Privacy Policy
Last updated on: February 18, 2009
BLD Designs, Inc. ("Peacewares.com) provides a variety of online services, including electronic commerce. Peacewares.com is committed to implementing measures designed to protect the privacy of those using our services. This Privacy Policy governs your interaction with the Peacewares.com web site. By using this web site, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Use Agreement (the "Agreement") which can be found athttp://www.peacewares.com/legal.html. Please read this Privacy Policy and the Agreement carefully. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement or this Privacy Policy, please do not use this web site.
If you make a purchase on this web site, your purchase transaction will be subject to the privacy terms of our e-commerce payments provider, PayPal, Inc. (Please see the PayPal privacy link below.) Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy, we do not release personally identifiable information about visitors or customers without their permission.
Changes to our privacy policy
Please note that Peacewares.com reviews its privacy practices from time to time, and that those practices are therefore subject to change. We ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy Policy.
The information we gather.
Peacewares.com gathers two types of information about users: (1) Non-personally identifiable information:We collect and aggregate information indicating, among other things, which pages were visited, the order in which they were visited, and which hyperlinks were "clicked". Such information is not personally identifiable and helps us identify the most popular areas of our web site and determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities. We may disclose some of this aggregated, non-personally identifiable information to advertisers to inform them of the number of people who have seen and/or clicked through their advertisements. (See "How we use (and do not use) non-personally identifiable information" below.)
For similar purposes, we use "cookies" - that is, small text files placed on your computer's hard drive - to help us determine the type of content and sites to which you link, the length of time you spend at any particular area of the obamasfirstday.com site, and the Peacewares.com services you choose to use. Cookies also tell us which advertising you have seen on our site.
Cookies allow Peacewares.com to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at Peacewares.com's web site. Nevertheless, you should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. For more information on how to do so, please refer to the documentation accompanying your browser.
Please note that some of Peacewares.com's third party advertisers and advertising agencies may place cookies on your computer's hard drive while you are visiting the Peacewares.com site. Peacewares.com cannot and does not assume any responsibility for the actions or information collection practices of such third party advertisers or advertising agencies.
(2) Personally identifiable information we collect: In certain areas of the Peacewares.com web site - for example, when you purchase peacewares.com products - we require that you provide us with personally identifiable information (including, for example, first name, surname, street address, email address, telephone number, and when applicable, credit card information). In addition, you may voluntarily provide us with personally identifiable information on our "Contact Us" page. Please see below for information on how we use (and do not use) personally identifiable information that we collect.
(3) Disclaimer as to other personally identifiable information you may provide: Please note that Peacewares.com will never ask you to provide personally identifiable information in any bulletin board, chat room, guestbook, or other forum or public area which may be offered on the Peacewares.com web site, and we strongly discourage visitors from doing so. However, Peacewares.com does not control the acts of its visitors. All visitors should be aware that, if they choose to disclose personally identifiable information in a bulletin board, chat room, guestbook, or other forum or public area, the information may be collected and used by others for the purposes of distributing unsolicited communications to you or to others outside the Peacewares.com web site. In the event that you encounter any obamasfirstday.com user who is improperly collecting or using information about you or other users, please contact us at 802/375.3512.
How we use (and do not use) the information we gather.
(1) Non-personally identifiable information: We may use non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form to build more useful online services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our members and visitors, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Peacewares.com web site. We may provide statistical information based on this data to potential business partners. We also use the aggregate data to inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their web sites.
(2) Personally identifiable information: We do not sell, rent, or share with third parties any personally-identifying information collected by us except as is necessary for our third party service providers to perform services on behalf of us, in connection with a sale or other transfer of this web site or our business, or as otherwise required by applicable law. All personally identifiable information we obtain when you make a purchase on this site will be shared with, and is subject to the privacy terms of, our e-commerce payments provider, PayPal, Inc. The PayPal privacy policy is available at http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/privacy-outside. We encourage you to read this policy before making any purchases on this website. We do not control or direct PayPal's privacy policy or its practices. We will not release your credit card or other personally identifiable information to PayPal or other third parties unless necessary to complete a transaction between you and such a third party or as otherwise required by law.
We may also use personally identifiable information such as your e-mail address to provide solicitations to you on behalf of Peacewares.com. All e-mail solicitations from Peacewares.com will, among other things, clearly indicate the originator of the e-mail and provide the customer with a method of "opting out" of receiving future communications of a similar nature.
We reserve the right to disclose information contained within our access logs concerning any visitor or member as we reasonably feel is necessary to protect our systems or business or to comply with applicable law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.
Third party links on our site
The Peacewares.com web site contains links to other Internet web sites which are not owned or operated by Peacewares.com. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites should you click through links to those sites. Even though such information might not identify you personally, we encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of those sites.
Changing or deleting personal information.
If you would like to view or update your personally identifiable information or have it removed from Peacewares.com's database, please contact us atinfo@Peacewares.com, and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. Keep in mind, however, if you request that your information be deleted, there will be residual information that will remain within Peacewares.com databases, access logs, and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. The residual information will not be used for commercial purposes.
Security of personal information
We take reasonable system, process and administrative precautions to protect against the loss, misuse and unauthorized access of your personal information that we collect. For example, Peacewares.com uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect your personal information during data transport when you make a purchase. However, please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us by e-mail or otherwise over the Internet, and you do so at your own risk. For security measures used by our e-commerce provider, PayPal, Inc., please see https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside.
Children
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children (defined herein as minors younger than thirteen years of age) without obtaining parental consent. Before registering for membership with Peacewares.com, we ask that children have their parents read our Privacy Policy. Before and during the registration process, we encourage children to include a parent or guardian in the process.
Questions?
For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, to report a violation of our Privacy Policy, or to raise any other issue, please call us at 802.375.3512. Alternately, you may contact us via U.S. mail at BLD Designs, Inc., POB 44 Manchester VT 05254, Attn: Privacy Policy.