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Effective
Date: August 21, 2007
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy
Policy is designed to assist you-businesses, consumers and the
general public-in understanding how we collect and use the personal
information you provide to us, and to help you make informed
decisions when using our web site and all of our related services
therein.
Contact Information
To request a
correction or deletion of your private information, or if you have
any questions and general comments about this privacy policy, please
contact us: e-mail:
Surface
mailing address:
Sndgems.com,
2W 46th Street #1011, New York, NY 10036 T: 800-871-1066 E-mail:customer-service@sndgems.com
What
Information Do We Collect?
When visiting
the our web site, you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you voluntarily choose to disclose that is
collected on an individual basis, and Web site use information
gathered on a collective basis as you and others browse our Web site.
Personal
Information You Choose to Provide
Registration
Information
You will
provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your
practices when you register to be a user of our services, register
for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts.
Email Information
If you choose
to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of
your email messages together with your email address and our
responses. If you use our "Email this page" feature to send
a copy of that page to someone else, your email address will appear
as the sender of the email. Both your email address and the
recipient's email address will not be used for any other purpose.
How Do We
Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Generally, we
use personal information for purposes of managing and expanding our
business activities, providing customer service and making available
other products and services to our customers and prospective
customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect
to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services
and special offers we think you will find valuable.
Choice/Opt-out
We allow you
the choice to opt-out of having your information used for purposes
not directly related to our site, when we ask for the information.
Until you
explicitly opt-in for the first time we consider you in the opt-out
category. We always notify our customers when their information is
being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can
make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with
services that require an outside party.
If you do not
wish to receive any promotional or marketing e-mails and/or surface
mail marketing letters, you may opt-out of receiving those
communications by using the opt-out mechanism on the User Account
Settings Web page, or by sending an e-mail with the subject line
"Unsubscribe" to or e-mail address - see above.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a
very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique
identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your
computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard
drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its
own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it,
but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to
access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent
to you by other sites.
How Do We
Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you visit
our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from
other customers. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you
from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in
more than is necessary for security.
Cookies, in
conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate
the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts
of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order
to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers.
Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you
and we do not generally store any personal information that you
provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing
Information with Third Parties
We may enter
into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with
third parties who may be given access to personal information
including your name, address, telephone number and email for the
purpose of providing you information regarding products and services
that we think will be of interest to you.
In connection
with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also provide
certain information to third parties if we have determined that the
information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible
third party.
We also use
third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited
to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection
with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other
third parties may have access to your personal information for use in
connection with business activities.
As we develop
our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings.
Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the
transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may
also transfer such information in the course of corporate
divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
How Do We
Protect Your Information?
Secure
Information Transmissions
Email is not
recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we
request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some
of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmitted
securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services.
Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS
instead of HTTP. Please contact (ENTER CONTACT INFORMATION HERE) if
you have any questions or concerns.
How Can You
Access and Correct Your Information?
You may
request access to all your personally identifiable information that
we collect online and maintain in our database by contact us, see the
above contact information.
What About
Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not
responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from
our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often
links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to
information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web
site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web
site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.
Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web
sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web
site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and
policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our
Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our
privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our
Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use
it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. At any time you
may request to view any and all changes and updates, via surface
mail.
Notification
of Changes
The Privacy
Policy is subject to periodic review and change. In order to view the
current Privacy Policy, simply check this section of the website.
If we
materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to
this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so users
are aware of what information we collect, how it is used, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. In some cases where we
post a notice, we may also email user who have opted to receive
communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
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