PRIVACY STATEMENT

 

SlowtowneMarketPlace.com collects customer information to enhance your shopping experience. This privacy policy is intended to assist you in understanding what information we gather about you when you visit this Web site, how we use that information, and the safeguards we have in place for that information.

This Privacy Statement applies only to the information collected online at SlowtowneMarketPlace.com.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE

USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE

SLOWTOWNE MARKET PLACE E-MAIL

INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES

VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S.

UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

PRIVACY OF CHILDREN ON OUR WEB SITE

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS


INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
1. General Browsing Information
SlowtowneMarketPlace.com gathers navigational information during each visitor's use of our Web site. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected. The navigational information tells SlowtowneMarketPlace.com about the use of our Web site by visitors, including the areas of our site that are most visited or the time of a last visit to a page on our site. It also tells us about the technical efficiencies of our Web site and services (i.e. the time it takes a visitor to connect to our Web site or download pages). The navigational information helps us better understand a visitor's experience at SlowtowneMarketPlace.com and improve upon that experience by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer.

2. Personal Information
SlowtowneMarketPlace.com may ask you to provide personal information when you establish or update a SlowtowneMarketPlace.com account, sign up for Slowtowne Market Place E-mail newsletter, enter a contest, participate in a survey, or shop online with us.

Categories of information collected include name, address, e-mail address, recipient's name and e-mail address, order information, telephone number, credit card information and messages or reminders you create.

USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
SlowtowneMarketPlace.com uses the personal information we collect from you to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfill requests that you have created, to contact you or the product recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties, for verification purposes, to respond to your inquiries, and to deliver services and information about our products or Web site, including adding you to the Slowtowne Market Place E-mail list when you sign up or make a purchase.

In addition, we will use your name and mailing address provided during such sign up, in all the ways described in this privacy statement and we will use your e-mail address as described in this privacy statement for e-mail addresses collected after September 30, 2002.

INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES
We use third parties to help us provide services to you such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering e-mails, and administering drawings or contests. Third parties also provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our site to us and a select group.

If, after making a purchase at SlowtowneMarketPlace.com, you choose to participate in a survey conducted at a third party provider's website, any personal information that you provide during the survey at the third party provider's website will be subject to that third party provider's privacy policy.

If you make a purchase through SlowtowneMarketPlace.com, the information you provide (for example, name, address, credit card) will be added to a database.

VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S
If you are visiting SlowtowneMarketPlace.com from a location outside of the U.S., your orders placed through SlowtowneMarketPlace.com will be accepted and fully processed in and shipped from the U.S. All information you provide will be maintained in our Web servers and/or internal systems located within the U.S., and protected as noted in this privacy policy.

PRIVACY OF CHILDREN ON OUR WEB SITE
To ensure compliance with federal law, SlowtowneMarketPlace.com does not knowingly collect or maintain information provided by children under the age of 13.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES
For your convenience, our Web site contains links to other sites. Links that appear on SlowtowneMarketPlace.com should not necessarily be deemed to imply that we endorse the linked Web sites. Slowtowne Market Place is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We encourage you to review the separate privacy policies of each site you visit.


This Privacy Statement is effective April 1, 2007