Privacy & Security

Thank you for visiting beadsofcambay.com (this "site"). This privacy policy sets our information collection and use practices for data collected online at this Site only. Please be assured that we take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.

Information Gathering

When you visit this site, we may collect the following information in order to personally identify and access your account, save you time, and better respond to your needs and demands:

• Application Information: Information that you provide to us online in applications and other forms. e.g your name, address, phone/fax, e.t.c.
• Online Surveys and/or Polls: From time to time, you may be asked to participate in online surveys or polls on this site. Online surveys and polls are used so that we can gather information to better serve you. Based on the information you provide to us, we may inform you of specials, discounts, and/or promos from Beads of Cambay. As always, if you have asked us not to contact you with direct marketing offers, your request will be honored. You are not required to participate in any of our online surveys and/or polls.
• Cookies: We may also collect information online through cookies, which are tiny pieces of information stored on your computer. Cookies can contain a variety of information, such as number of visits, site customization, e.t.c. BC uses cookies to display information more effectively to you, gather data about the usage of our site, and track your sessions when you visit our site. Any time a cookie is used, personal information is encrypted for our use only and protected from third party access.

Information Sharing

BC does not sell or share customer information collected from our website with third parties who may wish to directly market to you. However, we may share customer information with our affiliates. All companies that are affiliated to us are contractually obligated to keep the information we provide to them confidential and to use the customer information we share only to provide the services we ask them to perform.

At times, we may share customer information we collect about you online when required by law. e.g. customer information may be disclosed in connection with a subpoena or similar legal process, a fraud investigation, e.t.c.

We may also share customer information outside BC if we have your consent, such as when you request.

Third Party Sites

We may provide links to our affiliates and third parties. If you choose a link outside BC, we are not responsible for the privacy or security of these sites, including the accuracy, completeness, reliability or suitability of their information. If you are asked to provide information on any one of these sites, we strongly recommend that you carefully study their privacy policies before sharing your information.

Special Privacy Protections & Safeguard For Minors

BC does not knowingly market to or solicit information from children under the age of 13, without parental consent. We recognize that protecting children's identities and privacy online is important and that the responsibility to do so rests with both thte online industry and the parents. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), protects children under the age of 13 from online collection of personal information. Parents can be proactive by installing filtering software that gives them more control over their children's Internet experience.

Security

You can shop online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card transactions for our customers. The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through credit card and electronic check processing networks. The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technolocy for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions
• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information
• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy (BeadsOfCambay.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchange Seal program)