Privacy Policy
Last Updated July 19, 2008
SavvyWorld Enterprises
knows that you care how information about you is used and shared,
and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.
This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting SavvyWorldOnline.com,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does SavvyWorld Enterprises
Gather? The information we learn from customers helps us personalize
and continually improve your shopping experience at SavvyWorldOnline.com.
Here are the types of information we gather. Information You Give
Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site
or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain
information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many
of our features. We use the information that you provide for such
purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping
for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you. Automatic
Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever
you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies,"
and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses
SavvyWorldOnline.com. E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails
more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when
you open e-mail from SavvyWorldOnline.com if your computer supports
such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists received
from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages
to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail
from us, please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences.
Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about
you from other sources and add it to our account information. What
About Cookies? Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer
to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our
systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as
storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits. The Help portion
of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your
browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify
you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser
add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings
or visiting the Website of its manufacturer. However, because cookies
allow you to take advantage of some of SavvyWorldOnline.com's essential
features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance,
if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able
to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any
SavvyWorldOnline.com products and services that require you to Sign
in. Does SavvyWorldOnline.com Share the Information It Receives? Information
about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are
not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information
only as described below and with subsidiaries SavvyWorldOnline.com,
Inc. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow
practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy
Notice. Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with
our affiliated businesses. In some cases, these businesses operate
stores at SavvyWorldOnline.com or sell offerings to you at SavvyWorldOnline.com.
In other cases, we operate stores, provide services, or sell product
lines jointly with these businesses. You can tell when a third party
is involved in your transactions, and we share customer information
related to those transactions with that third party. Third-Party Service
Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions
on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages,
sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from
customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing
search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing
credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access
to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may
not use it for other purposes. Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send
offers to selected groups of SavvyWorldOnline.com customers on behalf
of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business
your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers,
please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences. Business Transfers:
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores,
subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information
generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject
to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of
course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event
that SWE or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer
information will of course be one of the transferred assets. Protection
of SavvyWorldOnline.com and Others: We release account and other personal
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with
the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements;
or protect the rights, property, or safety of SavvyWorldOnline.com,
our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing,
or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers
for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth
in this Privacy Notice. With Your Consent: Other than as set out above,
you will receive notice when information about you might go to third
parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the
information. How Secure Is Information About Me? We work to protect
the security of your information during transmission by using software
which encrypts information you input. We reveal only the last several
digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course,
we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit
card company during order processing. It is important for you to protect
against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer.
Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. What About
Links to Other Websites? Our site includes links to other websites.
We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information
to third-party websites. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web
beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs). We do not
have access to or control over cookies or other features that they
may use, and the information practices of these third-party websites
are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly
for more information about their privacy practices. What Choices Do
I Have? As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information,
even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage
of such SavvyWorldOnline.com features. If you do not want to receive
e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Customer Communication
Preferences. (If you do not want to receive Conditions of Use and
other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices
will still govern your use of SavvyWorldOnline.com, and it is your
responsibility to review them for changes.) The Help portion of the
toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser
from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when
you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally,
you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such
as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the
Website of its manufacturer. However, because cookies allow you to
take advantage of some of SavvyWorldOnline.com's essential features,
we recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block
or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items
to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any SavvyWorldOnline.com
products and services that require you to Sign in. Are Children Allowed
to Use SavvyWorldOnline.com? SavvyWorldOnline.com does not sell products
for purchase by children. If you are under 18, you may use SavvyWorldOnline.com
only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Conditions of Use,
Notices, and Revisions If you choose to visit SavvyWorldOnline.com,
your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice
and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration
of disputes, and application of the law of the state of California.
If you have any concern about privacy at SavvyWorldOnline.com, please
contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve
it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the
Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders
of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to,
but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.
Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all
information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind
the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our
policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information
collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. Examples
of Information Collected Information You Give Us You provide most
such information when you search, buy, bid, post, participate in a
contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For
example, you provide information when you search for a product; place
an order through SavvyWorldOnline.com or one of our third-party sellers;
provide information in Your Account (and you might have more than
one if you have used more than one e-mail address when shopping with
us) or Your Profile; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise;
complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; provide employer
information when opening a corporate account; participate in Discussion
Boards or other community features; provide and rate Reviews; and
employ other Personal Notification Services. As a result of those
actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address,
and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom purchases
have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; content of
reviews and e-mails to us; personal descriptions; and financial information,
including Social Security and driver's license numbers. Automatic
Information Examples of the information we collect and analyze include
the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to
the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection
information such as browser type, version, and timezone setting, browser
plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; purchase
history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from
other customers to create certain features; the full Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including
date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for;
your account history; and the phone number you used to call us. We
may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known
as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of
our Website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits
we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect
session information, including page response times, download errors,
length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such
as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse
away from the page. Information from Other Sources Examples of information
we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address
information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use
to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication
more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information,
and page-view information from some merchants with which we operate
co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment,
advertising, or other services; search term and search result information
from some searches conducted through the Web search features offered
by our subsidiaries; search results and links, including paid listings
(such as Sponsored Links); and credit history information from credit
bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer
certain credit or financial services to some customers.
Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites You can link to
certain third-party advertisers and advertising companies from the
SavvyWorldOnline.com website. Some of them serve advertising content
directly to your browser on certain SavvyWorldOnline.com pages. You
can find out more about information collection and use practices,
including how to opt out of cookies and other collection techniques
that is uses, by visiting those advertisers' websites.
Information You Can Access Examples of information you can access
easily at SavvyWorldOnline.com include up-to-date information regarding
recent orders; personally identifiable information (including name,
e-mail, password, and communications preferences); payment settings
(including credit card information and gift certificate, gift card,
and check balances); and e-mail notification settings (including Alerts).
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