The Tate Designs® Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, Tate Designs, LLC provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
We are committed to protecting your privacy at all times, in all situations. The information we collect about you when you become a member is used to process your orders and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. Our site uses encrypted SSL to increase the security of our customer’s information. However, we do not guarantee complete security on stored information. We have installed our SSL certificate to prevent stolen information.
The Information Tate Designs® Collects
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Tate Designs® web site. All information marked with an asterisk (*) is required for a particular service.
Our forums require you to register before being able to post. All of the information collected during forum registration is strictly confidential. The information collected for the forum is:
Your Name*
Email address*
A Username*
a web site address, other contact methods, location, etc are all optional.
Your IP address may also be logged. IP addresses may be used in fraud prevention and/or to prosecute perpetrators of fraud or other abuses.
On some pages, you may order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The information collected for these sections is strictly confidential and only shared with shippers, payment processors and/or selected partners as needed in order to fulfill the services you have selected to engage with us. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
Your Name*
Billing and Shipping Address(es)*
Email address*
Phone number*
possibly Credit Card number or other payment information. If a credit card number is collected it is only securely transmitted to a 3rd-party payment gateway and your credit card number is never stored on our servers.
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. The information collected for these sections is strictly confidential and only shared with shippers as needed. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
Recipient's Name*
Recipient's Address*
Phone Number*
Our Use of Log Files
When you visit our site we automatically log your IP address, your browser type and your access times. We utilize this information to conduct site performance evaluations, to see where visitors are coming from and to keep track of click stream data (the screens our users visit on our site). This data helps us to determine what content our members find most appealing so that we can maximize your enjoyment of the site. Log files are not tied to personally identifiable information.
Newsletters
You may optionally choose to sign up for a newsletter by entering your email address in the appropriate place on our support website. When you do so, that information is stored securely by a third-party service whom we use specifically for managing our newsletter sending and subscribership. You can always opt-out of the newsletter at any time. The only information stored about you is the information you provide, such as your email address.
The Way Tate Designs® Uses Information
Tate Designs® uses the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
Tate Designs® uses the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
Tate Designs® uses return email addresses to answer the email Tate Designs® receives. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties except to facilitate this exchange of email.
You can register with the Tate Designs® web site if you would like to use our forum, receive newsletters, list your site in the showcase, and/or other services. Information you submit on the Tate Designs® web site may be shared with selected partners.
Tate Designs® may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design the Tate Designs® web site and to share with advertisers. For example, Tate Designs® may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Tate Designs® web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but Tate Designs® would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, Tate Designs® never uses or shares the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Cookies
We use cookies on the Tate Designs® site to track user activity and to provide certain functionality. These cookies are not used by Tate Designs, LLC for any advertising purposes.
The following cookies are used by the Zen Cart Support Site to facilitate your login, your posting permissions, your "unread markers", your account/viewing preferences, your content subscriptions, and other features enabled by the software on our site: zcsupport_cpsession, zcsupport_lastactivity, zcsupport_lastvisit, zcsupport_password, zcsupport_sessionhash, zcsupport_thread_lastview, zcsupport_userid, zcsupport_userstyleid, editor_height, vbulletin_collapse.
Links To Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you will be leaving the Tate Designs® site and entering another Web site. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.
Communication
From time to time we may send out email messages alerting you that products are available, to remind you about providing feedback or for promotional offers. In addition, you will receive communication from us 1) if you contact us for a particular reason, 2) to receive your orders, or 3) we need to contact you for administrative purposes such as winning a contest. Administrative e-mails will not contain promotional materials. If you choose to receive our News Letters, they will contain promotional materials from Tate Designs®.
The Tate Designs® Commitment To Data Security:
You can access all your personally identifiable information that Tate Designs® collects online and maintains by logging in and clicking on 'My Account' in the menu. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site
How To Contact Us:
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us. Contact: Tate Designs®
