Vector-Graphic.com is deeply committed to maintaining your privacy. We value our visitors greatly and we collect information in order to optimize our services and better serve your buying needs. Our Privacy Policy lets you know how your personal information is processed and used. The following discloses our Privacy Policy.
Collecting Information
The information collected enables us to provide you with an enhanced shopping experience. We collect information such as your name, phone number, address, email address and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout our site. You provide such information when you sign up, fill out a survey or form, provide ratings or testimonials feedback, give or redeem a gift certificate, etc. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You can always choose not to provide information, but you may not be able to use a particular service or feature.
We also automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on our site. We use this information to analyze our users' behavior, interests, and demographics to better understand and serve our shoppers. This information may include the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using and your IP address.
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Using Information
We use the information we collect about you to answer your inquiries, to provide the products that you have ordered, to administer marketing promotions and to provide customer service. Some of this information also may be used to contact you about sales, special offers and new site features we think you will find valuable, if you have opted to receive promotional communications. We do not require personal information to obtain general access to our website. If you do not want to be notified of these matters, please visit the My Account page to change your preferences.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit this site. We do not store this information and uses it for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
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Sharing Information
We do not share with others any personal information that you provide to us through our website, except with your consent or as described in this Privacy Policy.
For the purpose of operating our business, we may transfer information between Vector-Graphic.com and our preferred service providers who use that information only to conduct our business. For example, they may handle payment processing and authorization, fraud protection and credit risk reduction. These third parties are not authorized to discuss, disclose or make any use of your personal information except as necessary to provide such services. We provide our preferred service providers with the information they need to perform their services and work with them to respect and protect your information.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include Vector-Graphic.com, our preferred service providers, website hosting providers and other parties who assist us in operating our website, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
On rare occasions, we may disclose specific information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when required by law, to enforce our website policies, or to protect our or others' rights, property, or safety. We may also share information with companies assisting in fraud protection or investigation. We do not provide information to these agencies or companies for marketing or commercial purposes.
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Use of "Cookies"
Like many websites, we use "cookies", which are small text files stored on your computer's hard drive by your browser. Cookies store details such as your browser settings and repeat visitors. Cookies help us to identify account holders and to optimize their shopping experience. Cookies also allow us to hold selections in a shopping cart when a user leaves this website without checking out. Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. We recommend that you leave cookies "turned on" so that we can offer you a better shopping experience on this site.
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Protecting Your Information
Information you provide to us is protected from public access by a password that you provide upon registration on our website. In order to help protect your personal information further, you should be careful about providing your password to others. If you wish to cancel your password, or if you become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your password, please contact our Customer Service Department.
Our payment service provider use a variety of security measures, including sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to maintain the safety of your billing information. Your billing 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 are required to keep the information confidential. When you place orders, we offer the use of a secure server. All credit card information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into the databases to be only accessed as stated above. Regardless of these efforts, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
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Accessing and Updating Your Informations
You always have the opportunity to review and change the information you provide to us by logging into the site and entering in the new information yourself. You can edit your name, contact information and preferences by logging into the My Account section of the site.
You may ask to have your account information removed from our active databases; however, because we keep track of past purchases, you cannot delete information associated with past purchases. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on your account activity. Also, as a security measure we back-up the data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be completely removed from our databases. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.
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Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under age 18. Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.
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Links to Other Sites
While visiting Vector-Graphic.com, you may link to websites operated by our business partners or other third parties. When you provide personal information at one of those sites, you are subject to the privacy policy of the operator of that site. We recommend that you check the specific privacy policy of any site before providing any personal information.
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Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. When considering any change, your privacy will remain a priority. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on this page. We also may post a notice on this website or send an email describing the changes. We encourage you to check this website regularly to see if any recent changes to this Privacy Policy have occurred.
If you have questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, or your own personal information, you may direct them to our Customer Service Department. We always enjoy hearing from you and appreciate your business.
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Consent
By visiting Vector-Graphic.com, you're agreeing to let us collect and use your non-personal information as we describe in this Privacy Policy. By providing personal information to us through our website, you're agreeing to let us collect and use your personal information as we describe in this Privacy Policy.
[Privacy Policy last updated December 1, 2006]
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