Last updated: August 4, 2004
Stone Ridge Orchard 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 Stone Ridge Orchard, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does Stone Ridge Orchard Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at Stone Ridge Orchard. 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 we may not be able to meet your shopping expectations. 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. We DO NOT store credit card numbers beyond the time it takes to conduct an online transaction and approve your purchase.
- 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 Stone Ridge Orchard. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at Stone Ridge Orchard if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from Stone Ridge Orchard if your computer supports such capabilities. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences.
What About 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 storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.
- 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. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Stone Ridge Orchard's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does Stone Ridge Orchard 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 do not share customer information with any individuals or businesses not directly associated with Stone Ridge Orchard's business of providing you the highest quality customer satisfaction.
- Protection of Stone Ridge Orchard and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law or protect the rights, property, or safety of Stone Ridge Orchard, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth 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.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- We reveal only the last five 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.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of certain Stone Ridge Orchard features.
- 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.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit Stone Ridge Orchard, 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 New York. If you have any concern about privacy at Stone Ridge Orchard, 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 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 materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
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 Stone Ridge Orchard; and employ other personal notification services, such as new product announcement and backordered product availability. 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; personal description and photograph; and financial information, including Social Security and driver's license numbers.
We DO NOT store credit card numbers beyond the time it takes to conduct an online transaction and approve your purchase.
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