privacy policy

Last updated: 07/12/2004

TemplateGlobe knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting TemplateGlobe, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

What Personal Information About Customers Does TemplateGlobe Gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at TemplateGlobe. Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. Click here to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.
  
  
• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses TemplateGlobe. Click here to see examples of the information we receive. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at TemplateGlobe if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
  
  
• E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from TemplateGlobe if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers.

What About Cookies?

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.
  
  
• The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of TemplateGlobe's features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does TemplateGlobe Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries TemplateGlobe, controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Children

TemplateGlobe does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use TemplateGlobe only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit TemplateGlobe, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, and arbitration of disputes. If you have any concern about privacy at TemplateGlobe, please send us a thorough description to feedback@TemplateGlobe, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.