This
Privacy Policy sets forth the privacy practices carried out with
respect to information accessible to Distinctive Designs International,
Inc. ("Distinctive Designs") by your use of the www.distinctivedesigns.com
website or the www.distdesigns.com website. If you do
not agree to all the terms, conditions,
and practices set forth below, do not access this site or any of
its pages. Use of this website or any of its functions is
an acceptance of the terms, conditions, and practices described
in this Website Privacy Policy and in the Terms
and Conditions. Users of this website should understand
that this is a business-to-business site, and that because of the
potential presence of sensitive information and the concomitant
need for confirmation of identity, data obtainable by this site
will be used to verify identities to the fullest extent possible.
Anonymous access to this site is prohibited.
1. Information
Collection and Use
The www.distinctivedesigns.com
website is intended to be a valuable business-to-business tool.
In order to fulfill this mission, the website is designed to be
capable of collecting certain information about persons who access
the site or attempt to use its account functions, just as "caller
ID" is used in call tracking. Types of information that
are or may be collected by the site are non-exhaustively set forth
below. Distinctive Designs is the sole owner of the information
collected on this site. To the extent that Distinctive Designs provides
access to this information to others, the parameters for disclosure
are disclosed in this statement. Distinctive Designs collects information
from our users at several different points on our website. This
Section 1 sets forth the types and sources of data collected, along
with some specific uses of each type of data. Additional uses of
data are described in Section 2.
a. Registration
and Applications
In order to
use this website, a user must first complete the registration form
and agree to the Terms
and Conditions and this Website Privacy Policy. During
registration a user is required to give verifiable business contact
and identity information, just as we require potential business
customers to provide verifiable information prior to engaging in
or moving toward opening accounts or allowing transactions by fax,
market order, sales representation interaction or other non-digital
means. This information is used to establish the identity of account
holders and will be retained. The information will, where
possible, be confirmed by such methods as may be available to Distinctive
Designs from time to time, including those listed in the remainder
of this Section 1. If you submit an application for a product or
service to us through our site, Distinctive Designs will collect
and retain the content of the application that Distinctive Designs
receives, the email address from which it is sent, and our response.
b. Electronic
Mail and Forms
Transmission
of email sent to us through our site using our customer service
web forms is secure; email otherwise sent by the Internet (to customerservice@distdesigns.com
or to another distdesigns.com or distinctivedesigns.com email address)
may not be secure. Please be aware that when you receive
a receipt acknowledging your email, it means that the message has
been routed into the Internet, and not that the message has been
received by us. Distinctive Designs will retain the content
of any customer service web form or email that Distinctive Designs
receives, the email address from which it is sent, and our response.
c. Search
Engine
When a user
performs a search on a search engine within the distinctivedesigns.com
domain, Distinctive Designs may collect information regarding the
search query, topic, and identity of the user. As necessary to provide
service, Distinctive Designs also may record information for every
search request and use that information to solve technical problems
with the service and to calculate overall usage statistics.
d. Orders
and Purchases
Distinctive
Designs requests information from the user on order forms and financial
applications. Here a user must provide identity information, contact
data, shipping addresses, and financial information (like credit
card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill customer's orders. If Distinctive Designs has
trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to
get in touch with the user.
e. Cookies
A cookie is
a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information
about the user. This site employs cookies, but will not use cookies
to obtain data from your hard drive or knowingly to obtain confidential
or sensitive information. Users can set their browsers or third
party software to reject cookies. If a user rejects the cookie,
they may be unable to use portions of our site. Cookies enable us
to track and target the interests of our users, to enhance the experience
on our site, and to retain items in your shopping cart from visit
to visit within such time limits as may be set by Distinctive Designs
from time to time. Some of our business partners and advertisers
may use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control
over these cookies.
