Embroidery Library Inc. is
a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit
organization whose mission is to build users’ trust and confidence in the
Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy
statement covers the site www.emblibrary.com. Because this
web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to
disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for
compliance by TRUSTe. By displaying the TRUSTe trustmark, www.emblibrary.com
has agreed to notify you of:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally
identification is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under Embroidery Library Inc's
control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first
contact the Embroidery Library at stitch@emblibrary.com
or by fax at 763-509-3334. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your
inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then
contact TRUSTe http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your
concerns. The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected
through this Web site, and does not cover information that may be collected
through software downloaded from the site.
Embroidery Library Inc. has created this privacy statement in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices
for this website: http://www.emblibrary.com.
IP Address
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to
administer our Web site. We run reports that tell us how many visitors
come to our store by hour of the day and days of the week. The
information gathered also gives us a good idea of what browsers are used and
which sites people are coming from.
There is no personal information (such as name, address or email address)
logged that links any particular person to any particular IP address. All
the data collected is used by us solely for the purpose of improving our store
and is not shared with, or sold to anyone.
Cookies
Our site uses cookies to keep track how customers use the store so that we can
make improvements. These cookies are automatically removed from your
computer when you sign off your browser. If your browser is set to not
accept cookies you may still browse through the store's categories, design
pages, and use the shopping Basket and check out normally.
The site does use persistent cookies for your login information. Usage of
these persistant cookies are tied to personally identifiable information. If
you allow persistent cookies in your browser you will automatically be logged
into the store each time you visit.
Third Party Cookies
A session cookie from Verisign (www.verisign.com
)(the issuer of our security certificate) is used on pages that display the
Verisign seal of authenticity. The cookie does not collect any
information and is simply to aid in displaying Emblibrary's validation page on
Verisign's site when users choose to click on the seal.
Registration
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (such
as their name and email address and password).
The registration form also collects your address and phone number. This
information is completely optional and is used to populate the billing address
in the Purchase form.
The customer's contact information is used to contact the customer if
necessary.
Reasons for email originating from the Embroidery Library include; issues with
an order that the customer has placed and updates to our privacy statement that
include any changes with how we use your information.
We do not send out any junk email.
Emails are sent on occasion with updates about the Embroidery Library.
You do have an option to not receive the updates. To unsubscribe from our
email updates please send an email to deb@emblibrary.com
or reply to one of our emails with the subject 'Remove'.
This information is not used in any other way and is never
shared with any other companies.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. Embroidery Library is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
As privacy practices may be different at other sites please review each site's
privacy statement.
Contests
Occasionally the Embroidery Library sponsors contests held by other sites.
The Embroidery Library does not ask for any additional information to enter a
contest. If you are asked for any information please be aware that this
information is being requested from the originator of the contest.
For any questions about privacy issues regarding information being collected by
the contest owner please refer to their privacy statement.
Orders
Our site uses an order form for customers to request products. We collect
visitor's billing and financial information (such as their account or credit
card numbers). Financial information that is collected is used only to bill the
user for products and services. This information is used only for that
purpose and is never shared with any other person or company. We
do use a third party (Verisign)
to process credit cards.
We don't store credit card information for any use other than processing the
credit card transactions.
If a customer purchases a gift certificate through our site, we will ask
customers for the name and email address of the intended recipient. This
information is used to send an email to the recipient of the certificate
notifying them of the gift.
Our store maintains a list of receipts or Order History for each
customer. This information is accessible by logging in to the store and
then clicking on the Order History link located in the right margin of the
Lobby page or at the top of your Basket page.
This information is for your convenience. It is not available to anyone
else.
Your credit card information is not stored in your Order History.
Newsletter
The Embroidery Library sends out newsletters to customers.
If you wish to unsubscribe from this newsletter please email us at
deb@emblibrary.com or reply to a newsletter with 'Remove' as the
subject.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. We use a 128 bit encryption
security certificate provided by Verisign.
There is a seal of authenticity available on our Lobby page and the Purchase
page where you can see full details about the security certificate.Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying
information previously provided.
-
You may email stitch@emblibrary.com
- Or,
visit http://www.emblibrary.com,
after you have logged into the store, click on the 'My Profile' link located in
the lower left margin of our Lobby page.
- To remove your information from our
database, Please send an email to stitch@emblibrary.com
asking that your information be removed from our database. Please note,
by completely removing your information from our database all record of your
orders with us will also be removed.
Updates
We will notify you of material changes to our privacy statement with a notice on
our Lobby page Http://www.emblibrary.com.
If we ever make material changes to the way we handle your personal information
you will be contacted by email in advance. At that time if you wish to
remove any information that is stored with us you may do so. The opt-out
instructions will be in the posted changes notice.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact
Embroidery Library Inc.
16305 36th Ave North #500
Minneapolis, MN 55446-2698
stitch@emblibrary.com
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose
personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief
that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a
court order or legal process served on our Web site.