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By using this site, you agree to the
Privacy Policy of Minnesota Gemstone Nuggets, Inc. If you do not agree to the
Policy, please do not use this site. Minnesota Gemstone Nuggets,
Inc. reviews its
Privacy Policy periodically and reserves the right, at its
discretion and without prior notice, to modify or remove portions of
this Policy at any time. This page should be reviewed periodically
so that you are updated on any changes. If you want to communicate
with us about our policy, please write to Post Office Box 187,
Bemidji, MN 56619-0187 USA, or e-mail us at
info@mngemstonenuggets.com.
Minnesota Gemstone
Nuggets, Inc., Internet site located at
http://www.mngemstonenuggets.com recognizes the importance of
protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information
collected about visitors to our site. As a general policy, no
personally identifiable information, such as your name, address or
email address, is automatically collected from visitors to our site.
Personally identifiable information about visitors to our sites is
collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted.
We may collect certain non-personal
information to optimize our web pages for your computer (i.e., the
identity of your Internet browser, the type of operating system you
use, and the domain name of your Internet service provider). We may
use such non-personal information for internal purposes, including
but not limited to improving the content of our sites.
In those instances when we do collect personally identifiable
information, the following policies apply:
Information Collection and Use
Minnesota Gemstone
Nuggets, Inc.
is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will
not sell, share, or rent this information to any other party in any
way shape or form.
Minnesota Gemstone
Nuggets, Inc.
only collects information from registered users. The
mngemstonenuggets.com
site is not directed to children, and does
not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Registration
In order to purchase from
mngemstonenuggets.com, a user must first complete the
registration form. Required information to process orders include:
name, email address, street address, and phone number. This
information is essential for customer’s orders to be processed and
delivered.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no
way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our
site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply
terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user
would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving
time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still
use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be
limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to
track and target the interests of our users to enhance the
experience on our site.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track
user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information. Please note that the access logs collected
for mngemstonenuggets.com contain more
information than just IP addresses. They also let us know what
operating system/Internet browser you use and what pages on our site
you have viewed. As with your IP address, this information is not
linked to personally identifiable information and is used in
aggregate to ensure the functionality of the site for our visitors.
Sharing
We use FedEx to ship orders, and PayPal and Escrow.com to handle
all financial transactions. These companies do not retain, share,
store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary
purposes.
Shipping from
mngemstonenuggets.com is handled by UPS (unless requested
otherwise by a customer), which requires a physical street address.
UPS will not deliver to a Post Office Box and requires a signature
upon receipt of all packages.
Providing an absolutely secure environment for all financial
transactions is of primary importance to
www.mngemstonenuggets.com.
To this end, unless requested otherwise by a customer, we conduct
all transactions through either PayPal (the secure account-based
online payment system) or MIVA (secure account-based online payment
system). We believe this is the
best way to protect our customer’s consumer rights, privacy and
security.
To see PayPal’s privacy policy, please click on the link below:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/privacy-outside
To see MIVA.com’s privacy policy, please click on the link below:
http://www.miva.com
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we
at
Minnesota Gemstone
Nuggets, Inc.
are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to
read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by this website.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact
information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or
not to disclose this information. Information requested may include
contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes.
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or
improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’
information. When users submit information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
All of our users’ information is restricted in our offices. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example a customer service representative) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are
kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every
quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees
are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on
privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information
is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally
identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security of your information at
our website, you can send an email to
info@mngemstonenuggets.com.
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and
username. Established members will occasionally receive information
on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of
respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not
receive these types of communications when registering.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as
your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s
personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the
My Account page or by
emailing our Customer Support department (info@mngemstonenuggets.com).
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their
information used for purposes not directly related to our site at
the point where we ask for the information. For example, our
registration form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users who buy a
product from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep
their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter may opt-out of
receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the
subject line in the email or email us at
info@mngemstonenuggets.com.
Users of our site are always notified when their information is
being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can
make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with
services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.
Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use information in
accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or your
dealings with
Minnesota Gemstone
Nuggets, Inc.,
you may email us at info@mngemstonenuggets.com. |
