Pipsticks Privacy Policy

Protecting the privacy and security of customer personal information is very important to us. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do with the personal information we collect both online and offline.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

We strive to collect and use only the minimum information necessary to register you as a member. If you subscribe to Pipticks and/or place an order through Pipsticks.com (the “Website”), we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, telephone number, shipping address, billing information and the recipient’s birth month (“Personal Information”).

We use this information to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. All archived credit card information is maintained in a secure and safe environment. Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are used to contact you regarding your order. In addition, when you respond to a contest, survey, questionnaire, sweepstakes or other promotional feature, we may ask you for your name, address and email address or other Personal Information. We do not collect any Personal Information about you unless it is voluntarily provided by you. Pipsticks will never sell, rent or share your Personal Information, including your e-mail address, with any third parties for marketing purposes without your express permission.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We will not share or disclose your information to anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We use Personal Information in order to give you a more enjoyable convenient shopping experience and to help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use your Personal Information to support and enhance your use of the Website and its features, including without limitation: fulfilling your order; providing customer service; tracking email invitations you send; and otherwise supporting your use of the Website. We may also track your past purchases to provide you with a personalized profile of your shopping history. In addition, we may notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information. In connection with their performance of services to maintain and operate the Website and certain features on the Website, certain trusted third parties may be permitted to access your information. For example, we may use third parties to host the Website; operate various features available on the Website; send emails; analyze data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders. Unless you specifically consent to the disclosure of your Personal Information, aside from us, only our affiliates, technical consultants, third party auditors and other third parties who make our Website available, enhance its functionality, assist with the processing of your purchases, or provide associated services and/or who deal with you in delivering content, samples, products, gifts and prizes, have access to this information, and we require them to agree that they are covered by this policy.

Please note that Pipsticks reserves the right to and may disclose Personal Information about you in response to (a) requests from local, state or federal law enforcement officials; (b) any judicial, administrative or similar proceeding or order, such as subpoena; (c) if required by law; or (d) to investigate suspected fraud, harassment, physical threats, or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, the Website rules or policies, or the rights of third parties or to investigate any suspected conduct which we deem improper. Please also note that we do reserve the right to transfer your Personal Information and other information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control. In such a circumstance the transferee would be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. We use non-personally identifiable information in the aggregate, so that we can improve the Website and for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.

If you submit your email address to be added to a mailing list or sweepstakes or other promotion, we will use the email address for the sole purpose of sending you announcements, special offers from Pipsticks and its promotional partners along with site updates. Each email we send will contain information on how to unsubscribe from our mailing list. You can also unsubscribe by sending an email to support@pipsticks.com.

USE OF COOKIES

Our Website may pass a "cookie" (a string of information that is sent by a web site to be resident on your system's hard drive, and/or temporarily in your computer's memory blocks). The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a particular page. The Website may use cookies in on-line catalogs to keep track of your status and contents of your shopping cart. or to retain information gathered in cookies to allow you access to password-protected areas of the Website . You may set your browser to decline cookies. If you do so, however, you may not be able to fully experience some interactive features of the Website.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. However, Pipsticks will not be liable for disclosures of your Personal Information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. We have undertaken all commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized Internet access to visitor data retained in our servers, however, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, Pipsticks cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or any information provided online, and you do so at your own risk. Users must accept all risks associated with any data transmission, including the risk that their Personal Information may be intercepted in transit.

The Website encrypts your credit card number and other Personal Information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from you to our servers. In addition, only those employees and third parties who need access to you information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY AND PARENTAL CONTROLS

This Website is not intended for persons under the age of 13, and we have no intention of collecting or soliciting Personal Information from persons under the age of 13. If you are not 13 or older, you are not authorized to use the Website. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that you can use to prevent your children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors. If a child under age 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

SITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Use of this Website is governed by, and subject to, the legal notices contained in our Terms and Conditions. Your use, or access, of the Website constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy for the Website, we will post the revised Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we may disclose it to anyone. Your continued use of the Website indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted. Please check this page periodically for changes to this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy please contact us at support@pipsticks.com.