This website is owned and operated by Optickart. We are
committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors while they interact with
the content, products and services on this site (the “Site”). This Privacy
Policy applies to the Site only. It does not apply to other websites to which
we link. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we
want you to understand what information we collect about you, how we collect
it, how that information is used, and how you can control our disclosure of it.
You agree that your use of the Site signifies your assent to this Privacy
Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the
Site.
Information Collected –
We collect two types of information from you: i) information
that you voluntarily provide to us (e.g. through a voluntary registration
process, sign-ups or emails); and ii) information that is derived through
automated tracking mechanisms.
Voluntary Registration Information –
In order to fully access this Site, you must first complete
the registration process, during which we will collect personal information
about you. The information will include your name, address, and email address.
We do not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you
specifically provide such information to us on a voluntary basis.
By registering with us, you consent to the use and method of
disclosure as described in this Privacy Policy.
Voluntary Information for Services and
Features –
We also collect personally identifiable information when you
choose to use certain other features of the Site, including: i) making
purchases (regardless whether the transaction is completed or not), ii)
consenting to receive email about upcoming promotions, iii) consenting to
receive email, iv) participating in our blog, iv) submitting product reviews,
and others. When you choose to use these additional features, we require you to
provide your “Contact Information” in addition to other personal information
that may be required to complete a transaction such as your phone number,
billing and shipping addresses and credit card information. Occasionally, we
may also request information such as your shopping preferences and demographics
which will help us better serve you and our others users in the future.
Cookies and Web Beacons –
Our site uses "cookies" and other tracking
technologies. Cookies enable us to serve secure pages to our users without
asking them to sign in repeatedly. Most browsers allow you to control cookies,
including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. If a user~s
system is idle for a defined time, the cookie will expire, forcing the user to
sign in again to continue their session. This prevents unauthorized access to
the user~s information while they are away from their computer.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a
cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note
that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter
your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the Site.
Third-Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our
third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on
your browser.
We use web cookies/Beacons and other similar technologies on
this Site and in our emails. We work with third party partners to track,
collect and analyze information to help us improve user experience and evaluate
the effectiveness of our advertising and various initiatives. This information
includes, but is not limited to, your computer type, browser type, operating
system, date and time, the pages that you view, features that you use, IP
address, the amount of time you spend on the Site and other site usage data.
Referrals –
You may choose to invite friends to join this site by
sending invitation emails via our invite feature. This Site stores the email
addresses you provide to send reminders of the invitations. This site does not
sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides
invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations may contact
this site to request removal of their information from our database.
How We Use Your Information –
This site only uses your personal information for the
original purposes it was given. Your personal information will not be sold or
otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without your approval at
the time of collection.
This site will not disclose, use, give or sell any personal
information to third parties for any purposes other than to our suppliers and
other third parties who need to know in order to deliver services on behalf of
this site unless required to do so by law. Further, this site reserves the
right to contact you regarding matters relevant to the underlying service
provided and/or the information collected.
Please note that personally identifiable information is used
only to provide you with a more enjoyable, convenient online experience and to
help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be
of interest to you. We use your personally identifiable information to support
and enhance your use of the Site and its features, including without
limitation: fulfilling your order; providing customer service; tracking email
invitations you send; and otherwise supporting your use of the Site.
This site may use your personal information for target
advertising toward you based on things such as region, gender, interests,
goals, habits, etc.
We may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage,
analyze data such as the source address that a page request is coming from,
your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the
referring website (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This is collected
in order to better understand our Site usage, and enhance the performance of
services to maintain and operate the Site and certain features on the Site. We
may use third parties to host the Site; operate various features available on
the Site; send emails; analyze data; provide search results and links and
assist in fulfilling your orders.
Also, we may share personally identifiable or other
information with our parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates.
We may transfer personally identifiable information as an
asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any
transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all
or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or
other change in control.
This site may disclose Contact Information in special cases
where we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating
our Terms of Use or may be causing injury or interference with our rights,
property, our customers or anyone who could be harmed by such activities.
We are not liable or responsible for the personally
identifiable or other information you choose to submit in forums such as a
blog, product review or any other publicly accessible area of the site.
You will receive notice when your personally identifiable
information might be provided to any third party for any reason other than as
set forth in this Privacy Policy, and you will have an opportunity to request
that we not share such information.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better
design our website and for business and administrative purposes. We may also
use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains
no personally identifiable information.
How We Protect Your Information –
We are committed to protecting the information we receive
from you. We take appropriate security measures to protect your information
against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or
destruction of data. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy,
and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain appropriate physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information
and data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure,
we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security
problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
Third Party Advertising –
Advertisements appearing on this Site may be delivered to
you by Google or one of our web advertising partners. Our web advertising
partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the advertising partners to
recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way,
they may compile information about where you, or others who are using your
computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are
clicked. This information allows an advertising partner to deliver targeted
advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This site
does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the
third party advertising servers of ad partners.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this
site and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
Accessing and Updating Your Personal
Information and Preferences –
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your
personal information for many of our services. If you are a registered user,
you may access and update your registration information and your preferences to
receive email or other communications from us by sending an email to us.
Email Choice/Opt-out –
If you receive an email from the Site and would prefer not
to receive such communications in the future, you can do so by following the
instructions in the emails. In addition, you may send an email to us. We will
make commercially reasonable efforts to implement your opt-out requests
promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten
business days as we process your request.
Children~s Privacy and Parental
Controls –
We do not solicit any personal information from children. If
you are not 18 or older, you are not authorized to use the Site. Parents should
be aware that there are parental control tools available online that can be
used to prevent children from submitting information online without parental
permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.
Disclaimer to Security –
By consenting to the Terms of Use of the Site and hence the
Privacy Policy, you consent that no data transmission over the Internet is
completely secure. We cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any
information you provide to us and you transmit such information to us at your
own risk.
Notification of Changes –
This site reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy
from time to time at its sole discretion. If at some point in the future, there
is a change to our Privacy Policy, unless we obtain your express consent, such
change will only apply to information collected after the revised Privacy
Policy took effect. Your continued use of the Site indicates your assent to the
Privacy Policy as posted.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy
Policy please contact us.