Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 17th, 2011
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) tells you about the information that Believe In She LLC (“BelieveInShe,” “we,” “us” or “our”) collects on its website, www.believeinshe.com (the “Site”), how the information is used and how you can access and correct certain information that we may collect.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected from you by BelieveInShe via the Site. The Site may contain links to third party websites that are not controlled or operated by BelieveInShe. We encourage you to request and review the privacy policies of any third parties upon visiting their websites.
By visiting believeinshe.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Collection of Your Information
BelieveInShe collects personal information only if you choose to complete the online forms, request information or assistance through the Site or create an account to purchase products. You can access some areas of the Site without submitting any personal information. BelieveInShe may collect certain non-personal information in connection with the operation of the Site, including IP addresses, browser or operating system information, data on advertisements or links on which you click, and the websites that you visit before or after you visit the Site. Such information is maintained by BelieveInShe or service providers acting on behalf of BelieveInShe.
Protection of Your Information
We do our best to prevent unauthorized access and protect the personal information we collect through the Site. You understand that any messages or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others. If you have any questions about the security of personally identifiable information collected by BelieveInShe, please contact us at: support@believeinshe.com.
Software Used. To protect the security of your information during transmission, we use [Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software], which encrypts information you input.
Order Confirmation. We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. To process an order, it is necessary to transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company.
Signing off. To prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information, it is important for you to monitor those who have access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. Visit our Web site for more information on how to sign off.
Use of Your Personal Information
Upon our collection of your personal information, BelieveInShe may use it internally for the following purposes:
• To provide any requested information, products or services;
• To troubleshoot problems with the Site;
• To customize your experience or homepage on the Site;
• To enforce our Terms of Use or comply with this Privacy Policy; or
• To contact you with more information about BelieveInShe and its products and services.
Disclosure of Your Information
The information that we collect about our customers is critical to our business. We respect and value this information, and do not want to jeopardize the flow of information between our customers and the Site. Therefore, we are not in the business of selling this information to other Web sites or businesses. There are very limited circumstances where we do share some customer information, and this is outlined immediately below. We share customer information only as described below.
We may disclose your personal information to third party partners in order to provide services for us, including support services, website services, delivering promotional materials and answering customer questions about our products and services. In the event that BelieveInShe joins forces with another company, your personal information may be transferred to the other party. BelieveInShe reserves the right to disclose your personal information if required by law.
Retention of Your Personal Information
The personal information that you provide will be stored and maintained by BelieveInShe until you instruct us otherwise, or, under BelieveInShe’s discretion.
User Access to Information
When you access your account, there is a variety of information that you will see. This is designed to allow you to update any changed information and view the information that you entered previously. This information is sensitive, and it is necessary to both protect this information and keep it current in order to have the best experience at our Site. Examples of the type of information that can be accessed by signing into your account are on the Site.
User Choices with Regard to Access of Information
General. You always have the right to refrain from providing any information. This may have an impact on use of the Site and on the ease of making purchases or taking advantage of certain unique features of the site.
Prior Information. You can add or update certain information on pages such as those listed in the “User Access to Information” section above. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
Customer Communication. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your account setting regarding email contact preferences. (You cannot waive the applicability of the Terms of Use and other legal notices, such as this Privacy Policy, and if you elect not to receive those notices, they will still govern your use of believeinshe.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
Cookie Choices. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, affecting the acceptance of cookies means that you will not be able to use such important features as accelerated ordering and customized product suggestions.
Anonymous Browsing. A large number of products may be accessed without the use of cookies, or anonymously. See the Site for a list of items that may be accessed anonymously. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.
Access and Accuracy
BelieveInShe will use reasonable efforts to provide access to your personally identifiable information if you request such access in writing submitted to: support@believeinshe.com. BelieveInShe reserves the right to deny access to your personally identifiable information for any reason.
Acceptance and Revisions
By visiting the Site, you accept that your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use and Terms and Conditions of Sales, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of California. If you have any concern about privacy at the Site, please send us a thorough description to support@believeinshe.com, and we will try to resolve it.
BelieveInShe reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice to you. All revisions will be posted to the Site. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently for changes. Your continued use of the Site means that you accept those changes.
Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
Information You Gave Us
General. Information is collected from you when you do the following activities: search, buy, bid, post a review or opinion, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service.
Examples. For example, information would be collected when a user came to the Site, searched for a product, placed an order through the Site, bid or purchased from an ongoing auction, updated your information in your account settings, added items to your want list or registry, called or e-mailed customer service, reviewed a product, participated in a discussion or chat, completed a questionnaire or a contest entry form; provided employer information when opening a corporate account, specified a date reminder, share information with believeinshe.com acquaintances; and employ other notification services, such as believeinshe.com delivery and believeinshe.com sale reminders.
Information that could be supplied. As a result of any of the above actions, it is possible that you will supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; purchase and shipping recipients, including addresses and phone number; people (with addresses and phone numbers) listed in rapid order processing settings; e-mail addresses of site friends, and other people; content of reviews and e-mails to us; personal description and photograph in personal section; and financial information, including Social Security and driver’s license numbers.
Automatic Information
General. As discussed earlier, our systems collect information that is sent over the internet without your control.
Examples. Some examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as bestsellers and product suggestions; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for; closeout shops you visited; your auction history; and the phone number you used to call our toll-free number.
Software Used. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information From Other Sources
General. Occasionally, we supplement the information that we receive that has been outlined above with information from other sources and companies. Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services; search term and search result information from some searches conducted through the Web search features; search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links from Google); and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.
Information You Can Access
General. Information collection and processing is designed to better assist you in shopping and using our site.
Examples. Some of the information that we collect and process can be accessed by you. Examples of information you can access easily at believeinshe.com include up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences, address book, and fast ordering settings); payment settings (including credit card information and gift certificate, gift card, and check balances); e-mail notification settings; recommendations (including recent product view history, and prior order history); shopping lists and gift registries (including desired item lists and gift and wedding registries); auctions, and Marketplace seller accounts; and your personal area (including your product reviews, requests, and recommendations).
Children
BelieveInShe recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardian to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Please refer to our Children’s Web Site Privacy Policy for further information.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code §1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding their disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to info@believeinshe.com or write us:
Believe In She Privacy Rights
P.O BOX 284, Del Mar CA 92014
Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you have about our Privacy Policy: support@believeinshe.com
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