”, which uses an advertising company's clear gif, the Web
site or advertising company would match the clear gif's identifier and the
advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past online behavior
for that computer. This collected information would then be given to the
advertising company or Web site. In addition, we use clear gifs in our
HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the
recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain
communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If users
would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the Opt-out section.
Communications from the Site Special Offers and Updates We send all new
members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established
members will occasionally receive information on products, services,
special deals, and targeted newsletters. Out of respect for the privacy of
our users we present the option to not receive these types of
communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections. Newsletter If
a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact
information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users
privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see
the Choice and Opt-out sections. Service Announcements On rare occasions
it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For
instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might
send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these
communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these
communications are not promotional in nature. Customer Service We
communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services
and in regards to issues relating to their account we reply via email or
phone, in accordance with the users wishes.
Sharing / Selling of Personal and Corporate stylishaddition.com will send
(share or sell) personally identifiable information to other companies or
people when:
• stylishaddiction.com has obtained your consent to share the information;
• stylishaddiction.com needs to share or sell the information to provide a
product or service you requested;
• stylishaddiction.com has a good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or other legal
process;
• stylishaddiction.com finds that your actions on the stylishaddiction.com
web site violates the stylishaddiction.com Terms of Use or any of
stylishaddiction.com's usage guidelines for specific products or
services.Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable) We share
aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. May
be linked to any personally identifiable information. Third Party
Advertisers stylishaddiction.com shares Web site usage information about
users with a advertisers or potential advertisers on stylishaddiction.com
for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this
site and other sites. For example, an advertiser in stylishaddiction.com
may use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow them to recognize
a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information they collect
and share through this technology is not personally identifiable. Third
Party Intermediaries We use an outside shipping company to ship orders,
and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services.
These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any secondary purposes. Business Transitions In the event
stylishaddiction.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger,
being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets,
users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets
transferred. Choice/Opt-out Our users are given the opportunity to
‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly
related to our site at the point where we ask for information. For
example, our order form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users who buy a
product from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep their
email address off of our lists. Users who no longer wish to receive our
newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these
communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email
or email us at info@stlyishaddiction.com . Links This Web site contains links to
other sites. Please be aware that we, stylishaddiction.com, are 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 this Web site Surveys & Contests From
time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or
contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely
voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose
this information. The requested information typically includes contact
information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic
information (such as zip code). Contact information will be used and
shared with the contest or survey sponsors to notify the winners and award
prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or
improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Users’ personally
identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give
prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct
these surveys or contests, they may not use users’ personally identifiable
information for any secondary purposes. Tell-A-Friend If a user elects to
use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask
them for the friend’s name and email address. stylishaddiction.com will
automatically send the friend an email inviting them to visit the site.
stylishaddiction.com will use this information for the purpose of sending
this email, other subsequent marketing emails and tracking the success of
our referral program. Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily
disclose personal information online - for example on message boards,
through e-mail, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and
used by others. In short, by posting personal information online that is
publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return. Security
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.
When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their
information is protected both online and off-line. When our
registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as
credit card number and/or social security number), that information is
encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the
industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock
icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or
open, when users are just ‘surfing’.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we
also do everything in our power to 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. Our employees must use password-protected
screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must
re-enter their password to re-gain access to user information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our
employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on
privacy, and what they can do to ensure our users’ information is
protected. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable
information are in a secure environment, in a locked facility. If users
have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an
email to info@Stylishaddiction.com Enhancement of Marketing Profile We
purchase
third party marketing data and add it to our existing user database to
better target our advertising and provide pertinent offers we think our
users would be interested in. We use this information to enhance or
overlay the ‘profile’ of individual users. This aggregate marketing data
is therefore tied to the users’ personally identifiable information. See
also the “Profile.” Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal
Information If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such
as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer
desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or
delete/deactivate users’ personally identifiable information. This can
usually be done at through “manage account” link or by emailing our
Customer Support at info@Stylishaddiction.com or, contact us by telephone
at the contact information listed below.
Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other
places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if
any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to use users’ personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the
time of collection we will notify users via email or by posting a notice
on our Web site for 30 days. Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us at:
EMAIL: info@Stylishaddiction.com
PHONE: 403-619-7538
