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VanNicholas.com collects client information to enhance your experience
on our website.
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VanNicholas.com gathers navigational information about where visitors
go on our Web site and information about the technical efficiencies of our web site
and services (i.e. time to connect to our web site, time to download pages). This
information allows us to see which areas of VanNicholas.com are most visited and
helps us better understand our customers' experience at VanNicholas.com. This helps
us improve the quality of visitors' online shopping experiences by recognizing and
delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer. In the
process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information
(i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected
which will provide information regarding a visitor's use of our Web site (such as
the time of a visitor's last visit to a page on our site).
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We collect information from you that you provide to us at this site when you establish
or update an account, enter a contest, participate in a survey, shop online, request
a catalogue, create or send a wish list or gift reminder. Categories of information
collected include name, address, e-mail address, recipient's e-mail address, telephone
number and messages or reminders you create. This information is used to enable
VanNicholas.com to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfil requests that
you have created, to contact you or the recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery
difficulties, for verification, to respond to your inquiries and to deliver services
and information about our products or web site to you, including adding you to our
print catalogue mailing list.
We use third parties to help us provide services to you including such things as
fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys,
maintaining our database, administering e-mails, and administering drawings or contests,
and to provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our site
to us and a select group.
If you are added to our print catalogue mailing list, your name and mailing address,
sometimes categorized by purchasing information, may be made available to companies
whose products you may find of interest. If you prefer to not have your name and
mailing address that is included in our print catalogue mailing list provided to
third parties, please click here. If you make a purchase through VanNicholas.com
, the information you provide (for example, name, address) will be added to a database.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary
to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform
or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site or the
public.
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VanNicholas.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which is placed on your
computer. Cookies allow VanNicholas.com to make our site more responsive to your
needs, by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. The cookies
are stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by VanNicholas.com to help
track your clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within Van Nicholas
Web site and provide a more personalized experience. In addition, VanNicholas.com
uses cookies to help keep track of how many items you put into your shopping basket
and to tell us whether you have previously visited VanNicholas.com.
In addition, we carefully select third party advertising companies and allow them
to collect non-personally identifiable information by placing cookies when you choose
to visit and when you visit VanNicholas.com . These selected companies may use information
(not including your name, address, credit card information, e-mail address, or telephone
number) about your choice to visit and your visits to our site and other Web sites
to provide advertisements about Van Nicholas's products and services on this and
other web sites. These selected companies also provide this information to us which
we use to gauge the effectiveness of the advertisements they place about our products
and services and for marketing purposes.
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We prefer to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. To do this,
we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information
including billing and shipping information by logging into Your Account.
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For your convenience, our Web site may contain links to other sites. Van Nicholas
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
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Van Nicholas E-Mail Newsletters allow you to receive exclusive information about
special offers, media events, new products and much more. If you're not already
registered, simply complete our sign up form to receive these special messages.
If at any time you would like to stop future delivery of Van Nicholas E-Mail, please
follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each message.
Asking to be removed from Van Nicholas E-Mail will not prevent you from receiving
e-mail communications relating to any online order you place at VanNicholas.com
, requests to participate in surveys about our products or other operational e-mail
communications.
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This privacy policy statement applies only to the information collected online at
VanNicholas.com.
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If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel
free to
contact us. Should there be a material change
in the categories of information collected at VanNicholas.com or a material change
in how we use information collected at VanNicholas.com (whether a deletion or addition),
for a thirty day period after the change we will note deletions with a strike-out
and additions in italic type. Further, for this same period we will note [Revised]
at the end of the revised sentence or sentences and update the effective date at
the bottom of the Privacy Policy. If you are concerned about how your personal information
is used, please visit our site often for this and other important announcements
about VanNicholas.com .
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