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| Yerba Mate Tea Gourd Privacy Policy; Safe Harbor Principles |
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The Yerba Mate Tea Gourd (Straw Bale Trading Post) collects only such personal
information from you (the client) as is necessary to conduct its business: the
conduct of business being limited to the delivery of goods bought from the site
or through our site and the future advertising of our products to those persons
whose information we have collected. Such information is normally limited to your
(the client‚s) physical mailing address and internet mailing address. The
information is collected only during your (the client‚s) account setup,
inquiries, purchase of goods from our online website, and/or through e-mail correspondence,
or through the website . . . or through collection of information during voluntary
sign-up campaigns or in response to special offers. By you (the client) voluntarily
providing us with this information or personal data [in the form of an account
setup, and/or order, and/or response to a special offer and/or payment for our
goods or services and/or mailing list sign-up] you are consenting to receipt of
occasional advertisements, updates, or special offers regarding our products or
servicesˆvia e-mail or postal mail. Mailing list/newsletter receiving status may be edited by the client by entering their account.
We do not offer, give, nor sell your (our client‚s) personal information
to any third party entity. Ever.
The Yerba Mate Tea Gourd (Straw Bale Trading Post) is solely responsible for the
care and storage of this information once we receive it and we try and maintain every level of security known to us for the maintenance of this security--such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption for site communication (through Geotrust internet security http://www.geotrust.com/.) We are not responsible
for the information as it is in transit to us or from us neither electronically
via the internet nor through the postal mail. Your (the client‚s) information
will not otherwise be at any time open to public display. We will not use your
information for any other purposes except those set forth in the previous sections.
We do notˆthrough any willful action of our own--disclose this information
to third parties of any kind, including, but not limited to: any government or
company or private entity. However: your (the client‚s) information may
be collected by the companies owning our third party online payment, shipping
calculation, and website statistic information services via your (the client‚s) accounts with them [presently Paypal
and AuctionInc., Samuel Nee Web Development and Consulting (with whom we have signed a strict and all-encompassing non-disclosure agreement) or OS
Commerce and Shipstream Manager; a Pitney Bowes Company pbshipstream.com]. We advise you (the client) to read the disclosures of these companies
and contact them with any questions you may have. As regards those companies and
their privacy policies with respect to your (the client‚s) personal information
we have no control nor liability. Information policy issues, relating to these
independent companies, must be read about in their own disclosures. Suffice to
say it is our own principle to keep any client‚s information as strictly
confidential as is possible; the viewing of which is limited to the owners and
those in direct employ of the Yerba Mate Tea Gourd (Straw Bale Trading Post) and
only for such purposes as is expressed in the previous paragraphs.
The Yerba Mate Tea Gourd (Straw Bale Trading Post) does not knowingly collect
personal data from children under the age of 13. We request that if you are under
the age of 13 that you do not submit to us any personal information yourselfˆbut
rather have a legal parent or guardian enter information for you. If you have
reason to believe that a person under the age of 13 has submitted personal information
to our site through its related services, please contact us and we will attempt
to have this information removed from our databases.
The Straw Bale Trading Post website has links to many other sites for information
and assistance purposes: we are not responsible for these linked sites and our
policies do not apply to their sites, organizations, or businesses; we do not necessarily endorse their messages, information, or products. Contact those
linked sites to review their policies should you have any question about them. We make an effort to clearly label those links as external, but are not responsible for the content there and what it may have been changed to since last we checked those links.
Certain non-identifiable data are at times collected by the Yerba Mate Tea Gourd (Straw Bale Trading
Post) using tracking software technology provided by the internet hosting provider 1and1.com. This is data which cannot
be used to identify any one person, but which can be maintained in our database
to track the number of visitors to our site and pages, the domain names of the
visitors, country and state of origin, etc. This data when collected is not collected
in connection to your (a client‚s) name or address or in any manner which
would make it identifiable to you (a client) in particularˆnor does the Straw
Bale Trading Post and its employees or direct associates know on whom this information
is based. No personal data is used in this process. Our website system, OSCommerce, uses
site "cookies" for the collection of personal data--useful only in the maintenance of business purposes listed previously. The information is stored on the Internet Hosting Service provider database, is protected by SSL, and is not open to public view. For the policies and system details
of our site system provider please contact OS Commerce.
Our use of aggregated personal data, data which draws from personal data (such
as State of residence, zip code, etc.) is also collected in a non-identifiable
manner and not disclosed publicly nor to any third party entities as described
previously. These aggregated user statistics may be used by us at times to describe
our business to current or prospective business partners or to other third parties
or financial institutions for other lawful purposes.
You (the client) have, at any time, the right to contact us and "opt out"
of receiving future communication from us or to remove your name and subsequent
information from our mailing list and database. This removal will extend until
such time as you willingly contact us again and voluntarily provide us with your
information as set forth in previous paragraphs. [Contact information follows
at the end of this policy document.]
Our business and website changes with time--and as a result the Straw Bale Trading Post
may find it necessary to update our policy in the future. We reserve the right
to update or modify at any time the policies set forth here so check periodically
to see the statements of our current policy.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions regarding our policies and we
will attempt to respond to those questions satisfactorily: via e-mail at contact@yerbamateteagourd.com
or by postal mail: Straw Bale Trading Post, P.O. Box 247, Bonners Ferry, Idaho
83805 USA. Phone # (208) 267-1086 |
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