July 17, 2007

whatajewel.com Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes the privacy practices for whatajewel.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and encourage you to periodically review this page to be informed of how we protect the information you disclose to us.

If you believe that whatajewel.com is not abiding by our posted privacy policy, please e-mail us at info@whatajewel.com.

Information Collection and Use
Whatajewel.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent this information to any third parties. Whatajewel.com collects information from our users at several different points on our website as described in this policy.

My Account
When you make your first purchase on our site, you will be asked to create an account. By creating an account, the system will remember your personal and purchase information and the checkout process on future purchases will be fast, easy and always completely secure.

Creating an account is also fast and easy: simply enter your personal information once and select your very own username and password, unknown even to What A Jewel. We will collect your name, shipping address, and other contact information.  If we have difficulty processing an order, this contact information is used to communicate with the customer. 

During checkout on your next purchase, just login and the system will take care of the rest. At all times, your personal information is accessible to you to review, edit, or update as necessary by clicking on the "My Account" link.

Order
What A Jewel uses Beanstream for real time payment processing.  At the point of purchase, the consumer is transferred to Beanstream’s secure web server to enter their credit card and billing information. Beanstream processes the transaction and then provides both the merchant and the customer with an e-mail copy of the receipt. Thus, whatajewel.com never collects your credit card information.  For more information about Beanstream’s information-handling practices, visit http://www.beanstream.com/website/privacy/privacy.asp.

Cookies
Anyone can browse What A Jewel’s website with cookies turned off, but if you have an account with us and are logging in, you must accept cookies. A cookie variable is assigned to you when you log in, and placed on your computer for programming purposes only. This is a termporary or session cookie that uniquely identifies you as you move from page to page on What A Jewel’s site. It ensures that you have properly logged in and that your personal information is only accessible to you. The cookie is destroyed as soon as you close your browser and is never redirected to any other servers.

Usage Tracking
Whatajewel.com's database tracks the traffic throughout our site. This information is used to compile overall statistics and does not identify individuals. This includes IP (internet protocol) addresses, browser type, ISP (internet service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, and track an anonymous user’s movements. The statistics help us decide which products and services best serve our members and guests.

Aggregate Information
Whatajewel.com uses aggregate information from demographic surveys, traffic patterns and IP addresses to customize our site. Aggregate information is occasionally shared with partners for purposes such as planning or executing advertising or promotions. We do not share any personally identifiable information.

Sharing of Information
Whatajewel.com gives you access to third party partners to provide you with certain services, such as shipping. Whatajewel.com will provide that third party with only the information they require to perform such services.

We reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect from users of the site to a third party in the event of any merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of the assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings) relating to whatajewel.com.

Finally, notwithstanding any other provision of this privacy policy to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information if we believe that we are required to do so (i) by law; (ii) to comply with legal process or governmental requests; (iii) to enforce our Terms of Service; (iv) to protect our operations or those of any affiliated entities; (v) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of whatajewel.com, any affiliated entities, you or others; and (vi) to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they are leaving our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by whatajewel.com.

Catalog, Newsletters, Etc.
If a user wishes to subscribe to our catalog, newsletter, etc., we ask for contact information such as name, street address and e-mail address to provide these communications. Because we respect our users' privacy, we provide a way to opt-out of these communications.

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send you an e-mail. These communications are not promotional in nature.

Surveys & Sweepstakes
From time to time, our site requests information from users via surveys or sweepstakes. Participation in these surveys or sweepstakes is completely voluntary. Information requested may include contact information (such as name, shipping address and e-mail address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Security
Whatajewel.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information both on-line and off-line.

Whatajewel.com strives to provide you with the most secure transmission environment possible.  To secure the transfer of personal information, What A Jewel has obtained a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Server Certificate. The certificate is used on our registration/order form.  Information entered here is collected within a secure page, such that it is encrypted while being transferred to a password protected database on our server. While on a secure page, such as our order form, a lock icon appears on the bottom of your Web browser. When you are not on a secure page, no lock icon will appear.  In addition, the servers that we store personal information on are kept in a secure environment under restricted access.

Your personal information is not stored in paper form, however, if there is a need to print out any such information, it is securely destroyed by shredding when no longer needed.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, send us an e-mail at info@whatajewel.com for more info.

Special Offers
Members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special offers or sales. Users who no longer wish to receive promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by using the unsubscribe feature in our e-mail. 

Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating
If your personal information changes (such as your zip code, phone, e-mail or postal address), or if you no longer desire our service and want your account information removed from our servers, contact us at info@whatajewel.com to correct, update or delete/deactivate your account.

Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy, and any of our policies or procedures concerning the treatment of information collected through the site, without prior notice. You can determine when this privacy policy was last revised by referring to the date at the top of this page. Any changes to our privacy policy will become effective upon posting of the revised policy on the Internet, accessible through the site. Use of the site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy then in effect. We encourage you to periodically review our privacy policy to ensure familiarity with our most current version.