What This Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy covers the use of the Silver and Stones Jewelry web site at http://www.silverandstonesjewelry.com, including how Silver and Stones Jewelry treats personal information that Silver and Stones Jewelry collects and receives. Pursuant to Silver and Stones Jewelry's Terms of Use, you must be 18 years and older to use this site or have permission from a legal guardian. Therefore, this policy makes no provision for individuals under 18 years old.

Effective Date: 09/01/2008

Information Collection and How it is Used

General Information:

• Silver and Stones Jewelry will not sell or disclose your name or e-mail address to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this privacy policy.
• Silver and Stones Jewelry collects personal information when you register to use Silver and Stones Jewelry services or to post content on Silver and Stones Jewelry. At registration you are asked for your name, email address, shipping address, a password, and certain other optional information.
• If you would like to obtain a customer account, Silver and Stones Jewelry will ask for your billing address and a phone number.
• Silver and Stones Jewelry automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages you request.
• Silver and Stones Jewelry uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provisioning, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting. IP addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in Silver and Stones Jewelry's user registration databases when you register with Silver and Stones Jewelry. IP addresses may be used for various research purposes.

Service-related Announcements

Silver and Stones Jewelry will send you a welcome/confirmation email when you sign up for Silver and Stones Jewelry's services. Receipt of this email is required for using Silver and Stones Jewelry's services.

Silver and Stones Jewelry will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.

You may not opt-out of service-related communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by emailing support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com from the email address you signed up with.

Administrative Messages

Silver and Stones Jewelry may periodically email you with administrative messages. Silver and Stones Jewelry will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Your information may be combined with information Silver and Stones Jewelry collects from other companies and used to improve and personalize services, content and advertising. If you don't wish to receive administrative messages or participate in these programs, simply opt-out by emailing support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com.

Choice/Opt-out

If you no longer wish to receive administrative messages, you may opt-out by emailing support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Silver and Stones Jewelry products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Silver and Stones Jewelry service. Silver and Stones Jewelry uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Access your information when you "sign in"; keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Silver and Stones Jewelry's services; display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on Silver and Stones Jewelry; estimate and report Silver and Stones Jewelry's total audience size and traffic; conduct research to improve Silver and Stones Jewelry's content and services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

When you post a comment message, your Silver and Stones Jewelry user ID or alias is visible to other users. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Silver and Stones Jewelry may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Silver and Stones Jewelry Terms of Use. Silver and Stones Jewelry may disclose personally identifiable information to parties in compliance with Silver and Stones Jewelry's Copyright Policy, as Silver and Stones Jewelry in Silver and Stones Jewelry's sole discretion believes necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, Silver and Stones Jewelry may disclose name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email address and company name. Silver and Stones Jewelry may share aggregated demographic information with business partners.

Silver and Stones Jewelry will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with nonaffiliated parties except as specified in this Privacy Policy to provide products or services you have requested or when Silver and Stones Jewelry has your permission. It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Silver and Stones Jewelry's Terms of Use, as specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law. Silver and Stones Jewelry will transfer information about you if Silver and Stones Jewelry is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Silver and Stones Jewelry will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Silver and Stones Jewelry web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy, Silver and Stones Jewelry will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order, legal process, or substantially similar legal procedure, except when Silver and Stones Jewelry believes in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to protect Silver and Stones Jewelry's rights, prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, or to report suspected illegal activity.

Forums / Chat Rooms

If you use a form or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Silver and Stones Jewelry is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Third Parties

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information Silver and Stones Jewelry collects from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are other customers or affiliates of Silver and Stones Jewelry or otherwise throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Silver and Stones Jewelry does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. Silver and Stones Jewelry encourages you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Editing and Deleting Account Information

You can change your Silver and Stones Jewelry Account Information (except your username), at any time. Silver and Stones Jewelry may send you certain communications relating to the Silver and Stones Jewelry service, such as service-related announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your Silver and Stones Jewelry account. You can delete your Silver and Stones Jewelry account by emailing support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com. Please note that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in Silver and Stones Jewelry's records for some period.

Silver and Stones Jewelry limits access to personal information about you to employees who Silver and Stones Jewelry believes reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Your Silver and Stones Jewelry Account Information is password-protected.

If your personally identifiable information changes you may correct or update it by making the change on Your Silver and Stones Jewelry "My Account" Page. You may delete or deactivate your account by emailing Customer Support at support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com or by postal mail at the contact information listed below. Silver and Stones Jewelry will respond to your request within 7-14 business days.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. Silver and Stones Jewelry follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once Silver and Stones Jewelry receives it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while Silver and Stones Jewelry strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, Silver and Stones Jewelry cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on Silver and Stones Jewelry's Web site, you can email Silver and Stones Jewelry at support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com .

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If the privacy policy is changed, Silver and Stones Jewelry will post changes so that you are aware of those changes. Silver and Stones Jewelry reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If Silver and Stones Jewelry makes material changes to this policy you will be notified here, by email, or other places Silver and Stones Jewelry deems appropriate.

Questions

If you have questions or suggestions you can contact support [at] silverandstonesjewelry [dot] com.