ishopstark.com Privacy Notice
- ishopstark.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting ishopstark.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does ishopstark.com Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at ishopstark.com. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses ishopstark.com or advertisements and other content served by or on behalf of ishopstark.com on other Web sites.
- E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from ishopstark.com if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please let us know at: remove@ishopstark.com
- Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as easier purchasing, personalized advertisements.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the Web site of its manufacturer. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of ishopstark.com's essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any ishopstark.com products and services that require you to Sign in.
Does ishopstark.com Share the Information It Receives?
- Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries ishopstark.com, Inc. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
- For financial payments, see PAY PAL’S™ Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy at www.paypal.com
- Which Information Can I Access?
ishopstark.com gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with ishopstark.com for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.
- Are Children Allowed to Use ishopstark.com?
ishopstark.com does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use ishopstark.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian
- Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit ishopstark.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms and Conditions, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Ohio. If you have any concern about privacy at ishopstark.com, please contact us at complaints@ishopstark.com with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Terms and Conditions will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never attempt to change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
Examples of Information Collected
You provide most such information when you communicate in any way with ishopstark.com. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through ishopstark.com and it’s Merchants; provide information in your account or your profile; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form.
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform and purchase history. The full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) click-throughs too and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our Web site for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Updated:
1/24/10