New Products ...www.thecutelittleshop.com respects the privacy of visitors to our site. This Privacy Policy governs the use and collection of information from you by thecutelittleshop and its affiliated companies through your use of www.thecutelittleshop.com (This Site).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to us offline or through any means other than this Site. The following examples are not meant to be exhaustive, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to many other instances in which we may collect information from you offline. For example, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information you provide when you subscribe by postal mail or telephone to one of our newspapers or to information that you provide to us at a live event or when you respond by postal mail or telephone to a survey or an invitation to enter a sweepstakes.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our online privacy practices. By visiting this Site, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.
Understanding that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, we reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. Any such changes will be promptly posted on this page, with an updated effective date posted at the beginning and/or end of this policy.
What Types of Information Do We Collect?
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information (for example, your name, email address and mailing address) that you voluntarily supply when you register or initiate transactions on the Site, and (2) information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as you navigate through our Site.
Registration Information
While visiting the Site, we may ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you (Personal Information). Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address. On any page that collects Personal Information.
IP Addresses and Browser Level Information
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration when you visit our Site, including the type of browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you to our Site and your IP address. Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by other computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you want to view) can be transmitted to you. We also use IP address information for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you are. We use this information and cookies (see section below on cookies) to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our Site to the interests of our visitors, and to measure traffic within our Site. When you submit a query using a search tool on our Site or click on a search result, we may also share your IP address, browser level information and other anonymous information, such as a cookie identification code, with any third-party vendors that provide us with search functionality for our Site.
What are Cookies?
To help make our Site more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard feature of browser software, called a cookie, to assign each visitor a unique, random numerical identification code that resides on their computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie can't read unrelated data off your hard drive.
Why does the Site use cookies?
We use cookies to track usage of the Site and further personalize your experience when you are visiting the Site. By tracking usage, we can best determine what features of the Site best serve our users.
What benefits do I receive from cookies?
Overall, the use of cookies helps to give you a more personalized experience at the Site. The information is used to keep our Site fresh and relevant to you the user. Cookies also identify you to our server, allowing you to avoid retyping your e-mail address and password each time you access the Site.
May I decline to accept a cookie?
You may decline to accept cookies sent by the Site by selecting an option on your browser to reject cookies. However, features of the Site that require registration will not be accessible to you. Cookies enable our server to know that you are a registered user, and will eliminate the need for you to log in each time you access our Site.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We believe we can enhance your experience on our Site with the information you share with us. We use Personal Information to improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to personalize the Site's content, layout, and services. We will use your Personal Information to respond to your comments and questions. We may also use your Personal Information, such as your e-mail address, phone number or mailing address, to contact you regarding products and/or services that we think may be of interest to you, unless you have elected not to receive these promotions and offers by modifying your profile as described below in How Can You Opt-Out of Sharing Your Personal Information or Receiving Our Promotional Communications?
After registering on the Site, you may receive communications including mail, email, telephone or wireless short text messages from us related to products and services that we believe will interest you. Although we hope you find these communications informative and useful, you can always opt-out from receiving these types of communications from us by changing the privacy preferences in your member profile or by deleting your profile from our database. Please refer to How Can You Opt-Out of Sharing Your Personal Information or Receiving Our Promotional Communications? for additional information and instructions.
With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
We do not share your information with any other party they are kept safe in our database and used only from thecutelittleshop.com
How Can You Opt-Out of Sharing Your Personal Information or Receiving Our Promotional Communications?
We respect your privacy and ability to choose whether to share information with us. You may choose to opt-out of sharing Personal Information in several ways. When choosing to use certain features or services on the Site, you can choose whether to share optional Personal Information in connection with the feature or service. If you receive email, phone or mail communications from us that you prefer not to receive, you may opt-out from receiving these communications by modifying the contact options in your registration profile. You may change your contact options at any time by following the process described in How Can You Update Your Personal or Registration Information, below.
In addition to opting-out by managing your contact preference options, you may opt-out from receiving e-mail communications from any Site service by sending your request to Customer Service.
Please note that changing the contact preference options described above will not affect your receipt of any wireless short text communications you may have registered to receive. To unsubscribe from wireless short text communications delivered to your wireless device(s) such as a cell phone, please send your opt-out request, including the wireless number or wireless address you wish to remove from our list, to Customer Service.
You may opt-out altogether from providing Personal Information to us by not registering on the Site, or registering for any Site sponsored promotion, and thereby not providing Personal Information. You may also choose at a later date to have your name removed from our database by deleting your registration profile. To do so, please follow the process described in How Can You Update Your Personal or Registration Information.
Certain portions of the Site and certain services provided on the Site, however, do require registration in order to access or use these areas and services. If you choose not to register or provide certain information, these areas will not be accessible to you.
How Can You Update Your Personal Information or Registration Information?
You may access all of the Registration Information that we collect from you online and maintain by using the procedure described below. We use this procedure to better safeguard your Personal Information. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your profile or making changes.
You may also at any time choose to change or delete your profile from our database using this procedure. You should know that if you choose to delete your profile, certain areas of our Site may no longer be accessible to you.
What Safeguards Do We Put in Place to Protect Your Personal Information?
The Cute Little Shop maintains industry-standard safeguards to protect the security, integrity, and privacy of the Personal Information that you provide to us. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our database. Nor can we guarantee that the information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Third-Party Advertising
We do not use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site.
Do We Knowingly Collect Personal Information of Children Under 18?
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We won't knowingly allow anyone under 18 to register with our Site or to provide any other Personal Information via the Site. If you're under 18, please do not provide us with any Personal Information about yourself (such as your name, your email address or your phone number).
How Do You Contact Us?
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please contact Customer Service.
What we do NOT do: a warning about phishing.
We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information, login name, or password, in an unsecured or unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication.
Identity theft and the practice currently known as phishing are of great concern to us. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is our priority. For more information about phishing, you may want to visit the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov.
When is this Privacy Policy Effective? How Do We Post Changes to the Privacy Policy?
This Privacy Policy is effective as of Aug 01, 2010. The Cute Little Shop reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice to this page and/or on the Site. Your continued viewing, browsing, use or access of the Site following our posting of a change notice will constitute your binding acceptance of those changes.
