Personal information Copestones.com gathers about its customers

Information we gather from customers helps us personalize and optimize your shopping experience at Copestones.com. We gather the following types of information:

·         Information you provide 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 this may prevent you from taking advantage of some features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, optimizing future shopping for you, improving our store, and communicating with you.

·         Automatic information: We receive and store several types of information whenever you interact with us through the Web site or in other ways. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses Copestones.com. Companies like www.anonymizer.com, www.IDzap.com, and www.somebody.net offer utilities that can help you visit Web sites anonymously.  

·         E-mail communications: To help us make e-mails more useful , we may receive a confirmation that you opened e-mail from Copestones.com if your computer supports such capabilities. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please login and modify your account preferences.

·         Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.  

Our use of Cookies

·         Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer through your Web browser to your computer's hard drive. Cookies enable our systems to recognize you through your browser. This enables us to store items in your Shopping Cart and other functionality.

·         The Help area of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to receive notification when you receive a new cookie, or how to completely disable cookies . Cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Copestones.com's most useful features and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does Copestones.com share the information it receives?

We consider information about our customers to be an important aspect of our business and we do not sell this information to any person, business, or other entity. We share customer information only as described below .

·         Third-party service providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include the following: fulfillment of orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, data analysis, marketing assistance, and processing credit card payments. These companies have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

·         Promotional offers: We may send offers to groups of Copestones.com customers on behalf of other businesses. If we choose to do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please login and modify your account preferences.

·         Business transfers: In the event that Copestones.com, or a substantial portion of its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.

·         Protection of Copestones.com and others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Copestones.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Of course, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing information that identifies customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments described in this Privacy Notice.

·         With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Security of the information you provide us

·         We strive to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you enter.

·         We may reveal only the last few digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

·         It is important for you to protect your password and your computer against unauthorized access. Be sure to log off when finished using a shared computer.

Third-party advertisers and links to other Web sites

Our site may include third-party advertising and/or links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party Web sites.

Third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or "serve") the advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative provides useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called "ad networks" or "network advertisers"), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.

Copestones.com also displays targeted advertising based on personal information about users. Although Copestones.com does not provide any personal information to advertisers, advertisers (including ad-serving companies) may assume that users who interact with or click on a targeted advertisement meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad (for example, users in the southwestern United States who like certain styles of jewelry).

The information you can access?

Copestones.com gives you access to a range of information about your account and your interactions with Copestones.com for the limited purpose of viewing and, in some cases, updating that information.  

The choices you have

·         As described above, you can choose to not provide information, although it may be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of certain Copestones.com features.

·         If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please login and modify your account preferences. (If you choose not to receive Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of Copestones.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)

·         The Help area of 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. However, you will not be able to use certain features of Copestones.com if you do not use cookies.

·         Companies like www.anonymizer.com, www.IDzap.com, and www.somebody.net. offer products that enable anonymous browsing. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy at Site Seeing on the Internet.

Are children allowed to use Copestones.com?

Copestones.com does not sell products for purchase by children. We may sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use Copestones.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of use, notices, and revisions

If you choose to visit Copestones.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Pennsylvania. If you have any concern about privacy at Copestones.com, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change as well. We may periodically e-mail 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 materially 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

Information you give us

You provide most such information when you search, buy, bid, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through Copestones.com or one of our third-party sellers; make an Auction bid or purchase; provide information in Your Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one e-mail address when shopping with us) or Your Profile; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; compile Wish Lists or other gift registries; provide and rate Reviews; specify a Reminder; and employ other Personal Notification Services, such as Available to Order Notifications. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; content of reviews and e-mails to us; personal description and photograph in Your Profile; and other information.

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we may 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 timezone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as Top Sellers; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for; and the phone number you used to call our telephone number. 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.

Information from other sources

Examples of information we may receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information; search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links); and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.

Information You Can Access

Examples of information you can access easily at Copestones.com include up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences, and address book); payment settings (including credit card information and gift certificate, gift card, and check balances); e-mail notification settings (including Alerts and newsletters); recommendations (including recent product view history, prior order history, and Favorites); shopping lists and gift registries (including Wish Lists); Auctions and Marketplace seller accounts; and your Profile (including your product Reviews, Requests, and Recommendations, personal profile, and Copestones Friends).