Karen's Confections Website
Privacy Statement
This document was last updated on
04-17-06.
1. Acknowledgement and acceptance
of terms
Karen's Confections is committed
to protecting your privacy. This
Privacy Statement sets forth our
current privacy practices with regard
to the information we collect when
you or your computer interact with
our website. By accessing Karen's
Confections/Karen's-confections.com,
you acknowledge and fully understand
Karen's ConfectionsÍ Privacy Statement
and freely consent to the information
collection and use practices described
in this Website Privacy Statement.
2. Participating Merchant
Policies
Related services and offerings with
links from this website, including
vendor sites, have their own privacy
statements that can be viewed by
clicking on the corresponding links
within each respective website. Online
merchants and others who participate
in Karen's Confections services are
encouraged to participate in industry
privacy initiatives and to take a
responsible attitude towards consumer
privacy. However, since we do not
have direct control over the policies
or practices of participating merchants
and other third parties, we are not
responsible for the privacy practices
or contents of those sites. We recommend
and encourage that you always review
the privacy policies of merchants
and other third parties before you
provide any personal information
or complete any transaction with
such parties.
3. Information We Collect
and How We Use It
Karen's Confections
collects certain information
from and about its users
three ways: directly
from our Web Server logs,
the user, and with Cookies.
a. Web Server
Logs.
When you visit
our Website, we may track
information to administer
the site and analyze
its usage. Examples of
information we may track
include:
- Your Internet protocol address.
- The kind of browser or computer you use.
- Number of links you click within the site.
- State or country from which you accessed the site.
- Date and time of your visit.
- Name of your Internet service provider.
- Web page you linked to our site from.
- Pages you viewed on the site.
b. Use of
Cookies
Karen's Confections may use cookies
to personalize or enhance your user
experience. A cookie is a small text
file that is placed on your hard
disk by a Web page server. Cookies
cannot be used to run programs or
deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to
you, and can only be read by a Web
Server in the domain that issued
the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies
is to provide a convenience feature
to save you time. For example, if
you personalize a web page, or navigate
within a site, a cookie helps the
site to recall your specific information
on subsequent visits. Hence, this
simplifies the process of delivering
relevant content and eases site navigation
by providing and saving your preferences
and login information as well as
providing personalized functionality..
Karen's Confections reserves the
right to share aggregated site statistics
with partner companies, but does
not allow other companies to place
cookies on our website unless there
is a temporary, overriding customer
value (such as merging into Karen's
Confections.com a site that relies
on third-party cookies).
You have the ability to accept or
decline cookies. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but
you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies. If you
reject cookies by changing your browser
settings then be aware that this
may disable some of the functionality
on our Website.
c. Personal Information Users
Visitors to our website can register
to purchase services. When you register,
we will request some personal information
such as name, address, email, telephone
number or facsimile number, account
number and other relevant information.
If you are purchasing a service,
we will request financial information.
Any financial information we collect
is used only to bill you for the
services you purchased. If you purchase
by credit card, this information
may be forwarded to your credit card
provider. For other types of registrations,
we will ask for the relevant information.
You may also be asked to disclose
personal information to us so that
we can provide assistance and information
to you. For example, such data may
be warranted in order to provide
online technical support and troubleshooting.
We will not disclose personally
identifiable information we collect
from you to third parties without
your permission except to the extent
necessary including:
- To fulfill your service
requests for services.
- To protect ourselves
from liability,
- To respond to legal
process or comply with
law, or
- In connection with
a merger, acquisition,
or liquidation of the
company.
4. Use of Web Beacons or
GIF files
Karen's Confections/Karens-confections.com Web pages may contain electronic
images known as Web beacons Æ sometimes also called single-pixel gifs Æ that
allow Karen's Confections to count users who have visited those pages and to
deliver co-branded services. Karen's Confections may include Web beacons in
promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages
have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be
placed by third party service providers
to help determine the effectiveness
of our advertising campaigns or email
communications. These Web beacons
may be used by these service providers
to place a persistent cookie on your
computer. This allows the service
provider to recognize your computer
each time you visit certain pages
or emails and compile anonymous information
in relation to those page views,
which in turn enables us and our
service providers to learn which
advertisements and emails bring you
to our website and how you use the
site. Karen's Confections prohibits
Web beacons from being used to collect
or access your personal information.
5. Accessing Web Account
Information
We will provide
you with the means to ensure
that personally identifiable
information in your web
account file is correct
and current. You may review
this information by contacting
us by sending an email
to our support attendant
sales@karens-confections.com.
8. Changes
to this Statement
Karen's Confections
has the discretion to
occasionally update this
privacy statement. When
we do, we will also revise
the ñupdatedî date at
the top of this Privacy
page. We encourage you
to periodically review
this privacy statement
to stay informed about
how we are helping to
protect the personal
information we collect.
Your continued use of
the service constitutes
your agreement to this
privacy statement and
any updates.
7. Contacting Us
If you have questions
regarding our Privacy Statement,
its implementation, failure
to adhere to this Privacy
Statement and/or our general
practices, please contact
us at sales@karens-confections.com or send your comments to
:
Karen's Confections
Attention: Privacy Statement Personnel
18603 NE 59th CT #T205
Redmond, WA 98052
Karen's Confections will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond
and resolve any problem or question.
