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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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