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Privacy Policy Effective Date of Current Policy 01.18.2008 The Gingerbread Collection (“The Gingerbread Collection,” “we,” “us”) shares your concerns about the protection of your personal information online. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes our practices regarding the collection and use of information through our website, located at www.thegingerbreadcollection.com (the “Site”). By using the Site or obtaining any product or service through this Site, you agree the collection of use of information as set forth in this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the Site.
We may from time to time update this Policy. We will notify you of changes to the Policy by posting the updated Policy on this page. We ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of the Policy. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the “Effective Date of Current Policy” legend at the top of the Policy.
We collect personally identifiable information. In general, our Site uses an order form, a registration form and a catalog request form so that you can request information, products and services from us. These forms require that you provide us with personally identifiable information (such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, and credit card number).
Further, where you use the Site to purchase a product or service as a gift or use our gift reminder service, we will collect from you personally identifiable information regarding the gift recipient or potential gift recipient.
Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways that The Gingerbread Collection uses the information that we gather. Keep in mind that, while we encourage all third parties involved in running our business to adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of our visitors and to otherwise handle personally identifiable information in a responsible manner, we cannot and do not assume any responsibility for any actions or omissions of third parties, including the manner in which they use information received either from The Gingerbread Collection or independently.
Personally identifiable information
The Gingerbread Collection uses personally identifiable information collected from you to complete transactions initiated by you (such as the sale and delivery of products and services). Your personally identifiable information is also used to get in touch with you when necessary. We may also use personally identifiable information to contact you to make sure you are satisfied with our goods and services or to find out how we can serve you better. Further, we may use personally identifiable information to conduct in-depth marketing research regarding our customers and potential customers. Financial information (credit card numbers, credit card expiration dates, billing address, and so forth) is used to bill you for products and services only, this information is not stored, saved or reused for future orders.
You may, from time to time, receive information from us regarding new features, new products and services and special offers we think you'll find valuable. Also, we won't share your email address, phone number, address or any other information we gather with other companies. If you'd like to opt out of receiving future mailings from The Gingerbread Collection, please follow the procedure outlined in the Choice/Opt-out section below.
Other types of use by us of personally identifiable information are discussed below.
Gift Recipients
As noted above, we collect personally identifiable information regarding gift recipients and people to whom you may wish to give gifts in the future. This is done in order to accommodate proper gift delivery to such recipients and remind you of upcoming gift-giving occasions. We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information that you provide to us regarding such persons, but gift recipients may, from time to time, receive offers from us regarding new features, new products and services and special offers we think they will find of interest. Also we may send marketing offers to gift recipients on behalf of ourselves and our business partners. In connection with such offers, we allow gift recipients to opt out of receiving future marketing-related mailings from us.
Sale of Our Company
As a natural consequence of the development of our company, we could be sold to another company. In the event that we are acquired by another company or a significant portion of our assets is sold to another company, all of the customer information (email address, address, phone number) consumer information that we have collected may be transferred to the new company.
In addition, we also allow you to decide whether you want to receive further marketing information from us. If you do not want The Gingerbread Collection to send to you announcements or special offers by email, please email us at customerservice@thegingerbreadcollection.com with "Remove" in the subject line. If you’d like to be removed from our catalog and postal mailing lists, please send your request to the following address: The Gingerbread Collection P.O. Box 525 Clifton, CO 81520 Please allow up to two weeks for your request to be processed.
The Gingerbread Collection sometimes administers online surveys in connection with the Site in which we ask you for demographic information and opinions. We do not ask you for personally identifiable information as part of a survey. We use the collected survey data on an aggregated basis to better understand the needs of all of our customers.
The Gingerbread Collection may send to you periodic announcements regarding status updates, service changes concerning the Site and other administrative matters.
Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to release information concerning any Site visitor where such visitor is believed to be in violation of his or her obligations to us, is partaking (or is suspected of partaking) in any illegal activity, in response to civil subpoenas and discovery requests, to protect the interests of The Gingerbread Collection, our customers or others, and as otherwise permitted or required by law.
Emails from The Gingerbread Collection or its business partners(Kymberlee Design or Invision Design Co), and the Site itself, may contain links to other Internet websites, including sites that may or may not be owned or operated by The Gingerbread Collection. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, including such sites’ use of any information (such as IP number, browser type or operating system) collected when email recipients or Site visitors click through links to those sites. If you visit such websites, we encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of the sites.
The Gingerbread Collection seeks to use reasonable security measures to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personally identifiable information that is under our control. Unfortunately, no security system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result of the foregoing, while we seek to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers, the means by which information is transmitted between your computer and The Gingerbread Collection's servers, or any information provided to us. You provide all such information at your own risk.
If you have signed up for an account with The Gingerbread Collection, you may update your mailing address, email address, name changes or telephone number by emailing us at: customerservice@thegingerbreadcollection.com . This will take up to 2 weeks to process your request to update your personal information.
If you have any questions about this Policy, the data collection and usage practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, or if you wish to report a violation of this Policy, please contact:
The Gingerbread Collection P.O. Box 525 Clifton, CO 81520
The Gingerbread Collection is committed to quality customer experience. We are constantly reviewing your feedback to improve and enhance your shopping experience. You can tell us what you think by sending us an email or contacting our customer care department at 970.523.5609. Thank-you! The Gingerbread Collection Partners Kymberlee Stockmaster-Wood, Founder . Artist . Designer Kelly Stockmaster, Co-Founder . Marketing . Developer |
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