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Grand Reflections Privacy Policy
Version
08/15/2005
At Grand
Reflections, we strive to better serve
our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we
design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in
mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we
gather when you use Grand Reflections’ services, as well as
some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
The following
principles apply to the personally
identifying information we may ask for and that you provide.
"Personally identifying information" is information that individually
identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.
You can find more details about the data we collect on particular
services by clicking the links on the side of this page.
Data collection
- Browsing the products with our site does not
require any personally identifying information.
- Grand Reflections collects limited
non-personally identifying information your browser makes available
whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your
Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and
time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify
your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve
our services.
- In order to better customize you experience or
if you request additional information. Grand Reflections may ask you
for some personal information in order to create an account (typically
your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will
use that information to provide the service. For certain services, such
as our online purchasing, we may request credit card or other payment
information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.
- When we require personally identifying
information, we will inform you about the types of information we
collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed
decision about sharing your personal information with us.
Cookies
- Upon your first visit to Grand Reflections, a
cookie may be sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your
browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters
that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies
to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how
people interact with us. Grand Reflections does this by storing user
preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how
people view our site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Grand Reflections
features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Information sharing
- We do not rent or sell your personally
identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we
have your consent. We may share such information in any of the
following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent.
- We provide such information to trusted
businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally
identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject
to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information
only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We conclude that we are required by law or
have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of
such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights,
property or safety of Grand Reflections, its users or the public.
- If you have an account, we may share the
information submitted under your account among all of our services in
order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the
quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information
to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited
circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.
- We may store and process personal information
collected on our site in the United States or any other country in
which Grand Reflections or its agents maintain facilities. By using our
services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these
facilities, including those located outside your country.
- In the event of a transfer of ownership of
Grand Reflections, such as acquisition by or merger with another
company, we will provide notice before any personally identifying
information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
- We may share aggregated information with
others. Examples of this include the number of users who purchased a
gold watch" or how many users clicked on a particular product or
advertisement.
Information security
- We take appropriate security measures to
protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration,
disclosure or destruction of data.
- We restrict access to your personally
identifying information to employees who need to know that information
in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
Updating your information
- We provide mechanisms for updating and
correcting your personally identifying information for many of our
services. For more information, please see the help pages for each
service.
Links
- The sites linked to or by Grand Reflections'
services are developed by people over whom Grand Reflections exercises
no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
- Grand Reflections may present links in a
format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed.
We use this information to understand and improve the quality of Grand
Reflections' technology.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this
Privacy Policy will change from
time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be
changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also
provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top
of the page.
If you have any
additional questions, please feel
free to
contact us any time.
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