f. Log Files
We use IP addresses
and web server log files to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. Because this is a business-to-business site containing
sensitive information, one of the most important functions of this
type of information is to enable us to verify identities and information
provided during registration or elsewhere. Additionally,
due to the sensitive nature of some of the business information
that may be available on the site, we may use this information from
time to time to police the site for unregistered users (but Distinctive
Designs undertakes no obligation to do so). Information of this
type may be combined with cookies or other sources of information
for these purposes. Through the use of web server log files, any
or all of the following information may be accessed, collected,
analyzed, and stored during or after your visits to our site: the
name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example,
Aol.com if you are connecting from an America Online account); the
date and time you access our website; the pages that you visit on
our site and the sequence in which you visit them; the amount of
time that you spend on any given page of our site; the Internet
address of the website that you visited immediately before visiting
our website; the Internet address of the website from which you
linked directly to our site, if any; the Internet address of the
site that you visit immediately after leaving our site; the type
of operating system on your computer; the type of browser that you
are using to view the site.
g. Newsletter
If a user wishes
to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such
as name and email address.
h. Surveys
& Contests
If you submit
information in response to surveys or for entry into contests, your
submission is completely voluntary and any information submitted
may be used for any of the purposes in Section 2.
2. Internal
Use
Distinctive
Designs will use the information obtainable from the website for
editorial and feedback purposes and for the following purposes.
a.
Marketing
Distinctive
Designs will provide information from the sources listed in Section
1 to its in-house and independent sales representatives. Distinctive
Designs will also use the information for marketing and promotional
purposes, for a statistical analysis of visitors' behavior, for
product development, to inform advertisers as to how many visitors
have seen or clicked on their advertisements, to target markets
and to formulate its own proprietary business strategies and plans.
Any information that you actively supply to us, such as names, postal
and email addresses, and phone numbers may be added to our databases
and used by us to contact you regarding site updates, and new products
and services.
b. Sales
Where completion
of a sale or shipment requires the use of information, such as credit
card information, shipping addresses, and contact persons, Distinctive
Designs will use the information to the extent necessary.
c. Web Development
and Enhancement
Distinctive
Designs uses the data collected to analyze trends, administer the
site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use, to monitor or to improve the use and satisfaction
of this site, and to customize, upgrade, or configure the layout
and content of the site.
d.
Site Security
Because this
is a business-to-business site based, one of the most important
functions of this type of information is to enable us to verify
identities and information provided during registration, on order
and inquires, or elsewhere. Distinctive Designs will use
the information obtainable, and will combine information from different
sources as necessary, to verify and confirm such identities and
information. Additionally, due to the sensitive nature of
some business information that may be available on the site, we
will use this information from time to time to police the site for
unregistered users. Distinctive Designs' use of information
for these purposes is within Distinctive Designs' sole discretion
for its own benefit only, and no commitment is undertaken by Distinctive
Designs hereby to regularly or effectively employ any information
for these purposes.
3.
Sharing
a. General
We will share
aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers.
This is not linked to any personal information that can identify
any individual person.
b. Transaction
Requirements
We use outside
shipping companies to ship orders, outside credit reporting agencies
to assess requests for credit, and outside credit card processing
companies to bill users for goods and services. These companies
do not to our knowledge retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any secondary purposes.
c. Partnering
We may from
time to time partner with another party to provide specific services.
When the user signs up for these services, we will share only the
names and other information that is necessary for the third party
to provide these services. These parties are not allowed
to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose
of providing these services.
4. Links
This website
contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Distinctive
Designs is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website
that collects personally identifiable information. This Website
Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Website
on the distinctivedesigns.com domain.
5. Security
This website
takes precautions to protect our users' information. When a user
submits sensitive information via the website, the information is
protected both online and off-line, as set forth in this section.
All requests for financial and business sensitive information
(to the extent such sensitivity is known), and all online responses
in the normal course thereto are encrypted and protected with the
SSL encryption software. You can confirm that pages are encrypted
by viewing the lock icon on the bottom of most browsers.
We also take the same measures off-line to protect you financial
and known business sensitive information as we use to protect our
own such information. Questions about the security at our
website should be addressed by email to webmaster@distdesigns.com.
6. Site and
Service Updates
We may from
time to time send the user site and service announcement updates
regarding such information as Privacy Policy and Terms of Use updates.
7. Notification
of Changes
We will notify
you of changes to the Website Privacy Policy by posting an updated
policy on this page with a notification link to this page from the
homepage, What's New Page, or Customer Service page. You agree that
continued use of the Service is an acknowledgment and acceptance
of any terms contained in this Website Privacy Policy, as it may
be amended from time to time.
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