Our Commitment To
Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us and we
pledge to handle your personal information as if it were our own. To
better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our
online information practices and the choices you can make about the
way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy
to find, we make it available on our homepage.
Because AmericanFlags.com contains
links to selected online partners offering information, services and
products, we take extreme care to ensure that partner sites take your
privacy as seriously as we do. View each site's privacy pledge for
more information about their specific policies.
The Information We
Collect:
This notice applies to all information
collected or submitted on AmericanFlags.com's website. On some pages,
you can order products, make requests, and register to receive
materials. The types of personal information collected on these pages
includes:
Customer Name
Customer Address
Email Address
Phone number
Credit Card Information, including card number, expiration date and
billing address.
We
store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear
gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A
profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that
details their viewing preferences and expedites the ordering process.
Consequently, some collected information may be tied to the users
personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the
content of the site for the user. We do not share your profile with
other third parties.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on
the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use
session ID cookies, wherein once users close the browser, the cookie
simply terminates.
By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a
password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If
users reject the cookie, they may still use our site.
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.
The Way We Use
Information:
We use the information you provide
about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order and
we do not share this information with outside parties except to the
extent necessary to complete that order.
We use the information you provide
about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and
to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside
parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We use return email addresses to answer
the email we receive and while such addresses are never shared with
outside parties, we may contact you subsequently about special offers,
sales or promotions in which you have previously shown interest.
We use non-identifying and aggregate
information to better design our website and to share with
advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of
individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of
men and Z number of women filled out a form, but we would not disclose
anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, we never use or share the
personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways
unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an
opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Our Commitment To
Data Security:
AmericanFlags.com
takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users
submit sensitive information, 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), 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 screensavers
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.
Our Commitment To
Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very
young is especially important to us. For that reason, we never collect
or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are
under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone
under 13.
Notification of Changes:
If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will post those changes to this privacy statement, on our 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 and
offer them the opportunity to opt-out.
How To Contact Us:
Should you have other questions or
concerns about these privacy policies, please email us at:
privacy@americanflags.com
or contact us using the following address:
AmericanFlags.com
P.O. Box 5191
Hauppauge, NY 11788
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