Privacy Policy
Last updated January 1, 2014
Thank you for visiting Silver Jewelry Rocks. We want
you to know that your privacy is important to us. Part of our commitment
to you is to respect and protect the privacy of the personal information
you provide to us. The information below is designed to inform you
of what information we collect, why we collect such information,
and how we use the information we collect. This Privacy Policy is
incorporated into our
Silver Jewelry Rocks Website Terms and Conditions.
Silver Jewelry Rocks will occasionally update this
Privacy Policy. When a revision is made we will revise the "last
updated" date on this page. We encourage you to check the date of
our Privacy Policy each time you visit our Website for any updates
or changes. Your use of our Website constitutes your consent to
this Privacy Policy, including any changes or updates.
Collection and Use of Information
General. In general, you can browse
our Website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal
information about yourself. At various times, you may decide to
provide us with your personal information. You should know that
we receive and may store all personal information (whether written
or oral) that you provide to us through whatever means you provide
such information (through our Website, via e-mail, over the telephone,
etc.). Personal information means any information that may be used
to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first
and last name, home, billing or other physical address or email
address as well as any information associated with the foregoing.
In addition to your contact information, we may collect information
about your purchases, billing address, shipping address, gender,
occupation, birthday, marital status, anniversary, interests, phone
number or other contact information, and credit card information.
We may combine the information you provide to us over time and we
may combine such information with information that is publicly available,
collected through data collection devices, and information that
we receive from our partners, affiliates and other third parties.
Use of Your Personal Information
We may use the information we collect about
you to:
- Facilitate your purchases and provide
the services you request,
- Confirm and track your order,
- Respond to your inquiries and requests,
- Compare and review your personal information
for errors, omissions and accuracy,
- Prevent and detect fraud or abuse,
- Improve our Website, service, product
offerings, marketing and promotional efforts, and overall customer
experience,
- Identify your product and service
preferences,
Understand our customer demographics,
preferences, interests, and behavior, and
- Contact you (via email, postal mail,
or telephone) regarding products and services (of Gemtree Creative Designs
or our partners) that we believe may be of interest to you.
Personal Information that we May Share with Others
In certain circumstances, we may share
your personal information with trusted partners.
- Service Providers:
We use trusted third-party service providers to perform certain
services on our behalf, including: shipping, payment processing,
data storage/management, webhosting, web analytics, fulfillment,
assembly, marketing, mailing, emailing, etc. These service providers
only receive personal information if such information is needed
to perform their function(s), and they are not authorized to
use any personal information for any other purpose(s) other
than the purpose(s) set forth by Gemtree Creative Designs.
- Compliance with Law and Fraud
Protection: We may, and you authorize us to use and
disclose any information, including personal information: (1)
we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any
applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
(2) in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any personal or as otherwise
required by law; (3) to other companies and organizations for
credit fraud protection and risk reduction; and (4) to enforce
any agreement we have with you.
- Business Transfer:
Your personal information may be disclosed as part of any merger,
sale of company assets or acquisition, as well as in the event
of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, in which personal
information would be transferred as one of the business assets
of the Company.
Anonymous Information. We may
create anonymous records from personal information by excluding
information (such as your name) that makes the information personally
identifiable to you. We may use these records for internal purposes,
such as analyzing usage patterns so that we may enhance our services,
and we also reserve the right to use and disclose any information
in such records at our discretion.
Comments: We value your comments,
feedback, testimonials, etc., which help us improve our website,
products, and services. By making such submissions to us, you assign
your rights in the submissions to us, as described in the "Submissions"
section of our GCD Terms
of Service page.
Other Uses of Your Information
IP Address. When you visit our
Website, Gemtree Creative Designs collects your IP address
to, among other things, help diagnose problems with its server,
administer and tune the operation of its Website, analyze trends,
track traffic patterns, gather demographic information for aggregate
use, and track the date and duration of each session within our
Website. Your IP address may also be used in combination with your
personal information to prevent fraud or abuse, customize your shopping
experience, improve our website, customer service, products, and
promotional efforts, and to understand your preferences, patterns
and interests.
Data Collection Devices, such as Cookies
and Web Beacons. In some instances, Gemtree Creative Designs
may collect data through cookies, web logs, web beacons (also known
as pixel gifs or action tags) and other monitoring technologies
to enhance your browsing and shopping experience on our website.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your
browser on your computer's hard drive to collect information about
your activities on our website. Web beacons are small strings of
code placed on a web page or within an email for the purpose of
transferring information.
We use cookies and web beacons to deliver
our ads, improve and measure the usability, track visits from our
affiliates and partners, performance and effectiveness of our Website,
improve and measure the effectiveness of our marketing programs,
learn how customers use our website, estimate our audience size,
deliver co-branded services, and to customize your shopping experience.
Examples of the type of information that we collect through these
collection devices, includes: total visitors to the website, pages
viewed, unique visitors, time spent on our Website and on certain
web pages, etc.
We may authorize third parties to use cookies,
web beacons and other monitoring technologies to compile information
about the use of the Website or interaction with advertisements
that appear on the Website.
You are always free to decline cookies
if your browser permits; although, by declining the use of cookies
you may not be able to use certain features on the Website.
Children under 13
Gemtree Creative Designs does
not knowingly collect personal information from children under the
age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personally identifiable
information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that
data from our systems. Please visit the FTC's website at
http://www.ftc.gov/
for tips on protecting children's privacy online.
Links
Our Website may provide links to other
third-party Websites which are outside our control and not covered
by this privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies
posted on these (and all) Websites.
Security
Gemtree Creative Designs is committed
to the protection of the personally identifiable information that
you share with us. We utilize a combination of physical and electronic
security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to
help protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. When we transfer sensitive personal information
(for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect
it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. While
we strive to safeguard your personal information once we receive
it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public
network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and, accordingly, we
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
disclose or transmit to us.
Accessing and Updating Your Information
If the personally identifiable information
Gemtree Creative Designs has gathered from you changes
or you would like to access, correct, or delete such information,
we will gladly provide you access to, correct, or delete (to the
extent allowed by law) any personal information we have collected
about you. To request access to, a correction to, or deletion of
your personal information, please send an e-mail to
customerservice@gemtreecreativedesigns.com
or contact one of our service managers at 520-308-4761.
Choice/Opt-Out
We want to communicate with you only if
you want to continue to hear from us.
Please send an e-mail to
customerservice@gemtreecreativedesigns.com
or contact one of our service managers at 520-308-4761 if you would
like to be taken off our mailing list.
Opting out of communication with us does
not affect our communications with you via telephone or email related
to your orders with us. It also does not affect our use of your
non-personally identifiable information.