Your personal privacy is a principal concern to us at Chic Costumes. Our goal in outlining our policy on the collection and use of visitor/customer information is to ensure the highest level of confidentiality and security. When you provide personal or corporate information, we will not give or sell your personal information to any third party. We will maintain the confidentiality of your personal and corporate information and it will be used only to support your customer relationship and to assist us in providing better services for you. Additionally, internal practices are in place to help protect your privacy by limiting employee access to and use of customer information. When we ask customers/visitors to provide their personal information on the ChicCostumes.com Website, it is done with the goal of improving the relationship between ChicCostumes.com and the visitor. At Chic Costumes, our intention is to send e-mail only to visitors/customers who have chosen to receive such e-mails. At any time, you have the right to decline receiving future communications from ChicCostumes.com in any manner, including email, fax, telephone and postal mail.
When you browse the ChicCostumes.com Website, you do so anonymously. Personal information - including your email address - is not collected. However, there are three (3) ways in which the ChicCostumes.com Website may collect information about you.
1. The ChicCostumes.com Website may request that you voluntarily provide personal information for purposes such as correspondence, site registration, membership, making a purchase, or participating in contests or online surveys. Information that we ask you to provide may include your name, e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address and birth date. We may also request that you provide visitor/customer preference information, social security numbers, lifestyle interests, and other demographic information that may be needed to register or subscribe you to services or offers.
2. Like many other commercial websites, the ChicCostumes.com Website may use a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how our website is used. Cookies are small text files on your system used for keeping track of settings or data for a particular website. You may turn them off through your browser or set your browser to notify you before accepting them. Our ChicCostumes.com Website may use cookies to store information necessary to provide a service or access into a site. Any information that we may store in cookies is used for internal purposes only.
3. Each time the ChicCostumes.com Website page is requested from your browser, we log your computer's IP address into our log files. Your computer has been pre-assigned a 12-digit number from your Internet Service Provider (which may be static or dynamically assigned) - this number is the IP address. ChicCostumes.com uses IP addresses to analyze browser trends, administer the site, track movements on the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to any other personally identifiable information by ChicCostumes.com.
We collect only information that is needed, and we tell visitors/customers how we use it. We limit the collection of information about our visitors/customers to what we need to know to manage their membership, to provide customer service, to offer new products and services, and to fulfill any legal and regulatory requirements. We tell our visitors/customers about the general uses of information we collect about them, and we will provide additional explanation if requested. A visitor/customer may change, update or add additional information about themselves at any time by contacting ChicCostumes.com to communicate such changes.
Access to visitor/customer information is limited to those who specifically need it to conduct their business responsibilities. We use security techniques designed to protect our visitor/customer information - especially information that is used by employees and business partners to fulfill visitor/customer services. In addition to providing visitors/customers with the opportunity to refuse marketing offers, we release information only at the visitors'/customers' requests, or when required to do so by law or other regulatory authority. Should a court order or subpoena require us to release information, we will notify any potentially effected visitors/customers directly so that their legal rights can be exercised, as appropriate. The only exceptions to this policy would be if we are expressly prohibited by court order or law from notifying the visitor/customer, or cases in which fraud and/or criminal activity are suspected. Finally, each ChicCostumes.com employee is personally responsible for maintaining visitor and customer confidentiality. All ChicCostumes.com employees are required to comply with these policies. Employees who violate these policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment and/or legal action. Employees are expected to report violations (and may do so confidentially) to their managers or other supervisors.
As a result of providing your personal information to us, ChicCostumes.com can provide a more customized online experience, making your interaction with us more productive, and will enhance the services and offers our website bring to you. If you provide us with your e-mail address, or have done so in the past, we may send you e-mail offers or newsletters. These offers or newsletters are based on information you provided in your membership application, registration forms, surveys, or from information that may indicate purchasing preferences and lifestyle, as well as information available from external sources, such as census bureau data. These e-mail offers will come from ChicCostumes.com only. Your information or email address is never sold too any third party. All offers are carefully developed to guarantee that they meet our standards. Our goal is to target offers to visitors/customers who will find them of value. At any time, you may request to discontinue receiving these communications from us by simply replying to the e-mail address included in every e-mail message that you receive from Chic Costumes.
The Internet is an evolving medium. If we need to change this Internet Privacy Policy at some point in the future, we will post the changes to this Internet Privacy Policy on this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect the date of the amendment. By visiting the ChicCostumes.com Website, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Internet Privacy Policy. Revised Oct 23, 2010.