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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