Privacy & Security


Our privacy commitment
We are committed to respecting your privacy and recognizing your need for appropriate protection and management of personally identifiable information you share with us (the phrases 'personally identifiable information’ or ‘personal information’ mean any information by which you can be identified, such as your name, address, telephone number, etc.). The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information or personal information we may collect from you when you visit our web site, how we use such information, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to review and correct, the information.

As part of our commitment to your privacy, Cool Tools supports and adhere to the guidelines and practices adopted by the Direct Marketing Association's ‘Privacy Promise to American Consumers.’ We have agreed to (1) provide customers with notice of their ability to opt out of information rental, sale exchange with other marketers: (2) honor customer requests not to share their information with other marketers and (3) honor customers' request not to receive mail, telephone or other solicitations from Cool Tools.

What information is collected?
In general, you can visit many of our web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. For each visitor to our web page, our web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible). We may track the Internet domain address from which people visit us and analyze this data for trends and statistics, but individual users will remain anonymous, unless you voluntarily tell us who you are.

There may be times (such as when you purchase or order a product, subscribe to service, or promotions etc) at which we ask you to provide certain information about yourself such as your name, shipping/billing address, telephone number, email address, credit card information, birth date, gender, occupation, personal interests, etc. We also maintain a record of your online product purchases. Whether or not to provide such information is completely your own choice. But if you choose not to provide this information we request, you may be unable to purchase products, or access certain services, offers and content on our website.

Using information about you
Your e-mail information is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes. We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. We use the personally identifiable information you provide for internal purposes, such as confirming and tracking your order, subscription or registration, analyzing tends and statistics, informing you of our new products, services and offers, and providing you with information from and about Cool Tools brands.

If you click the box to add your name to our mailing list when you check out, you will receive periodic emails from us with information on new products or notices. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by emailing customer service.

We never give, sell, rent or share your data with anyone for any reason.

We may contract with companies or persons to provide certain services including credit card processing, shipping, data management, promotional services, etc. We call them our Service Providers. We provide our Service Providers with the information needed for them to perform these services. We also ask our service providers to confirm that their privacy practices are consistent with ours.

Cookies
Our website uses 'cookies'. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Generally, we use cookies to record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart. You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. Without cookies, items will not be held in your shopping cart after you leave the site. If you allow cookies, you can hold items in your shopping cart for 30 days.

Security
We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site, We do not keep or store credit card information online or at our physical location..

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our website, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will do our best to protect its security on our systems

Policy changes
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically.

updated on March 2016