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At Civil War Preservations we are committed to protecting the
privacy of every user.
What information do we collect, store and use?
The Civil War Preservations website collects, stores and uses personal data on our secure
servers. We do this by either requesting the information directly from you or
automatically receiving it from your browser.
Requesting information
directly from you enables you either to purchase items from our Store or to give you access
to additional features of our website. This information may
include:
Your personal data ( your name, email address, billing address, shipping address(es),
credit card information, favorite Civil War Preservations category and Civil War Preservations emails preference.
Automatically receiving
and recording information from your browser helps us analyze and provide better
services to you, our client. This information includes (but is not limited to):
Browser type & version
IP Address
Cookie information that
Civil War Preservations gives to your browser
In the following instances we ask you to actively submit Personal
Information: when you want to (i) complete an order,
(ii) join as a Member at Civil War Preservations & subscribe to our Newsletter,
(iii) sign our guest book or (iv) participate in our Discussion Forum.
- Creating or Completing an Order. We require that you provide us
with all of the following Personal Customer Information: your name, email
address, billing address, shipping address(es), and credit card information. We
use industry standard e-commerce security technology to protect the Personal
Customer Information that you transmit to us.
- Join as a Member.
Although most features of this web site are available to anonymous users, some areas require
registration prior to accessing content. By registering, users take advantage of
various personalized features such as the ability to view Sale Items for Civil War Preservations days
prior to them being available to to anonymous users and
content based on their identity. During registration, users supply information
including, but not limited to--e-mail address,
password, name, Favorite Civil War Preservations Category, and Civil War Preservations Emails.
When joining as a member, we ask you to create a password. When you want to
change or view your stored Personal Customer Information, we approve
your access by verifying your email address with your password.
- Sign our Guest Book. We ask that you provide us
with all of the following Personal Customer Information: your name, email
address, state or province and country.
- Participate in our Discussion Forum. We ask that you provide us
with all of the following Personal Customer Information: your name and email
address.
When and with whom we share this information?
It is our policy not to sell, share, or otherwise disclose any of your personal
information to any third party, with the following exceptions:
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Credit card companies. Credit card transactions are handled by a third-party
financial institution and their vendors, which receive the credit card number
and other personal identifying information only to verify the credit card
numbers and process transactions.
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Law Enforcement Investigations. Civil War Preservations may release Personal
Customer Information when we believe, in our good judgment, that such release is
reasonably necessary to comply with the law.
Who can access this data?
It is our policy to
ensure we have in place secure technical and organizational measures to guard against
unauthorized access to your personal information.
Use of the information
Civil War Preservations
uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their
experience in our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements
on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our
users. We might also occasionally send you material about new services. If that
were to be the case, you will have the explicit option to indicate that you
prefer not to receive any emails from Civil War Preservations in the
future.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site
are most (and least) popular based on traffic to those areas. Civil War Preservations does not
track what individual users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service our
users.
It is our policy to use personal information for three general
purposes only: to customize the advertising and content you see; to fulfill your
requests for products and services; and to contact you with news, for example,
about new services and products.
Choice and consent
It is our
intent to inform you before we collect personal information from you and to tell
you what we intend to do with the information. You will have the option not to
provide the information, and in the future you will be able to "opt out" of
certain uses of the information. When receiving materials about new products or
services the user will be given the option to opt-out of receiving further
information at any time. If you choose not to provide the information we
request, you can still visit most of the Web site of the Civil War Preservations,
but you may be unable to access certain options, offers,
and services.
You can ask us to remove your Personal Information from
our database so you will not receive future communications.
It is our
policy to respect the purpose for which our site visitors give us information.
We give users options wherever necessary and practical and remove names as soon
as practicable on request.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a
small data file that some web sites attach to users' hard drives when they visit
the sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as an email address, which the
site uses to track the pages users visited. The only personal information a
cookie can contain has to be supplied by the user.
A cookie cannot read
data off a hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Civil War Preservations
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described
above), when users register for access to restricted areas of this site. When
users register, Civil War Preservations uses a cookie to store their email address.
Cookies enable users to enter various parts of the relevant Civil War Preservations
as a registered user without having to log on each time, and
to visit other restricted areas of the site with similar security settings.
Further information can be found at www.cookiecentral.com, a site dedicated
to provide full information upon Internet Cookies.
It is our policy to
use cookies in a responsible manner to help our visitors. We use cookies to
facilitate your ability to seamlessly navigate within our sites and to remember
your details so you do not have to give them twice.
If you have any
questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your
dealings with this site, you can contact us at
webmaster@Civil War Preservations.com
Notification of Changes
Civil War Preservations may
edit this policy from time to time without notice. You should check this posted
privacy statement for changes.
January, 2008
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