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Overview of Sea Stones Policy
Sea Stones believes that the primary purpose of a website is to provide information, not to gather it. As is true with many other websites, however, Sea Stones may collect some personal information from visitors.
Below we explain how we may collect personal information, what we do with it, and how we protect it.
What Information does Sea Stones gather?
The choice of how much personally identifiable information you disclose to us is completely at your discretion. It is not mandatory for you to answer any question. In addition, you will need to provide certain information to obtain special services, to complete transactions or to buy products initiated by you that may be available through Sea Stones. If you choose not to provide information, we may not be able to provide those special services or complete transactions.
Information gathered during product registration
When registering a Sea Stones product you must enter your name, address, Company name, email address, and product information. Again, please keep in mind that the more optional fields you enter will enable Sea Stones to provide enhanced products and/or services to you.
Information gathered during product purchase
To purchase a product through the Website you must enter your name, address, email address credit card number and other payment information.
Information gathered through traffic monitoring
Like many other websites, Sea Stones is equipped with a program that monitors traffic by automatically recording every visitors host and/or IP address. This program tracks the number of times the site is hit, how many visitors come to the site, and which parts of the site they frequent. Sea Stones does not retain the addresses collected by the program, nor do we disclose them to anyone outside of the company. Our website logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.
What about Cookies?
When a visitor chooses to accept a cookie, a small text file will be created on their computers hard drive that gives them a unique, random ID. This ID enables the website to readily recognize each visitor on a subsequent visit to the site. For example, a cookie may indicate the preferences selected by a visitor on a prior visit and facilitate more efficient browsing on subsequent visits. Sea Stones may use cookies in this fashion, but our users always have the option of not accepting them. Sea Stones cookies do not contain personally identifiable information. Visitors are free to change their web browsers to prevent the acceptance of cookies.
How will Sea Stones use this information?
Listed below are some of the ways in which your information may be used:
to improve Sea Stones products and services,
to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor
to notify visitors about updates, new products or special offers from Sea Stones or our suppliers and partners
to assist our suppliers and partners in targeting updates, new products or special offers to you [through Sea Stones]
to ask for your participation in brief surveys
to generate aggregate statistical studies
to complete any purchases or other transactions you may do at the site
provided to third parties in connection with the legitimate business purposes of Sea Stones.
Sea Stones Suppliers and Partners; Linked Sites
If you click on a hypertext link that takes you to another website outside of Sea Stones, we are not responsible for the information collection practices and uses at that other site. Sea Stones is not responsible for the privacy or information use policies of its suppliers and partners.
What choices does the user have?
You will always have the ability to opt not to receive email or other means of communication from Sea Stones. Sea Stones respects your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive special offers or information. You have the ability upon registering at the site to opt out from receiving email or other communications. Alternatively, after you register, if you would like to remove your name from Sea Stones lists you can change your registration options by using any of the contact information below to request that Sea Stones remove you from its lists. Your opt-out will be effective unless or until you opt to receive email by updating your user profile. Again, please remember, once we have provided information to our suppliers or partners due to transactions initiated by you, we are not responsible for their use of the information, and you should consult their privacy and information use policies.
Who can I contact for more information?
If you would like to be deactivated from Sea Stones lists, or if you would like to update your personal information, you may notify us by e-mail, telephone, fax, or postal mail. Sea Stones will use reasonable efforts to promptly resolve any issues.
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