PRIVACY POLICY

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.  This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.  Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.  By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

A.  What information do we collect?

• We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature.
• When ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information.  However, you may visit our site anonymously.
• We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes.
• Like most websites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites.  Please refer to the "Do we use 'cookies'?" section below for information about cookies and how we use them.

B.  How do we use your information?

• To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To quickly process your transactions.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.

• If you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us, please refer to the "How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?" section below.  If you have not opted-in to receive e-mail newsletters, you will not receive these e-mails.  Visitors who register or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and 'members-only' content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.

C.  How do we protect visitor information?

• We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information.
• Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and who are required to keep the information confidential.
• When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server.  All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.
  

D.  How do we protect visitor information?

• Yes.  Cookies are small files that virtually all sites transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser (if you allow).  These files enable sites to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.  For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart.  They also help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services.  We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

• You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies.  You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.  If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.  However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting us at 310-576-4711.

E.  Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

• No.  We do not sell, trade or otherwise transfer to other parties your personally identifiable information except as may be necessary to operate our website and conduct our business.  We may also release your information when we believe release is necessary to comply with applicable law, enforce our site policies or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.
• Non-personally identifiable information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses.
  

F.  Changes to our policy

• If we change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on our website and the changes will apply only to information and orders collected after the date of the change.